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• Asimov: The Code Research Agent for Engineering Teams

  by kmod on 7/16/2025, 11:41 PM with 0 comments

• Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

  by kmod on 7/8/2025, 6:35 PM with 1 comments

• New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 Instances Powered by Nvidia Blackwell GPUs

  by kmod on 5/17/2025, 8:26 PM with 0 comments

• LG and Samsung Are Pioneering the Netflix Model for Home Appliances

  by kmod on 4/11/2025, 4:31 PM with 1 comments

• Prompt Caching in the API

  by kmod on 10/2/2024, 12:00 AM with 0 comments

• On Being Faceless

  by kmod on 3/6/2024, 4:48 PM with 1 comments

• Graph Neural Networks in TensorFlow

  by kmod on 2/7/2024, 3:46 AM with 0 comments

• Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to Reserve GPU Capacity

  by kmod on 11/3/2023, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• OpenAI Red Teaming Network

  by kmod on 9/21/2023, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• Friday Facts #375 – Quality – Factorio

  by kmod on 9/8/2023, 5:38 PM with 0 comments

• The world’s first braiding of non-Abelian anyons

  by kmod on 6/21/2023, 8:23 PM with 0 comments

• Harvard MBA Grads Anxiously Navigate a Tepid Job Market

  by kmod on 6/1/2023, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• The AI Boom Inside Silicon Valley Startup Accelerators

  by kmod on 6/1/2023, 3:13 PM with 1 comments

• CodeT5: Open Code Large Language Models for Code Understanding and Generation

  by kmod on 5/18/2023, 8:35 PM with 0 comments

• by kmod on 5/16/2023, 4:01 PM with comments

• Assisted Generation: a new direction toward low-latency text generation

  by kmod on 5/11/2023, 5:01 PM with 0 comments

• Forefront: A Better ChatGPT Experience

  by kmod on 5/2/2023, 11:45 PM with 1 comments

• Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Prompt Engineer

  by kmod on 4/8/2023, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• Python in the Browser: Free PyScript SaaS Launches

  by kmod on 3/28/2023, 10:16 PM with 0 comments

• Microsoft Threatens to Restrict Bing Data from Rival AI Search Tools

  by kmod on 3/28/2023, 3:26 PM with 0 comments

• Block (SQ) Stock Drops on Hindenburg Short Report It Vows to Fight

  by kmod on 3/24/2023, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• GPT3 will recite Harry Potter if you ask it

  by kmod on 2/13/2023, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• Extending Python with AI: Semantic APIs

  by kmod on 2/3/2023, 8:28 PM with 0 comments

• It’s worth spending one CPU-hour to save one second of your time

  by kmod on 10/28/2022, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• Generally Intelligent

  by kmod on 10/20/2022, 7:42 PM with 0 comments

• Halting Problem == Russell’s Paradox?

  by kmod on 10/15/2022, 3:37 PM with 2 comments

• Biden Pardons People Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law

  by kmod on 10/6/2022, 7:26 PM with 12 comments

• Pyston announces Python 3.7-3.10 support and a new direction

  by kmod on 9/29/2022, 4:56 PM with 2 comments

• A new age of AI centaurs

  by kmod on 9/12/2022, 11:04 PM with 0 comments

• “Do AIs think” == “Do submarines swim”

  by kmod on 8/10/2022, 5:26 PM with 0 comments

• Tether’s Actual Peg

  by kmod on 6/14/2022, 9:00 PM with 0 comments

• Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module

  by kmod on 6/8/2022, 4:48 PM with 31 comments

• Do the Real Numbers Exist?

