Best of 2021

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2021. 497 posts.

Software Engineering
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wxWidgets 3.1.5

wxWidgets 3.1.5 release is now available on GitHub . You will find there archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual C++ , MinGW-w64 and TDM-GCC .

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Clip: Connecting Text and Images

We’re introducing a neural network called CLIP which efficiently learns visual concepts from natural language supervision. CLIP can be applied to any visual classification benchmark by simply providing the names of the visual categories to be recognized, similar to the “zero-shot” capabilities of GPT-2 and GPT-3.

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Racket v8.2

_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.2 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Racket CS improved the performance of large-integer arithmetic. Racket has improved support for layered and tethered installation. Racket ...