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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,675 posts.
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Fundamental Math for Game Developers
Let's review the most important math topics used by game devs, reflect about math education, and discuss techniques that can be used to improve the way we learn new math topics.
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ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
Posted by Radu Soricut and Zhenzhong Lan, Research Scientists, Google Research Ever since the advent of BERT a year ago, natural language research...
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Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise
Comprehensive review brings together global evidence to strengthen public trust and counter misinformation as mRNA vaccines expand to prevent and treat more diseases.
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Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
Evernote has been plagued by a series of managerial missteps and failed product launches. The company’s future is far from certain.
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Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
One-time passwords are often sent via SMS. Security researchers from the CCC recently had live access to over 200 million such SMS messages from more than 200 affected companies.
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Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
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8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
A new 8GB RAM variant of Raspberry Pi 4 is available today, priced at just $75. Visit your favourite Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller to get yours.
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Firefox 25 is released
We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 25!
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Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
Tor Browser 15.0a4 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption
Tutanota: We will not 'walk out' of UK like Signal. Nor will we comply with any request to bypass our encryption.
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WebKit Features in Safari 16.4
Today, we’re thrilled to tell you about the many additions to WebKit that are included in Safari 16.4.
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Countering threats from North Korea
On February 10, Threat Analysis Group discovered two distinct North Korean government-backed attacker groups exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome, …
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Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
Posted by Vinay Shet, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA Have you ever wondered how Google Maps knows the exact location of your neighborhood cof...
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Using io_uring for network I/O
Discover io_uring, an async I/O API for Linux that can potentially benefit networking, and learn how to integrate it into your applications and I/O libraries.
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Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
You can now generate videos in Gemini, powered by Veo 2.
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The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702
The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702. The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court…
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AI and Compute
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of…
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How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision
Cook ground meat perfectly using these steps to make sure it is not over or under done. Directions are accessible for vision impaired cooks.
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Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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Zero-Day Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence
UPDATE: On June 3, 2022, Atlassian updated its security advisory with new information regarding a fix for Confluence Server and Data Center to address CVE-2022-26134. Users are encouraged to update immediately to […]
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First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)
A new study from Boston University is the first to illustrate that the brain’s cerebrospinal fluid pulses during sleep, and that these motions are closely tied with brain wave activity and blood flow. It may confirm the hypothesis that CSF flow and slow-wave activity both help flush toxic, memory-impairing proteins…
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Our Handbook is open source: here's why
In this post we’re explaining the reasons why having an open source Handbook works for us and how it can help you.