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An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.

631 points•aray07•9 days ago•88 comments•
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Do you ever feel like the AI world has moved forward a little too quickly? You hear about...

227 points•sylwia-lask•28 days ago•115 comments
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In the previous post, we taught a model to read our documents. It could search a pile of files and...

40 points•rohini_gaonkar•14 days ago•15 comments
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No. MCP doesn't replace APIs — it sits on top of them. An MCP server is, almost always, a thin...

10 points•thesnehamk•11 days ago•11 comments
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Next.js 16 renamed middleware.ts to proxy.ts and locked it to the Node.js runtime. Learn the network-boundary model, matcher config, and the migration path.

8 points•parsajiravand•8 days ago•0 comments
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Kerberos is a single sign on authentication protocol, we will try to explain how it works with some hopefully simple diagrams.

8 points•calvin•about 9 years ago•0 comments
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6 points•telotortium•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Having to manually copy-paste context between your code environments (like IDEs) and Claude Desktop,...

5 points•techwithsam•3 days ago•1 comment
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A from-scratch derivation of REINFORCE for language models

3 points•gmays•about 11 hours ago•0 comments•
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How the Internet ended up with 4.3 billion addresses. Vint Cerf picked a number in 1977. It had to be enough for an experiment.

3 points•emot•2 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•binyu•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Four huge misconceptions in the AI space, told not very briefly: First misconception: AI is just doing math. There’s a quote making the rounds about how an algorithm can never gain consciousness because…

2 points•Tomte•4 days ago•1 comment•
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2 points•bookofjoe•5 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•vismit2000•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Any GitHub profile, explained. Paste a link and get a clear report in under a minute.

2 points•bengunvl•7 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•0sake_rs•about 1 hour ago•0 comments•
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The CrowdStrike outage explained: a Falcon update read a 21st field from a 20-value array in a Windows kernel driver and crashed 8.5 million PCs.

1 points•axrisi•1 day ago•0 comments
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Four huge misconceptions in the AI space, told not very briefly: First misconception: AI is just doing math. There’s a quote making the rounds about how an algorithm can never gain consciousness because…

1 points•SMAAART•1 day ago•0 comments•
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1 points•lroe•1 day ago•1 comment•
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1 points•loog5566•1 day ago•0 comments•
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1 points•frenchie_sans•5 days ago•0 comments•
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An explainer on the Orient Cables IPO and whether it can defend its market share against well-funded competitors.

1 points•vismit2000•6 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•tilt•6 days ago•0 comments•
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Learn about shadow DOM through interactive examples that demonstrate style encapsulation, inheritance, slots, parts, and JavaScript access. Explore how shadow roots create isolated DOM trees with private stylesheets…

1 points•torutofu•6 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•cadeos•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Claude Code hooks run shell commands at lifecycle events — guaranteed. Every event, PreToolUse to PermissionRequest, exit codes, Agent SDK, five patterns.

1 points•northbridgedev•8 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•verdverm•10 days ago•1 comment•
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Independent guide to NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: what it is, where it is now, mission timeline, science and images — every fact sourced.

1 points•smcnally•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Cloud computing explained in 11 concepts: scaling, load balancing, serverless, event-driven design, storage, availability vs durability, IaC and VPCs.

0 points•axrisi•1 day ago•0 comments

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