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Open source AI is the path forward (about.fb.com)

Zuckerberg releases open-source AI model Llama 3.1, emphasizing benefits for developers and addressing safety concerns

2335 points by atgctg on 2024-07-23 | 886 comments | Direct link
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AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level (deepmind.google)

AI system uses reinforcement learning, developed by specific leaders and contributors, and achieves silver-medal level score.

1321 points by ocfnash yesterday | 507 comments | Direct link
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Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript (github.com)

Implementation uses type stripping and @swc/wasm-typescript, initially excluding some TypeScript features.

1169 points by magnio on 2024-07-25 | 541 comments | Direct link
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Every company should be owned by its employees (www.elysian.press)

Article advocates for ESOPs to reduce wealth disparity, cites example of blue-collar workers' stock ownership at Central States Manufacturing, and mentions bipartisan support in Congress.

938 points by ellegriffin on 2024-07-25 | 1020 comments | Direct link
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Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii (bitbuilt.net)

Design evolved to machined metal unibody; includes undervolting, passive cooling, Thundervolt, and RGB LEDs; open source; $55 for initial batch.

740 points by realslimjd on 2024-07-22 | 214 comments | Direct link
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Large Enough (mistral.ai)

Now supports more languages and coding languages, designed for single-node inference, and has enhanced function calling and retrieval skills.

622 points by davidbarker on 2024-07-24 | 489 comments | Direct link
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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)

Secrets found investigating corrupt Winamp skins were many and varied: emails, documents, a bowl of soup, a used guitar string, a toy car, a handwritten love letter, and a key to a deposit box!

583 points by treve on 2024-07-25 | 137 comments | Direct link
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Reverse Engineering for Everyone (0xinfection.github.io)

Tutorials cover specific architectures and formats, cater to beginners, and are available in multiple formats

581 points by udev4096 yesterday | 65 comments | Direct link
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Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park (www.jhnewsandguide.com)

Explosion created new vent and crater, no one was hurt, triggered by magma-water interaction

556 points by jandrewrogers on 2024-07-23 | 304 comments | Direct link
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Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas (haystackeditor.com)

IDE offers navigation and refactoring, no log of user's code, VS Code settings import, issues with Python server, no platform specified

505 points by akshaysg yesterday | 190 comments | Direct link
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Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal (www.404media.co)

Reddit blocks other search engines; Google gets exclusive AI training data access

488 points by turkeytotal on 2024-07-24 | 346 comments | Direct link
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Apple Maps on the web launches in beta (www.apple.com)

Developers can link to Maps, initial release supports English, compatible with Safari, Chrome, and Edge on Mac, iPad, and Windows PCs.

446 points by ingve on 2024-07-25 | 517 comments | Direct link
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Llama 3.1 (llama.meta.com)
427 points by luiscosio on 2024-07-23 | 268 comments | Direct link
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Intent to end OCSP service (letsencrypt.org)

Phasing out OCSP support due to privacy concerns and unnecessary resource usage, to be replaced by CRLs.

412 points by soheilpro on 2024-07-23 | 143 comments | Direct link
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Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux (github.com)

using rsync or BTRFS, supports cross-distro restore and system configurations

369 points by gballan on 2024-07-22 | 168 comments | Direct link
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Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects (github.com)

Describes how to use WAT Inspector to examine object attributes, methods, and module components.

368 points by igrek51 yesterday | 88 comments | Direct link
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Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community (blog.wilsonl.in)

An application, hn2.wilsonl.in, computes users' places in Hacker News' semantic map, enabling knowledge discovery

358 points by robg yesterday | 206 comments | Direct link
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My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018) (rcoh.me)

Explains a quickselect algorithm and a median-of-medians approach, proven to be linear time, contrasts its performance with quickselect and C++ standard library's introselect.

358 points by skanderbm yesterday | 170 comments | Direct link
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Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text (ericwbailey.website)

Skills needed to write alt text are derived from DnD and importance of context, tone, and mood is emphasized

355 points by ohjeez on 2024-07-24 | 82 comments | Direct link
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Generating sudokus for fun and no profit (tn1ck.com)

Article details process of creating Sudoku solver, measuring puzzle difficulty, and generating puzzles of specific difficulty.

