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The Verge's web sucks
TL;DR: Did you know that The Verge delivers you to around 20 companies for advertising & tracking purposes? I didn't. That might foul up your web experience a little bit. Maybe we should try something different.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,874 posts.
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No Abstractions: our API design principle
This post explains one of the core design principle of Increase’s API, dubbed No Abstractions, which we’ve found useful as our product and company scale.
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Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
A colleague spotted base64-encoded JSON in a long string of gibberish without any tools. I was amazed, until he explained how anyone can do it.
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Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same question multiple times provides different results. This by itself is not surprising, since getting a result from…
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Debian donation for Peertube development
The Debian project is happy to announce a donation of 10,000 € to help Framasoft reach the fourth stretch-goal of its Peertube v3 crowdfunding campaign -- Live Streaming. This year's iteration of the Debian annual conference, DebConf20, had to be...
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Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
I'm very excited to announce @parcel/css, a new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier written in Rust! Check it out on GitHub, or try a live demo right in your browser.
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Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
About a year ago, Hetzner launched the AX162 server line. It offered better price / performance than its predecessor, AX161. We were very excited to adopt it, but we soon encountered serious reliability issues. We observed that the new servers had 16 times higher annual failure rates.
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How Uber Uses Zig
I talked at the first Zig meetup in Milan about Uber's early experience with Zig: a little about how Uber uses Zig and more about my experience of bringing Zig to Uber, from both technical and social aspects.
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Bug #915: Solved
Yesterday I pleaded, Bug #915: please help! It got posted to Hacker News, where Robert Xiao (nneonneo) did some impressive debugging and found the answer.
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Building a RISC-V PC
How we assembled a RISC-V desktop computer. (video at the bottom of this post.) While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will
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Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
Servo, the next-generation browser engine being developed by Mozilla Research, has reached an important milestone by passing the Acid2 test. While Servo is not yet fully web compatible, passing Acid2 ...
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Grafana 7.0
The Grafana 7.0 release is full of major new features and enhancements. Find out all the details here.
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GitHub Container Registry
GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous access for public container images
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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org this year. This is the first of a series of blog posts where we will share our progress.
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The First Fully General Computer Action Model
We trained a model on our 11-million-hour video dataset. Our model can explore complex websites, complete multi-action CAD modeling sequences, and drive a car in the real world, all at 30 FPS.
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‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. As it…
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Interesting data structures: the BK-tree
A BK-tree is a tree data structure specialized to index data in a metric space . A metric space is essentially a set of objects which we equip with a distance function $d(a, b)$ for every pair of elements $(a, b)$. This distance function must satisfy a set of axioms in order to ensure it’s well-behaved. The exact…
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Hello, HPy
Welcome to the shiny new HPy blog! HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real
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8-bit Boléro
I hope you'll enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed making it! There are many little details that I'll let you discover on your own.
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What killed the Linux desktop
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Generating a Java program with 90% less code
Painless, quick delivery of your domain name. Fast and professional service.
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Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports
Like many of my friends, I have treated professional sports with cultivated indifference. But a year and a half ago, I decided to become a football fan. Several years ago, I was at a talk by Michae…
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NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts
On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be…
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Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds