Skylake now GA on GCE
We’re pleased to announce several updates to Google Compute Engine that give you more powerful and flexible instances. Google Cloud is the first and only public cloud to deliver Intel’s next-generation Xeon server processor (codenamed Skylake), and starting today, it’s generally available (GA). In addition, we’ve made…
To start a billion dollar startup, start looking for problems
Yes! You read that right. If you want to start a billion dollar startup and you are looking for ideas to work on then most probably you are...
Multiple regex performance shootout: RE2 vs. Intel's Hyperscan
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
Improving on Tor .onion Address Usability
Hello again, this blog post is the second issue of the Cooking with Onions series which aims to...
The story of the Slovak national top-level domain
The top level domain of Slovakia is operated by a private company which abuses its monopoly. In the Central Europe it is something unusual.
ArangoDB 3.2 GA RocksDB, Pregel, Fault-Tolerant Foxx and Satellite Collections
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
Lessons from the History of Attacks on Secure Hash Functions
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contact the author if you see errors or omissions. Most of the secure hash functions ever designed have turned out to be vulnerable to collision attacks.
Gaming Robinhood’s Free Stock Promotion – Or, How to Blow $350
Master boring fundamentals. Play infinite games.
Inside the 74181 ALU chip
What's inside a TTL chip? To find out, I opened up a 74181 ALU chip, took high-resolution die photos, and reverse-engineered the chip. 1 In...
Implementing faceted search with Django and PostgreSQL
I’ve added a faceted search engine to this blog, powered by PostgreSQL. It supports regular text search (proper search, not just SQL“like” queries), filter by tag, filter by date, filter …
Stats without Tears (2016)
Printer Friendly: The whole text in one file , all 164,000 words, convenient for printing. (The printed length will vary, depending to your browser settings. For me it’s 401 pages.)
NNVM Compiler: A New Open End-To-End Compiler for AI Frameworks
You can choose among multiple artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks to develop AI algorithms. You also have a choice of a wide range of hardware to train and deploy AI models. The diversity of frameworks and hardware is crucial to maintaining the health of the AI ecosystem. This diversity, however, also introduces…
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of the Yahoo Hack
(.. Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures)
SketchRNN model released in Magenta
Sketch-RNN, a generative model for vector drawings, is now available in Magenta. For an overview of the model, see the Google Research blog fromApril 2017, ...
The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment
We move at an extraordinary pace at Instacart. In order to release new versions of our products multiple times a day, we need a testing…
Why does Heap's algorithm work? (2016)
Heap's algorithm for constructing all permutations is efficient and simple but not easy to understand. This article explains Heap's algorithm by example.
We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with the Better Ads Standards
We believe online ads should be better. The Better Ads Standards provide clear, public, data-driven guidance for how the industry can improve ads for consumers. Here's h…
New Remote-First Formula and Updated Salary Calculator
Today we’re introducing Buffer’s Salary Formula 3.0 - a fresh, remote-first approach to our salaries. See the new formula, our salaries, and the calculator.
Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”
I’m proud to be part of a team that is bringing green cars to the masses. As a production worker at Tesla’s plant in Fremont for the past…
Don't get caught up in blockchain hype
Internet Hall of Famer says it pays to consider non-blockchain solutions.
Sabotaged by Polish orthography
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus