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Why use Pascal?
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,475 posts.
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Removing support for forwarded ports
Today we announce that we no longer support port forwarding. New port forwards will no longer be supported, and existing ports will be removed 2023-07-01.
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Annoying A/B testing mistakes
Running experiments is equal parts powerful and terrifying. Powerful because you can validate changes that will transform your product for the better…
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Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. Technical informat...
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Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io
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AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?
AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want, not how to do it — thus reversing the locus of control.
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Mojo is available for local download
Since our launch of the Mojo programming language on May 2nd, more than 120K+ developers have signed up to use the Mojo Playground and 19K+ developers actively discuss Mojo on Discord and GitHub. Today, we’re excited to announce the next big step in Mojo’s evolution: Mojo is now available for local download …
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GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age
Why CPU Knowledge Is No Longer Enough In today's AI age, the majority of developers train in the CPU way. This knowledge has been part of our academics as well, so it's obvious to think and problem-solve in a CPU-oriented way. However, the problem with CPUs is that they rely
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Custom instructions for ChatGPT
We’re rolling out custom instructions to give you more control over how ChatGPT responds. Set your preferences, and ChatGPT will keep them in mind for all future conversations.
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Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought
Our investigation of the security incident disclosed by Microsoft and CISA and attributed to Chinese threat actor Storm-0558, found that this incident seems to have a broader scope than originally assumed. Organizations using Microsoft and Azure services should take steps to assess potential impact.
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Building end-to-end security for Messenger
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our …
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SUSE to go private
EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE
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Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice
Scientists at UChicago discover that trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a fatty acid found in beef, lamb, and dairy products, improves the ability of immune cells to fight tumors.
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High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
Remember when IBM’s Deep Blue won against Gary Kasparov at chess in 1996, or Google’s AlphaGo crushed the top champion Lee Sedol at Go, a much more complex game, in 2016? These competitions where machines prevailed over human champions are key milestones in the history of artificial intelligence. Now a group of…
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Netlify acquires Gatsby
Netlify has acquired Gatsby – cloud platform, and creators of web framework Gatsby – advancing composable web architectures with increased flexibility.
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A new old kind of R&D lab
Answer.AI will figure out the fundamental research needed to tame AI, and the development path needed to make it useful in practice
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When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs
I got a Slack message from colleagues at a major partner. They’d updated their dev environment to support WebSockets, so that Neon’s serverless driver could be used there, but then they’d run into a weird issue. The nub of it was this: This hangs: This works Reproducibly, the query without an ORDER BY ran fine […]
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SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide
Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing
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Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and Beyond
Use 3D to visualize matrix multiplication expressions, attention heads with real weights, and more. Matrix multiplications (matmuls) are the building blocks of today’s ML models. This note presents mm, a visualization...
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Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
Brave's vertical tabs feature is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux users to experience a new way to manage open tabs.
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Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity
Stripe, which builds economic infrastructure for the internet, has signed agreements for a Series I fundraise.
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Home Assistant 2023.11
Introducing a brand new to-do entity type and use it locally with Todoist or Google Tasks. Matter 1.2 is here! New conditions for the conditional card to tailor your dashboards, select custom date ...
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MK-1
AMD acquires MK1, welcoming their world-class team and marking another key milestone in our strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency.
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Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering
People rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad.
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Why SQLite is so great for the edge
Everyone already knows that SQLite is great. This article makes the praise much more specific though — it explains why we, the developers of libSQL, think that SQLite is a great choice for bringing your data to the edge.