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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,707 posts.
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Processing the Page Turn
This board isn’t strictly a CPU but it is a processor of sorts. I actually purchased this board as it was described as a DEC board, with not a great picture, having not seen a DEC board with LOGIC ALUs on it I bought it. When it arrived I found it wasnt DEC at all but DSC, Digital Services Corporation. DSC was a video…
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NVMM: A full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD
NVMM provides the infrastructure needed for both the kernel driver and the userland emulators.
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PyTorch 1.5
Today, we’re announcing the availability of PyTorch 1.5, along with new and updated libraries. This release includes several major new API additions and improvements. PyTorch now includes a significant update...
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Dragon: A distributed graph query engine
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Securitybot: Open Sourcing Automated Security at Scale
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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Tools for Learning LLVM TableGen
TableGen is a language used within the LLVM project for generating a variety of files, when manual maintenance would be very difficult. For example, it is used to define all of the instructions that can be used on a particular architecture.
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Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
This beginner guide will help you understand how convolution neural networks (CNNs) work and what they are useful for.
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Implementing Algebraic Effects in C
We describe a full implementation of algebraic effects and handlers as a library in standard and portable C99, where effect operations can be used just like regular C functions. We use a formal operational semantics to guide the C implementation at every step where an evaluation context corresponds directly to a…
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Optimizing Top K in Postgres
How ParadeDB uses principles from search engines to optimize Postgres' Top K performance.
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Data2vec 2.0: Highly efficient self-supervised learning for vision, speech, text
We created data2vec 2.0, a general self-supervised AI algorithm for speech, vision, and text that can train models 16x faster than the most popular existing algorithm for images while achieving the same accuracy.
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Liftoff: a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly in V8
Liftoff is a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly, shipping in V8 v6.9.
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Troll-Proofed Defensive Patent License Launches with 23 Patents
In the movement toward patent reform, the Patent Office, Congress, and the courts aren't the only targets for change. Individual and corporate patent owners have steps they can take to reduce the harmful effects of software patents and disempower patent trolls, largely through alternative licensing...
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Designing Great API Docs
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The language of choice
Propositional logic was discovered by Stoics around 300 B.C., only to be abandoned in later antiquity and rebuilt in the 19th century by George Boole’s successors. One of them, Charles Peirce, saw its significance for what we now call logic circuits, yet that discovery too was forgotten until the 1930s. In the ’50s…
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Apache Arrow Flight SQL: Accelerating Database Access
This post introduces Arrow Flight SQL, a protocol for interacting with SQL databases over Arrow Flight. We have been working on this protocol over the last six months, and are looking for feedback, interested contributors, and early adopters.
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SLING: A Natural Language Frame Semantic Parser
Posted by Michael Ringgaard, Software Engineer and Rahul Gupta, Research ScientistUntil recently, most practical natural language understanding (NL...
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Mozilla announces Open Web Docs
We’re happy and proud to announce Open Web Docs, to support a community of technical writers that is open and inclusive for all.
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The history of the end of poverty has just begun
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
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Do heat pumps work in cold climates?
Heat pumps work even in very, very cold weather. Thanks to technological advancements in recent decades, heat pumps keep your home toasty warm even when the temperature drops dramatically. In fact, eight of the major heat pump companies — Bosch, Carrier, Daikin, Johnson Controls, Lennox, Midea, Rheem, and Trane…
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Deconstructing K&R C (2010)
Learn C The Hard Way (LCTHW) is a practical book teaching real world useful C using the same proven Learn The Hard Way method. LCTHW teaches real robust C coding and defensive programming tactics on real hardware rather than abstract machines and pedantic theory. The book emphasizes breaking your code on purpose, and…
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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads
The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.
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“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions
And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.
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Reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation
The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war