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How async/await works internally in Swift
You probably know how to use async/await. But have you ever wondered how it works under the hood?
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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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The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it is crucial to pick up some signal as soon as possible. No one has the time to read everything, but these 100 papers are sure to bend the road as to where our AI technology is going. The real test of impact of…
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All the hominins made tools
A study of associations between stone tool evidence and fossil hominin remains shows that a wide range of species made stone artifacts.
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You can use lightguns on LCDs sometimes
Old-school cathode ray tube TVs have become de rigeur in the retro scene as the true way to experience retro games “the way they were designed”. But there’s ...
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How HyperCard got its color back
Uli’s blog on programming, game development, pop culture and other boring things.
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LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language
Wolfram's Version 13.3 includes a subsystem around LLMs plus new functionality in integrals, special functions, finite fields, computational geometry, live highlighting in visualizations, AR & VR deployment. See examples for those and dozens of other enhancements.
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How to (and how not to) fix color banding
Discovering color banding solutions & Smooth gradients with a clever Noise one-liner by SLEDGEHAMMER Games
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Listening to Satellites: A Journey with My RTL-SDR V3
How I received the signal of MANY satellites with an RTL-SDR V3
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Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip
I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what to expect. But an Ethernet chip from 1982 had something new: a ...
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FlashAttention: Fast Transformer training with long sequences
Transformers have grown deeper and wider, but training them on long sequences remains difficult. The attention layer at their heart is the compute and memory bottleneck: doubling the sequence length would quadruple the runtime and memory requirements.
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Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
Renewable power generation in the first half of 2023, with a share of 57.7 percent of the net electricity generation for public power supply, was significantly higher than in 2022.
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Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io
Why we migrated OpenStatus' backend from Vercel to Fly.io using Hono and Bun — the challenges, performance gains, and lessons from the migration.
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Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)
Do you know what got black currants banned? They nearly destroyed a huge part of American forests. Find out how this healthy berry became a threat.
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SFPD obtained live access to business camera network in anticipation of protest
New documents EFF received through public records requests have revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) received live access to the hundreds of surveillance cameras that comprise the Union Square Business Improvement District’s (USBID) camera network in anticipation of potential...
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CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Life After Language
In October 2013, I wrote a post arguing that computing was disrupting language and that this was the Mother of All Disruptions . My specific argument was that…
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Overhead of Python asyncio tasks
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, we discovered attacks on our system that we were able to trace back to Okta. We have verified that no Cloudflare customer information or systems were impacted by this event because of our rapid response.
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The Beauty of Pulse Arc Welding
Silver Repair, Restoration, Silver Conservation,…2023147 points79 commentsHardware & Electronics details
Sterling welding with the Lampert PUK04 pulse arc welder.
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D1: Improvements to performance and scalability
We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.
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Toward policy for open-source software as infrastructure
Open-source software (OSS) sits at the center of almost every digital technology moving the world since the early 1980s—laptops, cellphones, widespread internet connectivity, cloud computing, social media, automation, all the rainbow flavors of e-commerce, and even secure communications and anti-censorship tools.
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Tidyverse 2.0.0
Now including lubridate!
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Honey, I shrunk the NPM package
Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the surface of an npm package? At its heart, it’s nothing more than a gzipped tarball. Working in software development, source code and binary artifacts are nearly always shipped as .tar.gz or .tgz files. And gzip compression is supported by every HTTP server and web browser…
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The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
How much would AWS cost for Amazon Prime Day? Here's Corey Quinn's best guess at the company's AWS bill for the two-day shopping event.
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Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Conway’s Law (2022)
Systems are constrained to follow the communication patterns of their designers.