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Rendezvous Hashing Explained (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 19:36:10

Rendezvous hashing is an algorithm to solve the distributed hash table problem - a common and general pattern in distributed systems. There are three parts of the problem: Keys: unique identifiers for data or workloads Values: data or workloads that consume resources Servers: entities that manage data or workloads For example, in a distributed storage system, the key might be a filename, the value is the file data, and the servers are networked data servers that collectively store all of the f

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Grade 2 Braille

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 23:49:34

Tactile writing system for English English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille,[1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters (phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as ⠿ ⟨for⟩,[2] correspond to more than one letter in print. There are three levels of complexity in English Braille. Grade 1 is a nearly one-to-one transcription of printed English and is restricted to

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Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-18 05:42:31

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is making it easier to stream movies and TV shows on your Quest headset. During its Meta Connect keynote on Wednesday, the company announced that it’s rolling out a Horizon TV hub with access to streaming apps like Prime Video, Peacock, Twitch, and — finall

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Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 20:50:11

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Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 00:46:03

This is a guest post from Jiebin Sun, Zhiguo Zhou, Wangyang Guo and Tianyou Li, performance optimization engineers at Intel Shanghai. Intel's latest processor generations are pushing the number of cores in a server to unprecedented levels - from 128 P-cores per socket in Granite Rapids to 288 E-cores per socket in Sierra Forest, with future roadmaps targeting 200+ cores per socket. These numbers multiply on multi-socket systems, such servers may consist of 400 and more cores. The paradigm of "m

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From Qubits to Qubucks: Quantum Digital Currency

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-19 08:41:00

Quantum computing is often discussed in terms of its potential to revolutionize scientific discovery and to challenge cryptographic paradigms [1], but it could also change our relationship with money. By using quantum states, quantum currency could solve the double-spending problem and address throughput issues associated with distributed ledgers (blockchain), paving the way for the digital cash of the future. Digital Banking vs. Digital Currency To understand quantum currency, we should first

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American Sweatshop depicts content moderation as the hell it is

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-09-19 08:00:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. In American Sweatshop, German director Uta Briesewitz’s new psychological drama, every character working at a content moderation firm understands that ingesting horrific images is part of the job. They have all seen the disturbing footage uploaded to social media, and they know how important it is that someone is always there to deter

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Waymo is headed to Nashville in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 16:08:07

Waymo is plotting a route for Tennessee, as it plans to bring its robotaxis to Nashville. The company expects to start autonomous driving operations in the city in the coming months before opening up to the public in 2026. At the outset, folks in the area will be able to hail a ride via the Waymo app. Down the line, Lyft will be able to match users with Waymo rides in Nashville. Waymo is currently up and running in five US cities: San Francisco (and other parts of the Bay Area), Los Angeles, P

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UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 16:02:29

UUIDv47 - UUIDv7-in / UUIDv4-out (SipHash-masked timestamp) uuidv47 lets you store sortable UUIDv7 in your database while emitting a UUIDv4-looking façade at your API boundary. It does this by XOR-masking only the UUIDv7 timestamp field with a keyed SipHash-2-4 stream tied to the UUID’s own random bits. Header-only C (C89) · zero deps Deterministic, invertible mapping (exact round-trip) RFC-compatible version/variant bits (v7 in DB, v4 on the wire) Key-recovery resistant (SipHash-2-4, 128-b

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Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-19 18:00:00

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s updating the Discover page in its flagship Search app to allow you to follow specific publishers and creators to surface more content from those you like. The update follows a feature Google rolled out last month, allowing users to pick their choice of news sites and blogs for the Top Stories section in search results. In the weeks ahead, Google says people will also start to see different types of content on Discover, including articles, YouTube Shorts,

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Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 20:10:45

We’re on our way to Music City! We’re excited to bring the magic of Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hailing service to riders in Nashville, in partnership with Lyft. Our generalizable Waymo Driver has become even more capable as we’ve scaled to hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week across five major U.S. cities. We’ll start fully autonomous operations in Nashville in the coming months, and open to public riders next year. We’ll do so by pairing our world-leading technology and

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Lyft shares pop on Waymo deal to bring robotaxis to Nashville next year

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-20 01:38:36

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in Tempe, Arizona, on the outskirts of Phoenix, on September 15, 2025. Waymo has partnered with Uber to get its robotaxis into Atlanta and Austin, Texas. Now it's teaming up with Lyft for the first time in a commercial deal to enter Nashville next year. Lyft stock climbed 10% on the news. Riders in Nashville will be able to hail a Waymo robotaxi through the Waymo One app, and Lyft will add Waymo robotaxis to its platform over tim

