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How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features
As part of our commitment to transparency and user control, we're providing clarity on our approach to Zoom’s AI features and content sharing for product improvement purposes.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,475 posts.
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CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers
For the past year, we have been working on a new architecture for CheerpJ: our implementation of the JVM in HTML5/WebAssembly, designed to run Java applications on the browser. CheerpJ 3.0 will be released in the late summer of 2023, and will be easier to use, faster, and more compatible than ever before. Our live…
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Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation
Earlier this year in July, Servo received a NLnet grant to enhance several aspects of Servo.
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.
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Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
The Stable and Extended stable channels has been updated to 116.0.5845.187 for Mac and Linux and 116.0.5845.187/.188 for Windows, which will...
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Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
It’s official: Ferrocene is ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 qualified! You can even find the certificate in TÜV SÜDs certificate database. This means we achieved qualification for the open source Ferrocene toolchain. Ferrocene 23.06.0, based on Rust 1...
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What I Learned Reading 1k Investor Reports
I read 1,000 investor reports last year.
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Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world
An overview of Rust GUI libraries and frameworks, focused on WASM. Discover the latest GUI toolkit options for Rust, increase your programming skills, and create efficient WebAssembly bundles that will help you build comprehensive applications.
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Where Is OpenCV 5?
Dear Community, In a world where massive AI projects are closed-source, and a handful of companies are set to control the future of AI, people are rightfully asking, where is OpenCV 5? OpenCV has been the standard for publicly available, free-for-commercial use, open-source computer vision for over 20 years. We have…
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Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
NVIDIA today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 30, 2023, of $13.51 billion, up 101% from a year ago and up 88% from the previous quarter.
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Buy well, buy once
Carl Jeffrey @fellowcreative (fellow™) is a Designer and Doer sharing ideas and thinking on creativity, community, sustainability, strategy, technology…
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Every Signature Is Broken: Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s Ooxml Signatures
Simon Rohlmann, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, Daniel Hirschberger, and Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr University Bochum
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Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available
Today, Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer Individual tier that’s free to use for all developers. Originally launched in preview last year, CodeWhisperer keeps developers in the zone and productive, helping them write code quickly and securely…
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Bun v0.5
Support for npm workspaces, DNS lookups, database drivers, and lots of improvements to bun install.
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Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?
Update: This post sparked a lot of excellent discussion and debate on workarounds, and there are now multiple working solutions to allow certificate injection...
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Rails on Docker
Rails 7.1 will include a Dockerfile to help ease production deployments
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Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
Walkable, mixed-use planning is the key to getting young people outside again and enabling their independence.
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You don't need a build step
The build step helps Node.js/npm run in the browser, optimize end-user performance, etc. But long build times limit productivity. With modern tooling, do we still need a build step?
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The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximise employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
We are excited to ship the first version of pgroll, a command line tool that offers safe and reversible schema migrations for PostgreSQL
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So you want to build your own open source chatbot
A small team within Mozilla’s innovation group recently undertook a hackathon to build a trustworthy internal chatbot prototype.
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Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
Just 2 years after laying off 80% of their team and being left for dead, we estimate Docker is now at $135M+ ARR growing roughly 150% YoY—and rebuilding Docker 2.0 as a bottom-up, developer-first company. For more on Docker’s future, check out our interview with Docker CEO Scott Johnston along with our Docker profile…
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Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th – December 30
If you installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, please uninstall it and torchtriton immediately, and use the latest nightly binaries (newer than...
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Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to s...
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Ship Shape
How Canva does hand-drawn shape recognition in the browser
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Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
a16z announces its Open Source AI Grant program, which will support a small group of open source developers through grant funding.
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Temporal quality degradation in AI models
A recent study from MIT, Harvard, The University of Monterrey, and other top institutions showed an experiment where 91% of their ML models degrade over time . This study is one of the first of its kind, where researchers focus on studying machine learning models' behavior after deployment and how their performance…
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Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
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Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way
A new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers is the first to reveal how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals.
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Mullvad Browser
We have partnered with Mullvad VPN to develop the Mullvad Browser - a Tor Browser without Tor