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Story Behind Hackathon Photo
How a random stream of events ended up creating a picture with 57 million views
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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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Usenet over NNCP
Usenet, of course, originally ran over UUCP in quite a few cases. Since NNCP is quite similar to UUCP – in fact, you can map UUCP commands to NNCP ones – it is quite possible, and not all that hard, to run Usenet over NNCP. In fact, in a number of ways, it works better than Usenet over UUCP! Introduction to NNCP…
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Service Weaver: A Framework for Writing Distributed Applications
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic
An embedding is the representation of a piece of text like a word, sentence, or paragraph. Traditionally this value is in the form of a mathematical vector - a point in space. You can think of it as analogous to coordinates on a map that just happens to have many, many dimensions.
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Retinal cells that help stabilize our world view
Will enable researchers to better understand eye movement disorders that cause significant visual impairment.
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Rerun 0.9 – a framework for visualizing streams of multimodal data
We're releasing Rerun 0.9.0 with a completely revamped API that gives more control over the underlying data model, a hierarchical and time aware Entity Component System (ECS).
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Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT
BLUF : TinyChatEngine provides an off-line open-source large language model (LLM) that has been reduced in size compared to Llama2. This po...
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The 10 year old indie mobile app: what worked for the long haul
What worked for the long haul, what we cut out over time, and the boring tech that keeps the app alive
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Combobulate: Structured Movement and Editing with Tree-Sitter
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.
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macOS 14 Sonoma firewall bug fixed
The firewall bug in macOS 14 Sonoma betas and release candidates that we blogged about last week has been fixed by Apple.
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A Primer on Logic Programming
Getting a kickstart in the logic programming world with Prolog
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Community Is the Future of AI
To keep knowledge open and accessible to all, we must come together to build the future of AI.
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Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years
We will be exploring the history of fears about technological unemployment.
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Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
Just venting. Between GDPR dialogs, dark patterns, and invasive ads, browsing the web nowadays — especially from EU — is a miserable experience.
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The Limits to Growth (1972)
The complete original Limits to Growth study is now freely accessible online, thanks to the Donella Meadows Institute and the Dartmouth College Library.
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How my brother's iCloud account was stolen
My brother got his iPhone stolen at gunpoint. This is the story of how he lost control of his iCloud account first (along with years of priceless memories, including my nephew's first steps) and how this couldn't have happened without Apple's incompetent support.
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How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
Our strategy for making updates and maintaining stability while we migrate languages.
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Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt
We’re kicking off a public discussion across the web and AI communities to develop new machine-readable means to provide web publisher choice and control.
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Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust
Rust should be improved to provide the necessary building blocks that are needed to write cryptography code that is free from timing side channels and similar hazards. These facilities should not be restricted to code within Rust -provided or -endorsed libraries; anybody should be able to use them to publish a crate…
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Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store
I'm sorry if the following post comes off as a bit angry. I'm writing this off the cuff and am very aggravated by the situation. Today I received an email from Google Play Support stating that Luck be a Landlord has been geo-blocked in the following countries:
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15k inserts/s with Rust and SQLite (2021)
There is this growing sentiment in tech that stacking more and more layers of complexity to reach the sacrosanct "infinite scalability" is not the way forward. First, because it rarely materializes: you need a lot of other things than fancy tech to reach millions of people. Second, because the tradeoffs