Nobody cares

1000 fzliu 2025-01-15 04:15:43 UTC 954 grantslatton.com Llama Share

People don't care about making things better, leading to subpar experiences in various aspects of life. This lack of care is evident in government, technology, and everyday interactions, resulting in a society where people are more focused on themselves than others.

I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research

755 toomuchtodo 2025-01-15 21:23:55 UTC 414 hindenburgresearch.com Llama Share

The founder of Hindenburg Research is disbanding the company after completing its pipeline of ideas, feeling a sense of joy and fulfillment after a life's dream. He plans to share the company's model and investigative process with the public, hoping to inspire others to shed light on important subjects.

TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday

677 xnhbx 2025-01-15 12:57:31 UTC 1776 reuters.com Full Share

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Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?

595 MattSayar 2025-01-15 15:55:13 UTC 354 mattsayar.com Llama Share

The user is happy with Cloudflare Pages and notes the abundance of free hosting options with generous tiers, but warns of bandwidth limits. Cloudflare's unlimited bandwidth for small static sites like theirs is strategic, making security tools widely available and benefiting from a fast, secure internet.

Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture

465 greyface- 2025-01-15 05:15:24 UTC 275 ij.org Llama Share

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Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza

455 dnsbty 2025-01-15 20:26:49 UTC 1273 reuters.com Full Share

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Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)

423 redbell 2025-01-15 19:34:01 UTC 321 apnews.com Llama Share

Sweden is reversing its digitalized education approach, focusing on printed books and traditional learning methods due to concerns over declining basic skills. The government plans to end digital learning for children under 6 and invest in book purchases to improve reading performance.

US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods

420 toomuchtodo 2025-01-15 15:01:15 UTC 559 bloomberg.com Full Share

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world

Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M

417 csantini 2025-01-15 08:47:38 UTC 243 claudio.uk Llama Share

User created Audiblez, a tool to convert ebooks to audiobooks using Kokoro TTS model. It supports multiple languages and voices, but has some rough edges and requires additional files and ffmpeg installation.

A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon

404 ohjeez 2025-01-15 18:12:55 UTC 233 mcsweeneys.net Llama Share

Gary proposes to Cindy, who accepts. They discuss planning their finances together.

UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

355 this_weekend 2025-01-15 20:26:07 UTC 305 fortune.com Full Share

FTC Chair Lina Khan has the big three pharmacy benefit managers in sight—UnitedHealth's OptumRx, Cigna's Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx.

Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace

330 lars_francke 2025-01-15 14:15:17 UTC 452 theverge.com Llama Share

Google is making its AI features in Gmail and Docs free, but increasing Workspace prices by $2 per user per month. This move aims to make AI more accessible to businesses and compete with Microsoft and others in the AI-powered office suite market.

100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem

328 jwan584 2025-01-15 21:19:15 UTC 174 cerebras.ai Llama Share

Cerebras achieved comparable yields with a 50x larger chip by designing small, fault-tolerant cores and a dynamic routing system. This approach enables 93% silicon utilization, higher than leading GPUs.

WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

273 lr0 2025-01-15 15:17:00 UTC 267 wtfhappenedin1971.com Full Share

"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." - F.A. Hayek 1984

Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

247 keepamovin 2025-01-15 15:27:55 UTC 108 github.com/cessen Llama Share

Ropey is a fast and robust UTF8 text rope for Rust, designed for text editors. It handles huge texts and memory-incoherent edits with ease, but may introduce bloat for small texts.

GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects

245 LorenDB 2025-01-15 17:35:34 UTC 38 gamingonlinux.com Llama Share

GOG joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects to expand game preservation efforts. This move reinforces GOG's commitment to safeguarding classic games for future generations.

Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

243 lakshikag 2025-01-15 16:09:07 UTC 105 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Indie maker shares struggles of launching product on big platforms, feeling invisible and overshadowed. New platform aims to give solo makers and small teams a fair shot at visibility with voting and "Under Radar" features.

2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

236 benbreen 2025-01-15 21:35:41 UTC 90 resobscura.substack.com Llama Share

Archaeologists in Spain discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman tomb containing a remarkably preserved wine urn, the oldest wine ever found. The discovery highlights the intersection of science, technology, and history, offering a unique glimpse into ancient life.

Modern JavaScript for Django developers

236 rob 2025-01-15 14:49:28 UTC 154 saaspegasus.com Llama Share

This guide helps Django developers navigate the modern JavaScript ecosystem and integrate it with Django projects. It covers setting up front-end codebases, JavaScript tooling, and frameworks like React and Vue.

dnSpyEx: .NET debugger and assembly editor

205 unleaded 2025-01-15 19:54:44 UTC 27 github.com/dnspyex Llama Share

dnSpyEx is a debugger and .NET assembly editor that allows editing and debugging without source code. It features variables windows, in-memory image debugging, and public API for extension and control.

OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers

199 onetokeoverthe 2025-01-15 23:41:52 UTC 155 petapixel.com Llama Share

OpenAI missed its 2025 deadline for Media Manager, a tool to help photographers exclude their work from AI training data. The tool's development status is unclear, with some questioning its priority and feasibility due to complex copyright and compensation issues.

Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets

183 adrian_mrd 2025-01-15 17:52:21 UTC 136 theguardian.com Llama Share

Qantas has delayed several flights to South Africa due to warnings of SpaceX rocket debris re-entering Earth over the southern Indian Ocean. The airline receives last-minute warnings and tries to notify customers as soon as possible of any changes to their flights.

