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Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu)
Chat Control is back on the menu. To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now presents "And Then?"
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,220 posts.
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Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012)
Dithering is still a surprisingly applicable technique, not just for practical reasons (such as preparing a full-color image for output on a non-color printer), but for artistic reasons as well. Dithering also has applications in web design, where it is a useful technique for reducing images with high color counts to…
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ML on Apple ][+
Success! There is machine learning happening on my Apple ][+.
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A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock
How I investigated and worked around a kernel bug that caused async-profiler to freeze my machine whenever I tried to use a profiler.
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ImapGoose
ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server. The wording “keep […] in sync” implies that it does so continuously, rather than a one-time sync. ImapGoose is designed as a daemon, monitoring both the IMAP server and the local filesystem, and immediately synchronising changes. When…
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LLM-D: Kubernetes-Native Distributed Inference
Introducing llm-d: Kubernetes-native distributed LLM inference with KV-cache routing, disaggregated serving, and SOTA performance per dollar. Built on vLLM.
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A catalog of side effects
Optimizing compilers like to keep track of each IR instruction’s effects. An instruction’s effects vary wildly from having no effects at all, to writing a specific variable, to completely unknown (writing all state).
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How Cursor (AI IDE) Works
Turning LLMs into coding experts and how to take advantage of them.
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Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons
This post shares the local optima Manus arrived at through our own "SGD". If you're building your own AI agent, we hope these principles help you converge faster.
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MongoDB acquires Voyage AI
MongoDB to integrate Voyage AI's industry-leading embedding and reranking models, delivering highly accurate and relevant information retrieval to power sophisticated AI use cases NEW YORK , Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB), the leading database for modern applications,
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A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
There's a new web search in town! I spent the start of 2024 kicking the tires on Kagi's paid search and their Orion web browser.
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
Instead of letting their commercial buildings sit empty, surely it would be better for landlords to lower the rent and got some use out of the building, right? Wrong. Here’s why.
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Printf debugging is ok
A balanced take on the printf vs debugger debate: why there is no single right answer, and how to choose the right debugging approach for the situation at hand.
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Palantir: The Most Evil Company
At the cutting edge of dystopia and genocide
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One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on
A critique of React Server Components and Next.js 15.
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ClickHouse raises $350M Series C
ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing.
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Why quadratic funding is not optimal
Introduction Quadratic funding has received a lot of attention recently as a mechanism for funding public goods. The Gitcoin grants program alone has distributed over $59M through QF funding rounds as of January 20241.\nQF is appealing because it is theoretically optimal under certain assumptions2. The problem is that…
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Microsoft's 1986 IPO
Its market cap hit $777 million and Bill Gates' net worth reached $350 million
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Worlds first petahertz transistor at ambient conditions
In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously.
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Agentic pelican on a bicycle
The agentic loop—generate, assess, improve—seems like a natural fit for iterating on pelicans on bicycles.
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'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression
New study finds rumination can cause those with depression to get ‘stuck’ on thoughts, limiting their ability to mentally juggle options available to them when making decisions.
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Code Is Debt
I like to answer this frequent question by way of an example. An example of two companies. It goes something like this:
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Performance hacks for faster Python code
Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.
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Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System?
Planet 9 might be our Ultima Thule . Hell would certainly be freezing over at 700 AU. Whether this tentative observation is Planet 9 or not, it is still an interesting observation and an example, I think, of proof that AIs will not do all our science for us. (At least not LLMs).
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The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements
Blog of Vincent Rolfs. Vincent is a freelance Software Engineer and IT-Consultant. He has more than ten years experience in developing complex applications on the web.
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Why do we remember some life moments but not others?
BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an emotionally charged event
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Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own
A now-deleted report by HonestAGI on GitHub showed a high number of similarities between Huawei’s Pangu and Qwen 2.5.