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Norway Fining Meta $98,500 per Day for User Privacy Breach
Norway’s DPA Datatilsynet is penalizing Meta over alleged data privacy breaches, with profound implications across Europe. Learn more in the full news story!
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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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Cement's future could be a combination of carbon capture and electrification
Cement is an industry where capturing carbon emissions may be necessary. A combination with process heat electrification could be better than CCS alone.
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TEMU Is Cleverly Hidden Spyware That Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S.
Analysis of PDD’s app software by multiple experts is showing all the signs of red-flag concern. The calls to outside device data and functions that violate users’ privacy are far more aggressive than any well-known consumer shopping app.
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The Advice SaaS Startup Founders Would Give Their Younger Selves
Discover the top advice SaaS startup founders would give their younger selves. Learn valuable insights and actionable tips for success in this blog post.
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How to use a Python multiprocessing module
Working with Python multiprocessing module can be difficult at times. Learn what you can do with it.
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SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0
A short recap of how SQLite now has a WASI build
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Interview about Austral, a systems programming language with linear types
Austral is a new systems programming language. It uses linear types to provide memory safety and capability-secure code, and is designed to be simple enough to be understood by a single person, with a focus on readability, maintainability, and modularity.
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TypeScript team released an explorer for performance tuning
Over the past few months, during the lead-up to the TypeScript 5.0 beta, our team spent a good portion of our time looking for ways to improve the
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Implementing Mario's Stack Blur 15 times in C++ (with tests and benchmarks)
Implementing Mario Klingemann's Stack Blur algorithm in C++ 15 ways, with tests and benchmarks, to build fast CPU drop shadows for JUCE.
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ReactOS Newsletter 103 – Late 2023 News
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Automating Dead Code Cleanup
Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from bo…
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Nobel Prize Chemistry 2023
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
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Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)
How we gained 2–3% improvements in compile times by making GHC better at printing code.
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How Do Semiconductors Work? Introduction to SiliWiz
How SiliWiz helps you get an understanding of how semiconductors work and are manufactured
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Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)
Harvard study says Massachusetts car economy costs $64 billion, and more than half of that comes from public.
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Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (2011)
At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take...
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Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6
Since its launch in 1992 OpenGL® has been used extensively by software developers for PCs and workstations to create high-performance, visually compelling graphics applications.
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Deteriorating mitochondria linked to major depression in older adults
'One problem feeds into another, and make what began as a small issue into a much larger one'
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Earth's blobs are remnants of an ancient planetary collision
In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: Two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean.Each blob is twice the size of the moon, and research over the last decade has shown that they are…
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MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator
In 2020, we initiated the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) family of chips to support our evolving AI workloads, starting with an inference accelerator ASIC for deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs).
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Continuous batching to increase LLM inference throughput and reduce p50 latency
In this blog, we discuss continuous batching, a critical systems-level optimization that improves both throughput and latency under load for LLMs.
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Full-text search engine with PostgreSQL (part 2): Postgres vs. Elasticsearch
Using PostgreSQL as a full-text search engine is tempting because it requires less infrastructure. But is its set of search-related features enough to compete with the Lucene based alternatives?
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Rust to Assembly: Understanding the Inner Workings of Rust
How Rust compiles to assembly: enum memory layout, smart pointers, static vs dynamic dispatch, vtables, closures, vector iteration and async state machines.
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Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA
Cloud Workstations, now GA, enables faster developer onboarding and increased productivity with an enhanced security posture.
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The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility
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.