Reflex (YC W23) is hiring SWEs to work on open-source Python web apps
Reflex is an open-source framework to build web apps in pure Python and deploy them with a single command. More info here: https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex About the job: We’re looking for an SF/Bay Area-based full-stack engineer comfortable working on a very early product in a quickly changing codebase and role. This role will involve leading the development […]
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Google Secures $60M Deal for Real-Time Access to Reddit Data
/ A deal reportedly worth $60 million per year will give Google real-time access to Reddit’s data and use Google AI for Reddit’s search. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: The Verge Google is getting AI training data from Reddit as part of a new partnership between the two companies. In an update on […]
Our Company Is Doing So Well That You’re All Fired
“Paramount Global lays off about 800 employees, a day after announcing record Super Bowl ratings.” — CNBC – – – Thank you for jumping on this last-minute Zoom meeting. As you’re all well aware, this has been a great year for us. Profits are at an all-time high. Our stock price is at an all-time […]
Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster We’re excited to announce Phind-70B, our largest and most performant model to date. Running at up to 80 tokens per second, Phind-70B gives high-quality answers for technical topics without making users make a cup of coffee while they wait. We […]
Expanding Our Partnership with Google
Over the last 18 years, Reddit has become one of the internet’s largest open archives of authentic and constantly-updated human-generated conversations and experiences. Aligned with our belief that everyone should be able to find the information they need and the experiences they want online, we’ve expanded our partnership with Google to make it easier to […]
New code for SIGILL faults to help identify misbranches on OpenBSD
Contributed by Janne Johansson on 2024-02-22 from the don’t pee on the electric fence dept. If you run recent OpenBSD on certain amd64 or aarch64 platforms, indirect branching to an “unexpected” location will crash your program, in order to prevent ROP attacks and similar ways to have your program execute code where it shouldn’t. The […]
Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data. What does this mean? Your data, such as your posts, likes, and follows, needs to be stored somewhere. With traditional social media, your data is stored by the social media […]
I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
This is the story of how I figured out a way to turn my ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen laptop into a programmable USB device by enabling the xDCI controller. As a result, the laptop can now be used to emulate arbitrary USB devices such as keyboards or storage drives. Or to fuzz USB hosts […]
Did fermented foods fuel brain growth?
The large, capable human brain is a marvel of evolution, but how it evolved from a smaller primate brain into the creative, complex organ of today is a mystery. Scientists can pinpoint when our evolutionary ancestors evolved larger brains, which roughly tripled in size as humans evolved from the bipedal primates known as Australopithecines. But […]