OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB

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OpenAI's new o3 system achieved a breakthrough 75.7% on the Semi-Private Evaluation set and 87.5% with high-compute configuration, showing novel task adaptation ability.

Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway

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Kannel is an open source WAP gateway that provides a free WAP infrastructure for mobile users. It also works as an SMS gateway for GSM networks, serving many clients with simple services.

Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized

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Researchers developed a method to translate C code to safe Rust, preserving memory safety guarantees. Their approach successfully translated a verified C cryptographic library and binary parsers to pure Rust with minimal performance impact.

Building Effective "Agents"

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Anthropic shares practical advice on building effective large language model (LLM) agents, recommending simple, composable patterns and focusing on two key aspects: tailoring augmentations to specific use cases and providing an easy interface for LLMs. The company outlines common patterns for agentic systems, including prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, and agents, and provides ...

Grayjay Desktop App

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Watch content on your own terms, ensuring you retain full ownership and control over what you watch. Your content, your way. "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

A Raycaster in Bash

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Bash is slow and lacks features for video game development. It's inefficient for tasks like updating the screen and handling user input.

When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland?

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The author visited Rossdohan Island in Ireland, a privately owned island with exotic sub-tropical gardens planted by Samuel Heard in the 1870s. The island's gardens have been abandoned and now stand as a wilderness, home to various species of plants and insects.

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

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Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, with a new high of students abstaining from alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine. Experts attribute the decline to the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have started a wave of abstention among teens.

The era of open voice assistants

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Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is a private and open-source voice assistant hardware that lets users control their smart home devices without relying on big tech. It's affordable, easy to set up, and customizable, with a sleek design and industry-leading audio processing capabilities.

Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

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Skip to main content Artemis is designed to be slow and minimal. It's a calm place to see what's new on your favorite websites, with no urgency. I have tried my best to make this service accessible. If you notice any issues, please feel free to contact me.

Testing for Thermal Issues Becomes More Difficult

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Increasingly complex and heterogeneous architectures, coupled with the adoption of high-performance materials, are making it much more difficult to identify and test for thermal issues in advanced packages. For a single SoC, compressing higher functionality into a smaller area concentrates the processing and makes thermal effects more predictable. But that processing can happen anywhere in an ...

Tldraw Computer

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tldraw computer - a computer by tldraw.

Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript

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The boardgame.io library allows developers to create playable games with online multiplayer features without writing networking or storage code. It provides a view-layer agnostic framework with features like game logs and time travel, and is easily extensible through contributions.

A bestiary of exotic hadrons

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Scientists at the LHC have discovered 76 new particles, including 23 exotic hadrons whose structure cannot be explained. The discovery of these exotic hadrons is a fascinating detective story, motivating rival schools of thought among theorists.

Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents

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celine/bibhtml is a Web Components-based referencing system for HTML documents, providing a similar user experience to LaTeX/BibTeX. It uses Citation.js and supports 4 reference formats, rendering citations in a formatted list.

A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (2021)

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a type of neural network that can operate on graph data, which is a flexible data structure that can represent various types of data such as social networks, molecules, and images. GNNs can be used to solve various graph prediction tasks, including graph-level, node-level, and edge-level tasks, and can be built using the "message passing neural network" ...

Ghost artists on Spotify

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Spotify's Perfect Fit Content (PFC) program secretly replaced real music with low-budget stock music on playlists, prioritizing profit over artist well-being and cultural authenticity. This practice, which involves ghost artists creating music for a flat fee, has led to a devaluation of music and a blurring of the lines between art and commerce, potentially paving the way for AI-generated ...

MoonBit compiler is available on GitHub

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MoonBit compiler with Wasm backend is now open source on GitHub, allowing community involvement in its future. The source code is released under a permissive variant of the Server Side Public License for openness and security.

Kelly Can't Fail

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The Kelly betting strategy is risk-free with zero variance in a card game called "Next Card Bet" where the player bets on the color of the next card. The strategy is equivalent to a portfolio of sub-strategies, each betting on a specific arrangement of red and black cards, resulting in a guaranteed return of 9.08 times the initial stake.

Ascending Mount FujiNet

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The user built a FujiNet cartridge for their CoCo1 computer, which adds internet support and replaces traditional peripherals, and encountered several issues including a faulty keyboard, a reset bug, and a problem with the ESP32's power supply. After resolving these issues and installing a new keyboard membrane, the user was able to successfully use the FujiNet cartridge to load games and ...

A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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A camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from a car after the owner's AirTag battery died, prompting the creation of TimeCapsule to extend battery life. TimeCapsule provides 10 years of power for AirTags with a simple AA battery replacement.

Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes

When using inline assembly, follow six basic rules to avoid common mistakes: use volatile, include a memory clobber if accessing memory, and avoid modifying inputs and using the call qualifier. By following these rules, you can write safe and correct inline assembly code that avoids the pitfalls of this treacherous interface between high and low level programming languages.

Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file

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Nullboard is a minimalist task list manager with a compact design, offline use, and automatic backups. It allows for in-place editing, note collapsing, and link recognition, making it a comfortable alternative to cloud-based options.

The Christmas story of one tube station's 'Mind the Gap' voice (2019)

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A woman's grief over losing her husband's voice on the London Underground led to a heartwarming story of love and loss. His voice was restored at Embankment station after a team worked to digitize and revive the 45-year-old recording.

How to lose a fortune with one bad click

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Adam Griffin and Tony were victims of a phishing scam where scammers impersonated Google to steal their cryptocurrency, with the scammers using Google Forms and Google Authenticator to gain access to their accounts. The scammers used social engineering tactics to convince the victims to click on prompts and enter their seed phrases, resulting in the loss of nearly $5 million in cryptocurrency.

Why eating less slows ageing: this molecule is key

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For decades, researchers have been trying to unravel why a severe and prolonged reduction in calorie intake extends life for many animals. Now, a team has found a molecule that could provide caloric restriction in a pill ― at least for flies and worms. The molecule, called lithocholic acid, is made by bacteria in the gut and aids the digestion of fats. In two papers1,2 published on 18 ...

The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun

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The Parker Solar Probe is a NASA spacecraft that will make its closest approach to the Sun on Christmas Eve, enduring temperatures of over 2,500° Fahrenheit. The probe aims to study the solar wind, a fundamental constituent of the Solar System, and understand its origins.

Clay – UI Layout Library

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The input appears to be a random collection of characters. There is no coherent message or text that can be summarized.

My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher

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Philosophers can form friendships with ancient thinkers by immersing themselves in their words and cultural context, allowing for a deeper understanding of their ideas. This practice helps philosophers cultivate virtues and navigate complex situations by considering the perspectives of their ancient friends.

DOS APPEND

The DOS APPEND command is a TSR that allows old DOS applications to find files in directories other than the current one, making it useful for organizing files in multiple directories. It was first introduced in the IBM PC Network Program in 1985 and later integrated into DOS 3.3 in 1987, allowing it to become an internal command once installed.