1981
Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed
New CU Boulder research finds that overweight populations have a 22% higher mortality risk than those of healthy weight, while obese populations have as much as
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,475 posts.
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Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
1985
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WeeChat 4
Version 4.0.0 is available! WeeChat now follows a practical semantic versioning and there are breaking changes in this release, please read carefully the release notes. See
1987
PlanetScale Scaler Pro
See how Scaler Pro combines the best of our current plans for companies of all sizes while enabling you to grow with the best database for serverless.
1988
Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
Tailscale v1.36 for macOS features a significantly reduced binary size (going from 92MB to 56MB). The effort started out with a chance observation about a surprisingly large executable, and ended up involving some creative approaches using dlopen.
1989
mruby 3.2.0
mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language complying to (part of) the ISO standard. mruby can be linked and embedded within your application. We provide the interpreter program
1990
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How Beeper Mini Works
It’s a technical deep dive, so buckle up!
1992
Will Carbon Replace C++?
Is Carbon going to be a real replacement for C++? Let's find out.
1993
Apple reports third quarter results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 third quarter ended July 1, 2023.
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Pinecone raises $100M Series B
Dear Pinecone Community, I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you all. We raised $100 million in Series B funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from ICONIQ Growth, and our existing investors Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. This funding brings our valuation to $750 million, hitting…
1997
We built an AI-powered Magic the Gathering card generator
Cohere's platform was used to create an AI that would generate playable Magic The Gathering cards based only on a given name of each card.
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JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default
Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java APIs. With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems, locales, and configurations.
2000
Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator
Meet Kargo, the open source continuous promotion tool from the creators of Argo that moves changes from stage to stage with GitOps, not CI scripts.
2001
A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022
Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild...
2002
AI predicts certain esophageal and stomach cancers three years before diagnosis
AI can predict certain forms of esophageal and stomach cancer Michigan Medicine study says.
2003
NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance
As of today, NVK is now an officially conformant implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 API on NVIDIA Turing hardware.
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The AI Hype Wall of Shame
Menu Home Editorial Collective Events Blog The AI Hype Report Design Justice AI Design Justice Labs The AI Hype Report Welcome to the AI HypeContinue reading
2006
Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989
In the 1980s, the financial sector suffered through a period of distress that was focused on the nation's savings and loan industry.
2007
Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy
You can now use Node.js built-in modules like `node:http` on Deno Deploy, allowing you to run existing Node.js apps at the edge.
2008
Calling Purgatory from Heaven: Binding to Rust in Haskell
Calling hell from heaven and heaven from hell is a classic paper from the previous century, introducing the Haskell foreign function interface (FFI). It describes the facilities that Haskell offers for calling functions written in C (and vice versa). In this blog post, we will consider how to call functions written in…
2009
Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams
Learn how to use to_form/1 and LiveView Streams to create a dynamic list of forms.
2010
Lego MRI Scanners donated to hospitals to help children cope with anxiety (2022)
The LEGO Foundation to donate LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals globally