Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
Use 3D to visualize matrix multiplication expressions, attention heads with real weights, and more. Matrix multiplications (matmuls) are the building blocks of today’s ML models. This note presents mm, a visualization...
Brave's vertical tabs feature is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux users to experience a new way to manage open tabs.
Stripe, which builds economic infrastructure for the internet, has signed agreements for a Series I fundraise.
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all . Just throw it away.
Introducing a brand new to-do entity type and use it locally with Todoist or Google Tasks. Matter 1.2 is here! New conditions for the conditional card to tailor your dashboards, select custom date ...
In 2013, I had an idea: "what if I were to build my programming language?". Back then my idea came down to "an interpreted language that mixes elements from Ruby and Smalltalk", and not much more.
The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and The Limits of Working Memory (2009) Torkel Klingberg (1967- ) 202 pages Who in these ...
Over the past year I’ve refined my approach to arena allocation . With practice, it’s effective, simple, and fast; typically as easy to use as garbage collection but without the costs. Depending on need, an allocator can weigh just 7–25 lines of code — perfect when lacking a runtime . With the core details of my own…
Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s image generation model. I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun playing with its sequel, DALL-E 3 recently. …
AMD acquires MK1, welcoming their world-class team and marking another key milestone in our strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency.
Netflix waited out Blockbuster with better economics, and it’s seeking to do the same with its competitors today; the key to the company’s differentiation, though, is increasingly creat…
Today, @vickschutz and I learned a detail about “Star Wars” (1977); it’s totally right there but we never grasped it. — Todd Vaziri (...
I had the privilege of leading PlanGrid to $100M in ARR before I stepped down as CEO and passed the baton to Autodesk Construction. I’ve had years to dissect the mistakes I have made in my first...
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
Xe Iaso's personal website.
Elliptic curves are standardized, instead of being generated like Diffie-Hellman parameters. There's good reasons!
Interpreting Reddit's API changes in light of how it serves OpenAI.
People rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad.
Everyone already knows that SQLite is great. This article makes the praise much more specific though — it explains why we, the developers of libSQL, think that SQLite is a great choice for bringing your data to the edge.
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
In October 2021, Ian, a fellow frontend developer at GDS posted a message in our support channel for the GOV.UK Design System on Slack:
ESET researchers are the first to publish an analysis of BlackLotus, the first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot.
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 20 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 395 in the Java Community Process.
A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™
Extensible programs like Obsidian have achieved a Holy Grail of software architecture, after decades of failed attempts.
