1921
Building and scaling Notion's data lake
How Notion build and grew our data lake to keep up with rapid growth
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
1922
What Monks Know about Focus
It’s Never Been Easy to Battle Distraction. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s New Translation of John Cassian in ‘How to Focus’
1923
What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
Stephen Wolfram explores minimal models and their visualizations, aiming to explain the underneath functionality of neural nets and ultimately machine learning.
1924
3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Novel view reconstructions for (right) our method and (left) conventional 3D Gaussian Splatting with random initializations. Our method, even with random initialization, faithfully reconstructs the scene (e.g.. buildings at the back and the ground texture) providing much higher quality renderings.
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1926
Losing two jobs in one year
and learn to accept imperfection
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1928
Weekend projects: getting silly with C
C is beautiful yet full of horrors. Here's to uncovering its hidden depths.
1929
The internet is already over (2022)
Our God is a devourer, who makes things only for the swallowing.
1930
What's New in POSIX 2024
In the 1950s, computers did not really interoperate. ARPANET has not yet happened (that would become a thing in the 60s), and every operating system was typically tied to the hardware that was meant to run on. Most communication actually happened over telephone, and no company was more present in that space than the…
1931
Why Safety Profiles Failed
As for dangling pointers and for ownership, this model detects all possible errors . This means that we can guarantee that a program is free of uses of invalidated pointers.
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General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker
Years ago I spent some time analyzing Candle-Flicker LEDs that contain an integrated circuit to mimic the flickering nature of real candles. Artificial candles have evolved quite a bit since then, …
1934
I want flexible queries, not RAG
There is a lot of excitement around retrieval augmented generation or “RAG.” Roughly the idea is: some of the deficiencies in current generative AI or large language models (LLMs) can b…
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Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more natural, conversational and intuitive digital assistants and AI tools.
1937
How I prepare a talk for a tech conference (2022)
By the way, you can listen to me read this post aloud on my Patreon, which starts at $1/month! My 🌶️ spicy take 🌶️ is that I don’t like seeing tech talks live. I get very little out of 95% of…
1938
Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)
This is one in a series of papers I’m reading from OSDI and Usenix ATC. These paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox , or you can subscribe to the Atom feed . As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions!
1939
The lifecycle of a code AI completion
Demystifying code AI: Learn how Cody analyzes context, retrieves references, prompts models, and refines completions behind the scenes.
1940
Let's talk about animation quality
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
1941
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
1942
Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos
Using `mdb` and `pmap` to find the cause of a crash.
1943
Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks
How I scaled One Million Checkboxes to handle half a million users
1944
A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers
This is a visual guide (scroll story) to Vision Transformers (ViTs), a class of deep learning models that have achieved state-of-the-art performance on image classification tasks.
1945
IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server
Afnic, the association in charge of the .fr top-level domain and several other French overseas and generic TLDs, announced today the release as free software of its tool named IBDNS, standing for Intentionally Broken DNS.
1946
Atari's Mike Jang
Some sad news to report on the blog this week. I got word that long-time Industrial Designer at Atari coin-operated division, Mike Jang, has passed away. I’ve known Mike since 2016, and whils…
1947
I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet
about me I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently. I am not one of those people who think they were “born in the wrong decade”, I think I was born at the perfect time to take advantage of superlinearly growing technological advancements. the internet today I…
1948
Just use Postgres
Advice: When you are making a new application that requires persistent storage of data, like is the case for most web applications, your default choice should be Postgres .
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.