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A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime

instantdb.com

We’re Instant, a modern Firebase. Try out the demo, you can spin up a database and...
We’re Instant, a modern Firebase. Try out the demo, you can spin up a database and make queries within a minute — no login required. Right before Christmas we discovered that our Aurora Postgres instance needed a major version upgrade. We found a great essay by the Lyft team, showing how they ran their upgrade with ...
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Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch

andrewchilds.com
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Dead Games

garry.net
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Query Engines: Gatekeepers of the Parquet File Format

duckdb.org

Apache Parquet is a popular, free, open-source, column-oriented data storage format. Whereas database systems typically load...
Apache Parquet is a popular, free, open-source, column-oriented data storage format. Whereas database systems typically load data from formats such as CSV and JSON into database tables before analyzing them, Parquet is designed to be efficiently queried directly. Parquet considers that users often only want to read ...
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Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities

reuters.com
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Integration of 1,024 silicon quantum dots with on-chip electronics

phys.org

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Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarket

eurogamer.net

A Costa Rican supermarket has claimed victory against Nintendo in a trademark battle over its name:...
A Costa Rican supermarket has claimed victory against Nintendo in a trademark battle over its name: Super Mario. The Super Mario shop in San Ramón is allegedly named as such because it is a "super" market run by a local man named Don José Mario Alfaro González - or Mario for short. But despite trading under the Supe...

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The AI bust is here

computerworld.com
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JPEG XL: What It Is and Why You Should Care

petapixel.com

JPEG XL is a new-generation image file format that recently got a big boost to awareness...
JPEG XL is a new-generation image file format that recently got a big boost to awareness thanks to native support in the iPhone 16 series smartphones. So what is it, why does it matter, and why should you use it? Who better to ask than one of the people who helped make it a reality? OM SYSTEM Ambassador and macro ph...
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Nvidia Shares Resume Fall

ft.com
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No Man's Sky's update introduces billions of new stars, planets, and more

playstation.com

Hello! Today we are releasing one of our biggest updates for No Man’s Sky. We can’t...
Hello! Today we are releasing one of our biggest updates for No Man’s Sky. We can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been working on. Last year, we released No Man’s Sky Worlds Part I (5.0) for PS4, PS5, and PS VR2 players, and it was one of our most successful to date. We’ve been planning the changes in Worlds Part I...

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Astral – "We're building a new static type checker for Python"

twitter.com
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Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry," Tim Cook reportedly told TSMC's CEO

tomshardware.com

When Apple began to build its own processors for iPhones and iPads in 2009 – 2010,...
When Apple began to build its own processors for iPhones and iPads in 2009 – 2010, it initially used Samsung Foundry, but after custom silicon became a key advantage of iPhones over rivals in the early 2010s, the company began to explore other makers as Samsung was Apple's primary rival at the time. The company cons...
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A minimal PyTorch implementation for training your own small LLM from scratch

github.com
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DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss

hirundo.io

TL;DRBias in large language models (LLMs) is a growing concern, particularly in sensitive customer-facing industries where...
TL;DRBias in large language models (LLMs) is a growing concern, particularly in sensitive customer-facing industries where fairness and compliance are critical. With recent buzz around DeepSeek, we took the opportunity to showcase Hirundo’s bias unlearning capabilities on DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B. Our results de...
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Ötzi the Lyme Mummy (2019)

illinois.edu

Brrrr! It’s a chilly day here in Illinois with all the wind. I’m not complaining however....
Brrrr! It’s a chilly day here in Illinois with all the wind. I’m not complaining however. Can you imagine being frozen in a glacier for thousands of years and suffer from Lyme disease?! Whew, I can’t image that ever actually happening to anyone. Doctors examining the body of Ötzi, the Iceman with Lyme disease bacter...
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Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

discovermagazine.com

Iodized salt is so commonplace in the U.S. today that you may never have given the...
Iodized salt is so commonplace in the U.S. today that you may never have given the additive a second thought. But new research finds that humble iodine has played a substantial role in cognitive improvements seen across the American population in the 20th century.Iodine is a critical micronutrient in the human diet ...
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The widely cited studies on mouse vs. keyboard efficiency are completely bogus

danluu.com
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Effective AI code suggestions: less is more

qodo.ai
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Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance

ebpf.foundation

Download this case study in PDF format Overview Bytedance, a global technology company operating a wide...
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Bytedance, a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world at massive scale, faced significant challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers. With over a million servers running containerized applicati...
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Frigade (YC W23) is hiring engineer #2

ycombinator.com

Growth platform for modern software teams$130K - $180K / 0.50% - 1.50%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly...
Growth platform for modern software teams$130K - $180K / 0.50% - 1.50%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›We’re looking for an experienced software engineer who embraces the breadth of responsibilities that come with a senior full-stack role. You’ll colle...
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How to run DeepSeek R1 locally

workos.com

DeepSeek R1 is an open-source LLM for conversational AI, coding, and problem-solving. Here's how to run...
DeepSeek R1 is an open-source LLM for conversational AI, coding, and problem-solving. Here's how to run it locally.People who want full control over data, security, and performance run LLMs locally.DeepSeek R1 is an open-source LLM for conversational AI, coding, and problem-solving that recently outperformed OpenAI’...
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An Analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1

arcprize.org

Special thanks to Tuhin and Abu from Baseten and Yuchen from Hyperbolic Labs for hosting r1-zero...
Special thanks to Tuhin and Abu from Baseten and Yuchen from Hyperbolic Labs for hosting r1-zero for us. Hardly any providers are hosting this model variant, and its availability is important for research purposes. ARC Prize Foundation’s goal is to define, measure, and inspire new ideas towards AGI. To this end, we ...
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OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

ft.com
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