  by kmod on 4/9/2022, 7:33 PM with 38 comments

• WordleBot: Daily Wordle Companion

  by kmod on 4/7/2022, 8:42 PM with 2 comments

• Evidence that no one cares about crypto-denominated wealth

  by kmod on 3/1/2022, 6:40 PM with 91 comments

• Apple shocks iOS developers with 27% commission on third-party payments

  by kmod on 2/9/2022, 7:26 PM with 0 comments

• Efficiency, and a simple formula for being a 10x-er

  by kmod on 2/1/2022, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• Blog migration and self-hosting retrospective

  by kmod on 1/23/2022, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• You Quit. I Quit. We All Quit. and It’s Not a Coincidence

  by kmod on 1/21/2022, 8:59 PM with 1 comments

• Pre-compiled packages now available for Pyston

  by kmod on 12/7/2021, 6:10 PM with 0 comments

• Roadmap for the Pyston Python Implementation

  by kmod on 10/26/2021, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• Pyston Team Joins Anaconda

  by kmod on 8/30/2021, 4:43 PM with 0 comments

• Pentagon Cancels $10B Jedi Cloud-Computing Contract

  by kmod on 7/6/2021, 5:28 PM with 1 comments

• Pyston v2.2: faster and open source

  by kmod on 5/5/2021, 5:05 PM with 2 comments

• Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

  by kmod on 12/17/2020, 7:39 PM with 479 comments

• Pyston v2: Faster Python

  by kmod on 10/28/2020, 5:42 PM with 206 comments

• U.S. Hit by Major DDoS Attack

  by kmod on 6/15/2020, 10:40 PM with comments

• Python performance: it’s not just the interpreter

  by kmod on 5/19/2020, 3:29 PM with 203 comments

• by kmod on 4/27/2020, 7:38 PM with comments

• Leaked pics reveal Google smart debit card to rival Apple’s

  by kmod on 4/19/2020, 11:46 PM with 0 comments

• Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues

  by kmod on 4/3/2020, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

• What You Should Know About Online Tools During the Covid-19 Crisis

  by kmod on 3/23/2020, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Hong Kong Protest Photos Removed from Sony World Photography Awards

  by kmod on 2/28/2020, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace with AI

  by kmod on 2/25/2020, 8:08 PM with 0 comments

• RLax: A library for implementing reinforcement learning agents

  by kmod on 2/24/2020, 9:34 PM with 0 comments

• iOS Performance tips you probably didn't know (from an ex-Apple engineer)

  by kmod on 2/24/2020, 8:13 PM with 0 comments

• Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way

  by kmod on 2/24/2020, 4:51 PM with 1 comments

• Forcing consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech

  by kmod on 2/21/2020, 4:18 PM with 39 comments

• Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome

  by kmod on 2/21/2020, 3:36 PM with 11 comments

• What's Wrong with Tech Folks Who Attack the Tech Media

  by kmod on 2/20/2020, 2:58 PM with 0 comments

• “Nearly every DeFi smart contract has an admin key.”

  by kmod on 2/17/2020, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes

  by kmod on 2/6/2020, 10:21 PM with 0 comments

• New Kind of Student Loan Gains Major Support. Is There a Downside?

  by kmod on 12/16/2019, 5:02 PM with 0 comments

• Elon Musk Is Cleared in Lawsuit over His ‘Pedo Guy’ Tweet

  by kmod on 12/7/2019, 9:12 PM with comments

• Google’s rollout of RCS chat for all Android users in the US begins today

  by kmod on 11/14/2019, 11:00 PM with 0 comments

• When Algorithms Decide Whose Voices Will Be Heard

  by kmod on 11/14/2019, 1:34 AM with 1 comments

• Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs

  by kmod on 11/14/2019, 1:00 AM with 114 comments

• In creative fields, men and women are described with different words

  by kmod on 11/11/2019, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon will launch new grocery store as alternative to Whole Foods

  by kmod on 11/11/2019, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• A Surprising Finding on Paid Leave: ‘This Is Not the Way We Teach This’

  by kmod on 11/11/2019, 5:41 PM with 1 comments

• AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs

  by kmod on 11/11/2019, 5:57 AM with 70 comments

• JavaScript isn’t always available and it’s not the user’s fault

  by kmod on 11/10/2019, 12:18 AM with 1 comments

• Awaiting Layoffs, WeWork Employees Say Founder’s Payout Is ‘Graft’

  by kmod on 11/8/2019, 11:35 PM with 1 comments

• Insurance can mitigate AI risks

  by kmod on 11/8/2019, 1:31 AM with 0 comments

• Democrats propose new federal agency to fight back against tech privacy scandals

