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Prolly Trees
A deep dive into the Probabilistic B-tree or Prolly Tree data structure including examples. Prolly Trees are used to create version controlled databases.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions
OpenTofu 1.7.0 is now available with full state encryption, dynamic provider-defined functions, the removed and loopable import blocks, new migration guides, and much more.
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Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"
Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
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Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers
Machine Learning has made huge strides in the last few decades, but it remains largely inaccessible to the average developer. This post examines some of the reasons why.
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Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
We are announcing a new Crystal release with several new features and bug fixes.
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Streaming joins are hard
Why are streaming joins so tricky? Discover the hidden complexities of real-time data, and learn how to tame the infinite stream!
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Designing a Pure Python Web Framework
A deep dive into how Reflex works under the hood—from reactive state management to compilation of Python components into React.
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A new home for Python-build-standalone
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
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KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released
The KDE community proudly presents Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02
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Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3
Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.
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Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance
Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors offer outstanding AI performance, compatibility and power efficiency at scale to leading laptop manufacturers.
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Extending the context length to 1M tokens
API Documentation (Chinese) HuggingFace Demo ModelScope Demo Introduction After the release of Qwen2.5, we heard the community’s demand for processing longer contexts. In recent months, we have made many optimizations for the model capabilities and inference performance of extremely long context. Today, we are proud…
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Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly
PHP currently powers [~75% of the websites](<https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php>) on the internet. It may not be the “sexy boi” of programm...
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Are We PEP740 Yet?
PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI.
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The weird of function-local types in Rust
Next-gen compile-time-checked builder generator, named function's arguments, and more!
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Linear transformers are faster after all
Our mission is to train a neural network to model all human output.
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What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it
Not doing anything with it is exactly the point.
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Union, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets
The JavaScript Set was introduced to the language in the ES2015 spec, but it has always seemed incomplete. That's about to change with the addition of functions like intersection, union and difference.
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Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024
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Python extensions should be lazy
Python's memory model is a performance bottleneck. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
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Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation
Today, we are excited to triple down on our partnership with Mistral AI by co-leading their €600M Series B round.
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New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively
Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment. They fix up to 20 percent of the Earth’s CO2. A research team at the University of Basel has now discovered a protein shell in these algae that is necessary for efficient CO2 fixation. This groundbreaking discovery can…
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Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale
Quickwit 0.8 brings indexing and search at an unprecedented scale, indexing at 1PB/day and searching through 50 PB is a reality.
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New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro
The groundbreaking new iPad Pro features a stunningly thin and light design, taking portability and performance to the next level.
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Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)
Studies from two very different cities showed the same result.