In 2006, Paul Graham co-founded startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC) with the goal of helping young, inexperienced founders build successful startups. The key to YC’s impact lies in its ability to identify talented individuals, provide them with funding for living expenses, and give them a few months to develop and launch their products. YC’s success […]
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This web content is promoting a card element that can be used to display various types of data such as products or posts. The content suggests including the Alpine library and TailwindCSS library on your page, and then copying and pasting any element to make it work seamlessly. It emphasizes the easy integration of these […]
Today, I decided to do something reckless and share the stolen source code of the popular video game, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, which was released in 2003 for the PS2, Xbox, and PC. I came across this code on a forum that I won’t disclose here. You can find a download link for a […]
Google Labs is introducing a new AI-first notebook called NotebookLM, formerly known as Project Tailwind, to help people learn faster. This experimental product uses language models and your own content to generate insights. It acts as a virtual research assistant, summarizing facts, explaining complex ideas, and creating new connections based on the sources you select. […]
In this study, the authors explore Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (IBLTs) with low failure probabilities. IBLTs are versatile data structures used in various applications such as set reconciliation, error correction, and cryptography. Existing IBLT constructions require a significant amount of space and rely on random hash functions to ensure correctness. However, the authors introduce new […]
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This release represents a significant update to the software, both visually and technically, while still maintaining the familiar and flexible Thunderbird experience. “Supernova is the beginning of a new era for Thunderbird,” says Ryan Sipes, Thunderbird’s Product and Business […]
In today’s digest, we’ll be discussing the challenges that developers face when creating desktop-class apps for the browser. Most desktop applications function as file editors, where users select a file on their disk, and the program loads it into memory. Web apps, on the other hand, are typically database apps that fetch data from a […]
Telling the bees is a tradition practiced in various European countries where beekeepers inform their bees about significant events in their lives, such as births, deaths, marriages, and departures. Failing to notify the bees can result in consequences like the bees leaving the hive, halting honey production, or even dying. The origin of this custom […]
PCSX2 is an open-source emulator that aims to recreate the hardware and functionality of the PlayStation 2 console. With almost 20 years of development, the project has come a long way, starting with only being able to run a few public domain game demos. However, newer versions of PCSX2 can now run most games at […]
In this blog mini-series, the author explores the full-text search functionality in PostgreSQL and its comparison to Elasticsearch. The author recommends following along with the sample queries using the Wikipedia Movie Plots dataset. The building blocks of PostgreSQL’s full-text search include the tsvector and tsquery data types, the match operator @@, functions to rank each […]