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Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models
We examine the Llama-2 models under 3 real-world use cases and show that fine-tuning yields significant accuracy improvements.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
Having created my first app using Flutter, I weigh up the technology’s pros and cons against React Native
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The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
Editor’s preface: When I first joined Dropbox in May 2017, we were at the tail end of our CoffeeScript to TypeScript migration. If you wanted to make changes to a CoffeeScript file, it was considered common courtesy to convert it to TypeScript while you were at it. Parts of our codebase were still using…
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GCC 16 has been released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 16 page and the full GCC documentation .
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Building a TUI is easy now
How we built and shipped a terminal UI for Hatchet in 2 days using Claude Code, the Charm stack (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss), and a tight feedback loop.
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20 years of Git
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening
WebAssembly is a new binary format for compilation to the web. It is in the process of being designed and implemented as we speak, in collaboration among the major browser ...
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Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.6.0-preview2.
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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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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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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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Go: Fuzzing Is Beta Ready
Native Go fuzzing is now ready for beta testing on tip.
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How To GitHub: A Complete Guide to Forking, Branching, Squashing and Pulls
Everything you need to know to pull down, branch off of, squash, and fork in GitHub in one handy little guide.
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AI for developers and Google Workspace
Introducing new generative AI capabilities in Google Cloud and Google Workspace, plus PaLM API and MakerSuite for developers.
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One Windows Kernel
In this blog post, I will talk about the evolution of the core pieces of the Windows kernel that allows it to transparently scale across a low power NVidia...
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Wasmer 3.0
Today we are very excited to launch Wasmer 3.0, following three months of work since our first alpha. So, what’s new in Wasmer? - `wasmer` is now able...
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How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
What’s the point of hiring junior developers? Joseph Wynn, a former Principal Software Engineer in the BBC News website team shared the…
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Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible
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StableCode
Stability AI has just announced the release of StableCode, its very first LLM generative AI product for coding. This product is designed to assist programmers with their daily work while also providing a great learning tool for new developers ready to take their skills to the next level.
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How we applied fuzzing techniques to cURL
Near the end of 2022, Trail of Bits was hired by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) to perform a security assessment of the cURL file transfer command-line utility and its library, libcurl. The scope of our engagement included a code review, a threat model, and the subject of this blog […]
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From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
The perils of logging in
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Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL
If you peruse the archives of language-summit blogs, you’ll find that one theme comes up again and again : the dream of Python without the GIL. Continuing this venerable tradition, Sam Gross kicked off the 2022 Language Summit by giving the attendees an update on nogil , a project that took the Python community by…
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Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
Every UI block in Tailwind Plus is now fully functional, accessible, and interactive, even if you don't use a framework like React or Vue.
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Pharo 11
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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Skills Officially Comes to Codex
Give ChatGPT and Codex new capabilities and expertise