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Cloud TPUs in Beta
Starting today, Cloud TPUs are available in beta on Google Cloud to help machine learning (ML) experts train and run their ML models more quickly.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,933 posts.
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Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager
Good security practices require us to use different passwords for most or all of the websites and services we interact with. For accounts of any significance, those also need to be strong passwords of one form or another. But if you combine those two requirements (one password per site, most or all...
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Want to spell check? Read the fine print
Update : This post has hit Hacker News - you might want to follow the comments over there.
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Some things I've learnt about programming
I've been programming for over 30 years from machines that seem puny today (Z80 and 6502 based) to the latest kit using languages that rang...
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Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build
Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more
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Is NixOS truly reproducible?
Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model...
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Investigating how the New York Times A/B tests their headlines
Part 1 of a series on the New York Times, in which I take a close look at how (and when) the New York Times tests multiple headlines for a single article.
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Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
Coming to a Panther Lake notebook near you!
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PINE64 December Update
Welcome to the last community update of the year. I want to start this month’s update by thanking everyone who helped us make this challenging year a fruitful and successful one. A special thanks goes to the core community team - our mods and admins - who keep the cogs spinning on a daily basis. Marek (gamiee) and…
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CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
The blog for CocoaPods.org the Cocoa Dependency Manager
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Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym
Curious what the first ‘unused’ alphabetic acronym is, I have GPT-4 write a script to check English Wikipedia. After three bugs, the first unused one turns out as of 2023-09-29 to be the three-letter acronym ‘CQK’, with another 2.6k TLA unused, and 393k four-letter acronyms unused. Exploratory analysis suggests…
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It's time to reconsider going on-prem
Going on-prem can be a handful, especially maintaining those deployments. Here's how we use Kubernetes and our own tooling to help scale those efforts.
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EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters
For the last month, civil liberties and human rights organizations, researchers, and customers have demanded that Apple cancel its plan to install photo-scanning software onto devices. This software poses an enormous danger to privacy and security. Apple has heard the message, and announced that it...
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A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts
Tomorrow, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers reforming the decades-old federal email privacy law, the personal Inboxes and love lives of senior military and intelligence figures may be on that august body's mind. When the FBI pored through the personal lives of CIA Director David Petraeus...
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Making an old USB printer support Apple AirPrint using a Raspberry Pi
There are longer tutorials on how to connect a USB printer to a Raspberry Pi and make it accessible via AirPrint but here's the minimal one ...
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Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler
This wednesday we landed the baseline compiler on Firefox nightly. After six months of work from start to finish, we are finally able to merge ...
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Climbing the wrong hill (2009)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including…
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"The web is considered 'public domain'"
The tl;dr version of this post: My 2005 Ice Dragon entry, called "A Tale of Two Tarts" was apparently printed without my knowledge or permission in a magazine and I am apparently the victim of copyright infringement. The story: I was contacted early last week by a friend of mine who lives in the…
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Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
This is a progress report on the Go toolchain improvements during the 1.7 development cycle. All measurements were taken using a Thinkpad x220, Core i5-2520M, running Ubuntu 14.04 linux.
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Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross
During the annual Python core development sprint we held a meeting with Sam Gross, the author of nogil, a fork of Python 3.9 that removes the GIL. This is a non-linear summary of the meeting.
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Coroutines and effects
For the past few months I’ve been mulling over some things that Russell Johnston made me realize about the relationship between effect systems and coroutines. You can read more of his thoughts on this subject here , but he made me realize that effect systems (like that found in Koka) and coroutines (like Rust’s async…
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Best Practices Exist For A Reason
If you've ever used node.js, you've probably also used Isaac Schlueter's npm, the node package manager. By maintaining a central repository to which authors can quickly publish their JavaScript modules, npm has made it easy to get started building node apps and its popularity has exploded over the past year…
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Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
Choosing to be the CEO or CTO after raising a seed round.
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Things I don't know about AI
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
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Writing a simple windows driver in Rust
The Rust language ecosystem is growing each day, its popularity increasing, and with good reason. It’s the only mainstream language that provides memory and concurrency safety at compile time…