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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,862 posts.
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New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco
The recent announcement of the discovery of three new Aztec codices is covered here for the English-speaking public.
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Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
Will Larson, a veteran engineering leader and the CTO at Carta, holds three conventional engineering management “anti-patterns” up to the light for a closer look.
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Railroad Tycoon
It says much about Sid Meier, a born game designer if ever there was one, that he tended to get some of his best work done when he was allegedly on vacation. A few years after his significant other had lost all track of him on what she thought was a romantic getaway to the Caribbean but he came to see as the ideal…
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Why Is Location Data No Longer Private?
The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of these consumer privacy debacles, many are left wondering who’s…
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Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
interviewer: Welcome, can I get you coffee or anything? Do you need a break? me: No, I've probably had too much coffee already! interviewer: Great, great. And are you OK with writing code on the...
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Lessons from Stripe
How working at Stripe changed my outlook on optimism, ambition, and recruiting.
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Formal methods and the future of programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.
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Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform.
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Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
Type, see, tweak, repeat! Instant SQL is now in Preview in MotherDuck and the DuckDB Local UI. Bend reality with SQL superpowers to get real-time query results as you type. | Reading time: 8 min read
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Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvement...
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Bullshit graph database performance benchmarks
Hey HackerNews, let me just drop my mixtape, checkout my soundcloud and “Death Row” is the label that pays me. How is the Graph Database category supposed to grow when vendors keep spou…
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How HBO’s Silicon Valley Built “Not Hotdog” with TensorFlow, Keras and React Native
How we beat the state of the art to build a real-life A.I. app.
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Feeling safer online with Firefox
The latest privacy and security improvements in Firefox [This post originally appeared on Medium ] Firefox is the only browse...
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Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at...
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PostgreSQL Features to Try
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
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Understanding the Git Workflow
If you don't understand the motivation behind Git's design, you're in for a world of hurt. With enough flags you can force Git to act the way you think it should instead of the way it wants to. But that's like using a screwdriver like a
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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)
The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to be disclosed when quoting Graham as an Altman character reference.
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Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: practices I learned
For the past few years, I've been building and operating a large distributed system: the payments system at Uber [https://eng.uber.com/payments-platform/]. I've learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts…
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Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 2
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Two open source projects with great architecture documentation
esbuild and Redis1 are two examples of codebases with exceptional documentation. Through their READMEs, changelogs, architecture documents, and code comments, both projects explain their design in such a way that someone new to the codebase can understand where things are, how things are done, and why they are done…
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Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
Flatpak - a security nightmare
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Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
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Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.