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I caught Google Gemini using my data and then covering it up
I asked Google Gemini a pretty basic developer question. The answer was unremarkable, apart from it mentioning in conclusion that it knows I previously used ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,903 posts.
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What is protein folding? A brief explanation
AlphaFold from Google DeepMind is said to solve the protein folding problem. What is that, and why is it hard?
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Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference
TL;DR: We developed a compiler that automatically transforms LLM inference into a single megakernel — a fused GPU kernel that performs…
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How to get your first ten customers (2013)
Preface: the assumption for this essay is that you’re building a B2B app, and you have something built but you’re having trouble getting people to pay for
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Saving 25,000 Manuals
Earlier this year, a number of kind folks told me that an esteemed seller of manuals was going to be getting out of the business. I lamented but didn’t give it much thought. As the months wen…
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No Brainer
For decades now, I have been haunted by the grainy, black-and-white x-ray of a human skull.
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Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments
Matthew Bird Portfolio
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Making a good diff algorithm
Pretty Diff tool can minify, beautify (pretty-print), or diff between minified and beautified code. This tool can even beautify and minify HTML.
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Reshaped is now open source
After five years of closed-source, Reshaped is finally open for all – both in React and Figma.
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Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research
Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software EngineersMany recent breakthroughs in machine learning and machine perception have ...
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Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.
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Deconstructing the Water Effect in Super Mario Sunshine
Note: The demos below require WebGL2 support . If you are running a browser without WebGL 2 support, user “petercooper” on Hacker News has helpfully recorded a video and GIFs and for me.
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The best things and stuff of 2014
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2014. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
Safety leads everything we do at Waymo. This year alone, Waymo has served over 700,000 ride-hailing trips with public riders and no human driver. We couldn’t have hit that milestone without putting safety front and center, and we are working hard to improve the measurement, transparency, and performance of our fleet.
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On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
Chomsky's remarks were in response to Steven Pinker's question about the success of probabilistic models trained with statistical methods. This essay is a response to Pinker and Chomsky, and will address these questions:
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I'm returning my Framework 16
My current laptop is an aging X1 Carbon generation 7, purchased some time in mid 2019. A few months ago a few keys of the keyboard stopped working, specifically the 5, 6, - , = and Delete keys. Sometimes I can get it working again by mashing one of them for a while, but it's not consistent. Given my past experiences…
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Zig, the Small Language
Zig programming language is new, but it's getting a well deserved attention. Can it be a good fit for small-and-simple programming tasks?
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
In 51,129 comments from six knife subreddits, the 5% most brand-heavy accounts wrote 11.3% of the brand mentions in buying threads, against 7.9% expected by chance. For one brand it is 31% against 8%. The full Reddit histories of those accounts are 4.5 years old and spread over 66 subreddits, the same as a comparison…
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IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
A follow up to The Ofcom Files. Some notes on Ofcom’s strategy to date. As many of you know, I represent the U.S. website 4chan, pro bono, in its U.S. federal lawsuit against the UK…
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My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer
It began with a spark—a dormant passion reignited after many years away from motorcycling. Life had steered me in different directions, away from the saddle, but something deep inside pulled me back to the thrill and freedom that only riding offers. Returning to motorcycling after such an extended hiatus was daunting…
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The React Foundation
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…
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Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose
Psilocybin can be safely administered at doses of either 10mg or 25mg to up to six participants simultaneously.
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iPadOS 16
Apple today previewed iPadOS 16, a major update that makes the iPad experience even more versatile.
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9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0
Note that some of the wrong answers can be fixed with various workarounds. For example Common–Lisp gives the correct answer for:
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Google search's death by a thousand cuts
Reddit communities are still private in protest of new API rules. Twitter moved beyond a login wall and is rate-limiting users. Users are frustrated but still using these sites.
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The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
(With a caveat: I'm compiling the ARMv8 64-bit Pi OS kernel.) It seems every week or so on Hacker News, a story hits the front page showing some new benchmark and how one of the new M1-based Macs matches or beats the higher-priced competition in some specific benchmark—be it GeekBench, X86-specific code, or building…
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