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HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML. Source: chrisburnell.com (612 points, 168 comments) Hacker News discussion
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Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue. For decades a small team with 5 or 10 people writing code at the same time didn’t even need to consider doing this. On a busy day a small team might generate 50 commits/20 pushes/10 PRs. A small team today, running 20-100 agents in parallel, might generate 500 commits/200 pushes/100 PRs.
Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue. For decades a small...
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I owe an apology to every English teacher I ever had. I always assumed that so-called “great” literature was a hoax, a punishment inflicted upon adolescents for the crime of being young. These books did not have anything special about them, and covering up that fact was simply a make-work exercise for former English majors, a sort of “jobs for snobs” program.
I owe an apology to every English teacher I ever had. I always assumed that so-called “great” literature was a hoax, a punishment inflicted upon adolescents for the crime of being young. These books did not have anything special about them, and covering...
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Vladimir Fedorov is GitHub's Chief Technology Officer, bringing decades of experience in engineering leadership and innovation. A passionate advocate for developer productivity, Vlad is leading GitHub’s engineering team to shape the future of developer tools and innovation with a developer-first mindset.
Vladimir Fedorov is GitHub's Chief Technology Officer, bringing decades of experience in engineering leadership and innovation. A passionate advocate for developer productivity, Vlad is leading GitHub’s engineering team to shape the future of developer...
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AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.
AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload...
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Two fundamentals underpin the business model of a new crypto bank partly owned by the Trump family. The first is that there is almost no risk it can lose money, according to cryptocurrency experts – and the second, they say, is that the sole logical motivation for depositors to put in their funds is the prospect of a financial connection to a US president and his relatives.
Two fundamental ideas appear to underpin the business model of a new crypto bank partly owned by the Trump family. First, cryptocurrency experts argue that the bank faces very little risk of losing money under its proposed model. The structure is designed to...
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An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that are capable of performing research-level mathematical tasks. Rather than debating the capabilities of such tools, we condition on the hypothesis that these capabilities will arrive, and examine instead a question that is orthogonal to it: what the goals and values of mathematical research actually are. The problem-solving component of mathematics is used as a case study.
An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that are capable of performing research-level mathematical...
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The most atomic way to train and inference a GPT in pure, dependency-free C - vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c
The most atomic way to train and inference a GPT in pure, dependency-free C - vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c Source: github.com/vixhal-baraiya (52 points, 19 comments) Hacker News discussion
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