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85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics
An Ipsos poll finds overwhelming global support for banning harmful plastics and chemicals, with 87% backing reduced plastic production worldwide.
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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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The art of interrupting software engineers
Earlier this month, Broadcom published findings from our frontier model research initiative examining what frontier AI models can do when applied to vulnerability discovery and...
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Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors?
Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? We show how toxicity models overweight profanity, and make mistakes when profanity is used in a positive way.
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Greenland ice sheet is close to a melting point of no return
Once we emit about 1000 gigatons of carbon, much of the massive ice sheet will melt irreversibly. We’ve emitted 500 gigatons so far.
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Nix on the Steam Deck
When I first started using Linux in 2006, I remember dreaming of a Linux Console. It wasn't so far fetched, the PlayStation 3 had just been released with OtherOS support which allowed users to install Linux (or BSD). Still, it seemed that a Linux-first console seemed like it would only ever be a dream.
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My Very Own Protocol Droid
Thirty-six people work at 37signals. Only six of us don’t have iPhones. Out of the six of us, three have Androids. I just recently became one of the Android minority. I’ve been a die-hard “Apple evangelist” for over twenty years — first an avid Mac user, then an e…
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Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19
Researchers offer first proof that Ultraviolet C light with a 222 nm wavelength — which is safer to use around humans — effectively kills the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world
Explore how Common Lisp and Clojure shape modern programming, and discover why understanding these foundations is crucial for tech choices today
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Developers are choosing older AI models
At Augment Code, we run multiple frontier models side by side in production. This gives us a unique vantage point into how different models behave in real…
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Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM
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IRCv3 Spec round-up
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Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%
An exhaustive set of benchmarks on different ways to approach error handling in Golang. We demonstrate that common sentinel error idioms are slow your code down by 5x.
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An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia
If Australia’s proposed news regulation becomes law, we will reluctantly stop allowing publishers and people in Australia to share local and international news on Facebook and Instagram.
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YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
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Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI
SC20—NVIDIA today unveiled the NVIDIA® A100 80GB GPU — the latest innovation powering the NVIDIA HGX™ AI supercomputing platform — with twice the memory of its predecessor, providing researchers and engineers unprecedented speed and performance to unlock the next wave of AI and scientific breakthroughs.
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Myth of the Brown Recluse
Myth of the Brown Recluse: Fact, Fear, and Loathing Rick Vetter Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA
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Liquid Foundation Models: Our First Series of Generative AI Models
Announcing Liquid Foundation Models: state-of-the-art local AI with a smaller memory footprint and faster inference.
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Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-hospitalised individuals
Cellular (T cell) immunity against SARS-CoV-2 is likely to be present within most adults six months after primary infection, a new pre-print on bioRxiv suggests.
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Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
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GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (2022)
Discover the gains and costs of GCC’s enhanced runtime buffer overflow protection. Level 3 _FORTIFY_SOURCE preprocessor macro may detect more buffer overflows, but there’s a cost.
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Key Change
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it launched in 1999.
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Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now supports IPv6 for all Pages hosted on *.github.io and custom domains. Documentation for enabling IPv6 with custom domains can be found here.
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Proposed illegal image detectors on devices are ‘easily fooled’
Proposed algorithms that detect illegal images on devices can be easily fooled with imperceptible changes to images, Imperial research has found.
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Radiology-specific foundation model
Harrison.ai builds AI-native medical imaging technology for radiology, used by hospitals and radiology providers worldwide. See our products and solutions.
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Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft
Airbus is working at full throttle to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA) system by 2029.
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Replacing Protobuf with Rust
Forking pg_query.rs to replace Protobuf with bindgen-generated direct C-to-Rust struct mappings, yielding 5x faster query parsing and 10x faster deparsing in PgDog.