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BERT is just a single text diffusion step
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models …
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,814 posts.
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25 Years of PHP
Celebrate the PHP anniversary with JetBrains! Follow the timeline of the pivotal moments in PHP history.
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Markov chains are the original language models
Back in my day, we used math for autocomplete.
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exFAT in the Linux kernel
We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel.
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Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
A seven-month-old arbitrary code execution vulnerability remains present in Cursor, leaving 1 million daily users to rely on public disclosure after months of unsuccessful attempts to obtain remediation updates.
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Examples are the best documentation
Examples are the best documentation | exotext
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Erlang/OTP 24 highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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I switched from VSCode to Zed
For many years VSCode has been my day-to-day IDE for everything: Python, Go, C, occasional frontend development, and what not. It was never...
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Blurry rendering of games on Mac
ProblemSolutionAffected GamesWhat Apple could do Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game …
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Go 1.4 is released
Go 1.4 adds support for Android, go generate, optimizations, and more.
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Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
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Native all the way, until you need text
Why building a rich, selectable, streaming Markdown chat UI on macOS still pushes you toward WebKit or Electron.
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How to not rewrite it in Rust
Once you get past the growing pains of the Borrow Checker and realise Rust gives you the power to do things which would be unheard of (or just plain dangerous) in other languages, the temptation to Rewrite it in Rust can be quite strong. However at best, the temptation to RiiR is unproductive (unnecessary duplication…
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'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
Kevin Patel - Application Security Engineer @ NISC
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How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article.
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Million requests per second with Python
Is it possible to hit a million requests per second with Python? Probably not until recently.
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ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.
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Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
What do each of these languages value most?
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ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container. This feature launched as ChatGPT Code Interpreter nearly three years ago, was …
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Floating Point Visually Explained
While I was writing the Wolfenstein 3D book [1] , I wanted to demonstrate how much of a handicap it was to work without floating points. My attempts at understanding floating points using canonical [2] articles [3] were met with resistance from my brain. I tried to find a different way. Something far from $(-1)^S *…
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PostgreSQL for Everything
You need simplicity if you want to move fast. PostgreSQL can very well replace Kafka, Redis, Clickhouse and Elastic. And many successful companies are doing exactly that. Let's check out how.
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Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Initial kernel and subsystem support for new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 posted for review. Learn what’s in the patches and how you can start working with them.
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Files Are Hard
I haven't used a desktop email client in years. None of them could handle the volume of email I get without at least occasionally corrupting my mailbox. Pine, Eudora, and outlook have all corrupted my inbox, forcing me to restore from backup. How is it that desktop mail clients are less reliable than gmail, even…
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Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
A basic introduction to Western music theory using the Python programming language to derive scales, chords, and modes in every key.