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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
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Noyb.eu files 422 formal GDPR complaints on nerve-wrecking “Cookie Banners”
Today we filed 422 + 36 complaints on "cookie banners" with ten European Data Protection Authorities.
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Unleashing Open-Source Silicon
We all know that open source software has changed the fundamental nature of the software industry and that Google generously adds fuel to this culture of openness and community through Google Summer of Code. What few people realize is that there is another major industry that is ripe for an open source overhaul—the…
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The PeerTube content bootstrap fund
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (2013)
Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.
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Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation
With the recent release of Ubuntu 24.04, we at Snyk Security Labs thought it would be interesting to examine the latest version of this Linux distribution to see if we could find any interesting privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
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A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust
A summary of a Codethink sponsored project which implements a cryptographically secure bootloader, written in Rust, for RISC-V.
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Spin – WebAssembly Framework
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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What number is halfway between 1 and 9?
A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.
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Asynchronous Programming in Python: Asyncio
If you have decided to learn the asynchronous part of Python, here is an “Asyncio”. You will observe some examples and notice our point of view about it.
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SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring
SIMD in game development Often in game development we talk about SIMD. It is the holy grail of CPU performance, often out of reach. The conventional wisdom is that it is difficult to achieve real gains from SIMD. It is tempting to build a math library around SIMD hoping to get some performance gains. However, it often…
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Introducing the Llama Startup Program
We’re excited to announce the Llama Startup Program, a new initiative to empower early stage startups to innovate and build generative AI applications with Llama.
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Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi
balenaSense reads temperature- humidity- barometric pressure- and air quality- and provides a dashboard that you can access from anywhere.
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Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low
Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2022, pushing the disease closer to eradication, The Carter Center announced Wednesday. The figure is the lowest annual case total ever reported, following the record of 15 cases set just the year before. When The Carter Center assumed leadership of…
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PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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How long can open-source LLMs truly promise on context length?
In this blogpost, we introduce our latest series of chatbot models, LongChat-7B and LongChat-13B, featuring a new level of extended context length up to 16K tokens.
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Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement
Hello, tl;dr We are moving forward with subscriptions with important adjustments. You will receive a perpetual fallback license once you pay for a year up front or 12 consecutive months. You wi
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Meta MTIA v2 – Meta Training and Inference Accelerator
We are sharing details of our next generation chip in our Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) family. MTIA is a long-term bet to provide the most efficient architecture for Meta’s unique workloads.
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Introducing HTTP Tracing
How to use Go 1.7's HTTP tracing to understand your client requests.
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Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
gitfs went on a trip around the world, and we were there to document it: fro Italy to Sweden, from the UK to Spain, gitfs has been center stage.
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EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Companies’ Data Collection
San Francisco—School children are being spied on by tech companies through devices and software used in classrooms that often collect and store kids’ names, birth dates, browsing histories, location data, and much more—often without adequate privacy protections or the awareness and consent of...
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Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA
Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GAIn a previous blog - Containerd Brings More Container Runtime Options for Kubernetes, we introduced the alpha version of the Kubernetes containerd integration. With another 6 months of development, the integration with containerd is now generally available! You can now use…
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Introduction to vector similarity search (2022)
Learn what vector search is and the metrics pertinent to decide the distance (or similarity) between objects.
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Etcd v3: increased scale and new APIs
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.