  by kmod on 11/7/2019, 4:43 AM with 1 comments

• The App Defense Alliance: Bringing the security industry to fight bad apps

  by kmod on 11/7/2019, 4:42 AM with 0 comments

• Court acquits five men of rape because unconscious victim didn't fight back

  by kmod on 11/4/2019, 12:07 AM with 1 comments

• AT&T Loses Another 1.36M Pay TV Subscribers Thanks to Relentless Price Hikes

  by kmod on 11/3/2019, 6:24 AM with 0 comments

• Blizzard president gives vague apology for Hong Kong protest response

  by kmod on 11/2/2019, 10:10 PM with 0 comments

• After Suing NSO Group for Hacking Whatsapp, Facebook Kicks NSO Employees Off

  by kmod on 11/1/2019, 9:30 PM with 1 comments

• Major companies announce effort to tackle cybersecurity workforce recruitment

  by kmod on 11/1/2019, 5:21 AM with 0 comments

• Uber Says It Will Sue Los Angeles over Sharing Scooter Location Data

  by kmod on 11/1/2019, 2:09 AM with 0 comments

• Do Software Developers Normally Code on Weekends?

  by kmod on 10/29/2019, 5:57 PM with 0 comments

• Trump administration may blacklist Chinese firms that routinely copy tech

  by kmod on 10/27/2019, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• Blind auditions and gender discrimination

  by kmod on 10/22/2019, 9:27 PM with 41 comments

• Attorneys general investigate Facebook for antitrust violations

  by kmod on 10/22/2019, 9:09 PM with 0 comments

• IBM Says Google’s Quantum Leap Was a Quantum Flop

  by kmod on 10/22/2019, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• Cheat Sheets for AI, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning

  by kmod on 10/1/2019, 7:28 PM with comments

• Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

  by kmod on 9/25/2019, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• U.S. Orders Duke and UNC to Recast Tone in Mideast Studies

  by kmod on 9/20/2019, 9:16 PM with 0 comments

• PoolJacking: easy 51% attacks against Bitcoin and Ethereum

  by kmod on 1/22/2019, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• XLA (TensorFlow linear algebra compiler) released

  by kmod on 1/10/2017, 7:21 PM with 0 comments

• Pyston 0.5.1 released

  by kmod on 7/19/2016, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• Prince Died from Accidental Overdose of Opioid Painkiller

  by kmod on 6/2/2016, 8:45 PM with comments

• ‘Customers First’ to Become the Law in Retirement Investing

  by kmod on 4/8/2016, 1:32 AM with 0 comments

• Orb–3 Accident Investigation Report [pdf]

  by kmod on 11/9/2015, 11:34 AM with 0 comments

• Pyston 0.4 released

  by kmod on 11/3/2015, 7:32 PM with 0 comments

• Caching object code

  by kmod on 7/14/2015, 8:21 PM with 5 comments

• Amazon.com: Same-Day Delivery

  by kmod on 5/29/2015, 8:22 AM with 0 comments

• 5 Banks to Pay Billions and Plead Guilty in Currency and Interest Rate Cases

  by kmod on 5/20/2015, 7:32 PM with 0 comments

• The Hackaday Prize

  by kmod on 3/24/2015, 10:57 PM with 0 comments

• Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency

  by kmod on 2/24/2015, 9:19 PM with 54 comments

• Deobfuscation: recovering an OLLVM-protected program

  by kmod on 12/8/2014, 11:00 PM with 0 comments

• Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63

  by kmod on 8/11/2014, 11:33 PM with 63 comments

• Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps

  by kmod on 6/1/2011, 8:31 PM with 0 comments

• NYTimes limits free access to nytimes.com

  by kmod on 3/17/2011, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Overcoming Bias : Unequal Folks Save

  by kmod on 1/9/2011, 8:59 PM with 0 comments

• The crying game: a woman's tears aren't sexy

  by kmod on 1/9/2011, 8:49 PM with 0 comments

• Britain Arrests WikiLeaks Founder on Sex Charges

  by kmod on 12/7/2010, 11:02 AM with 0 comments

• OSDI '10 (top-tier systems conference) has released their proceedings

  by kmod on 10/8/2010, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• Nobody Understands Probability

  by kmod on 9/13/2010, 10:42 PM with 60 comments

• Non-myths about programming (or, CS is the "least worst" profession)

