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GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code
GigaGPT is Cerebras’ implementation of Andrei Karpathy’s nanoGPT – the simplest and most compact code base to train and fine-tune GPT models.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,689 posts.
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The End of an Era for EasyDNS
It all started about two or three years ago, I walked into the office one Monday morning around 10am... and I set the alarm off. My initial shock that I was the first person in on a Monday at 10am was quickly overridden by the realization that I had no idea…
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Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer
We are excited to announce the preview release of a new, advanced code optimizer for the Visual C++ compiler backend. It provides many improvements for
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Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It
QWEN CHAT DISCORD Introduction The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to the latest Qwen2.5 VL, we have made progress in enhancing the model’s ability to understand image content. Today, we are excited to…
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints
Postgres 19 brings plan advice: the query hints the Postgres community held off on for 15 years. Shaun Thomas covers the 15-year debate, pg_plan_advice, pg_stash_advice, and how to use them.
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Multi-database support in DuckDB
DuckDB can attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a convenient manner.
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Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer
Every now and again you come across something that stretches your brain in a new direction. Last week I stumbled on a magic trick of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Al Leonardi’s Ace of Aces, a paper …
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OpenAI Baselines
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law
We are asking a court to declare the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (“FOSTA”) unconstitutional and prevent it from being enforced. The law was written so poorly that it actually criminalizes a substantial amount of protected speech and, according to experts,...
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EU businesses sign open letter against copyright directive articles 11 and 13
March 19th, 2019 Dear Members of the European Parliament, The companies signing this letter to the European Parliament are urging you to vote against Articles 11 and 13 of the proposed copyright directive. The text of the trilogue agreement would harm the European economy and seriously undermine the ability of…
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Supply constraints do not explain house price, quantity growth across US cities
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Alexa+
Powered by generative AI, Alexa+ is your personal AI assistant that gets things done—she’s smarter, more conversational, more capable, and free with Prime.
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GitHub will require 2FA by the end of 2023
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023.
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Rust in the Linux Kernel: Just the Beginning
Support for using Rust in the Linux Kernel was recently merged by Linus Torvalds. This is important because Rust is memory safe, meaning that code written in Rust does not suffer from things like buffer overflows, use-after-free, and other memory management vulnerabilities that plague software written in unsafe…
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Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels
Why can't Meta A/B test its way back to greatness? To move Instagram beyond short-term engagement metrics, we ran a personalized human evaluation asking 100 users to compare TikTok vs. Instagram Reels. Learn why Gen Z considers Reels the place where TikToks go to die, and what Instagram should do about it.
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We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here's how we solve them at Canva.
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Conductor is joining Meta
We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. Writing most of your code with agents (let alone a team of coding agents) felt crazy back then. You trusted us to come along for the ride, and we cannot thank you enough!
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Building a Startup on Clojure
After first getting hooked on Clojure in 2018 I decided to build my business, Wobaka.com, on 100% Clojure the following year. That's how much I enjoyed it. I thought I'd share some of my experience and technical stack for anyone else thinking about building and running their business on
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Text Embedding Models Contain Bias
As Machine Learning practitioners, when faced with a task, we usually select or train a model primarily based on how well it performs on that task. For example, say we're building a system to classify whether a movie review is positive or negative. We take 5 different models and see how well each performs this task:
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Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Where does the plastic in oceans come from?
Which countries and rivers emit the most plastic to the ocean? What does this mean for solutions to tackle plastic pollution?
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AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer
Think of it as style transfer for dancing, a deep learning based algorithm that can convincingly show a real person mirroring the moves of their favorite dancers. The work, developed by a team of…
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Dart 1.0 Is Out
Today we’re releasing the Dart SDK 1.0, a cross-browser, open source toolkit for structured web applications. In the two years since we ...
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