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Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative conclusion is that… Read More
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20 years of Google Scholar
Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Go 1.22
The latest Go release, version 1.22, arrives six months after Go 1.21 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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Software Design Is Knowledge Building
The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
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Ruby 3.4.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.4.0. Ruby 3.4 adds it block parameter reference,changes Prism as default parser, adds Happy Eyeballs Version...
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Mistral NeMo
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects
We are excited to announce the launch of a dedicated fund aimed at providing financial assistance to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS) projects globally, with an annual commitment of $1 million. I will use the FOSS acronym in this post hereafter.
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Bash Debugging
Here's a preview from my zine, Bite Size Bash ! If you want to see more comics like this, sign up for my saturday comics newsletter or browse more comics !
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Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
Developers love Redis. Unlock the full potential of the Redis database with Redis Enterprise and start building blazing fast apps.
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OpenAI o1 system card
This report outlines the safety work carried out prior to releasing OpenAI o1 and o1-mini, including external red teaming and frontier risk evaluations according to our Preparedness Framework.
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How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
When we are interrupted or need to hastily respond to a new demand, we often make quick decisions about where to place physical items. We always place them in locations which make sense given our current state of mind, but often that state of mind is fleeting, and so we forget where we put our things.
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Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'
I'm one of the founders at Corelatus. Our niche is telecom hardware for the E1/T1 and SDH/SONET interfaces. I work with layer 2 signalling, i.e SS7 MTP-2, ATM and frame relay, and the Erlang control system for our embedded hardware.
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Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed
Update Oct. 31, 2024: We are committed to delivering a secure and trusted experience with Recall. We recently shared updates to the security and privacy architecture for Recall in a
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Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
We examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.
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Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010) : URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL…
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Intent to end OCSP service
Today we are announcing our intent to end Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) support in favor of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) as soon as possible. OCSP and CRLs are both mechanisms by which CAs can communicate certificate revocation information, but CRLs have significant advantages over OCSP. Let’s…
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Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?
Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer.
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Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch
For the past two years Charles Zhang and I have been working on getting my game engine, Trial, running on the Nintendo Switch. The primary challenge in doing this is porting the underlying Common Lisp runtime to work on this platform. We knew going into this that it was going to be hard, but it has proven to be quite…
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Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
A blog about making a game to achieve my childhood dream (of getting the DVD logo in the corner)
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When do we stop finding new music?
When does our taste in music stagnate?
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Bots, so many bots
Is Product Hunt worth it? Dive into the data to find out.
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Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)
When you look at old black and white pictures of cities from before the 1950s you may notice something on most buildings that are no longer there today. Awnings. They were ubiquitous over nearly every window of buildings from the most basic single family home to massive buildings like The White House. Where did all […]
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CrowdStrike's impact on aviation
Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike YOLOed a software update to millions of Windows machines. Or as they put it:
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Extracting concepts from GPT-4
Using new techniques for scaling sparse autoencoders, we automatically identified 16 million patterns in GPT-4's computations.
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My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4
Finetunes of Mistral, Llama3 and Solar LLMs are more accurate for my test data than OpenAI’s models.
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JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
Why I’m excited about the new Temporal API in JavaScript: finally, easy and accurate date handling with time zones using ZonedDateTime. Say goodbye to the headaches of traditional Date objects.
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Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
A very specific question, answered very longwindedly.
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What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
[Hacker News discussion, LinkedIn discussion, Twitter thread]