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Reptile: A Scalable Meta-Learning Algorithm
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
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Leap: An Online Community for Women
I’m excited to share an experimental project I’ve been working on at YC over the last 10 months. It’s called Elpha [https://elpha.com] and it’s an online community for women in tech to talk about whatever we want. Elpha has ~1,500+ members who are founders, designers, marketers, software engineers, VCs, women in sales…
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Atom 1.28
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Our Ambitious Plan to Make Insecure PHP Software a Thing of the Past
Let's solve application security at an ecosystem level by updating outdated and/or insecure blog posts to refer developers to better practices.
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Improving compression at scale with Zstandard
Two years ago, Facebook open-sourced Zstandard v1.0, a landmark data compression solution that offers best-in-kind performance. Since then, we’ve released a variety of enhancements and advanc…
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A GTK+ 3 update
Plans When we started development towards GTK+ 4, we laid out a plan that said GTK+ 3.22 would be the final, stable branch of GTK+ 3. And we've stuck to this for a while. I has served us reasonably well — GTK+ 3 stopped changing in drastic ways, which was well-received, and we are finally...
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Krita in the Windows Store: an update
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Go 2017 Survey Results
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
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‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1
Independent security journalism: news and analysis on intrusions, vulnerabilities, AI, policy and the software supply chain, plus video and podcasts.
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Hands on with Linkerd 2.0
Linkerd 2.0 was recently announced as generally available (GA), signaling its readiness for production use. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to get Linkerd 2.0 up and running on your Kubernetes cluster in a matter seconds. But first, what is Linkerd and why should you care? Linkerd is a service sidecar…
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Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer
Managing state in Kubernetes is difficult because the system’s dynamism is too chaotic for most databases to handle; especially SQL databases that offer strong consistency.
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Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ
Updated to v3 on Dec 12th! Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the
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PostgreSQL 10.2 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 10.2, 9.6.7, …
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Learning by playing
Getting children (and adults) to tidy up after themselves can be a challenge, but we face an even greater challenge trying to get our AI agents to do the same. Success depends on the mastery of several core visuo-motor skills: approaching an object, grasping and lifting it, opening a box and putting things inside of…
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Nerves v1.0 Released
We are thrilled to announce Nerves v1.0 is finally out. This has been 4219 commits by 102 contributors since the initial commit on October 29th, 2013! This would not have been possible without our corporate sponsors and individual backers.
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The Future of Transmit iOS
Hello. Here’s an update on Transmit iOS that I promise will not use the words “sunset” or “journey”.
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Mozilla’s Servo Team Joining Mixed Reality
Mozilla's Servo team joining Mixed Reality
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Atom 1.29
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Understanding contravariance
The concept of contravariance, contravariant functors, and the Contravariant typeclass defined in the ‘contravariance’ Haskell library.
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Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
This post follows the story of a GitHub intern's experience laser cutting a contribution graph to creating an application that automates the process.
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Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository
Is your Git repository bursting at the seams? git-sizer is a new open source tool that can tell you when your repo is getting too big. git-sizer computes various Git…
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Consistency Models
Jepsen analyzes the safety properties of distributed systems–most notably, identifying violations of consistency models. But what are consistency models? What phenomena do they allow? What kind of consistency does a given program really need?
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Electron 3.0.0
The Electron team is excited to announce that the first stable release of Electron 3 is now
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Dependent Haskell
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.