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A Year of Telepathy
Over the past year, three people with paralysis have received Neuralink implants. This blog post explores how each person is using Telepathy in everyday life.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,111 posts.
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Julia 1.12 highlights
Highlights of the Julia 1.12 release.
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The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets
WebSockets are at the very core of Compose. Learn how we scaled them to support 1000s of concurrent users.
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Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas
Discover Ada through a fun, project-based tutorial! Learn the language’s clarity, safety, and modern features while building an SVG rosetta generator. A…
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Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD
An article demonstrating immutable software deployments using ZFS snapshots and FreeBSD jails, with Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy for zero‑downtime upgrades.
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AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm...
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Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
The Wildlife Trusts congratulate the UK Government’s decision to open the door for licenced reintroductions of beavers into the wild and its acknowledgment of the free-living populations in several parts of England.
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Matrix v1.15
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Fedora 42 Beta
Discover Fedora 42 Beta: New AI-focused features for modern application development
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Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
Gemini Live with video and screen sharing is now rolling out to Android mobile devices.
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Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
Simply describe any story, and Gemini instantly generates a unique 10-page book with custom art and audio.
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Phi-4 Bug Fixes
Fine-tune Microsoft's new Phi-4 model with Unsloth! We've also found & fixed 4 bugs in the model.
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Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)
It is thought that Euclid wrote Elements in about 300 BC, but Oliver Byrne turned it into one of the true gems of visualization — and made it about 100 times more readable. By seamlessly combining typeset text (Caslon, if you’re interested) with minimalist geometric drawings in primary col
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Google Antigravity
Every advancement in model intelligence for coding has encouraged us to rethink how development should be done. The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)…
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AI Police Reports: Year in Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writing police reports is Axon’s Draft One, and Axon also happens to be the largest...
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Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language
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MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces
Introducing the MCP Apps Extension proposal (SEP-1865) to standardize interactive user interfaces in MCP, developed with the MCP-UI creators and maintainers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisors who view technology as a transformative solution to the country’s economic ills. Lauding it as a “new productive…
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A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'
Dating back to at least early 2023, a bizarre and alarming technical glitch started popping up in some organizations’ online surveys and forms.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 10
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.
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Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
ETH Zurich researchers have developed a process that can be used on site to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the remediation of contaminated sites and a sustainable circular economy.
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Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?
A query to find out if Postgres is read heavy or write heavy and tips for optimizing Postgres for both read and write workloads.
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How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop
AI and Corporate Interests Gutted an Artist's Oasis
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Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
Developers can now submit apps for review and publication in ChatGPT, with approved apps appearing in a new in-product directory for easy discovery. Updated tools, guidelines, and the Apps SDK help developers build powerful chat-native experiences that bring real-world actions into ChatGPT.
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Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
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People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees
A novel data structure has been invented four times now, with three different names. We think that's a good sign.
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How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression
We rolled out Go 1.24 and saw a memory regression. Here’s how we dug into system metrics, uncovered a bug in the runtime allocator, and worked with the Go team to help fix it.
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"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,
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