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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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MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets
In the midst of extreme market-wide turmoil, MakerDAO is facing one of its biggest challenges to date. The main form of collateral in the system, Ether, has dropped over 30% in a 24-hour timeframe marking one of the worst days in its short history. This has triggered an unprecedented wave of liquidations as loans…
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Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024
We estimate the magnitude of speed improvement for optimization solvers and computer hardware in the 35 years from 1989 to 2024.
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How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month
Discover the tech stack used by CircleCI. Explore 34 tools across 4 categories.
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Let's Build a Modern Hadoop
Not just another Hadoop rant — I promise
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Mozilla to Certificate Authorities: no subordinate CAs for traffic interception
Earlier today we sent an email to all certificate authorities in the Mozilla root program to clarify our expectations around certificate issuance. In particular, we made it clear that the ...
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Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life
Study suggests the organ plays a vital role in immune health, particularly cancer prevention.
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Next-generation solar cells pass strict international tests
Light-weight, cheap and ultra-thin, perovskite solar cells have promised to shake-up renewable energy for some time. Research by Professor Anita Ho-Baillie from the University of Sydney means they are ready to take the next steps towards commercialisation.
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We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation
We have made the conscious choice not to continue paying for accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). We realize that this may raise questions among our customers, and we want to explain why we made this decision. For years, people have been told to look for BBB accredited businesses, and that it somehow re
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Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
Eloise looks at whether ‘slow and steady wins the race’.
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“Yes, if”: Iterating on our RFC Process
RFCs, also called Design Documents, let us describe software designs before implementation. But how do you make sure that RFCs get deep review and are seen by the right people? How do you help reviewers catch problems in a system’s design? We’ve been iterating on our RFC review process and here’s wh
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Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model
Introducing Hermes 3 in partnership with Nous Research, the first fine-tune of Meta Llama 3.1 405B model. Train, fine-tune or serve Hermes 3 with Lambda
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Sugar not so nice for your child’s brain development
New research shows how high consumption of sugar affects learning, memory.
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TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users
At Open Whisper Systems, we’re working to both advance the state of the art for secure communication and also reduce the friction required for ordinary people to make use of it. We want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication methods that are as easy and reliable to use as makin...
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fMRI-to-image with contrastive learning and diffusion priors
a cutting-edge method for reconstructing and retrieving images from fMRI brain activity. Discover how fMRI enables detailed analysis of brain functions and aids in evaluating brain treatments. MindEye's training on the Natural Scenes Dataset brings new insights to neuroscience research. Explore the
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The Price of Nails Since 1695
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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A look at VDO, the new Linux compression layer
Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5's VDO for storage optimization - save space, boost performance
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Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan
Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is excited to announce that KDDI will relea
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Intel Gaudi2 chips outperform Nvidia H100 on diffusion transformers
Our commitment to developing cutting-edge open models in multiple modalities necessitates a compute solution capable of handling diverse tasks with efficiency. To this end, we conducted a performance analysis, training two of our models, including the highly anticipated Stable Diffusion 3.