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The past year saw significant advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), including increased context lengths, multi-modal capabilities, and improved efficiency, leading to lower costs and reduced environmental impact. Despite these advancements, there are still concerns about the limitations and potential pitfalls of LLMs, and a need for better education and guidance on how to use these ...
A magician performs an impossible trick by burying multiple boxes in a park months in advance, then using sleight of hand to deduce the chosen card. This requires extreme preparation and patience, but can be achieved through incremental steps and repetition.
The Zildjian family has been making cymbals for over 400 years, with a secret process that began in Constantinople in the 1600s. The company, now based in Massachusetts, produces over a million cymbals annually, with a proprietary alloy that is still a closely guarded secret.
The email celebrates the wonders of Artificial Intelligence, highlighting its complexities, predictive analytics, and AI-generated content. However, it also humorously criticizes AI's limitations and potential for absurdity.
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has made significant breakthroughs in AI research, including its latest R1 model beating OpenAI's o1 on multiple reasoning benchmarks, and has committed to open sourcing all of its models. Its CEO, Liang Wenfeng, has a unique approach to innovation, focusing on foundational technology and AGI, and has attracted top talent through its open-source approach and ...
Arnis is a Rust-based tool that generates Minecraft worlds with real-world geography and architecture. It uses OpenStreetMap data and leverages Rust's capabilities for efficient and robust world generation.
A port of librw and re3 to the Dreamcast https://dca3.net
The user is a solo entrepreneur who built a successful SaaS product but struggled to learn how to commercialize it and get in front of customers, and is seeking advice from others who have succeeded in this field. The user has tried various resources and strategies, including networking, SEO, and focusing on the "long game," but is looking for more nuanced and effective advice on how to find ...
Chinese government-backed hackers accessed systems of AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies, gaining ability to geolocate millions and record phone calls. The White House added another unnamed company to the list of breached telecom firms, bringing total to nine.
The author shares common pitfalls in software engineering, including assuming something can be made pluggable, adding APIs, abstracting complexity, making things asynchronous, adding access controls later, syncing data, and making things cross-platform, which often fail due to complexity and unforeseen consequences. The author advises engineers to solve problems with first principles and ...
A company, ORG, built an in-house system SVC to replace a costly SaaS, but after the original developer X10 left, the system became difficult to maintain due to a lack of understanding of its design and functionality. This is because software development is not just about producing code, but also about building a mental model of the system, which is lost when the original developers leave, ...
Researchers developed Chain of Continuous Thought (CoCoNut) to enable large language models to reason in a continuous latent space. This method allows models to alternate between language mode and latent thought mode, enhancing reasoning capabilities.
To build darktable from source, download the tar.xz file and clone the git repository for convenience. Note that updates from the 4.8 series will not be compatible with the new library and configuration.
A 20-year-old US Army soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, was arrested and indicted for being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who sold and leaked stolen customer call records. Wagenius allegedly worked with Connor Riley Moucka, aka Judische, and was involved in hacking into telecom firms and selling stolen data.
The smartphone app boom has become a burden, with most native apps feeling redundant and cluttering phones unnecessarily. Web apps have caught up, offering flexibility, speed, and seamless cross-device compatibility.
Three AI models recommend stocks to trade based on market analysis. FTAI Aviation and Tilray are recommended for their growth prospects and strategic partnerships.
LineageOS 22.1 is now available, based on Android 15 QPR1, with new features, improved performance, and support for various devices. The release includes a new music app, Twelve, and a native PDF reader app, Camelot, as well as several other improvements and bug fixes.
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Morris Chang founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in 1987, revolutionizing the semiconductor industry with a "foundry" model. Chang's career was marked by both success and failure, but his perseverance ultimately led to TSMC's rapid growth and dominance in the industry.
A new terminal emulator called Ghostty was released in December 2024, but it had a security issue, CVE-2024-56803, similar to a 2003 issue in terminals. The issue allows an attacker to inject user-controllable text into the terminal, potentially leading to a remote attack over SSH.
The user plans to build a complete game in 2025 and has been researching game making tools, focusing on LÖVE, a framework for making 2D games in Lua. They have built prototypes and found LÖVE's API to be simple and powerful.
Grafana transforms raw data into beautiful dashboards with panels of graphs and other visualizations. It supports various data sources and accommodates a wide range of use cases, including monitoring server health and creating a free weather dashboard.
A German family watches a British comedy sketch "Dinner for One" every New Year's Eve, but it's finally being broadcast on British TV. The sketch, a 1963 black-and-white comedy, has been a German New Year's Eve tradition since 1972.
Gource displays a 3D tree of a repository with contributors appearing and disappearing. It can generate logs in various formats and display captions along the timeline.
The Dog Aging Project is a community science initiative studying canine aging to improve human health. It invites dog owners to enroll their dogs in a study to collect health data and advance medical research.
The user is summarizing the 2024 Amiga game releases, including full games and prototypes, and providing links to the games and developers. The user also mentions that the Amiga scene is becoming more popular with the release of new games and the versatility of the Amiga platform.
BYD now has the world's largest R&D workforce with over 900,000 employees after a hiring spree. The company aims to continue climbing the global sales charts with new tech for longer-range, more affordable EVs.
