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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,707 posts.
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PyPy 1.5 Released: Catching Up
We're pleased to announce the 1.5 release of PyPy. This release updates PyPy with the features of CPython 2.7.1, including the standard libr...
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Researchers run high-performing LLM on the energy needed to power a lightbulb
UC Santa Cruz researchers show that it is possible to eliminate the most computationally expensive element of running large language models, called matrix multiplication, while maintaining performance.
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Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes
Scientists at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have linked mysterious radio pulses to an unusual ...
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How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL
How we developed Oso to let you query your database using your authorization policy.
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The Google Assistant is going global
Over the past year and a half, the Google Assistant has grown from being available on just one device in one language to across many types of devices, including speakers…
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Kraken: 3x faster decompression than zlib
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
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Ray Tracing in Nim
I am convinced that if you want to start a rendering project from scratch, Nim is the best language to use.
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A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023)
Dr. John Ousterhout is a computer science luminary who has made significant contributions to the fie
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Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
If you haven't tried the Firefox Developer Tools in the last 6 months, you owe it to yourself to take another look. Grab the latest Aurora browser, and start up ...
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TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps
This is a reverse chronological list of the major TinyBase releases, with highlighted features.
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Traefik, Now With Native Go Plugins
Traefik 2.3, the latest version of the most popular open source cloud native proxy, is now available. With plugins, ECS provider, and more!
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On the Performance of User-Mode Threads and Coroutines
Discussions of coroutines and user-mode threads — like Project Loom's virtual threads or Go's goroutines — frequently turn to the subject of performance. The question I'll try answering here is, how do user-mode threads offer better application performance than OS threads?
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Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA
Graylog is a leading centralized log management solution for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of terabytes of machine data.
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The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
Helium-filled hard drives attempt to cut down on friction, leading to better performance. We’ve crunched the numbers: how do they actually perform?
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Welcome to the Python Engineering blog
Welcome! We here on the Python team at Microsoft are starting a blog. And since this is the first post, we wanted to give a bit of an introduction of who
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Python 3.0 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Malicious remote code execution backdoor discovered bootstrap-sass Ruby gem
On March 26, 2019, a malicious version of the popular bootstrap-sass package, that has been downloaded a total of 28 million times to date, was published to the official RubyGems repository.
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Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem
For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python…
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Documents Shed Light on Border Laptop Searches
The case of David Miranda got a lot of attention around the world after UK authorities were accused of abusing an anti-terrorism law to evade the normal constitutional restrains on police power and question someone because of their political associations. Well, a very similar abuse of power appears to have happened…
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New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers
In a major step toward making a quantum computer using everyday materials, a team led by researchers at Princeton has constructed a key piece of silicon hardware capable of controlling quantum behavior between two electrons with extremely high precision.
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Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database
Read how we built a flexible, high-performance columnar compression mechanism for PostgreSQL to add scalability to our favorite database.
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vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep
How vLLM reaches 2.2k tokens per second per H200 for DeepSeek-style MoE serving with Wide-EP, async scheduling, dual-batch overlap, disaggregated serving, CUDA
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Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation
When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption. Ultimately, as the Facebook scandal illustrates, they may fail their users and their business goals.