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Microsoft and Cloudflare disrupt massive RaccoonO365 phishing service

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-20 01:20:05

Microsoft and Cloudflare have disrupted a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) operation, known as RaccoonO365, that helped cybercriminals steal thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials. In early September 2025, in coordination with Cloudflare's Cloudforce One and Trust and Safety teams, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) disrupted the cybercrime operation by seizing 338 websites and Worker accounts linked to RaccoonO365. The cybercrime group behind this service (also tracked by Microsoft as

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Waymo to launch a robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-20 01:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Music City, USA. The Alphabet-owned company plans on launching its robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026. Customers will be able to hail a ride initially through the Waymo One app, and then later thro

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Lyft and Waymo are partnering to bring robotaxis to Nashville

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-20 01:05:00

Waymo has struck a deal with ride-hailing company Lyft to launch a robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026. The company said Wednesday it will begin testing its fleet of all-electric and autonomous Jaguar I-Pace vehicles in the Nashville area in the coming months and will open up the service to the public next year. The partnership agreement announced Wednesday comes as Waymo ramps up its robotaxi expansion from its initial commercial market of Phoenix to Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, and San Fr

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Mushroom Supplements Are the Biohackers’ Latest Fix (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-09-20 03:00:00

From ancient remedies to your Amazon cart, mushroom supplements have traveled a circuitous road. They nourish the body, enhance the mind, and occasionally poison the unlucky. Their biochemical adaptability has intrigued Eastern cultures for centuries. The West has been slow to embrace mushrooms until the 21st century, propelled in part by endorsements from celebrities like Gisele Bündchen and Gwen Stefani. Today, in a zeitgeist fixated on biohacking and self-optimization, mushrooms are now tool

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Trump Mobile’s earliest actual phones are neither made in America, nor cheap

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 12:05:15

TL;DR Trump Mobile is now selling refurbished iPhones and Samsung Galaxy S series devices. The prices of these devices appear to be marked up compared to the market value of refurbished phones. You’re better off buying these devices directly from Apple or renowned sellers like Amazon, even if you want to use Trump Mobile’s service. Trump Mobile’s “Proudly American” T1 Phone is far from being available to American consumers. The carrier, backed by the Trump Organization, has been experimenting

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Worried about rising tech prices? Try these 5 easy ways to shop smarter right now

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-09-20 12:00:27

A stocking full of tech. Kayla Solino/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A CNET survey finds 87% of holiday shoppers are worried about rising tech prices. Holiday shoppers plan to start early. These four tips can help you shop smarter without the holiday hassle. The holiday season is months away (if you're counting, Christmas is about 14 weeks out) -- but don't be fooled. While it may feel like you've got plenty of time before you need to trim

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New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 14:30:17

Famed aviator Amelia Earhart has captured our imaginations for nearly a century, particularly her disappearance in 1937 during an attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. Earhart was a complicated woman, highly skilled as a pilot yet with a tendency toward carelessness. And her marriage to a flamboyant publisher with a flair for marketing may have encouraged that carelessness and contributed to her untimely demise, according to a fascinating new book, The Aviator and

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China's Baidu soars 16% to hit 2-year highs amid positive signs for its AI business

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-09-20 14:46:53

Baidu has launched a slew of AI applications after its Ernie chatbot received public approval. Chinese tech giant Baidu saw its shares in Hong Kong soar nearly 16% on Wednesday as it increasingly focuses on its artificial intelligence-related business that has also led to a ratings upgrade. Shares in the Beijing-based firm, which holds a dominant position in China's search engine market, had gained nearly 8% overnight in U.S. trading. The strong stock performance came after equity research fi

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AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 08:31:04

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AMDVLK (AMD Open Source Driver For Vulkan) project is discontinued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:31:04

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YouTube Unveils New AI Tools for Crafting Shorts, More Upgrades for Creators

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 15:36:42

YouTube on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of AI tools coming to Shorts and YouTube Studio, including expanding its feature that lets people detect AI videos using their facial likeness. The Google-owned tech giant revealed the upgrades at its creator-focused event, Made on YouTube, in New York. "Today's announcements are grounded in our belief that AI should be in service of human creation," YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said at Made on YouTube. "We're developing tools that give creators new ways to tel

