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How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,674 posts.
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SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year
The Serenity operating system turns 1 year old today. I'm counting from the first commit in the git repository , on October 10, 2018. Parts of the code had been around for a while before that, so this first commit was really about putting everything I was tinkering with into a shared repo.
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Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber
Brian Carver co-authored this post. Between the net neutrality debate and the Comcast/TWC merger, high-speed Internet access is getting more attention than ever. A lot of that attention is negative, and rightly so: Internet access providers, especially certain very large ones, have done a pretty...
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Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
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Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference
MLC-LLM makes it possible to compile LLMs and deploy them on AMD GPUs using ROCm with competitive performance. More specifically, AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX gives 80% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4090 and 94% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3090Ti for Llama2-7B/13B. Besides ROCm, our Vulkan support allows us…
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Write code like a human will maintain it
One of the best things about LLMs is that they'll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don't have to be the one updating the same long con...
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I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
Kristina Lustig, formerly our Director of Design, explains why she took a new role as an associate software developer.
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Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform
Today, we’re launching three new members of the Raspberry Pi Pico family: Raspberry Pi Pico W ($6), Pico H ($5) and Pico WH ($7).
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SAML: A fractal of bad design
SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to signature wrapping attacks and parser differentials that persist despite decades of awareness…
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The New Wave of Indian Type
Discover new fonts for Indian languages. Learn about open-source fonts & design solutions.
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Why I've lost faith in p values
[Note: There is a followup to this post .] There has been a lot written over the past decade (and even longer) about problems associated with null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) and p values. Personally, I have found most of these arguments unconvincing. However, one of t
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Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
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Eleven Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
LinkedIn endorsements are useless. See the research we did and learn why these endorsements are dumb.
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Excessive load on NTP servers
Since last Tuesday some countries have seen an excessive number of queries to the NTP Pool. After much detective work on nanog (conclusion) and the #NTP IRC channel it was determined to be a buggy Snapchat app update.
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How to get people who installed a leaked build to stop using that build?
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
Our examination of advertised prices shows that community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service than do competing private providers, and don’t use initial low “teaser” rates that sharply rise months later.
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Paul S. Otellini has died
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again
EARN IT Act is aiming at scanning our messages and photos, we are calling of Senators to oppose this surveillance bill!
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Kubernetes V1 Released
On behalf of the community, it’s our pleasure to announce that Kubernetes , the open source container orchestration system, has reached the...
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Django 1.6 released
The latest official version is 6.1.3
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Servo Continues Pushing Forward
An update from Adenilson Cavalcanti and Lars Bergstrom
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Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant
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Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional
In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress should uphold its responsibility to protect civil rights and civil liberties by refusing to renew Section 702 absent a…
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Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format
News about asciinema development and new releases
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Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client
Today, we are proud to announce Apollo Client 1.0, “Pink Panther”! Apollo Client is now fully featured, stable and production-ready. If you’ve been holding off on trying GraphQL or Apollo, now’s a great time to check it out.
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Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler
After seven years of development, Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler for platform-independent analysis of executable files.
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He made linear algebra fun
Mathematics Professor Gilbert “Gil” Strang taught his last class to thousands after teaching calculus, analysis, and linear algebra for more than 60 years at MIT and online. He reflects on his life at the Institute and as an instructor with MIT OpenCourseWare.