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Why is F# code robust and reliable?
F# is not just for math and big data, it's a general purpose language that will greatly reduce the amount of bugs in your code.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
Want to use open-source LLM models from Hugging Face on your local development environment? With localllm and Cloud Workstations, you can.
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Security Vulnerability in Browser Interface Allows Computer Access via GPU
Researchers at TU Graz were successful with three different side-channel attacks on graphics cards via the ... » Computer science and IT » Read more ▸
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Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.
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Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace
Discover how OpenTelemetry tracing and Coralogix analysis resolve latency issues, proving observability's role in enhancing system performance and reliability.
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Battery-free self-powered sensor harvests magnetic energy
MIT researchers designed a self-powering, battery-free, energy-harvesting sensor. Using the framework they developed, they produced a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire.
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32k context length text embedding models
TL;DR – We are excited to announce voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite embedding models, advancing the frontier of retrieval quality, latency, and cost. voyage-3 outperforms OpenAI v3 large by 7.55% on aver…
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“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby
“Moveable Type,” the public art installation in the New York Times’s lobby, is ending its 17-year run. The Times, which is replacing the exhibit as part of an update to its lobby…
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Moving objects precisely with sound
EPFL researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications such as noninvasive targeted drug delivery.
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Containers and Unikernels: Similar, different, and intertwined
The millisecond compute layer used for sandboxes, headless browsers, CI/builds, functions / Agents / Databases and much more. Instant boot, VM-grade isolation, and millisecond scale-to-zero, so you can ship with superior economics. Deploy on-prem, BYOC or on dedicated hosts — you own the entire stack.
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How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background
The brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, according to an MIT study.
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Increasing Google and Alphabet VRP rewards
The reward amounts on offer by the Google VRP have undergone a major overhaul: We're increasing reward amounts by up to 5x (with maximum rewards of up to $151,515)!
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Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux
Download the latest releases of Zed, or view the changelog.
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Rediscovering Transaction Processing from History and First Principles
In July 2020, I stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing.
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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far from It
Welcome! The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts. Unfortunately, even though you care about privacy, or perhaps because you care so much about it, you may feel that there's not much you (or anyone) can really do to...
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Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita)
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.
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GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models – bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
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Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)
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Personal Names Around the World (2011)
How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?
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Block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier
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Mozilla acquires privacy-focused ad tech company Anonym
Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for
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New UUID formats have been approved
This document presents new time-based UUID formats which are suited for use as a database key. A common case for modern applications is to create a unique identifier for use as a primary key in a database table. This identifier usually implements an embedded timestamp that is sortable using the monotonic creation time…
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How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen
How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen We worked with industry-leading casting and directing professionals to narrow down over 400 submissions before selecting the 5 voices.
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Fleet response: Lending a helpful hand to Waymo’s autonomously driven vehicles
The Waymo Driver autonomously navigates tens of thousands of rider-only miles across San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin daily. It can navigate common scenarios, like adhering to a crossing guard directing traffic, as well as more unique interactions like avoiding a swerving vehicle. As the Waymo Driver…
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Facebook and Genocide: How Facebook contributed to genocide in Myanmar and why it will not be held accountable - Harvard Law School
On July 22, 2013, Turkish scholar and social media expert Zeynep Tufekci tweeted “Last year, I pondered the first ‘social-media fueled ethnic cleansing.’ With ethnic tensions & expanding online hate speech, is it Burma?” 1
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Meta’s Broken Promises
The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found…
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Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.