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OpenAI is haemorrhaging safety talent (www.transformernews.ai)

Notable departures include multiple safety-minded employees over concerns about culture, priorities, and governance.

6 points by kvee 46 minutes ago | No comments | Direct link
62.
The financial costs of healthcare costs, or, is keeping me alive worth it? (jakeseliger.com)

Author compares personal healthcare costs to charities' cost-effectiveness and discusses 'dollar per life saved' concept.

76 points by vwoolf 5 hours ago | 58 comments | Direct link
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We are removing 'years of experience' as a requirement for jobs at Remote (remote.com)

Company's growth, new hiring process focusing on candidate's ability over experience

7 points by cnkk 7 hours ago | 3 comments | Direct link
66.
Apple is indeed patenting Swift features (forums.swift.org)

Apple's patenting of Swift features discussed, including intentions and community concerns

4 points by behnamoh one hour ago | No comments | Direct link
67.
OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded (www.wired.com)

Superalignment team's work integrated into other efforts; Sutskever, co-lead, leaves after governance crisis; Schulman leads research on risks of more powerful models.

72 points by robbiet480 3 hours ago | 42 comments | Direct link
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High-Quality Software Engineering (2007) (www.lurklurk.org)

Also discusses maintainability, reasons why, and developer skill development.

85 points by rhim on 2024-05-15 | 36 comments | Direct link
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France blocks TikTok in New Caledonia, making EU's first TikTok ban (www.politico.eu)

Local state of emergency leads to TikTok suspension and criticism over freedom of expression

31 points by trustno2 5 hours ago | 18 comments | Direct link
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Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build (darrellowens.substack.com)

Explores historical and current urban development issues, negative impacts of urban renewal, and need for revised urban planning strategies

126 points by greenie_beans 16 hours ago | 119 comments | Direct link
73.
History of the Italian electrical system (samuele963.github.io)

Dual tariff system led to two plug types and Bipasso sockets; legacy of old transformers remains.

123 points by wannacboatmovie 23 hours ago | 70 comments | Direct link
74.
AI hype is over. AI exhaustion is setting in (disconnect.blog)

Google I/O presentation showcased underwhelming AI features and criticized inflated AI claims.

19 points by marban 4 hours ago | 1 comment | Direct link
75.
A forged Apple employee badge (cabel.com)

EBay auction sold for $946, seller provided forged proof, traced to suspicious purchase

884 points by ecliptik 20 hours ago | 323 comments | Direct link
76.
Open sourcing IBM's Granite code models (research.ibm.com)

IBM has open-sourced Granite models for AI-driven code tasks, trained on 116 languages, optimized for enterprise workflows.

11 points by srbhr 8 hours ago | No comments | Direct link
77.
Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)

Uses office setting analogy to explain cache levels; discusses design criteria and compromises of shared L1 cache.

105 points by aragonite on 2024-05-15 | 34 comments | Direct link
78.
D3 in Depth (www.d3indepth.com)

Book promotion with discounts and tips on data visualization

356 points by lobo_tuerto yesterday | 80 comments | Direct link
79.
The Sweet Spot: Maximizing Llama Energy Efficiency (jacquesmattheij.com)

Optimization process and power consumption measurements detailed for specific GPU.

35 points by jacquesm on 2024-05-15 | No comments | Direct link
80.
Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress (www.architecturalrecord.com)

Explores benefits of single-stair buildings for housing, community, and cost; contrasts with typical American apartments; covers history of fire-safety approaches.

135 points by ayanai 23 hours ago | 87 comments | Direct link
81.
Demystifying the protobuf wire format (kreya.app)

Explains encoding process, varint demonstration, and tag/length delimited field example.

54 points by CommonGuy 5 hours ago | 68 comments | Direct link
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Introduction to the gfortran array descriptor / dope vector (thinkingeek.com)

gfortran's descriptor structure and creation process detailed.

22 points by fanf2 on 2024-05-15 | No comments | Direct link
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Microsoft now says your PC is in need of 'repair' if you're not using Edge (www.tomsguide.com)

Microsoft's PC Manager app suggests resetting Edge search engine to Bing via 'Repair' tool, amid criticisms for upselling, ads, and nudges

26 points by cebert 42 minutes ago | 8 comments | Direct link
85.
Copy-on-Write on APFS (wadetregaskis.com)

Describes benefits, downsides, limitations, and APIs of the feature.

36 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 7 comments | Direct link
86.
Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone (www.photobox.dev)

Allows creation of collages and animations with Cloudinary transformations

77 points by colbyfayock yesterday | 31 comments | Direct link
87.
ChatGPT-4o vs. Math (www.sabrina.dev)

Explores different problem-solving methods, finding 'Chain-of-Thought' prompt engineering most effective

283 points by sabrina_ramonov yesterday | 160 comments | Direct link
88.
Beyond Public Key Encryption (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

Article discusses newer crypto technologies; focuses on Identity-Based Cryptography and its key escrow drawback, not in title.

31 points by fanf2 19 hours ago | 10 comments | Direct link
89.
Context caching guide (ai.google.dev)

Paid feature with token count and storage duration billing

221 points by tosh on 2024-05-15 | 39 comments | Direct link
90.
F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language (www.fstar-lang.org)

Used in various industrial and academic projects, including Mozilla Firefox and Linux kernel.

