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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,824 posts.
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How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
A technical investigation into information uncovered in a class action lawsuit that Facebook had intercepted encrypted traffic from user's devices running the Onavo Protect app in order to gain competitive insights.
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40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.
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Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
The biggest announcement from last week’s OpenAI DevDay (and there were a LOT of announcements) was GPTs. Users of ChatGPT Plus can now create their own, custom GPT chat bots …
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Open secrets about Hacker News
I spent a few days examining the mechanics of Hacker News (HN) and I discovered some open secrets. “Open” because they’re not private. …
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Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6
Let’s Encrypt is happy to announce full support for IPv6. As IPv4 address space is exhausted, more and more people are deploying services that are only reachable via IPv6. Adding full support for IPv6 allows us to serve more people and organizations, which is important if we’re going to encrypt the entire Web. IPv6 is…
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Christopher Alexander has died
Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaffy, a long-time collaborator and protege. Alexander was the author or principal author of many books…
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Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
Following our announcement of the early preview of Stable Diffusion 3, today we are publishing the research paper which outlines the technical details of our upcoming model release, and invite you to sign up for the waitlist to participate in the early preview.
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Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
Expired Registration Recovery Policy
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My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
How My Mindfulness Practice Lead Me To Meltdown
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Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money
Shaving is too expensive and is a demonstrative example of how most consumer products are designed to extract more money from you rather than to improve your life, or the world, or to be in any way remotely good.
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Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
Posted by Fermin J. Serna, Staff Security Engineer and Kevin Stadmeyer, Technical Program Manager Have you ever been deep in the mines of ...
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Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE.
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Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
uv run - install, activate, and run in one command…
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.NET 6 Released
.NET 6 is now available. It is easier to use, runs faster, and has many new features.
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Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)
I think it is healthy to compare historical and modern computing. Let's see how the CPUs contained in recent USB-C wall chargers compare to the power of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC). The Apollo 11 spacecraft carried 3 humans to the moon and back in 1969.
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Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
Explore a selection of our recent research on some of the most complex and interesting challenges in AI.
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Why did Google Brain exist?
This essay was originally written in December 2022 as I pondered the future of my job. I sat on it because I wasn’t sure of the optics of posting such an essay while employed by Google Brain. But then Google made my decision easier by laying me off in January. My severance check cleared, and last week, Brain and…
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But Where Do People Work in This Office?
Matt Blodgett on topics occasionally germane to software development.
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12 Months of Mandarin
Estimates for achieving intermediate fluency in Mandarin Chinese range up to spending years and around 4000 total hours (2,200h classroom hours, 1,800 outside). I did it in 1500 hours total and less than a year.[1] 1. There is a lot of disagreement on language proficiency estimates. They
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Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
If you want €:\, you can have it, sort of