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Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,670 posts.
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Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
Now, that’s not because most Stack Overflow contributors are hostile jerks. The majority of them are generous and kind. Sure, a few are… just generous, I guess? But our active users regularly express their frustration that we haven’t done more to make outsiders feel more welcome. The real problem isn’t the community …
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
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The Age of PageRank Is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
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Sign in with Google in Chrome
Many websites such as Yelp show an annoying “Sign in with Google” banner when you visit.
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Beeper acquired by Automattic
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford, Jeff Watts
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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic , and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1) , and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.
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Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
Remix is joining Shopify
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Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text
A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text – copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.
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In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
Of nine leisure activities, visiting a library is the one Americans did most frequently in the past year, followed by attending movies and live sporting events.
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Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
An introduction to the Decision Trees, Entropy, and Information Gain.
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Sycophancy in GPT-4o
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
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Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat
Combating cheats is an ever-evolving arms race. The scope and complexity of cheat development grows every year along with the stakes in online gaming. The pressure is on for game studios to level up when it comes to detecting and preventin…
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iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
We are introducing PQ3, a groundbreaking cryptographic protocol for iMessage that advances the state of the art of end-to-end secure messaging. With compromise-resilient encryption and extensive defenses against even highly sophisticated quantum attacks, PQ3 provides protocol protections that surpass those in all…
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Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
We’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms as an additional option that people can use to sign in.
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Mainnet Merge Announcement
- Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake! The transition, known as The Merge, must first be activated on the Beacon Chain with the Bellatrix upgrade. After this,...
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Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Make intelligence open and accessible to all
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TypeChat
July 20, 2023 by Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Daniel Rosenwasser, Pierce Boggan, Umesh Madan, Mike Hopcroft, and Gayathri Chandrasekaran
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Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust
After months of work, I am ecstatic to finally announce Bevy Engine! Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine and app framework built in…
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GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.
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OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
Our smartest and most capable models to date with full tool access