Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,205 posts.
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous points us to this article in Technology Review , “Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.” Here’s the story:
There is now a number, that you can't see, that follows you wherever you go.
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. […] – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
When Mac OS X first launched they did so without an existing poll function. They later added poll() in Mac OS X 10.3, but we quickly discovered that it was broken (it returned a non-zero value when asked to wait for nothing) so in the curl project we added a check in configure for that … Continue reading poll on mac…
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.
Working at Netflix 2015: What is it like to work at Netfilx? Brendan Gregg describes his job and experiences at Netflix after several months as a senior performance architect.
When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...
Interest in machine learning may be at an all-time high. Per Google Trends, people are searching for machine learning nearly five times as often as five years ago. And at the University of California San Diego (UCSD),
Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.
There are many tech hubs in the United States (which this article will cover exclusively, sorry) but which ones are able to maintain low costs of living while also having high average salary for software developers? This post will address that question using a few calculations and data sourced from publicly available…
Or: A comprehensive ecosystem of open-source software for big data management
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What language was used to write the very first programs for the very first stored-program computer?
"Systems design" is a branch of study that tries to find universal architectural patterns that are valid across disciplines. You might thin...
In the last couple of months, I've been seeing the ú symbol on British receipts. Why? 1963 - ASCII In the beginning* was ASCII. A standard way for computers to exchange text. ASCII was originally designed with 7 bits - that means 128 possible symbols. That ought to be enough for everyone, right? Wrong! ASCII is the…
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
I still get excited about programming languages. But these days, it’s not so much because of what they let me do, but rather what they don’t let me do. Ultimately, what you can with a programming l...
I’d read a few times that bringing the temperature of a failing drive down will increase its reliability long enough to salvage important files. When the drive in my trusty Powerbook decided one day last week to stop booting and make horrible clicking sounds, I decided to test the theory.
Elixir is a hot and trendy topic nowadays. Of the newer languages that show up periodically on Hacker News, I found t...
The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ...
Most of the funding of research efforts I've been involved in since ARPA-Parc have been with various profit making companies -- Atari, Apple, Disney, HP, SAP, Infosys, etc. And there have been various kinds of compromises involved. And some good work on smaller scales did get done. Others of my colleagues in the…