345 points by todsacerdoti on 2024-07-24 | 64 comments | Direct link
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What Is Entropy? (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

Explains entropy through a specific puzzle and covers key concepts such as Shannon entropy, Gibbs entropy, Boltzmann distribution, and temperature.

341 points by ainoobler on 2024-07-22 | 197 comments | Direct link
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CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent (thehftguy.com)

Buggy 2019 update caused global crashes, similar to OVH case in France, with potential contract terminations in regulated industries.

325 points by charlieirish yesterday | 275 comments | Direct link
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United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency (fas.org)

US nuclear stockpile was 3,748 as of September 2023, with 69 dismantled warheads in 2022.

323 points by philipkglass on 2024-07-22 | 341 comments | Direct link
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July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core 13th/14th Gen Desktop CPUs (community.intel.com)

Intel does not verify community support solutions and disclaims related warranties

322 points by acrispino on 2024-07-22 | 208 comments | Direct link
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CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage (techcrunch.com)

Some gift card recipients encountered redemption errors.

307 points by LordAtlas on 2024-07-24 | 164 comments | Direct link
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Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs (blog.thinkst.com)

Article details case studies and evaluates costs, benefits, and drawbacks of isolated VMs.

295 points by mh_ yesterday | 234 comments | Direct link
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The Elegance of the ASCII Table (danq.me)

Discusses design choices, historical significance, and ease of use

283 points by thewub on 2024-07-22 | 187 comments | Direct link
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You can opt out of airport face scans (www.vox.com)

Passengers face resistance when opting out, TSA and CBP lack clear signage, and AJL launched a campaign.

279 points by rntn on 2024-07-23 | 255 comments | Direct link
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The Unix Pipe Card Game (punkx.org)

Game available for purchase or DIY with PDFs; assumes some Unix knowledge in parents; uses task and command cards

266 points by Shugyousha on 2024-07-23 | 41 comments | Direct link
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Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs (briefer.cloud)

Includes file tree, AI assistance, dataframe handling, scheduling, and public link sharing

261 points by lucasfcosta on 2024-07-23 | 71 comments | Direct link
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Button Stealer (anatolyzenkov.com)

Operates locally, ensuring user data privacy and serving a recreational purpose

260 points by kickofline on 2024-07-23 | 78 comments | Direct link
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Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence (foreignpolicy.com)

Apple withdraws new product from EU due to DMA regulations; EU's unclear rules risk 'balkanized splinternet'.

252 points by paulpauper 12 hours ago | 488 comments | Direct link
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A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee (theconversation.com)

Decaffeination methods and their impact on coffee's flavor and aroma compounds

250 points by BerislavLopac yesterday | 164 comments | Direct link
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The Origin of Emacs in 1976 (onlisp.co.uk)
250 points by rhabarba on 2024-07-24 | 115 comments | Direct link
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How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping” (spectrum.ieee.org)

UCI has partnered with France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission to develop new detection methods; UCI declined to comment on its program

243 points by belter on 2024-07-23 | 485 comments | Direct link
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Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO (www.cnbc.com)

Wiz, founded in 2020, has reached $350M in ARR and is backed by well-known investors; Google had acquisition plans since May and faces regulatory challenges.

243 points by uger on 2024-07-23 | 266 comments | Direct link
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Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini (github.com)

Includes usage example, npm installation, and details on pricing, license, and implementation.

241 points by themanmaran on 2024-07-23 | 95 comments | Direct link
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What "consent" looks like for the DEA and TSA (papersplease.org)

Thousands of cash seizures claimed in lawsuit, but DEA and TSA resist releasing related records.

240 points by greyface- on 2024-07-24 | 208 comments | Direct link
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A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens (github.com)

Dataset includes audio and visual data, and is derived from web-scale data.

221 points by kulikalov on 2024-07-24 | 51 comments | Direct link
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AI crawlers need to be more respectful (about.readthedocs.com)

AI crawlers caused over $5,000 in bandwidth charges to sites like Read the Docs.

219 points by pneff yesterday | 111 comments | Direct link
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A free tool to quickly detect counterfeit flash (2017) (fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io)

The summary explains the composition of the tool and its use on different systems, along with GUI availability and dependency installation.

217 points by popol12 on 2024-07-23 | 131 comments | Direct link
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