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Never waste a midlife crisis
John Higgs on the decision to become a full-time writer.
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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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Amazon's Silent Sacking
Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
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Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025
Apple today announced a new 2025 target to use 100 percent recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed batteries.
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Decomposing language models into understandable components
Interpretability research decomposing a transformer layer into thousands of interpretable features that can steer model behavior.
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Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
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Why human societies developed so little during 300k years
Why human societies developed so little during 300 000 years
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Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI
We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re o
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Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
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AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
We are introducing a new charge for public IPv4 addresses. Effective February 1, 2024 there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not (there is already a charge for public IPv4 addresses you allocate in your account but don’t attach to […]
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Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing
Top tax prep companies spent over $90 million on lobbying in the past two decades since the IRS Free File Program’s launch.
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How to start a Go project in 2023
I previously wrote about starting a Go project in 2018. A lot has changed since I wrote that and I had been wanting to write an updated version. What follows should be enough for anyone new to Go to …
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Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go
In this case study, we are excited to share an insider's perspective and look under the hood of how a Massive.com customer built an automated retail trading bot that is capable of monitoring the entire stock market in real-time.
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The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
The UK discarded 6% of its windpower last year, at a cost of almost £1bn. What’s going on, and how can we fix it?
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Bitwarden PINs can be brute-forced
Video showing bitwarden. User then sets the pin 2345. The vault is locked and then bitwarden is quit. In the terminal the exploit program is run, which after a short while outputs the PIN 2345.
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Accidentally Load Bearing
Sometimes people will talk about Chesterton's Fence, the idea that if you want to change something—removing an apparently useless fence—you should first determine why it was set up that way: The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly…
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What are transformer models and how do they work?
Explore the fundamentals of transformer models, which have revolutionized natural language processing.
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Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch
Another explainer on a fun, esoteric topic: optimizing code with SIMD (single instruction multiple data, also sometimes called vectorization ). Designing a good, fast, portable SIMD algorithm is not a simple matter and requires thinking a little bit like a circuit designer.
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Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
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I almost bought a scanner
I almost bought a scanner. Mainly for my Alpine Panoramics project . The key here is that I am still shooting most of these photos on a Hasselblad Xpan - a long since discontinued film camera that shoots two 35mm frames side by side to achieve a panoramic frame covering approximately 65x24mm.
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HTML Web Components
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to…
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Is the Living Computer Museum dead?
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are also available…
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The WebP 0day
Early last week, Google released a new stable update for Chrome. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team. The issue, CVE-2023-4863, was a heap buffer overflow in the WebP image library, and it had a familiar
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Can LLMs learn from a single example?
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
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Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator
CLICK HERE for our main page with download instructions and online documentation.
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Wonders of Street View
Explore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View
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The expanding dark forest and generative AI
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content