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An Inside Look at Microsoft’s Newest Flight Simulator
Fewer than 50 people outside the product team have actually flown the sim. I was lucky enough to be one of them.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,691 posts.
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Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksDB and Raft
Discover the tech stack used by Stream. Explore 42 tools across 5 categories.
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OpenTTD 12.0-RC1
One last flurry of features, including properly displaying when a vehicle is lost, and some new buttons for macOS TouchBar, if you have one. A fair few fixes for the new networking setup, and a few other things besides.
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Why Write ADRs
How architecture decision records can help your team.
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Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages
Research By: Eyal Itkin, Yannay Livneh and Yaniv Balmas Fax, the brilliant technology that lifted mankind out the dark ages of mail delivery when only the postal service and carrier pigeons were used to deliver a physical message from a sender to a receiver. Technology wise, however, that was a long time ago. Today […]
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Freedom Act Passes: What We Celebrate, What We Mourn, and Where We Go from Here
The Senate passed the USA Freedom Act today by 67-32, marking the first time in over thirty years that both houses of Congress have approved a bill placing real restrictions and oversight on the National Security Agency’s surveillance powers. The weakening amendments to the legislation proposed by...
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MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity.
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The curious case of slow downloads
Some time ago we discovered that certain very slow downloads were getting abruptly terminated and began investigating whether that was a client (i.e. web browser) or server (i.e. us) problem.
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Elixir v1.0.0 released
Elixir v1.0 is finally out.
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Loro's rich text CRDT
This article presents the rich text CRDT algorithm implemented in Loro, complying with Peritext's criteria for seamless rich text collaboration. Furthermore, it can be built on top of any List CRDT algorithms and turn them into rich text CRDTs.
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AMD GCN Radeon Support in GCC 9
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data
We study subliminal learning , a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a "student" model learns to prefer owls when trained on sequences of numbers generated by a "teacher" model that prefers owls. This same…
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Grafana 3.0 Stable Released
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly
A detailed look at how we replaced the most performance-sensitive portions of the source-map JavaScript Library’s source map parser with Rust code that is compiled to WebAssembly. The results: The ...
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Stripe Integration for Twilio Pay
Stripe + Twilio <Pay> lets businesses easily and securely accept payments over the phone.
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Everything you need to know about OAuth 2.0
OAuth provides third party applications limited access to user resources without compromising the user's data. Find out exactly how in this blog.
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DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations
DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations...
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How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter
(Not at my company of course. I would never hire somebody as unqualified as I was! I’m just lucky finding people smarter than me is so easy.) First, lets…
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Targeting HTTP's Hidden Attack-Surface
Modern websites are browsed through a lens of transparent systems built to enhance performance, extract analytics and supply numerous additional services. This almost invisible attack surface has been
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You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview
Hiring is broken. A brief history of technical interviewing, look at where things standa today, and what can be done.
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The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
Despite aggregate productivity for the US economy having doubled over the past 50 years, the country’s construction sector has diverged considerably, trending downward throughout that period. And this is no slight decrease. Raw BEA data suggest that the value added per worker in the construction sector was about 40…
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Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
The work could help efforts to contain an important source of air pollution
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