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This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more
Flexbox and WebXR are now enabled by default.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
We are adding a new generated code API to Go Protobuf.
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Sieve is simpler than LRU
SIEVE is Simpler than LRU: an Efficient Turn-Key Eviction Algorithm for Web Caches
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Building a highly-available web service without a database
In this viral post, we explain a new paradigm of building simple clean apps: from prototyping to scaling up.
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FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision
FlashAttention-3 achieves up to 75% GPU utilization on H100s, making AI models up to 2x faster and enabling efficient processing of longer text inputs. It allows for faster training and inference of LLMs, supports lower precision operations for improved efficiency.
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We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
Since our removal of cookies, we’ve seen both positive & negative effects. Learn more about our experience of going cookieless here.
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Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Movable tree CRDTs and Loro's implementation
This article introduces the implementation difficulties and challenges of Movable Tree CRDTs when collaboration, and how Loro implements it and sorts child nodes. The algorithm has high performance and can be used in production.
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Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app
Discover critical Feeld app vulnerabilities from our pentest. See how flaws in security controls expose personal data and learn key fixes.
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Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
Alexander Petros give a thoughtful exploration of htmx's relationship to traditional JavaScript frameworks, examining how its HTML-first approach and narrow focus on network requests sets it apart. He argues that while htmx exhibits framework-like qualities in how it shapes application architecture, its deep…
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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?
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Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub
Secure everything coding agents build, use, and ship - prevent risk before code exists, AutoFix the backlog, and protect the coding agents and supply chain.
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The centrality of stupidity in mathematics
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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.
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The Objects of Our Life (1983)
Exclusive video footage of Steve Jobs talking about his design vision and philosophy and how design worked at Apple.
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25 Years of Dillo
Back in 1999, a group of developers lead by Jorge Arellano Cid forked the Gzilla/Armadillo code originally developed by Raph Levien, and began working on what is now known as the Dillo web browser.
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Student rocket group shatters amateur space record
Aftershock II is believed to be the world’s first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet.
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AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
Study reveals 75 percent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view
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Zamba2-7B
Zyphra is excited to release Zamba2-7B, a state-of-the-art small language model. At the 7B scale, we outperform the leading models of Mistral, Google’s Gemma and Meta’s Llama3 series in both quality and performance.
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A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans
DURHAM, N.C. – An HIV vaccine candidate developed at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute triggered low levels of an elusive type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group of people enrolled in a 2019 clinical trial.The finding, reported May 17 in the journal Cell, not only provides proof that a vaccine…
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GraphRAG is now on GitHub
GraphRAG, a graph-based approach to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that significantly improves question-answering over private or previously unseen datasets, is now available on GitHub. Learn more:
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European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware
ESET Research analyzed two separate toolsets for breaching air-gapped systems, used by a cyberespionage threat actor known as GoldenJackal.
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Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
MIT researchers developed a silk fabric, which is barely thicker than a human hair, that can suppress unwanted noise and reduce noise transmission in a large room.
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Students invent quieter leaf blower
Patent-pending design by Hopkins undergrads could be available in stores within two years
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AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference
There has been much anticipation around AMD's flagship MI300X accelerator. With unmatched raw specs, the pressing question remains: Can it outperform NVIDIA's Hopper architecture in real-world AI workloads? We have some exciting early results to share. For the past month, TensorWave and MK1 have worked closely to…
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We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
We revise some fundamental background and highlight an important concern behind Java 21 virtual threads: deadlocks might be unpredictable