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Live Updates: Shai-Hulud, the Most Dangerous NPM Breach in History

news.ycombinator.com Idan Dardikman 2025-09-21 13:26:32

We are tracking the largest and most dangerous npm supply-chain compromise in history, known as the Shai-Hulud malware campaign, which has now impacted hundreds of packages across multiple maintainers. This includes popular libraries such as @ctrl/tinycolor as well as packages maintained by CrowdStrike. Malicious versions embed a trojanized script (bundle.js) designed to steal developer credentials, exfiltrate secrets, and persist in repositories and endpoints through automated workflows. The ta

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Don't Miss This Claustrophobic Sci-Fi Nightmare Streaming Free on Tubi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 13:00:04

There's something about sci-fi horror that hits all the buttons for me. Derelict spaceships the size of cities, creatures engineered by science or nature to be perfect predators and the claustrophobia of space all manage to get me excited every time. The Alien franchise made me fall in love with this sub-genre, along with gems like Dark City and Event Horizon. One of my lesser-known favorites is Pandorum. Released in 2009, it's a claustrophobic trip into space where a mechanic wakes up on a col

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Mother of All Demos (1968)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:18:19

SUMMARY Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect. STATEMENTS The Augmented Human Intellect Research Center at Stanford Research Institute has pursued computer systems that enhance intellectual work by providing instant responsiveness to user actions throughout the day. The demo features a computer mouse that controls

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YouTube just announced a bunch of AI tools for creators

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 01:33:41

YouTube held an event today aimed at creators and announced all kinds of new tools, many of which include AI in one way or another. Let's get into some of the more interesting drops. There's an AI tool that can automatically edit raw footage into a "compelling first draft." It'll create a video complete with "music, transitions and voiceover." It's being tested right now and should roll out in the coming weeks. The platform is also launching software that will automatically create voiceovers i

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D-ID acquires Berlin-based video startup Simpleshow

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-22 01:00:00

Video generation and editing platform D-ID said Tuesday that it has acquired Berlin-based B2B video creation platform Simpleshow. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal. Simpleshow’s product will operate under D-ID’s umbrella, and eventually the two platforms will merge, D-ID chief executive Gil Perry told TechCrunch. Simpleshow, founded in 2008, has raised over $20 million in funding, according to Crunchbase data. The startup has offices in Berlin, Luxembourg, London, Miam

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Mother of All Demos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 05:18:19

SUMMARY Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect. STATEMENTS The Augmented Human Intellect Research Center at Stanford Research Institute has pursued computer systems that enhance intellectual work by providing instant responsiveness to user actions throughout the day. The demo features a computer mouse that controls

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Google's AI Overviews 'Misconduct' Undermines Publishers Who Create Content, Lawsuit Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 05:13:44

Penske Media, which owns publications including Rolling Stone, Variety and Billboard, is suing Google, alleging that the search giant is illegally using their content and that of other publishers to fill out the AI Overviews that have become a fixture at the top of Google search results. In a lawsuit filed Friday in US District Court for the District of Columbia, Penske argues that Google's "misconduct" through its monopoly in online search has coerced publishers to acquiesce to misappropriatio

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Latest Tech News

Rendezvous Hashing Explained (2020)

Grade 2 Braille

Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets

Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

From Qubits to Qubucks: Quantum Digital Currency

American Sweatshop depicts content moderation as the hell it is

Waymo is headed to Nashville in 2026

UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)

Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators

Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft

Lyft shares pop on Waymo deal to bring robotaxis to Nashville next year

Microsoft and Cloudflare disrupt massive RaccoonO365 phishing service

Waymo to launch a robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026

Lyft and Waymo are partnering to bring robotaxis to Nashville

Mushroom Supplements Are the Biohackers’ Latest Fix (2025)

Trump Mobile’s earliest actual phones are neither made in America, nor cheap

Worried about rising tech prices? Try these 5 easy ways to shop smarter right now

New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage

China's Baidu soars 16% to hit 2-year highs amid positive signs for its AI business

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

AMDVLK (AMD Open Source Driver For Vulkan) project is discontinued

YouTube Unveils New AI Tools for Crafting Shorts, More Upgrades for Creators

Live Updates: Shai-Hulud, the Most Dangerous NPM Breach in History

Don't Miss This Claustrophobic Sci-Fi Nightmare Streaming Free on Tubi

Mother of All Demos (1968)

YouTube just announced a bunch of AI tools for creators

D-ID acquires Berlin-based video startup Simpleshow

Mother of All Demos

Google's AI Overviews 'Misconduct' Undermines Publishers Who Create Content, Lawsuit Says

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