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Shrinkflation, SanDisk Style
A cheap USB stick and the marketing around it caused disappointment, more at 11.
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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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Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
How fast is my Whisper Benchmark with the MLX Framework from Apple? Nvidia 4090 / M1 Pro / M2 Ultra / M3
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The Surprising Power of Documentation
Explore the power of proper documentation in this comprehensive guide. Understand how documentation serves as a secret weapon for CTOs, eliminating guesswork, speeding up onboarding, and enhancing productivity in startups. We delve into the importance of documentation in knowledge sharing, reducing the need for…
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Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
You can build, test, and run the Android support for RISC-V on your own machine.
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Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers
Google Chrome's new platform for extensions, Manifest V3, threatens to limit the functionality of ad blockers. Firefox has found a way around this problem. Read how.
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How does database sharding work?
Learn what database sharding is, how sharding works, and some common sharding frameworks and tools.
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Nintendo 3DS Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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An interactive guide to SVG paths
An interactive guide to understanding SVG paths and path commands.
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Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
But they are victims of complex societal factors that are beyond their control
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IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
Several people have opined on the recent announcement of Red Hat to change their terms of sales for their software. Here are some thoughts from Jon "maddog" Hall on it.
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Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan
Please don't roll your big bags around town
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Docker
Lately I tend to stick to topics that are historic by at least twenty years, and that does have a lot of advantages. But I am supposedly a DevOps professional, and so I will occasionally indulge in giving DevOps advice... or at least opinions, which are sort of like advice but with less of a warranty.
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Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
Things I Learned From Hundreds of Experiments
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Statement on AI Risk
A statement jointly signed by a historic coalition of experts: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
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Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch
Today, we permanently banned over 40,000 accounts that were using third-party software to cheat in Dota over the last few weeks. This software was able to access information used internally by the Dota client that wasn't visible during normal gameplay, giving the cheater an unfair advantage. While fixing the…
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27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
My daughter found my Psion 3a the other day, tucked at the back of a cupboard she was clearing out for me. It looked fine and is still in excellent aesthetic condition, and fortunately I had left n…
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Gentoo goes Binary
News and information from Gentoo Linux
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OpenTelemetry in 2023
4 Years In, OpenTelemetry Delivers on its Promise for Open Observability
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Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
The first official release of Fedora Asahi Remix is slated to be available by the end of August 2023!
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Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
(If you just want some recommendations for what to do, skip down to the Recommendations section below .)
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WInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late
This is a write-up of the wInd3x bootrom exploit affecting iPod Nanos from 3rd gen to 5th gen. A ready-made tool to use this exploit is available at github.com/freemyipod/wInd3x .
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Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022
In late 2021, I had solar panels installed onto the roof of my house. After some bureaucratic delays, the solar panels began producing electricity for me at the beginning of January 2022. I have been tracking the performance of the panels for the last year in order to assess what the financial impact of the panels is…
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I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are technologies which can track this behavior and trigger a “mouse-out” alert. While this UX element (from companies such as Crazy Egg and Rooster) has great potential, I’ve found it far too…