  by kmod on 8/25/2010, 5:52 PM with 1 comments

• Web-based jailbreak relies on unpatched iOS PDF flaw

  by kmod on 8/4/2010, 8:38 AM with 0 comments

• Israeli Court Calls Lying for Sex Rape

  by kmod on 7/22/2010, 8:28 PM with -1 comments

• When science clashes with beliefs? Make science impotent

  by kmod on 5/30/2010, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers

  by kmod on 5/21/2010, 6:06 PM with -1 comments

• Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory

  by kmod on 5/20/2010, 1:32 AM with 0 comments

• Linux on the console? Sony sued for removing PS3 support

  by kmod on 4/29/2010, 11:42 PM with 0 comments

• College students struggle to go without media for 24 hours

  by kmod on 4/25/2010, 5:40 PM with 8 comments

• US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus

  by kmod on 4/13/2010, 7:27 PM with 12 comments

• No Survivors in Crash of Flight Carrying Polish Leader

  by kmod on 4/10/2010, 9:28 AM with 37 comments

• Gov't, certificate authorities conspire to spy on SSL users?

  by kmod on 3/30/2010, 5:58 PM with 1 comments

• Gov't, certificate authorities conspire to spy on SSL users?

  by kmod on 3/30/2010, 7:29 AM with 0 comments

• Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users

  by kmod on 3/11/2010, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• The Apache Cassandra Project

  by kmod on 3/11/2010, 4:59 AM with 0 comments

• Apple blocks screenshots, axes sexual content from App Store

  by kmod on 2/21/2010, 8:13 PM with 1 comments

• Social Experiments using Amazon Mechanical Turk: Coin Flipping

  by kmod on 2/19/2010, 7:26 PM with 0 comments

• IE6 users to be evicted from Gmail, Google Calendar

  by kmod on 2/9/2010, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• China Slams US Criticism of Internet Controls

  by kmod on 1/24/2010, 11:09 PM with 0 comments

• Justices Block Key Part of Campaign Law

  by kmod on 1/21/2010, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• CES 2010 TV Trends - 3D, Ridiculously Thin and Connected

  by kmod on 1/16/2010, 4:40 AM with 1 comments

• Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold

  by kmod on 1/12/2010, 9:06 PM with 14 comments

• New Jersey Legislature Approves Medical Marijuana Bill

  by kmod on 1/12/2010, 4:25 AM with -1 comments

• E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi's Amazing Transflective LCD Just Killed It

  by kmod on 1/8/2010, 9:25 PM with 1 comments

• France considering "Google tax" to support dying media

  by kmod on 1/8/2010, 9:18 PM with 1 comments

• Apple And Google Just Tag Teamed The U.S. Carriers

  by kmod on 1/8/2010, 9:04 PM with 0 comments

• Schneier on Security: TSA Logo Contest

  by kmod on 1/8/2010, 8:53 PM with 0 comments

• The Invisible OLED Laptop to End All Laptops

  by kmod on 1/8/2010, 8:41 PM with 0 comments

• OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro Preview: The Fastest MLC SSD We've Ever Tested

  by kmod on 1/8/2010, 2:49 AM with 0 comments

• Researchers store working memory in brain slices

  by kmod on 1/8/2010, 2:48 AM with 0 comments

• A look at Apple's love for DRM and consumer lock-ins

  by kmod on 1/5/2010, 9:46 PM with 0 comments

• Mortgage Modifications Are Seen as Adding to Housing Woes

  by kmod on 1/2/2010, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• The True Odds of Airborne Terror Chart - Odds of Airborne Attacks

  by kmod on 12/30/2009, 5:38 AM with 0 comments

• Are Old Scientists Less Innovative?

  by kmod on 12/28/2009, 2:04 AM with 2 comments

• What is DRM doing in my garage?

  by kmod on 12/20/2009, 5:15 PM with 9 comments

• Apple working on automated 3D point-of-view displays, more

  by kmod on 12/18/2009, 4:37 AM with 0 comments

• Predator drones use less encryption than your TV, DVDs

  by kmod on 12/17/2009, 11:55 PM with 26 comments