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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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Donald Bitzer has died
CHM remembers Fellow Don Bitzer, computer pioneer who co-invented the flat-panel plasma display and was called the "father of PLATO.”
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June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)
Upgrade CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to supported systems with Red Hat's in-place solutions
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Entropic Engineering DEFCON 32 Statement
Entropic Engineering was approached in January ‘24 by the DEFCON Badge Team, who were looking for a small company to partner with. They expressed that they specifically wanted to work with us as a woman-owned, queer- and POC-driven engineering firm to develop an electronic badge with a gaming element for this year’s…
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Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
Why gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food
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Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos
Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos.
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The future of kdb+?
It’s been 2 years since I worked full time in kdb+ but people seem to always want to talk to me about kdb+ and where I think it’s going, so to save rehashing the same debates I’m going to put it here and refer to it in future. Please leave a comment if you want and I will reply.
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Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry
Our first generalist policy, π0, a prototype model that combines large-scale multi-task and multi-robot data collection with a new network architecture to enable the most capable and dexterous generalist robot policy to date.
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PyPI now supports digital attestations
Announcing support for PEP 740 on the Python Package Index
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Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, tex…
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Goldene: A single atom layer of gold
For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. According to the researchers from LiU this has given the gold new properties that can make it suitable for use in various applications.
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Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
Automated reasoning and optimizations specific to CPU microarchitectures improve both performance and assurance of correct implementation.
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PiFex: JTAG Hacking with a Raspberry Pi
With this blog post, we'll introduce the PiFex, a basic companion board for the Raspberry Pi designed to teach users the basics of hardware hacking and embedded protocols. We will then demonstrate how to use the PiFex to access a JTAG tap on an undocumented SSD, allowing memory reads and GDB access to the SSD CPU.
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PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning
Explore PaliGemma 2, which offers scalable performance with multiple model sizes and resolutions, and is designed as a drop-in replacement for existing PaliGemma users.
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Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma
Lund University. Our knowledge regarding the long-term health effects of tattoos is currently poor, and there is not a lot of research within this area. Now a research group at Lund University has investigated the association between tattoos and lymphoma.
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Stonelifting Etiquette
Lift responsibly and respectfully
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Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics
The mechanical computer uses a complex structure of rigid, interconnected polymer cubes to store, retrieve and erase data without relying on electronic components.
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Using reinforcement learning and $4.80 of GPU time to find the best HN post
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
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Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta
While deploying Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta, we’ve developed a simplified version of the protocol (Simple Precision Time Protocol – SPTP), that can offer the same level of clock syn…
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Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation
Let’s Encrypt is proud to introduce Sunlight, a new implementation of a Certificate Transparency log that we built from the ground up with modern Web PKI opportunities and constraints in mind. In partnership with Filippo Valsorda, who led the design and implementation, we incorporated feedback from the broader…
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The UX of UUIDs
Unique identifiers play a crucial role in all applications, from user authentication to resource management. While using a standard UUID will satisfy all your security concerns, there’s a lot we can improve for our users.
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GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18
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Fractional scales, fonts and hinting
GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year. The new renderers have much improved support for fractional scaling—on my system, I now use 125% scaling instead of the 'Large Text' setting, and I find that works fine for my needs. Magical numbers Ever since 4.0, GTK…
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Firefox 125
NOTE: Due to a high-severity quality issue discovered shortly before release, the 125.0 release was skipped in favor of 125.0.1.
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Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
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Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o
Fine-tune custom versions of GPT‑4o to increase performance and accuracy for your applications.