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Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
Our mission is to build and democratize artificial general intelligence through open science.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,804 posts.
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Using the wrong dictionary
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example , or sport , or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know.
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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
The network stack does several seemingly-impossible things. It does reliable transmission over our unreliable networks, usually without any detectable hiccups. It adapts smoothly to network congestion. It provides addressing to billions of active nodes. It routes packets around damaged network infrastructure…
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Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time.
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The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level?
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
The US Benchmark Map places AI benchmarks across the American economy, measuring which parts of the labor force are covered by unsaturated, public, agentic benchmarks.
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AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
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Two billion email addresses were exposed
I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from the more precise number of 1,957,476,021 unique email addresses, but other
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Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
We are excited to share that vertical tabs and a new sidebar experience are now available in Nightly 131. This update has been highly anticipated and requested by the community, ...
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Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
TL;DR: from Firefox 64 onwards, RSS/Atom feed support will be handled via add-ons, rather than in-product.
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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus-mac.org
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Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real life
Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix Support Group at Bell Labs. Recently, I've rediscovered this…
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Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
Why “few successful startup founders grew up desperately poor”
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If Looks Could Kill
by Leonard Tramiel At one of the many computer trade shows over the years I had a really funny interaction with Bill Gates. I was doing demo...
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ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
In their effort to prevent states from protecting a free and open Internet, a small handful of massive and extraordinarily profitably Internet service providers (ISPs) are telling state legislatures that network neutrality would hinder their ability to raise revenues to pay for upgrades and thus...
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Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech
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Io.js 1.0.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
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Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)
Recently, I came across a few old and new interviews of Donald Knuth (sources: (i) Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth , (ii) Interviews conducted by Lex Fridman Part 1 and Part 2 ), where he sheds light on his work habits, how he approaches problems, and his philosophy towards happiness. I really enjoyed reading…
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Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post. If you’re unproductive right now Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire day: Accept that you won’t do anything today and try not to…
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A search engine in 80 lines of Python
In this post I explain how I built a search engine from scratch using python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs I follow.
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How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
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Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
Soybean oil is linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice in new research.
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Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board
Press releases from 23andMe Research Institute.
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Notes on Managing ADHD
Strategies and tactics for staying productive.
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