Getting Forked by Microsoft

1281 phillebaba 2025-04-21 11:41:15 UTC philiplaine.com Llama Share 664

The user developed an open-source project called Spegel to solve image registry downtime issues in Kubernetes clusters, but it was later forked by Microsoft without proper credit or contribution back to the original project. This experience has led the user to question how sole maintainers can collaborate with large corporations without being taken advantage of and has sparked a consideration ...

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue

79 toebee 2025-04-21 17:41:15 UTC github.com/nari-labs Llama Share 27

Dia is an open weights text to dialogue model that generates highly realistic dialogue with emotion and tone control. It can be used for research and educational purposes, but not for illegal or malicious activities.

A New Form of Verification on Bluesky

63 ink_13 2025-04-21 16:41:15 UTC bsky.social Llama Share 21

Bluesky introduced domain handles and a blue check for verification, with over 270,000 accounts linked to their website. The blue check is issued by Bluesky or trusted verifiers, marked by a scalloped check, to ensure authenticity.

Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

25 BoingBoomTschak 2025-04-21 17:41:15 UTC world-playground-deceit.net Llama Share 5

The user created a workaround in Tcl to mimic keyword parameters and UNIX-like options, but it involves complex code generation and string manipulation. The workaround uses a custom quasiquote command to selectively substitute strings, which is a common but cumbersome task in Tcl due to its lack of metaprogramming features.

Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

67 alexdanilowicz 2025-04-21 14:41:15 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 31

Alex and Teddy, former frontend engineers, created Magic Patterns, an AI prototyping tool for PMs and designers to create interactive designs and websites. It allows users to visually communicate ideas, get feedback, and test new features with a free trial available at https://www.magicpatterns.com.

FTC Takes Action Against Uber for Deceptive Billing and Cancellation Practices

56 pinewurst 2025-04-21 17:41:15 UTC ftc.gov Full Share 12

The .gov means it’s official. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site. The site is secure. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad

11 hackandthink 2025-04-21 17:41:15 UTC statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Full Share 0

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Out of the Fog

104 wapasta 2025-04-21 15:41:15 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 17

Operation Babylift was a 1975 US effort to rescue Vietnamese children during the fall of Saigon, but it left a complex legacy of adoption and identity issues for the children involved. Many adoptees struggle with feelings of disconnection and foreignness, and some face challenges in obtaining US citizenship.

Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in San Francisco

0 2025-04-21 17:41:15 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Spark is building an AI tool to help energy developers navigate regulations and invest in solar farms. They're looking for an early engineer to design APIs, AI infrastructure, and data pipelines.

Python's new t-strings

465 tambourine_man 2025-04-21 04:41:15 UTC davepeck.org Llama Share 335

Template strings, or t-strings, are a safer and more flexible way to process strings in Python, especially for user input. They evaluate to a new type, string.templatelib.Template, which can be processed before use to safely escape dynamic content.

Why LLM-Powered Programming Is More Mech Suit Than Artificial Human

135 matthewsinclair 2025-04-21 14:41:15 UTC matthewsinclair.com Llama Share 91

The author used AI tool Claude Code to build two apps, generating 30k lines of code, and learned that AI amplifies human capabilities rather than replacing them. Effective collaboration with AI requires human oversight, judgment, and control to avoid mistakes and achieve desired results.

Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing

41 dgellow 2025-04-21 15:41:15 UTC sam.elborai.me Llama Share 10

The user explores the concept of a tabular programming model inspired by the m8 Dirtywave tracker, where code is organized into a structured table with each function defined as rows with fixed columns. This approach encourages breaking down complex operations into atomic, composable functions and can lead to new programming paradigms when combined with minimal hardware controls.

AI assisted search-based research works now

40 simonw 2025-04-21 14:41:15 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 31

Recent LLMs have improved in search-based research tasks, providing accurate results without hallucinations. Models like OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini, and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, have crossed the line into being genuinely useful research assistants.

Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

187 gslin 2025-04-21 07:41:15 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 66

Researchers like Martin Karsten have found a way to reduce data center energy consumption by optimizing the Linux operating system's network traffic processing. Their technique, which dynamically waits for network traffic, can decrease power consumption by up to 30 percent.

Decentralizing Schemes

16 NotInOurNames 2025-04-21 16:41:15 UTC tbray.org Llama Share 2

The user discusses the challenges of decentralized social media, specifically the difficulties of sharing content and migrating posts between different platforms, and proposes using URI schemes to solve these problems. They suggest that registering URI schemes for decentralized social media platforms, such as "fedi:" for the Fediverse, could enable seamless sharing and migration of content ...

