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MilkyTracker 1.04
Today is a special day, because we’re announcing the latest release of MilkyTracker - version 1.04.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
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Prompt Engineering: Steer a large pretrained language model to do what you want
Prompt Engineering, also known as In-Context Prompting, refers to methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes without updating the model weights. It is an empirical science and the effect of prompt engineering methods can vary a lot among models, thus requiring heavy…
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The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it ...
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Tokenized Tokens
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
Annotations, such as Javadoc, help maintainers understand your coding decisions.
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Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical candidates (was it ever)?
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The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
How did the company that aspired to be so much more come to this?
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You cannot have exactly-once delivery (2015)
I’m often surprised that people continually have fundamental misconceptions about how distributed systems behave. I myself shared many of these misconceptions, so I try not to demean or dismiss but rather educate and enlighten, hopefully while sounding less preachy than that just did. I continue to learn only by…
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Who wants to be tracked?
“We value your privacy…”, the clichéd beginning of many a privacy notice. I legitimately do value my own online privacy, and whenever I read that phrase as part of a website consent banner it sounds like lip service at best. Consent banners ostensibly exist to give users control over their data & personal privacy. Far…
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An unexpected benefit of unit tests
While I won’t go so far as to diagnose myself with ADD without consulting a doctor, those who know me know I can be distracted quite easily. So recently, I decided to do something a little different with a personal project I started a few weeks ago (link to come). I wrote unit tests. That may seem rather uninspired…
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The simplicity of single-file Golang deployments
Deploy Go apps as single static binaries with systemd. No Docker, no npm, zero-downtime via socket activation. Modern complexity is often unnecessary.
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Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal
Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal. This is hard to understand.
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PFAS can suppress white blood cells’ ability to destroy invaders
GenX can suppress some white blood cells' ability to kill invaders.
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HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies
OCV starts companies around the most promising open source projects.
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MVC Isn’t MVC
In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphica…
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Kubernetes is hard
Recently, 37signals unveiled mrsk , a tool developed internally to ease with deployments of their services and an accompanying blog post which sparked a lengthy discussion on Hacker News .
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How Pinterest scaled
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply
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A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely
Engineering, Robotics, AI, Technology
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When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler
You bump into DORA in the wild a lot.
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Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00
A retrospective on MS-DOS 6.00 and my small contributions to the product.
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Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Clean mount lists in Linux
A solution to the problem of the growing number of mount points and loopback devices in (Ubuntu) Linux.
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Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low
Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2022, pushing the disease closer to eradication, The Carter Center announced Wednesday. The figure is the lowest annual case total ever reported, following the record of 15 cases set just the year before. When The Carter Center assumed leadership of…
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How long can open-source LLMs truly promise on context length?
In this blogpost, we introduce our latest series of chatbot models, LongChat-7B and LongChat-13B, featuring a new level of extended context length up to 16K tokens.
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Introduction to vector similarity search (2022)
Learn what vector search is and the metrics pertinent to decide the distance (or similarity) between objects.
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Learn Wayland by writing a GUI from scratch
Wayland is all the rage those days. Distributions left and right switch to it, many readers of my previous article on writing a X11 GUI from scratch in x86_64 assembly asked for a follow-up article about Wayland, and I now run Wayland on my desktop. So here we go, let's write a (very simple) GUI program with Wayland…
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Exploring EXIF
Exploratory interfaces for navigating photos
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Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers
The official home for stories from Ford. Get the latest news, in-depth vehicle features, media site information, and meet the people and ideas driving our company forward.