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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,904 posts.
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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
Wolfram|Alpha analyzes your Facebook data for free. Compute statistics: posting activity, most liked post, words most used, friends' geography, age and genders... more than a dozen reports.
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AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research
New AI system designs proteins that successfully bind to target molecules, with potential for advancing drug design, disease understanding and more.
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Commenting vs. Making
issue no. 0011
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Trolls Are Real
In most issues of EFFector, we give an overview of all the work we’re doing at EFF. Today, in light of recent developments at the U.S. Patent Office, we’re doing a deep dive into a single issue: recent changes to the patent system, and how it’s in danger of heading backwards.
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Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage system
Visit the post for more.
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MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill
Fifty years after the War on Drugs was officially declared and psychedelic substance prohibition began in contravention of evidence supporting therapeutic use, the California State Senate has taken the first Legislative step to dismantle psychedelic prohibition with a 21-16 vote on June 1, 2021, in favor of Senate…
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The Truth About Linear Regression (2015)
This is basically a compilation of the lecture notes I wrote when teaching 36-401, Modern Regression, in fall 2015 . I offer it here on the chance that it might be of interest to those learning, or teaching, linear regression. There's no shortage of resources on that, but I have tried to present the subject as though…
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Seven Levels of Busy
Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my be
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RFC8890: The Internet Is for End Users
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published RFC8890, The Internet is for End Users, arguing that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) should ground its decisions in what’s good for people who use the Internet, and that it should take positive steps to achieve that.
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Mac Chimes of Death
We’re all familiar with the Mac’s startup chime. While it has changed over the years, it has greeted users with its friendly tone for decades. What you may not know is that for years, the Mac also came with a death sound, that would play when the machine was unable to properly boot. And they are glorious: Macintosh II…
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Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision
Mozilla.ai developed and released the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint. If you love maps and are interested in training your own computer vision model, you’ll enjoy diving into this Blueprint.
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Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for: how tokens, embeddings, and attention make cached LLM tokens 10x cheaper and faster.
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Teaching Machines to Draw
Posted by David Ha, Google Brain ResidentAbstract visual communication is a key part of how people convey ideas to one another. From a young age, c...
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Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning
My name is Gabi (my bio), and I’m the CEO and co-founder of Chicisimo. We launched three years ago, our goal was to offer automated outfit…
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How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store
Insights from an indie app developer
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Accelerating Generative AI with PyTorch II: GPT, Fast
This post is the second part of a multi-series blog focused on how to accelerate generative AI models with pure, native PyTorch. We are excited to share a breadth of...
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Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
Articles, projects, podcast by Ulysse Pence
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Voxel Space (2017)
Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
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On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
Posted by Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang, Research Engineers, Google Research The ability to perceive the shape and motion of hands can be a v...
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RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
I’m happy to announce that RISC-V platforms are now officially supported by CPython. 🎉 🚀
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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
Scientists using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun, shedding light on solar activity and space weather.
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The server chose violence
Hubris's oddest syscall
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under bittorrent , lt-codes , damn-cool-algorithms , fountain-codes
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