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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,689 posts.
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Today's Outage Post Mortem
This morning at 09:47 UTC CloudFlare effectively dropped off the Internet. The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy.
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Training our own AI models
I really think we're on the verge of some of our best work through the next six months. Over the past year, we've started building more AI-powered…
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Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
Two new Finnish studies show that short bouts of light or moderate exercise can increase the number of immune cells in the bloodstream of cancer patients.
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Turing Test Success
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Websites should not use dithered images
Despite claims that dithered images will reduce your image's file size, there are much better ways to compress your website's images.
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Yale scientists explain how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours
Ketamine may regenerate synaptic connections between brain cells damaged by stress and depression, according to new Yale-led research.
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Hallmark of an Economic Ponzi Scheme
The hallmark of an economic Ponzi scheme is that the operation of the economy relies on the constant creation of low-grade debt in order to finance consumption and income shortfalls among some members of the economy, using the massive surpluses earned by other members of the economy. The factors most responsible for…
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Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
Press release The Briar Project released version 1.4 of its Android app today. This release adds a couple of new features, highlighted below. First of all, users can now share the app offline. Prior to this release, the only way to get the app was to to download it from the internet, which requires an internet…
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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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Bitcoin 0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning
Bitcoin.org has reason to suspect that the binaries for the upcoming Bitcoin Core release will likely be targeted by state sponsored attackers. As a website, Bitcoin.org does not have the technical resources to guarantee that we can defend ourselves from attackers of this calibre. We ask the Bitcoin community, and in…
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You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web's core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to say "I can't let you do that, Dave"; rather than "Yes, boss"—to the Web's standards. At the time,...
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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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PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available
The PyCon US 2021 recordings are available on our YouTube channel . Be sure to subscribe to our channel for notifications of new content. T...
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Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
Parallel evolution.
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Turing Pi V2 is here
It’s been a long time since we announced the Turing Pi V2, but finally, we are ready to reveal all the details of the new cluster board. But first, we want to thank you all for your patience and for every feedback you gave us along the way. We appreciate the community’s input and support. […]
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Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation.
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Reversing Bits in C
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Bug Prediction at Google
What's the problem? Here at Google, we have thousands of engineers working on our code base every day. In fact, as previously noted , 50%...
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How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru
It's a popular stereotype that lesbians drive Subarus. What's less well known is that Subaru cultivated that image—and made history in the process.
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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.
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Tell, don't ask
And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...
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ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC
See how ClickHouse delivers faster query performance on 500 billion rows of data compared to ScyllaDB, leveraging an Intel NUC mini PC, advanced compression, and materialized views.
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WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes
Providing up-to-date, convenient WebAssembly builds of Python with WASI support
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Wgpu-0.10 released: WebGPU implementation now in pure Rust
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement
Introducing Ornith-1.5, an open-source model family that extends self-scaffolding into an end-to-end self-improvement loop.