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PostgreSQL Templates
What are PostgreSQL templates and what are they used for?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
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A Cartography Nerd's Guide to Custom Map-Making
How to one designer used public data to create an interactive map of San Francisco tennis courts
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Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated (2022)
In the late 1980s, there were near a million new cases of guinea worm disease recorded worldwide. In 2021, there were only 15. How was this achieved?
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Don’t Shoot Messenger
Update (September 28, 2018): Reuters reports that the court has denied the government's request to force Facebook to assist with the wiretap.Late last week, Reuters reported that Facebook is being asked to “break the encryption” in its Messenger application to assist the Justice Department in...
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Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster
Blender Studio is a web service that provides access the training videos and all the data from the Blender open projects.
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Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?
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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Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips
Apple today announced a new MacBook Pro lineup featuring the all-new family of M3 chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max.
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Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
Within five days of ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the artificial intelligence chatbot gained more than a million users. Today, more than half of all adults
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AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)
Nine Technical Strategies for Reducing Hallucination
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Twelve Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
Apple today announced that John Giannandrea has been named senior vice president of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
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Why some software developers hate Agile
Many developers have been voicing their concerns about Agile being broken lately. Among them are prominent figures like Robert C. Martin and Kent Beck – two of the people who charted the original Agile Manifesto. Why is that?
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Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine
A next-generation COVID-19 mucosal vaccine is set to be a gamechanger not only when delivering the vaccine itself, but also for people who are needle-phobic.
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Problems with TypeScript
I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post.
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YC's request for startups: Government 2.0
In 2018, Pew Research Center reported [https://www.pewglobal.org/2019/03/04/u-s-german-relations-methodology-spring-2018-global-attitudes-survey/] that 57% of Americans believe that children in America today will be worse off financially than their parents. Since 2013, this number has been as high as 65% — even though…
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State of Python 3.13 performance: Free-threading
Python 3.13 is out and it's time to run some benchmarks to see how well it performs with the new free-threaded mode.
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Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates
Today we shared two significant milestones in one of our largest areas of development. Standalone is new category designed to bring more freedom and accessibility to VR. Without a cable or the need for a mobile phone, standalone headsets represent a totally new phase of VR hardware.
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Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now
Ship production-quality code at superhuman speed.
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PWAs in App Stores
Progressive Web Apps can be submitted to app stores like the Android Play Store or the Microsoft Store and more.
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Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
If I asked you to name the most common chronic disease in children, what would you say? Asthma comes top of mind, but there is something five times more common in kids: cavities. We don’t typically think of dental cavities as a chronic disease—in part because of the separation between medicine and dentistry—but it is…
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The new Clang _ExtInt feature provides exact bitwidth integer types
Author: Erich Keane, Compiler Frontend Engineer, Intel Corporation Earlier this month I finally committed a patch to implement the extended-integer type class, _ExtInt after nearly two and a half years of design and implementation.
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Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
Is it Cut 'n' Paste, like Fish 'n' Chips?
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What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM
Hello everyone! I’m writing this following a visit to Brussels this past weekend to the Free and Open Source Software conference called FOSDEM. As far as I know it is one of the largest, if not the largest FOSS conference in Europe. It proved to be a great opportunity to discuss Thunderbird with a wide […]
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What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Observations in mice hint at role of daydreams in remodeling the brain