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The Last Egg
Five more months until freshies...
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Zoom lays off 15% of employees
Read a message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, to the employees of Zoom.
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Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak.
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Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data
We trust companies with our information every day. But many companies—even those that hold our most revealing information—are using it not just to provide the services we ask for, but to amp up their profits at the cost of our privacy.That's why EFF has joined a campaign, led by the U.S. Public...
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Don’t mess with a genius (2010)
Or: What happens when Newton’s laws are violated (Note in case you see ads here: This post is also available at my newer blog.) Recently, I read a book called Newton and the Counterfeiter, su…
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HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.
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HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
Guest Post: What problems HTTP/3 solves, how it performs, why it’s seen such swift adoption, and what limitations it is still working to overcome.
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Blocked by Cloudflare
Well, it finally happened to me. I was blocked out of a website I use for work because of Cloudflare. And I have no idea if or when I'll be...
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ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
Including OpenAI’s other text generating AI!
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Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
Or why YC is good for the economy but bad for your economy
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Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla
Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.
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GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting
Our state-of-the-art model delivers 10-day weather predictions at unprecedented accuracy in under one minute
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Common mistakes in salary negotiation
We've helped hundreds of people negotiate an average of $50k more. These are the two mistakes we can't undo.
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Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records
"Only in Los Angeles" has never rung more true
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The tiny corp raised $5.1M
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank.
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How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust.
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Absurd Success
So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been…
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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.
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Scalability is overrated
Startup founders like to think about scalability—and that’s usually a good thing. But overly focusing on scalability overlooks one of the biggest advantages that startups have over larger companies.
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Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team, Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business – one designed to achieve our goal of being the world’s leading…
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The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?
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Why was Roman concrete so durable?
Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the material’s environmental impact.
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Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
Explore Paperless-ngx, the game-changer in document management. I'll take you through my adoption journey, Docker setup, and why it's 100 times better than paper filing. Say goodbye to paper chaos!
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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Postgres as a graph database
You don't need Neo4j for graph data. Walking through nodes, edges, and recursive traversals in plain Postgres, with working SQL.
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Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
Sequence diagrams really shine when you’re documenting different parts of a system and the various ways these parts interact with each other.
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Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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iMessage, explained
This blog post is going to be a cursory overview of the internals iMessage, as I’ve discovered during my work on pypush, an open source project that reimplements iMessage.
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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
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