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Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
Leonardo da Vinci’s experiments explored gravity as a form of acceleration
A new look at da Vinci’s papers reveals his insightful attempts to probe the nature of gravity 500 years ago
Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
An exploration of how well AI generates system architecture diagrams
Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui
We're thrilled to announce the release of Stalwart Mail Server version 0.7.0, a significant update that brings a wealth of features and improvements to enhance the performance and manageability of...
A First Look at the JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
Evidence on how to find the right career
Career tests and "going with your gut" don’t work. We analysed all the research on how to find the right career to show you what does.
Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
will go to Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) if Griffin wins, or The Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org) if Bell wins.
Secure Access to 100 AWS Accounts
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase — arxiv papers, competing forks, other backends — produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster.
Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft
The Legit research team unearthed vulnerabilities in GitLab Duo.
Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder
A guide to building a transcoder using Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda.
Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls
Update 11/19/24: The Senate Judiciary Committee is still scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Please express your continued opposition through our action center, linked below. A patent on crowdfunding. A patent on tracking packages. A patent on photo contests. A patent...
How convolutional neural networks see the world
Note: this post was originally written in January 2016. It is now very outdated. Please see this example of how to visualize convnet filters for an up-to-date alternative, or check out chapter 9 of my book "Deep Learning with Python (2nd edition)".
Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance
webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the ocean of third-party tooling can make it difficult to optimize. Poor performance is the norm and not the exception. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and so — after many hours of…
Satellites Taking Pictures of Rockets Carrying More Satellites
In the hours leading up to our recent Soyuz launch we determined that a Dove would be near enough to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to get a shot of our newest flock launching.
Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested
Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next
Elm in the Real World
Elm is a beginner friendly functional reactive programming language for building web frontend. Choosing Elm for a customer project made my job nicer than ever and helped maintain project velocity during months of development.
Announcing TensorFlow 0.8 – now with distributed computing support
Posted by Derek Murray, Software EngineerGoogle uses machine learning across a wide range of its products. In order to continually improve our mode...
How SAML 2.0 Authentication Works
At its core, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 is a means to exchange authorization and authentication information between services. Learn how saml works.
Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between.
I Don't Use Classes
Instead of classes, I prefer modules that expose groups of functions that accept state and other dependencies.
Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.