The author emphasizes the importance of types in software design, arguing that they are a crucial aspect of abstraction and should be the focus of design, not just implementation details. Types help structure programs and enable machine understanding, allowing for automated refactorings and greater correctness properties.
Microsoft's Windows 2, released in 1987, was initially considered a failure due to its limitations and lack of user-friendly features. However, its development was influenced by the work of Charles Simonyi, Richard Brodie, and other pioneers in the field of graphical user interfaces, who drew inspiration from Xerox PARC's Alto and Apple's Lisa.
Employer.com acquires Bench to expand services and enhance value for small business owners. Bench customers will continue with same expert bookkeepers and secure data, with future enhancements and capabilities.
Org-supertag enhances org-mode's tag functionality by allowing tags to manipulate nodes and enabling flexible knowledge management. It provides a non-intrusive design, automated operations, and unified searching capabilities.
The user discusses the capabilities of multicellular organism cells, specifically adult human lung epithelial cells, which can be used to create Anthrobots, autonomous biorobots that can interact with other tissue types and potentially heal neural tissue. The user also discusses the potential of Anthrobots for personalized medicine, regenerative medicine, and diverse intelligence research, ...
pee.ie is a shared Google map of public toilets in Ireland that relies on user updates. Users can submit or update existing toilet locations and support businesses that host them.
The user, a software engineer, has realized that doing what one loves and gives them purpose is not a problem, but rather a gift, and that it's essential to maintain multiple sources of meaning and engagement to prevent things from becoming an obsession. They propose a protocol for achieving a healthy balance between work and life, which involves accepting one's love for their work, setting ...
The author re-implemented their 2004 video game Darklaga Cannonball Symphony as a web page that runs directly in the browser, using technologies expected to be present 20 years from now. The remake is a single HTML page that downloads a binary blob containing JavaScript code, sprites, and sounds.
Walter Isaacson is a renowned author and journalist who has written biographies of notable figures such as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Ben Franklin. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute and has held various leadership positions at Time and CNN.
To generate an RSA key, you need to find two prime numbers, which involves generating random numbers, checking for small divisors, and running a few Miller-Rabin tests. To benchmark this process, you can use a pre-generated "golden sequence" of candidates that simulates the average case, allowing for stable and representative benchmarking results.
SQLFlow enables SQL-based stream-processing using DuckDB, executing SQL against streaming data from sources like Kafka or webhooks. It supports high throughput and tumbling window aggregations, shipping data to sinks like Kafka.
You're developing an open source CLI tool called t2x that uses language models for text operations. You plan to share updates via weekly emails once it's available on GitHub.
The user needs to render a 64 Hz screen with 8x8 pixel tiles in 50,000 CPU cycles, but the current loop takes 47,600 cycles. The user is trying to optimize the tile rendering to fit within the time limit.
A challenging and fun game about connecting dots without crossing lines, perfect for all ages.
The author is sad about Nassim Nicholas Taleb's decline from a profound thinker to a Twitter personality, repeating the same ideas. The author believes that being in the spotlight kills original thinking due to the need to appeal to a large audience.
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Disney's villain songs have declined in quality over the years, with only a few notable exceptions. The recent "Bye Bye" from Mufasa: The Lion King is a disappointing example of a villain song that fails to establish the character's personality or menace.
Sandia engineers test a liquid cooling system that submerges computers in a non-conductive fluid to reduce energy consumption by 70%. This approach could reshape data center designs and address growing power and water demands for high-performance computing.
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Historian Caroline Elkins argues that British liberal imperialism was a more malevolent influence on world history than Nazi Fascism due to its systematic use of violence and repression. Elkins' book "Legacy of Violence" challenges the conventional view of the British Empire as a benevolent force, instead revealing a pattern of brutal suppression and violence across its colonies.
Built with modern web technologies and designed for developers.Every feature is open source and community-driven. Share an image of your benchmark results or a link for others to run them on their own. BenchJS thrives on community contributions. From bug fixes to new features, every improvement comes from developers like you.
An intern named Justin failed a security quiz and was tricked into accessing restricted areas, but the experience made him a perfect candidate for an IT security job. His newfound paranoia proved to be a valuable asset in the field.
Researchers use activation engineering to modify LLMs' personalities, aiming for better interpretability and safety. This study explores dynamic fine-tuning of LLM personalities, examining ethical implications.
Hamburg alchemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus in 1669 by distilling urine, initially seeking gold. His discovery led to the development of matches and marked a shift from alchemy to modern chemistry.
Tirreno is a free, open-source security tool for monitoring online platforms and detecting threats. It provides real-time analytics and can be installed on a web server for use as a standalone application.
Using YYYY in Java's SimpleDateFormat class can cause issues around year changes as it represents the year of the week, not the calendar year. Always use yyyy instead, which represents the calendar year, and consider adding linting or checks to ensure YYYY is not used.
HN could benefit from a TLS upgrade to v1.3 and disabling older protocols, but post-quantum cryptography may not be necessary yet due to its limited implementation. Frequent certificate reissuance could be a simpler security measure.