The author and his roommate hacked together a restored version of Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after MGM altered it for profit. They collaborated with other preservationists to create an official release that closely matched their work.
The model is evaluated based on objective checks, not writing quality. The 135M model's performance is measured by speed and accuracy metrics from runs in the browser.
The photographer Joseph Szabo's book "American Teen" captures the essence of 1970s and 1980s high school life through his timeless black-and-white images. The photographs showcase teenagers with a carefree, spontaneous presence, unfiltered by social media or contemporary anxieties about identity.
The author created a custom solution to bypass Sony's restrictions on streaming from the PS5, using DNS spoofing and RTMP redirection. A macOS app manages dnsmasq and nginx-rtmp to intercept streams destined for Twitch or YouTube, allowing them to be redirected to the author's Mac instead.
Bluesky Social PBC created the Public Ledger of Credentials Organization to manage a directory for AT Protocol accounts, allowing users to control their identities. The organization aims to provide public identity infrastructure and mature into a small, reliable operation with diversified funding.
Sonnet 5.5 is a faster and lower-cost version of Sonnet 5, suitable for everyday tasks and well-scoped work, with improved design capabilities.
Parley is a decentralized chat network where each instance runs independently and communicates through DNS, HTTPS, and signed messages. It allows users to connect with others across different domains using IRC clients without plugins.
Agents are increasingly used to edit Word documents, but current solutions have limitations. A new approach uses HTML abstraction and a reconciler model to improve performance, cost and accuracy in editing complex Word documents.
Elizabeth I's letters were often crafted by her secretaries, including Francis Walsingham, who manipulated emotion to achieve specific political goals. The queen strategically deployed emotion in her letters through collaboration with her advisers, revealing a more nuanced and savvy monarch than previously thought.
User is experiencing slow performance with Osmand on GrapheneOS, but found a solution by disabling the hardened memory allocator. This allows Osmand to run faster, although it may introduce some security risks since it's not loading data from the internet.
The author is exploring the use of procedural generation in heraldry and other visual traditions, comparing Western European heraldry with Japanese mon. They are developing a system to generate fantasy symbols that can be used in fictional settings.
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Nvidia is releasing a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. The platform, called Open Agent Safety Platform, aims to provide a secure environment for AI models to operate within.
Clippy is a parody project making fun of modern software subscriptions and ads, not affiliated with Microsoft. It's an unofficial guide to Windows 11½, featuring fake features like AI assistance and subscription reminders.
Cloudflare has introduced a new CLI, cf, which allows agents to use every Cloudflare product by providing thousands of commands. The new CLI is built on Vite and provides features like JSON output, natural language search, and typed configuration.
Build AI automations in one prompt. What they find lands in one visual workspace with your docs and tools, run by us or by your own agent.
The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
Type any website's address and fight your way through it: its text, images and boxes become a destructible pixel-art level. Play solo or with friends. Free, in your browser.
A public radio show host, Dave Blanchard, noticed unusual comments on an episode featuring author Elizabeth Gilbert. He suspected bots but couldn't understand their behavior. A young NPR employee, Hannah Chinn, investigated and discovered that the commenters were actually middle school kids using Spotify to chat with each other in a private group chat-style setting.
The user is experimenting with Android 6.0.1 phones and discovering the joys of a degoogled, compile-from-source OS due to Google's broken review process for their apps on the Play Store. They're now considering alternative platforms like FDroid and itch.io instead of relying on Google.
The user has switched from Firefox to Brave due to its simpler UI and better performance, despite initial reservations about the browser's AI strategy. They plan to keep Vivaldi as a backup option if they become more aligned with their values in the future.
Here is a detailed view at all the drawings displayed in the map above. D is the Daily, LB Borderline’s land border rounds, C its coastline rounds. Every line anybody has drawn, country by country, over the real outline in grey. The number beside each name is how many drawings are on it.
The author criticizes AI products for not taking their own premises seriously, leading to a lack of trust and reliability. They propose features such as checkboxes to verify claims and reproducibility tools to help users understand the limitations of LLMs.
The user had a weird experience with Google's AI overview after searching for old tweets about Dario Saric, and wondered why the search engine assumed they were looking for emotional support instead of links. They felt that Google has lost its purpose as a search engine with the introduction of LLMs.
The author solved a 3D puzzle using computer vision and Python, but realized that an industrial-strength library called OR-Tools CP-SAT was more efficient.
You need to repeat 'AT TIME ZONE \'UTC\'' twice because the first conversion loses time zone information, and using timestamp without time zone can lead to errors. This is due to differences in how timestamp and timestamptz handle date calculations.
The PaperMono e-paper device is turned into a household shopping list app with firmware that syncs with a phone web app, allowing users to add and manage items offline. The app features low-power networking, touch UI, on-screen keyboard, and auto-sorting capabilities.