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Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4
This year I got a very special gift for Christmas: a broken DualShock 4. :smile:You may say it’s a relatively poor gift, but the person who gave me this know...
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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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64bit computing on a budget
With all that Dec Alpha talk , and how hard it is to get hardware, and how seemingly exclusionary it is, I thought I would try to touch on a more available 64bit ‘risc’ platform, for the masses!
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How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a technique for fine-tuning models that has some advantages over previous methods:
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Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure
The Clojure team is proud to introduce Morse, a graphical, interactive tool for browsing and inspecting Clojure data, evolved from REBL . Morse is open source, licensed under the Apache license.
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
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Putting Down the Pen: Reflecting on Oryx’s Journey
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Dear everyone, I had always imagined 'penning' this farewell someday. You see, the journey of...
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Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82
An ultra deep 393h look at the galaxy pair M81/M82 - Amateurs reveal full Ha stream for the first time
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Reddit is undeleting years worth of comments and posts
Attached: 1 image Well fuck #reddit - they have just undeleted posts I made years ago that I'd removed when I did a purge a couple of years back. So Reddit didn't actually delete the data - also these videos are no longer on YT so the thumb is cached They are so fucked #gdpr…
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AI isn’t good enough
On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again.
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Why did Usenet fail?
This is annecdata - not a serious academic study. Adjust your expectations accordingly. When I first got online, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy - so CompuServe was my gateway to the Internet. I loved their well organised chat room. A couple of clicks and I could be discussing Babylon 5 with people in…
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Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Microsoft has agreed to purchase electricity from Helion’s first fusion power plant.
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A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
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Nvidia’s AI supremacy is only temporary
Nvidia is an amazing company that has executed a contrarian vision for decades, and has rightly become one of the most valuable corporations on the planet thanks to its central role in the AI revol…
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The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
The UK’s flagship institute for artificial intelligence, the Alan Turing Institute, has been at best irrelevant to the development of modern AI in the UK.
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Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac
Apple goes behind the scenes of Scary Fast, a special event unveiling the all-new MacBook Pro family and iMac.
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Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
This article details how htmx with Rust and Shuttle can speed up your workflow and let you focus on the code with the assistance of Axum and Askama.
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The History of Windows 2.0
Success and Litigation
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Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store
We are honored to announce that Epic Games is offering Godot Engine a place on Epic Games' own digital distribution platform, the Epic Games Store.
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Rules of schema growth (2017)
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)
After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.
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ESP32-P4: High-performance MCU with IO-connectivity and security features
Espressif is expanding its current portfolio to address the high-performance computation needs of IO-Rich, HMI, and AIoT applications.
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Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates
Tim Perry recently claimed in an article that “Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root”. This sparked significant discussion on Hacker News. Thankfully my tests show that it is still possible to adjust the system certificate store in Android 14.
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A Relational Spreadsheet
I tried doing an INNER JOIN in Google Sheets and it was so awkward I was compelled to build my own lightweight relational spreadsheet / language / system.
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Light-induced whole-molecule vibration can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane
Rice scientists and collaborators at Texas A&M University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a new way to kill cancer cells by using near-infrared light to make a small dye molecule attached to their membrane vibrate strongly. It is the first time this kind of mechanical molecular action has…
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Machine Unlearning Challenge
Posted by Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientists, Google Deep learning has recently driven tremendous progress in a wide arr...
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More optimizations in the compiler and JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus