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Multi-tenant queues in Postgres
How we implemented fair queueing strategies for Postgres-backed task queues to ensure fair execution time across tenants.
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It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
If you ship a Web App in the EU and will be impacted by this, please sign our open letter to Tim Cook. It is critical that we gather as much evidence as possible to prevent Apple from breaking Web Apps in the EU.
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PeerTube 6.3
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
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What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?
Discover Sparse Llama: A 50% pruned, GPU-optimized Llama 3.1 model with 2:4 sparsity, enabling faster, cost-effective inference without sacrificing accuracy.
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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and deteriorating nerves.
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Typing lists and tuples in Elixir
This article explores the design decisions of typing lists and tuples in Elixir within a sound gradual type system.
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'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain
Too much stuff in the periphery of our vision can make it difficult to identify what we’re seeing. Yale researchers now know how that clutter affects the brain.
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Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
How we built a performant, scalable, ACID-compliant, JavaScript-native database on FoundationDB.
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The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023
This investigation was surprising to me so I thought it would be interesting to share my findings and I hope you'll like it.
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The Nearest Neighbor Attack
In early February 2022, notably just ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volexity made a discovery that led to one of the most fascinating and complex incident investigations Volexity had ever worked. The investigation began when an alert from a custom detection signature Volexity had deployed at a customer site…
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Firefox search update
Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla. To continue developing features and products that resonate with our users, we’re adopting a new a
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SimpleQA
A factuality benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the ability for language models to answer short, fact-seeking questions.
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Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955
FOR more than three hours on a fine, calm August morning in 1955, the eyes of Sydney’s suburbia were fixed skyward, anxiously watching the flight of a pilotless Auster aeroplane
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Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Binance Scales its Log Service to 100PB and Saves Millions with Quickwit
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New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search
We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.
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Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish
the portable Python dataframe library
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Making a Postgres query 1k times faster
Learn how we discovered what was slowing down large database queries, and what we did to make Postgres queries 1000x faster.
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Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
Meta FAIR is releasing several new research artifacts. Our hope is that the research community can use them to innovate, explore, and discover new ways to apply AI at scale.
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The Bevy Foundation
It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source …
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Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well pas…
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Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR
A comparison of low-cost CO2 sensor technologies, explaining photo-acoustic versus NDIR designs and the tradeoffs behind each approach.
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Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit
Or, how to break all the tools that parse the "Fixes:" tag Kees Cook There was a recent discussion about how Linux's "Fixes" tag, which ...
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Grok-2 Beta Release
We announce our new Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini models.
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Changes we're making to Google Assistant
Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.
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Why Triplebyte Failed
How a once-successful, well-liked company failed, as told from within.
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Why Oxide Chose Illumos
Servers in the Oxide Rack will form the backbone of both the compute and storage services available to customers. The rack will be composed of a variety of hardware and software components, some of which represent resource-constrained or inflexible environments; e.g., the Service Processor (SP) or Hardware Root Of…
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Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring
Refactoring can make your code way better - or way worse. Here's how to avoid messing up your codebase when you refactor code.
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We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go
Learn how we enhanced TCP performance in Coder to achieve 5X faster throughput by optimizing buffer sizes, implementing the HyStart algorithm, and minimizing packet loss, significantly improving remote development experiences.