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A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust
A summary of a Codethink sponsored project which implements a cryptographically secure bootloader, written in Rust, for RISC-V.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring
SIMD in game development Often in game development we talk about SIMD. It is the holy grail of CPU performance, often out of reach. The conventional wisdom is that it is difficult to achieve real gains from SIMD. It is tempting to build a math library around SIMD hoping to get some performance gains. However, it often…
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Meta MTIA v2 – Meta Training and Inference Accelerator
We are sharing details of our next generation chip in our Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) family. MTIA is a long-term bet to provide the most efficient architecture for Meta’s unique workloads.
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Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
Operational simplicity in aodrqew, balancing stability and agility to enhance reliability, reduce complexity, and focus on impactful innovation.
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What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
It has one foot in each world but belongs to neither.
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Difference between running Postgres for yourself and for others
At Ubicloud, our managed cloud service enables us to run PostgreSQL for others. We open sourced our implementation, so we thought this was a good opportunity to talk about its features. This blog post summarizes features commonly available in a managed service. It also describes interesting differences between running…
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Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work
Websites are riddled with timing oracles eager to divulge their innermost secrets. It's time we started listening to them. In this paper, I'll unleash novel attack concepts to coax out server secrets
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DEA Accepts Health Agency's Recommendation to Reclassify Cannabis
Determination must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. There, our Driver will learn and adapt to left-hand traffic and new driving nuances associated with operating in one of…
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OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub
How far are the o1 preview and mini models from AGI?
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AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware
The University of Surrey unveils NitroFusion, an open-source AI model for near-instant image generation on a single consumer-grade GPU.
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How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a…
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DuckDB 1.0.0
The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
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Network Tunneling with QEMU
While investigating an incident, we detected uncommon malicious activity inside one of the systems. We ran an analysis on the artifacts, only to find that the adversary had deployed and launched the QEMU hardware emulator.
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Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems
Adventures in Responsible Disclosure
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A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics
Researchers produced 3D-printed, semiconductor-free logic gates, which perform computations in active electronic devices. As they don’t require semiconductor materials, they represent a step toward 3D printing an entire active electronic device.
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Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices
Discover how Assembled uses LLMs to save engineering hours on test writing, boost productivity, and ensure code quality without slowing development.
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A framework to help B2B founders find product-market fit
PMF Method from First Round is a free, intensive experience designed to help exceptional B2B founders increase their odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Read about the four levels of PMF in this preview of PMF Method content.
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Hardware Virtualization
Project overview QEMU is a virtual machine which allows running an operating system inside of another. While there already is a Haiku port, it currently does not support any acceleration system through native virtualization (through Intel VT-x and …
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pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA
Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft. | Reading time: 8 min read
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What Extropic is building
The demand for computing power in the AI era is increasing at an unprecedented exponential rate. Luckily, for the past several decades, the miniaturization of CMOS transistor technology following Moore’s law has allowed much of this exponential growth to be accounted for by increasing computer efficiency.
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Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads…
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Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS
Technical deep dive into the new DBOS integration for Supabase
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Project Gameface launches on Android
We've open sourced the code for Project Gameface so developers and enterprises can leverage it to build new experiences with increased accessibility.
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No one cares about open-source, until
If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.
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Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark
Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.
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Passkey Implementation: Misconceptions, pitfalls and unknown unknowns
Read about the challenges, pitfalls and misconceptions we faced while developing our passkey-first authentication solution and passkey intelligence.
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Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images
AUSTIN, Texas — Using generative artificial intelligence, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has converted sounds from audio