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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,414 posts.
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More Chinese Mobile UI Trends
Another look through mobile UI design patterns in the Middle Kingdom.
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Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin
I’ve been writing about the Bitcoin blocksize debate here at AVC (the only place I write and I’m hard core about that) for the past year. It’s a big deal. At the core of the debate is whether the Bitcoin blockchain should be a settlement layer that supports a number of new blockchains that can […]
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Why Education Does Not Fix Poverty (2015)
We are changing the conversation around our democracy and economy by telling influential new stories about our country and its people. Get our latest media updates here.
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Small payments sharply diminish gap in responses to partisan factual questions
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Yes, All DRM
Everybody knows that the digital locks of DRM on the digital media you own is a big problem. If you’ve bought a digital book, album, or movie, you should be able to do what you want with it—whether that’s enjoying it wherever you want to, or making it more accessible by changing the font size or...
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Concrete AI Safety Problems
We (along with researchers from Berkeley and Stanford) are co-authors on today’s paper led by Google Brain researchers, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. The paper explores many research problems around ensuring that modern machine learning systems operate as intended.
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Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data
(Edit: This article is now up on hacker news, feel free to discuss there)
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PyPy3 5.5.0 released
We're pleased to announce the release of PyPy3 v5.5.0. Coming four months after PyPy3.3 v5.2, it improves compatibility with Python 3.3 (3.3...
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Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem
I write about Startups, coding and Physics
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JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
Improve the start-up time of both small and large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on peak performance.
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Our best practices are killing mobile web performance
Web performance rules invented for desktop web access need to be revised for the mobile era.
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Consistency is Consistently Undervalued
Transactions are mundane and commonplace. Have we forgotten why they're useful?
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Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016
Our goal with Let’s Encrypt is to get the Web to 100% HTTPS. We’d like to give a quick progress update. Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million certificates in total since we launched to the general public on December 3, 2015. Approximately 3.8 million of those are active, meaning unexpired and unrevoked. Our…
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iOS 10: Security Weakness Discovered, Backup Passwords Much Easier to Break
We discovered a major security flaw in the iOS 10 backup protection mechanism. This security flaw allowed us developing a new attack that is able to bypass cert
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Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction
How do we embrace deep work and combat the unparalleled assault on our capacity to concentrate? Some tactics for doing valuable deep work in practice.
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OpenAI technical goals
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.
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Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (2013)
There’s a neat variation on open-addressing based hash tables called Robin Hood hashing . This technique isn’t very well-known, but it makes a huge practical difference because it both improves performance and space utilization compared to other “standard” hash tables (e.g. chaining ). It also eliminates the major…
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Dolphin 5.0 Release
Dolphin 5.0 Release Video The long awaited Dolphin 5.0 release is finally here! After nearly a year of bug-hunting and handling the release process, everything has come together for our biggest release yet! The three previous releases followed a very distinct pattern: sacrifice performance, hacks, and features in…