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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,695 posts.
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Soil bacteria could improve crop yields, via fungi
The findings from Boyce Thompson Institute researchers could point the way to cost-effective, eco-friendly ways of enriching soil and reducing reliance on conventional fertilizers.
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Batch Mode in the Gemini API: Process More for Less
Discover how Batch Mode in Gemini API allows developers to submit large jobs, offload processing, and get results in 24 hours, offering simplicity, convenience, and cost-savings.
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The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants
On December 14, 2017 a post was made on Reddit that would forever change the landscape of charitable giving with cryptocurrency.
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Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying
In the past two weeks Congress has introduced a slew of bills responding to the Guardian's publication of a top secret court order using Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act to demand that Verizon Business Network Services give the National Security Agency (NSA) a record of every customer's call history...
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Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio walk through the performance optimizations Antonio when working on Zed's Rope data structure before they then pair on adding more optimizations
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Emoji and Deep Learning
Dango - Your Emoji Assistant
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Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers
Perfctl is particularly elusive and persistent malware employing several sophisticated techniques
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SQLite Begin Concurrent
Usually, SQLite allows at most one writer to proceed concurrently. The BEGIN CONCURRENT enhancement allows multiple writers to process write transactions simultanously if the database is in "wal" or "wal2" mode, although the system still serializes COMMIT commands.
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Recovering deleted files using grep
I was working on a server this morning and accidentally deleted an important configuration file. Like many Linux users, I lamented the absence of an “undelete” command.
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NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute
We've achieved 10x data efficiency with NanoGPT Slowrun within a few weeks. An ensemble of 1.8B parameter models (18B total params) trained on 100M tokens matches what would normally require 1B tokens with a standard LM baseline. Data efficiency matters because compute grows much faster than data . Since our current…
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Attempts to Censor AntiPolygraph.org
AntiPolygraph.org has received a rather unpleasant letter from James D’Loughy, a lawyer representing NITV Federal Services, LLC (NITV), which markets a scientifically baseless voice-based lie detector called the “Computer Voice Stress Analyzer,” and its president, self-described “Renaissance Man” “Dr.” Charles Humble…
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Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL
This article gives a simple introduction with examples to recursive queries in PostgreSQL. It also includes a comparison to Oracle recursive queries.
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Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge
NVIDIA data scientists took three of the top spots in a brain tumor segmentation challenge validation phase at the prestigious MICCAI 2021.
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Multi-Value All the Wasm
Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a prerequisite for Wasm interface types. Nick Fitzgerald has ...
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A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One
What is Streaming replication in PostgreSQL?Streaming replication in PostgreSQL is an efficient method for maintaining a near real-time replica of a primary database on one or more standby servers.The primary server continuously sends data to replica
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Earn $200K by fuzzing for a weekend: Part 1
By applying well-known fuzzing techniques to a popular target, I found several bugs that in total yielded over $200K in bounties. In this article I will demonstrate how powerful fuzzing can be when applied to software which has not yet faced sufficient testing.
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Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction In the past three months since Qwen2’s release, numerous developers have built new models on the Qwen2 language models, providing us with valuable feedback. During this period, we have focused on creating smarter and more knowledgeable language models. Today, we…
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Role-based access control like it was meant to be
Learn about role-based access control, its use cases and benefits.
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Introducing the Open Images Dataset
Posted by Ivan Krasin and Tom Duerig, Software EngineersIn the last few years, advances in machine learning have enabled Computer Vision to progres...
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Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial
Source: Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia (1/22/19) A Death Sentence For a Life of Service By Amy Anderson Note: This article written by Amy Anderson is based on interviews with Tashpolat Tiyip’s…