Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,898 posts.
Interest in machine learning may be at an all-time high. Per Google Trends, people are searching for machine learning nearly five times as often as five years ago. And at the University of California San Diego (UCSD),
Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.
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There are many tech hubs in the United States (which this article will cover exclusively, sorry) but which ones are able to maintain low costs of living while also having high average salary for software developers? This post will address that question using a few calculations and data sourced from publicly available…
Last week we closed down Buffer's only physical office. We're now fully, truly remote. Here are the reasons why.
Learn how psychological biases are used to trick players into gambling money in the new Mario Kart Tour game, raising ethical questions.
Or: A comprehensive ecosystem of open-source software for big data management
Go 1.21 RC brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.
COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country.The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking”...
Happy 10th birthday, Go!
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105 falsehoods programmers believe about search, a complex field where competence is hard-won through training, practice, and experience.
What language was used to write the very first programs for the very first stored-program computer?
"Systems design" is a branch of study that tries to find universal architectural patterns that are valid across disciplines. You might thin...
In the last couple of months, I've been seeing the ú symbol on British receipts. Why? 1963 - ASCII In the beginning* was ASCII. A standard way for computers to exchange text. ASCII was originally designed with 7 bits - that means 128 possible symbols. That ought to be enough for everyone, right? Wrong! ASCII is the…
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
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I still get excited about programming languages. But these days, it’s not so much because of what they let me do, but rather what they don’t let me do. Ultimately, what you can with a programming l...
Today we’re releasing Signal 2.0, with support for TextSecure private messaging. It is now possible to send end-to-end encrypted group, text, picture, and video messages between Signal on iPhone and TextSecure on Android, all without SMS and MMS fees. Signal 2.0 blends private phone calls and pri...
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
I’d read a few times that bringing the temperature of a failing drive down will increase its reliability long enough to salvage important files. When the drive in my trusty Powerbook decided one day last week to stop booting and make horrible clicking sounds, I decided to test the theory.
Update: Cloudflare’s response indicates that this is a customer-specific rule and not a global policy. They did not mention what kind of rule is triggering this behavior though.
