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- Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer https://www.theverge.com/23307298/ford-f-150-lightning-review 556 comments
- Show HN: SymForce – Fast symbolic computation, code generation, and optimization https://github.com/symforce-org/symforce 17 comments
- Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust https://www.fastly.com/blog/join-the-beta-new-serverless-compute-environment-at-the-edge 15 comments
- Computers are fast (2014) http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/05/12/computers-are-fast/ 31 comments
- An example of fast numerical computation using Haskell http://www.mit.edu/~mtikekar/posts/stream-fusion.html 76 comments
- Computers are fast http://blog.hackensplat.com/2009/11/computers-are-fast.html 53 comments
- Going Nowhere Really Fast, or How Computers Only Come in Two Speeds. http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300 29 comments
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- How Fast is Your Computer? https://twitter.com/tsoding/status/1636036276687192068 2 comments graphics , video
- AWS Firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ 28 comments virtualization
- Controlling VR with Your Mind - The startup Neurable thinks its brain-computer interface will be fast and accurate enough for playing games in VR. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603896/controlling-vr-with-your-mind/ 6 comments technology
- Death of a star in three dimensions - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching have for the first time managed to reproduce the asymmetries and fast-moving iron clumps of observed supernovae by complex computer simulations. http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsdocumentation/documentation/pressreleases/2010/pressrelease201005111/index.html 4 comments science
- curl wtfismyip.com/text - Fast way to find a computers public IP https://wtfismyip.com 47 comments sysadmin
- Uncertain<T>: Fast and correct computations with uncertain values https://crates.io/crates/uncertain 64 comments rust
- Quantum leap from Australian research promises super-fast computing power. ‘Ruthlessly systematic’ research achieves qubit communication 200 times faster than ever before. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/19/quantum-leap-australian-researchers-could-lead-to-much-greater-computing-power?cmp=share_iosapp_other 5 comments technology
- How fast could a processor reboot a computer if it wasn't held back by other components? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7banc9/how_fast_could_a_processor_reboot_a_computer_if/ 9 comments askscience
- NASA Cancels its High Performance Fast Computing Challenge https://herox.com/hpfcc/update/1454 4 comments math
- NASA Cancels its High Performance Fast Computing Challenge https://herox.com/hpfcc/update/1454 48 comments programming
- Super-Fast Computer Made from DNA 'Grows as it Computes' https://pionic.org/super-fast-computer-made-from-dna-grows-as-it-computes 3 comments technology
- Scientists reveal new super-fast form of computer that grows as it computes https://phys.org/news/2017-03-scientists-reveal-super-fast.html 27 comments technology
- Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing https://sinews.siam.org/detailspage/tabid/607/articleid/744/julia-a-fast-language-for-numerical-computing.aspx 12 comments programming
- Non-volatile Storage: The age-old assumption that I/O is slow and computation is fast is no longer true https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2874238 6 comments hardware
- Computers are *fast*! http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/05/12/computers-are-fast/ 424 comments programming
- A company you’ve probably never heard of caused half the internet to go dark: Countless websites, including major news outlets, were offline after an outage at Fastly, a cloud computing provider. https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/8/22524024/fastly-web-outage-news-websites 63 comments technology
- NASA Seeking Submissions for High Performance Fast Computing Challenge - $55,000 in prizes available for optimizing source code of NASA’s FUN3D Computational Fluid Dynamics suite https://herox.com/hpfcc 3 comments compsci
- Anyone Notice that for loop computations are now equally as fast as vectorized computations in 2016b? For loops were painfully slow back in 2012a. https://www.reddit.com/r/matlab/comments/5k3v37/anyone_notice_that_for_loop_computations_are_now/ 9 comments matlab
- Scientists invent new way to control light, critical for next gen of super fast computing http://phys.org/news/2015-03-scientists-critical-gen-super-fast.html#ajtabs 5 comments science
- The End Of Passwords? This Bracelet Unlocks Computers And Doors With Your Heartbeat | Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/3036375/wearables-week/the-end-of-passwords-this-bracelet-unlocks-computers-and-doors-with-your-hear 6 comments technology
- A recent legal ruling involved an IT manager who sought job security by holding “the keys to the kingdom”–the passwords to the company’s computer network that only he possessed. His plan didn’t become a fast track to climbing the corporate ladder; instead, it led to his relocation into a jail cell. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2013/11/04/think-hoarding-passwords-keeps-you-safe-from-firing-think-again/ 12 comments law
- Computer Language Benchmark Game: It's a game, so lets drop the fast competition we don't like (and use it in disguise as a C-Library??). https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=314288&group_id=100815&atid=413122 33 comments programming
- A shortage of tech workers? Not so fast -- Although the U.S. is minting more grads with computer and information science and engineering degrees, guest workers make up a large and increasing portion of the IT labor market. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57581903-38/a-shortage-of-tech-workers-not-so-fast/ 4 comments politics
- Could Quantum Computers Defeat Bitcoin? Not So Fast. - Decrypt https://decrypt.co/101340/bitcoin-quantum-computing 13 comments bitcoin
- Mailpile enters beta—It’s like Gmail, but you run it on your own computer | Application aims to bring fast mail search and easy encryption to your browser http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/mailpile-enters-beta-its-like-gmail-but-you-run-it-on-your-own-computer/ 6 comments technology
- Too Fast to Fail: Is High-Speed Trading the Next Wall Street Disaster? - Computer algorithms swap thousands of stocks each instant—& could set off a financial meltdown http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/high-frequency-trading-danger-risk-wall-street 73 comments politics
- A yearlong experiment with the U.S. electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers - and make plug-in clocks and appliances run up to 20 minutes fast. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-power-grid-disrupt-clocks.html 5 comments technology
- 18-year-old Ewin Tang has proven that classical computers can solve the “recommendation problem” nearly as fast as quantum computers. The result eliminates one of the best examples of quantum speedup. https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/ 392 comments programming
- Tired of eating your fast food alone, in front of a computer? Burger King has created "Table Guest", wherein you eat alone in front of a computer pretending you're on a date with a Maxim model. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2285/2215975509_c7259421fd_o.jpg 2 comments reddit.com
- Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called “excitons” that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090927165439.htm 7 comments science
- Google's Quest to Eliminate the Language Barrier "to build the perfect translation computer, a machine that is so inconspicuous and fast 'that you hardly notice it all, except as a whisper in your ear,' a device that can promptly spit out any text, the content of a website ... in any other language" http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/google-translate-has-ambitious-goals-for-machine-translation-a-921646.html#ref=rss 69 comments technology
- Supercomputers could some day think as fast as human brain- IBM Researchers unveiled a new type of computer chip that integrates both electrical and optical nano-devices on the same piece of silicon and can perform one million trillion calculations – or an exaflop – in a single second. http://news.bioscholar.com/2010/12/supercomputers-could-some-day-think-as-fast-as-human-brain.html 24 comments science
- AbiWord - the underestimated word processor - AbiWord is small, light, fast, free, cross-platform, portable, and will do everything you need, including unbelievable perks like equations in LaTeX, Computer Modern fonts or the presentation mode. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/abiword.html 92 comments technology