Taking the output of many dumb LLM search relevance judges and feeding the output to a decision tree to improve precision

Full-text search is everywhere. From finding a book on Scribd, a movie on Netflix, toilet paper on Amazon, or anything else on the web through Google (like [how to do your job as a software engineer](https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in…

Introducing the Nix@NGI team Mission Our main mission is to deliver on the promise of Nix: make open source software easy to run, both now and in the long term. For the NixOS Foundation’s collaboration with the NGI Zero consortium, this means getting as…

We need a vibe shift on dependencies in programming.

US agencies wasting billions on empty offices an “embarrassment,” RTO memo says.

Rights groups demand lawmakers add a warrant requirement to Section 702.

Learn to enhance vector search accuracy with ColBERT rerank using PostgreSQL and VectorChord in this comprehensive tutorial

Nature - Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Distributed coordination makes application complex and brittle. Because all systems eventually build on logs, we can use a shared-log approach to eliminate most coordination. We discuss this conceptually and show how this is practically implemented in the…

No, this isn't one of those toy languages. In this series we'll cover objects, concurrency, generics and inheritance, amongst other more complex language features.

Siri with Apple Intelligence gives confident but embarrasingly wrong answers to sports trivia questions, both famous (Super Bowls) and obscure (North Dakota high school hoops).

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Insights on DevSecOps, cloud architecture, and building secure, scalable systems. Sharing practical experience from running tech companies and implementing software supply chain security at scale.

CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI.

Engineers at the Naval Research Lab launched a spy satellite program called Parcae and revolutionized signals intelligence at the height of the Cold War. The program relied on computers to sift through intelligence data, providing a technological edge at…

The rapid response to Yoon’s martial law decree emerged from democratic practices embedded in society. Whether they can hold firm against rising polarization is another question.