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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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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
WHAT THE RESEARCH IS: A new fully convolutional approach to automatic speech recognition and wav2letter++, the fastest state-of-the-art end-to-end speech recognition system available. The approach …
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CERN migrates to open-source technologies
Update: The name of the project was changed to Microservice Architecture on Libre Technology (MALT) to better reflect its scope. More information in this article .
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Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice
HOME > ［News & Events］ Gut Bacteria from Amphibians and Reptiles Achieve Complete Tumor Elimination
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How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code
The past year and a half has been quite a journey. I’ve gone from starting to learn iPhone design, to quitting my full time job and focusing on an application full-time. All while teaching myself to program in Objective-C with no prior programming experience. OneVoice is a iPhone/iPad application that gives a voice to…
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How to survive boiling water
A probiotic paradox
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How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don't rent it. Lightning is the AI cloud to build, train, and deploy your own models on 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs.
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Pin
The Pin type (and the concept of pinning in general) is a foundational building block on which the rest of the the Rust async ecosystem stands. Unfortunately, it has also been one of the least accessible and most misunderstood elements of async Rust. This post is meant to explain what Pin achieves, how it came to be…
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers.
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Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
Mobilizon is our free-libre and federated tool to free events and groups from the clutches of Facebook. After two years of work, today we are releasing the first version of this software, along with a whole series of tools so that you can quickly get started. la version française originale de cet article est ici...
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I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password
The other day I set up a new OpenBSD instance with a nice RAID array, encrypted with Full Disk Encryption. And promptly proceeded to forget part of the passphrase.
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Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
From heat guns to kernel compiler flags
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Introducing Socket.io 1.0
The first version of Socket.IO was created shortly after Node.JS made its first appearance. I had been looking for a framework that easily enabled me to push data from a server to a client for a long time, and even had tried other approaches to server-side JavaScript.
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Okay, let's see what we've got. Two sets of annotated training materials. Six books. Over four dozen online videos. Some 80 articles, inter...
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What shall I teach my son?
Yesterday, the title The End of Education by Neil Postman called to me from my bookshelf, whispering that it might be the right book at the right time. It was. Published in 1995, it was surprisingly appropriate balm for the soul of a confused programmer and soon-to-be father.
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Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why.
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Take the pedals off the bike
Apparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again.
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The Rails Doctrine
Read about Rails design pillars like convention over configuration, optimize for programmer happiness, value integrated systems, the menu is omakase, push up a bit tent, and more.
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PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
Send and receive money as easily as sending a text, across apps, borders, and currencies.
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JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
Full details on libjxl v. 0.10 and how it affects jpeg xl lossless compression using Pareto Front for a closer analysis.
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Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
Satya, I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw aw
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Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?
An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the ...
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HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print
Last week my in-laws politely but firmly asked me to set up their new HP printer. I protested that I’m completely clueless about that sort of thing, despite my tax-return-job-title of “software engineer”. Still remonstrating, I was gently bundled into their study with an instruction pamphlet, a cup of tea, a promise…
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Net neutrality
When there is a structural reason consumers don’t have freedom of choice, and the free market can’t work, consumers need minimal protection from the government so that they don’t get abused. We...
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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
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Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
TL;DR Modern disks are so fast that system performance bottleneck shifts to RAM access and CPU. With up to 64 cores, PCIe 4.0 and 8 memory channels, even a single-socket AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation makes a hell of a powerful machine - if you do it right! Update 1: Since 2021, networks have gotten faster and now…
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