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Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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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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Serious Sam’s Serious Engine source code released
Hey guys, today we have a surprise for you. We’re releasing the source code for Serious Engine v1.10! It’s the very same engine that we used for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter. This month we’ll be celebrating Serious Sam’s 15th anniversary and we’re all feeling very nostalgic…
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The cpu_features library
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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New adaptive optics shows details of our star's atmosphere
Scientists from the U.S. NSF National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology produced the finest images in the Sun’s corona to date. Using a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur caused by Earth's atmosphere, their ground-breaking results were recently published in Nature Astronomy…
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We’re 10 today
On our tenth birthday we can look back on a year in which our free and open world map has gone from strength to strength, being deployed by large companies such as Apple, Mapquest and Foursquare, and relief organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and the American Red Cross.
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SyntaxNet in Context: Understanding Google's New TensorFlow NLP Model
Yesterday, Google open sourced their Tensorflow-based dependency parsing library, SyntaxNet. The library gives access to a line of neural network parsing models published by Google researchers over the last two years. I've been following this work closely since it was published, and have been looking forward to the…
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The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective
A few weeks ago I (=Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick) gave a keynote at ICOOOLPS in Amsterdam with the above title. I was very happy to have bee...
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Model Training as Code
Model training has grown complex enough to require many specialised stages and teams, and manual coordination between them doesn’t scale. At Aleph Alpha, we’ve built Savanna, a model factory that implements the entire training pipeline in code.
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The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections (2023)
Learn about visual prompt injections, their appearance, and top defense strategies against these attacks.
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SurveyMonkey Acquires Wufoo (YC W06)
We are delighted to announce that we have signed a definitive agreement to be [acquired by SurveyMonkey](http://www.surveymonkey.com/PressRelease04252011.aspx), the world’s leading […]
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022
Backblaze wants to be as transparent as possible with our customers about our business. Here’s what you need to know about our drives in Q1 2022.
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New algorithm unlocks high-resolution insights for computer vision
MIT CSAIL researchers introduce FeatUp, a model-agnostic framework designed to significantly enhance the spatial resolution of deep learning features for improved performance in computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth prediction, and object detection.
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Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview
A never-before-seen 1996 interview
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Open Source Security Tools
Explore open source cloud security tools that help teams improve visibility, automate detections, and strengthen modern cloud-native security operations workflows.
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Everything I Know: Buckminster Fuller (1975)
Everything I Know During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. Jump to Sections Introduction These …
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018
I recently wrote about some work I’ve done to speed up the Rust compiler . Since then I’ve done some more.
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Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars
All vehicles lose efficiency and range in very cold weather. Electric cars are no different. The good news, however, is that this range loss is temporary and not as limiting as many people may think.
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Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021
Counterpoint Research Insight
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Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to close soon with backing from existing investors. This funding values the company at >$100 billion.
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Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
From the Zed Blog: We're moving Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing.
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Founder Ethics
One of the most valuable parts of Y Combinator is our community. As of Summer 2014, we have funded over 1,400 founders, and as the YC family grows, the continued strength of our network depends on founders behaving well. Starting with this batch (YC S14), we’ll be asking founders to review YC’s statement of founder…
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