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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
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The International 2018: Results
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Bandaid – Dropbox service proxy
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Regional Persistent Disks on Google Kubernetes Engine
[Editor's note: This is one of many posts on enterprise features enabled by Kubernetes Engine 1.10. For the full coverage, follow along here.] Building highly available stateful applications on Kubernetes has been a challenge for a long time. As such, many enterprises have to write complex application logic on top of…
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Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping
Posted by Eric Jang, Software Engineer, Robotics at Google and Coline Devin, Berkeley PhD Student and former Research Intern From a remarkably youn...
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A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities2018105 points186 commentscited by 18Society, Policy & Culture details
Data from a variety of sources contribute to a broad picture of strong growth and shared prosperity during the early postwar period, followed by slower growth and greater inequality since the 1970s. Within these broad trends, however, different data tell slightly different parts of the story, and no single data source…
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An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools
Amazon employees accelerate effort to bring computer science to all U.S. high schools.
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Progress in performance and scalability with CockroachDB
CockroachDB 2.1 is 50x more scalable than Amazon Aurora at less than 2% of the price per tpmC. Read on to see performance benchmarks of CockroachDB 2.1, including the latest TPC-C results.
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Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
TPUs provide a faster and more cost-effective way to train machine learning models. Learn more about the benefits of training models on Cloud TPU Pods.
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Amazon DynamoDB On Demand
January 31, 2025: Post updated to clarify the reduced on-demand pricing and workloads recommendations. Just a few years ago, creating a database that could support your business at any scale while providing consistent low latency was a daunting task. That changed for me in 2012 while reading Werner Vogels’ blog post…
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LaTeX TikZ for Cryptographers
LaTeX Code for Cryptographic Images.
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Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum
This is the definitive guide to video encoding. Learn everything you need to know about encoding, transcoding, compression & video codecs all in one place.
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Can optical illusions fool AI too?
Deep neural networks (DNN) have made the news recently for their application as a predictive software used to create convincing fake videos of politicians and celebrities. You may not be aware, however, that you have most likely already used the same technology in a much less controversial form: the translation app on…
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Detecting Spectre and Meltdown Using Hardware Performance Counters
Security pros have been working on a new hardware attack type that exploits cache side-effects and speculative execution to perform privileged memory disclosure.
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Open sourcing Terratest: tools for testing infrastructure code
Open sourcing Terratest, a library for testing infrastructure code: write automated tests for Terraform, Packer, Docker, and AWS to catch bugs early.
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The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Slack Acquires Astro
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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The Major Urban Revolution of Minor Transportation Means
Electric bikes and scooters have enormous advantages for short urban trips. How will they change our cities? When Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator in 1852, he never imagined skyscrapers.
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MIT and newly formed company launch effort to build compact tokamak pilot plant
Development of fusion power, a carbon-free, combustion-free source of energy, is now on a faster track toward realization, thanks to a collaboration between MIT and a new private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems. CFS will join with MIT to carry out rapid, staged research leading to a new generation of fusion…
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The Evil Within the Comparison Functions
Perhaps, readers remember my article titled Last line effect. It describes a pattern I′ve once noticed: in most cases programmers make an error in the last line of similar text blocks. Now I want...