225 points by montyanderson yesterday | 88 comments | Direct link
91.
Head of Alignment at OpenAI Resigns (twitter.com)

Suggests resignation of head of alignment at OpenAI, but no further context given

16 points by mychaelangelo 2 hours ago | 8 comments | Direct link
92.
Mozilla Firefox Adds Support for AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video (blogs.nvidia.com)

AI technology improves visibility, details, and vibrancy; offers upscaling, de-artifacting, and HDR effects

31 points by mariuz 9 hours ago | 7 comments | Direct link
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Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Lawsuit part of transnational class action, involves 2021 patent application, by professor Ryan Abbott and scientist Stephen Thaler's AI system DABUS.

15 points by mikhael 5 hours ago | 2 comments | Direct link
95.
Localization in .NET console and desktop apps (blog.axantum.com)

Solution uses POTools, Loco, and IStringLocalizer for translator-friendly approach.

81 points by svantex on 2024-05-15 | 32 comments | Direct link
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Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020) (thecentercolumn.com)

Olympus' 2016 claim of 6.5 stops, limits due to gyroscopic sensors, and potential workarounds for recent 7+ stop claims

156 points by pwnna yesterday | 102 comments | Direct link
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99.
Multics Emacs: the history, design, and implementation (1979) (www.multicians.org)

also discusses performance enhancement techniques and ARPANET protocols

28 points by fanf2 on 2024-05-15 | 1 comment | Direct link
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Veo (deepmind.google)

Article is primarily a list of acknowledgements to project contributors

1720 points by meetpateltech on 2024-05-14 | 481 comments | Direct link
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102.
Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013) (computerhistory.org)

First version released in 1990, written in Pascal for Apple Macintosh, now available source code.

616 points by PaulHoule on 2024-05-15 | 217 comments | Direct link
103.
Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

Explores Rust's 'shared-xor-mutable' rule, history, verification projects, and relation to garbage collection and threading.

344 points by todsacerdoti yesterday | 138 comments | Direct link
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"Privacy may be an anomaly", says Google's Vint Cerf (2013) (www.theverge.com)

Cerf attributes privacy challenges to urban growth, social media behavior, and outpaced social intuition.

23 points by fdeage 6 hours ago | 15 comments | Direct link
105.
Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications (future.mozilla.org)

Recommended models chosen based on MTEB leaderboard, optimized for RAG tasks and license.

131 points by tosh yesterday | 23 comments | Direct link
106.
Show HN: I built a LLM-powered Ask HN: like Perplexity, but for HN comments (hackersearch.net)

Uses historical data from 'Ask HN', covers comments from the past 3 years

76 points by jnnnthnn yesterday | 25 comments | Direct link
107.
Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows (newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com)

Study details manufacturing's environmental impact and recommends recycling blades.

157 points by geox yesterday | 171 comments | Direct link
108.
Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp (www.tfeb.org)

Proposes Štar as a simple, extensible iteration construct handling any structure, with minimal syntax and competitive performance.

96 points by Tomte on 2024-05-15 | 32 comments | Direct link
109.
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT (openai.com)

Implying enhanced data analysis capabilities.

192 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 124 comments | Direct link
110.
Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas (blog.playcanvas.com)

PlayCanvas releases WebGPU support, enabled by default in Chrome 113, with beta status and feedback encouraged.

143 points by pjmlp yesterday | 42 comments | Direct link
111.
My Sony HB-F1XV (thefoggiest.dev)

Article also mentions author's upgrades and improvements, as well as MSX standard context.

81 points by ingve yesterday | 33 comments | Direct link
112.
Moment: A Family of Open Time-Series Foundation Models (arxiv.org)

Announces 'arXivLabs' framework for new features on arXiv website

48 points by sarusso 16 hours ago | 5 comments | Direct link
113.
The Dow Jones hits 40k (www.opb.org)

Inflation easing, but future performance tied to its trajectory; robust profits and AI contributing to milestone.

8 points by thelastgallon 4 hours ago | 1 comment | Direct link
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115.
Bossware is a big legal risk (www.kolide.com)

Legal risks of bossware include potential fines from various regulations and labor laws.

172 points by nickwritesit on 2024-05-14 | 207 comments | Direct link
116.
OpenAI’s Library (www.nytimes.com)

Library serves as a data resource and community hub for AI researchers.

13 points by topherjaynes on 2024-05-15 | 6 comments | Direct link
117.
Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)

Merger led to job losses, higher prices, and eliminated pro-consumer efforts, despite regulators' knowledge.

284 points by rntn yesterday | 241 comments | Direct link
118.
WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives – First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.anandtech.com)

New drives used in upgraded products with USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface, and SMR technology suspected, priced between $179.99 and $229.99.

57 points by ksec 17 hours ago | 43 comments | Direct link
119.
How to Use VS Code on FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.org)

Instructions for installing language extensions and troubleshooting tips provided.

10 points by mariuz 5 hours ago | 2 comments | Direct link
120.
Rachel Aviv Wrote That New Yorker Story on Lucy Letby (www.niemanlab.org)

Article questions case strength and discusses press restrictions, press freedom debates, and handling by authorities.

37 points by chapulin 3 hours ago | 13 comments | Direct link
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