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GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code
GigaGPT is Cerebras’ implementation of Andrei Karpathy’s nanoGPT – the simplest and most compact code base to train and fine-tune GPT models.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 597 posts.
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Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?
A detailed explanation of why Elixir uses a dot when invoking anonymous functions
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will enable frame pointers by default
Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. […]
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Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023
It's been a hectic past few months for the project. In addition to the upcoming release on Steam, a lot of focus has gone into other major features. While not everything has landed yet, two very important changes to Android did arrive, one of which has been in the works for a couple years! We're talking about a large…
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My Fear of Commitment to the First CPU Core
On this Valentine's Day Weekend I share the heartbreak that caused my fear of commitment to the 1st CPU Core of any socket (not just core 0).
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Choosing a Postgres primary key
Turns out the question of which identifier to use as a Primary Key is complicated -- we're going to dive into some of the complexity and inherent trade-offs, and figure things out
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iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive
Apple today announced iOS 17, a major release that upgrades the communications experience across Phone, FaceTime, and Messages.
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Pg_jsonschema – JSON Schema Support for Postgres
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
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WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes
Providing up-to-date, convenient WebAssembly builds of Python with WASI support
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Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS ). Thanks to Anton Fonarev for link aggregation.
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Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications
Why was Mats created, what is the point of using message-based async RPC.
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Deno 1.33: Deno 2 is coming
Deno 1.33 is a step towards our next major release, with improved LSP support, enhanced Node.js compatibility, and more.
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Trains on another level
Hello! The code refactor of rails presented last week is great, but the motivation for such a task wasn't quite just some shape changes for rails. As explained last week, we can now define any kind of rail shape, and we had some very specific shapes in mind all along...
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WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets
Today we are very excited to launch a new initiative that will start shaping the future of WebAssembly on both the browser and the server. WASI was ann...
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Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB
In this blog post, we will delve into the major enhancements introduced in Ruby 3.3’s IRB, as well as what’s currently planned for the next year.
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How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory
Learn how Adobe managed to let users edit even the biggest files on the web version of its iconic Photoshop app.
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Add an AI Code Copilot to your product using GPT-4
The AI Code Copilot has been replaced by the more powerful AI Chat feature.
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Bun v0.7.0
vite dev support, Workers, bun --smol, WebSocket.ping(), structuredClone(), serialize() and better Node.js compatibility
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CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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New C features in GCC 13
The GNU Compiler Collection 13 release implemented a number of interesting features in its C front-end. This article summarizes the most interesting ones.
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Fuyu-8B: A multimodal architecture for AI agents
We’re open-sourcing Fuyu-8B - a small version of the multimodal model that powers our product.
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Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks
LLMs can now make use of the right tools to resolve complex queries and tasks
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SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can
libSQL “server mode” (sqld) enables access to SQLite-based databases using Postgres and HTTP network protocols.