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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,667 posts.
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Free the Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
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Google DeepMind
DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research will join forces to accelerate progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity.
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Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of…
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VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
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Your computer should say what you tell it to say
WEI? I’m a frayed knotTwo pieces of string walk into a bar.The first piece of string asks for a drink.The bartender says, “Get lost. We don’t serve pieces of string.”The second string ties a knot in his middle and messes up his ends. Then he orders a drink. The bartender says, “Hey, you aren’t a...
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Docker without Docker
Our users deliver software to us as Docker containers, but we don’t use Docker to run them. We transmogrify container images into Firecracker micro-VMs. Here's how.
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Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
Good news out of the Ninth Circuit: the federal court of appeals heeded EFF’s advice and rejected an attempt by Oracle to hold a company criminally liable for accessing Oracle’s website in a manner it didn’t like. The court ruled back in 2012 that merely violating a website’s terms of use is not a...
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Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
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More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued
As part of the Internet Archive's aim to build a better Web, we have been working to make the Web more reliable -- and are pleased to announce that 9 million formerly broken links on Wikipedia now work because they go to archived versions in the Wayback Machine. 22 Wikipedia Language Editions with more than
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Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad
Apps introduce powerful features designed for iPad to deliver the ultimate mobile studio for video and music creators.
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How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us
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Language models can explain neurons in language models
We use GPT-4 to automatically write explanations for the behavior of neurons in large language models and to score those explanations. We release a dataset of these (imperfect) explanations and scores for every neuron in GPT-2.
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Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.
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What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
On July 18, 2022, Slack announced that starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will be limited to just the past 90 days of message history. Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving full access to the past 90 days of message history and …
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Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
neflabs.com is your first and best source for information about neflabs. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
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Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
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How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages
What percentile approximations are, how percentiles work in PostgreSQL, and calculating them efficiently on time-series data.
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AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?
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ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
Introducing ChatGPT agent: it thinks and acts, using tools to complete tasks like research, bookings, and slideshows—all with your guidance.
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The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher
See how Mathematica was used to solve one of the cryptograms sent in a letter by the Zodiac Killer.
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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
Today, I’m excited to share that, for the first time, the same machine learning courses used to train engineers at Amazon are now available to all developers through AWS. We’ve been using machine learning across Amazon for more than 20 years. With thousands of engineers focused on machine learning across the company…
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An update on Wayback Machine access
We've heard you: "Fix the Wayback Machine!" Here's what's going on. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has been hit by waves of high-volume automated traffic, and we've put protections in place to keep the service running. One recent change: we rewrote the message you see when a request is blocked with a 429 error…
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New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
A new material has been used to create a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting preventive and restorative dental treatment.