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Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs Frontier labs
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,677 posts.
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A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT
Discover how students can use ChatGPT for writing, research, studying, and editing. Learn practical tips for using AI responsibly in school and beyond.
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Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
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Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)
When designing a modern API, learn when to use RPC (gRPC), OpenAPI or REST.
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What Reddit Got Wrong
After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
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Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage
On January 13th 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox.
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Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"
ICANN received a total of 32 public comments from across the community on the Proposed Top-Level Domain String for Private Use. Thirteen of these were in support of the proposal. Of the remaining nineteen comments, six believed a shorter string should be selected, one believed a more meaningful string should be…
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Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
Sublime Text 3, Build 3124, is out now. Downloads and the full changelog are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
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The Modos Paper Laptop
At Modos, we want to give you the tools and space to focus on what truly matters in life. That’s why we created the Modos Paper Laptop: the world's first e-ink laptop designed for reading, writing, and thinking in a distraction and eyestrain-free environment.
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Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts
Secure the modern software stack with Koi. Gain visibility, context, and real-time protection over extensions, MCPs, and autonomous AI agent endpoints.
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No more remote work at Yahoo
Employees at Yahoo have had a rough decade. The company has been drifting aimlessly with little vision, an endless parade of CEOs, and a flatlined stock price. That’s not exactly a conducive environment to be inspired and motivated within, let alone do the stellar work that Yahoo needs to pul…
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Npm operational incident, 6 Jan 2018
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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YC’s Summer Reading
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Go After 2 Years in Production
After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies
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The Trouble with Tor
The Tor Project makes a browser that allows anyone to surf the Internet anonymously. Tor stands for "the onion router" and that describes how the service works. Traffic is routed through a number of relays where each relay only knows the next hop, not the ultimate destination.
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Firefox expands fingerprint protections
With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets we
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The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services
Posted by Ryan Hurst, Security and Privacy Engineering In support of our work to implement HTTPS across all of our products ( https://www.g...
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Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study
Contrary to common belief, blue light may not be as disruptive to our sleep patterns as originally thought - according to University of Manchester scientists. According to the team, using dim, cooler, lights in the evening and bright warmer lights in the day may be more beneficial to our health. Twilight is both…
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Advancements in machine learning for machine learning
Posted by Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Bryan Perozzi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Re...
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Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air
Oxygen candles are used as a backup source of breathable air inside refuge chambers, making them ideal for emergency situations underground.
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Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
Editor’s note: Numbers for each prison census are adjusted yearly as CPJ learns of arrests, releases, or deaths in prison. The numbers for CPJ’s 2021 census have been revised from 293 to 302 in accordance with this policy. For the most recent data, see cpj.org/data/imprisoned/ The number of journalists jailed around…
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Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
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Scaling our spreadsheet engine from thousands to billions of cells
Causal has joined Lucanet to deliver Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) as part of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform. Make smarter planning decisions with unified real-time insights across financial and operational planning.
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