Exploring the browser rendering process
13 minutes by Abhishek Saha | What occurs between typing a URL in your browser and the moment a webpage is displayed? Let's explore the complex rendering process of the browser in an interactive way. | Capture the Complexity of Human Speech
sponsored by AssemblyAI | Universal-2 by AssemblyAI offers advanced speech-to-text capabilities, transforming audio into precise and readable transcripts that capture the complexity of human speech beyond traditional metrics. Try Universal-2 for free with $50 in API credits. | AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
27 minutes by Werner Vogels | This document provides insight into the customer problems AWS observed in the early 2010s and its vision for serverless computing. Readers will find annotations throughout, offering a glimpse into how our long-term thinking has influenced Lambda's evolution over the past decade. | What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
20 minutes by Hazel Bachrach | Hazel covers essential topics like data normalization, proper use of NULL values, psql command-line tips, indexing strategies, locking mechanisms, and working with JSONB data types. | Preventing Fraud at Robinhood using Graph Intelligence
7 minutes by Robinhood | The company tackles three major fraud categories - identity fraud, account takeovers, and first-party fraud - through a sophisticated graph detection system that analyzes connections between accounts and user behaviors. The system employs both vertex-centric and graph-centric algorithms to identify fraudulent patterns, utilizing DynamoDB for data storage and processing. | What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase?
2 minutes by Raymond Chen | It has one foot in each world but belongs to neither. The article discusses an interesting Unicode peculiarity: the existence of title case characters, which are neither uppercase nor lowercase. These special characters are primarily digraphs (single characters that represent two letters) used in languages like Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian, such as "dz". | Eavesdrop on the future as ‘software eats the world’
sponsored by the a16z Podcast | If you want a glimpse into what’s next, check out the a16z Podcast. The show gives you an inside look into the world’s most influential minds, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the CISOs at OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, or even the very first CTO of the CIA. From deepfakes to autonomous drones to the frontier of spatial intelligence, eavesdrop on the future with the a16z Podcast. | | newsletters | | | Would you like to become a sponsor and advertise in one of the issues? Check out our media kit and get in touch. |
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