Show HN: Light like the Terminal – Meet GTK LLM Chat Front End

10 icarito 2025-04-21 16:41:15 UTC github.com/icarito Full Share 1

A GTK graphical interface for chatting with large language models (LLMs) - icarito/gtk-llm-chat

Local LLM inference – impressive but too hard to work with

4 aazo11 2025-04-21 17:41:15 UTC medium.com/@aazo11 Prefix Share 1

I stumbled into local inference during a side quest. The main mission was to build a text-to-SQL product. Curiosity hijacked the roadmap: could I cram an entire GenBI stack into the browser? The prototype never shipped. But I did fall into the local inference rabbit hole. Though “AI inference” is not a listed feature on my laptop spec sheet — through the magic of open source software it can ...

Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

340 xfeeefeee 2025-04-21 02:41:15 UTC github.com/lukasogunfeitimi Llama Share 96

TikTok uses a custom bytecode virtual machine for obfuscation and security, which was deobfuscated and decompiled to reveal its functionality. The decompiled VM supports scopes, nested functions, and exception handling, and can be used to generate signatures for authentication-based requests, such as posting comments on TikTok.

The campaign to subvert Africa's internet registry

53 greyface- 2025-04-21 16:41:15 UTC capeindependent.com GoogleT5 Share 12

Dwindling supply of ipv4 numbers has stimulated a lucrative secondary market for them. afrinic was crippled in its ability to perform its critical functions, writes samuel taylor - he is now the receiver of the ailing organisation '. the number resource society (nrs) is run by paul wollner, and based in morocco – and some of its candidates were employed at la

Haskelling My Python

111 barrenko 2025-04-21 08:41:15 UTC unnamed.website Llama Share 44

User defines an infinite generator for positive integers in Python using recursion and uses it to integrate a Taylor series to define e^x. The trick also works with Python's fractions module for rational numbers and can be optimized with a memoization decorator to avoid recursion limits.

Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram

77 dimonomid 2025-04-21 11:41:15 UTC github.com/dimonomid Llama Share 26

Nerdlog is a fast, remote-first TUI log viewer with timeline histogram, no central server, and efficient querying of logs from multiple remote machines. It supports filtering by time range and patterns, and can be used to read system logs from one or more remote hosts.

The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (1997) [video]

15 ColinWright 2025-04-21 14:41:15 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 1

Coding Neon Kernels for the Cortex-A53

8 yeko 2025-04-21 15:41:15 UTC destevez.net Prefix Share 4

Some weeks ago, I presented at FOSDEM my work-in-progress high performance SDR runtime qsdr. I showed a hand-written NEON assembly implementation of a kernel that computes \(y[n] = ax[n] + b\), which I used as the basic math block for benchmarks on a Kria KV260 board (which has a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 at 1.33 GHz). In that talk I glossed over the details of how I implemented this NEON ...

The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)

36 geox 2025-04-21 14:41:15 UTC tontinecoffeehouse.com Llama Share 17

The Buttonwood Agreement in 1792 set the foundation for the New York Stock Exchange, and its startup capital was provided by a tontine, an antique insurance product that combined retirement planning with a lottery. The Tontine Coffee-House, financed by this tontine, became a hub for traders and eventually evolved into the New York Stock Exchange.

Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing

81 onnnon 2025-04-21 14:41:15 UTC psypost.org Llama Share 34

Researchers found that handwriting activates more extensive brain networks than typing, particularly in regions linked to memory and sensory processing. This suggests that handwriting should remain an essential part of education, especially for young children, to foster cognitive growth.

Things Zig comptime won't do

440 JadedBlueEyes 2025-04-20 18:41:15 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 179

Zig's comptime feature is a powerful abstraction that allows for compile-time evaluation, but it's restrictive and doesn't allow dynamic code generation or input/output operations. It's designed to be hermetic, reproducible, safe, and cacheable.

Ref Butts and Slam Dunks: What It's Like Photographing an NBA Game

37 PaulHoule 2025-04-21 10:41:15 UTC petapixel.com Llama Share 21

Photographer Chris Day faces challenges at NBA games due to referees and players blocking his shots. He uses two cameras and a wide-angle lens to capture game action and reactions from players, coaches, and fans.

Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

571 emrah 2025-04-20 18:41:15 UTC developers.googleblog.com Llama Share 259

We launched Gemma 3, a leading AI model, and optimized it with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) for reduced memory requirements. This enables running powerful models like Gemma 3 27B locally on consumer-grade GPUs.

Pope Francis has died

762 phillipharris 2025-04-21 08:41:15 UTC reuters.com Full Share 528

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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

419 imakwana 2025-04-21 04:41:15 UTC nber.org Llama Share 413

Researchers with ties to Meta include Matthew Gentzkow, who was a paid consultant, and others who received funding or attended Meta events. Some researchers also own Meta stocks or have ties to related companies.