Sky-scanning complete for Gaia

175 sohkamyung 2025-01-15 09:43:03 UTC 67 esa.int Llama Share

ESA's Gaia space telescope has completed its sky-scanning phase, observing over 3 trillion stars and objects. Its data has been accessed 580 million times, leading to over 13,000 scientific papers.

Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs

155 hardmaru 2025-01-15 00:37:35 UTC 50 sakana.ai Llama Share

Researchers developed Transformer², a self-adaptive machine learning system that adjusts its weights for various tasks, enabling LLMs to dynamically adapt to new tasks in real time. This system outperforms traditional approaches in efficiency and task-specific performance, promising a future where AI models are no longer static.

Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time

149 bicepjai 2025-01-15 22:39:49 UTC 33 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers developed a neural long-term memory module to improve recurrent models and attention, allowing for fast parallelizable training and inference. The new module, called Titans, outperforms Transformers and other models on various tasks, including language modeling and genomics.

Rsync vulnerabilities

145 pavodive 2025-01-15 02:45:54 UTC 22 openwall.com Llama Share

Two independent groups of researchers found 6 vulnerabilities in rsync, including a severe one that allows arbitrary code execution with anonymous read access. Upstream has prepared patches for these CVEs, which will be included in rsync 3.4.0.

Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT

129 isaacdl 2025-01-15 20:20:12 UTC 74 help.openai.com Llama Share

ChatGPT now offers scheduled tasks in beta for Plus, Pro, and Team plan users, allowing automated prompts and proactive reach outs. Users can create tasks by clicking on their profile icon and selecting Tasks, or by asking ChatGPT directly.

Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep

126 Jimmc414 2025-01-15 15:14:33 UTC 90 cell.com Llama Share

Research studies explore the brain's glymphatic system, which clears interstitial solutes and facilitates cerebrospinal fluid flow. Sleep and neural activity influence glymphatic function, with implications for memory, cognition, and cerebrovascular health.

Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies

122 tison 2025-01-15 15:13:06 UTC 138 tisonkun.io Llama Share

We built ScopeDB, a shared-disk architecture database in the cloud, using Rust and its open-source ecosystem, contributing back to upstreams and open-sourcing common libraries. We follow a hybrid approach, keeping ScopeDB private while contributing to open-source dependencies and maintaining an open-source twin to share engineering experience.

Has LLM killed traditional NLP?

110 vietthangif 2025-01-15 07:26:35 UTC 116 medium.com/altitudehq Llama Share

NLP has a long development period with various smaller problems like text classification and Named Entity Recognition. Large Language Models like ChatGPT can tackle NLP problems more easily with zero-shot prompts.

Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit

104 chiffre01 2025-01-15 19:58:16 UTC 83 wyofile.com Llama Share

The Wyoming Industrial Siting Council granted TerraPower a construction permit for its Natrium nuclear power plant near Kemmerer, a milestone for commercial-scale "advanced nuclear" energy. The permit allows non-nuclear construction to begin while a separate permit application is pending before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin's Children Left on His Manuscripts

104 cainxinth 2025-01-15 14:18:32 UTC 42 openculture.com Llama Share

Charles Darwin's family life was intertwined with his scientific work, with his children serving as subjects and assistants. His kids, including Francis, George, and Horace, showed great scientific curiosity and creativity through their drawings and contributions to his research.

Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

87 alexrustic 2025-01-15 20:06:37 UTC 63 blog.google Llama Share

Google partners with AP to deliver real-time information to the Gemini app, enhancing search results for users. This collaboration aims to provide timely and accurate news, leveraging AI technology to empower journalists and strengthen local journalism.

The Trouble with Elon

80 pulisse 2025-01-15 21:01:46 UTC 65 samharris.substack.com Llama Share

Author had a falling out with Elon Musk over their differing views on the COVID-19 pandemic. Their disagreement started with a tweet by Musk downplaying the virus and escalated into a $1 million wager that Musk lost.

TCL's bet on screens that look like paper

79 rpgbr 2025-01-15 12:50:15 UTC 75 notes.ghed.in Llama Share

TCL announced NXTPAPER 4.0 at CES 2025, improving brightness and introducing "Max Ink Mode" for reduced eye strain. The TCL 60 XE phone with NXTPAPER 5G will be released in Canada in May for USD 199.

Show HN: News Minimalist – News ranked by significance

78 yakhinvadim 2025-01-15 20:35:15 UTC 59 newsminimalist.com Full Share

News Minimalist is the AI curator that finds the 1% of stories actually worth reading. Experience only important news without junk, clickbait, or ads.

Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th

74 leotravis10 2025-01-15 16:16:58 UTC 88 theverge.com Llama Share

Microsoft will stop supporting Office apps on Windows 10 in October 2025, but apps will still function with potential issues. Users will need to upgrade to Windows 11 to continue using Microsoft 365 apps.

Trapped in the dark for 35 hours – Red Sea dive-boat survivors tell of escapes

72 nradov 2025-01-15 05:35:03 UTC 85 bbc.com Llama Share

A Red Sea dive boat, the Sea Story, sank on November 25, killing at least 11 people and leaving many survivors trapped in the wreckage. Survivors blame crew error and safety failings, contradicting the initial claim of a huge wave causing the disaster.

AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

69 monkeydust 2025-01-15 16:09:37 UTC 128 bbc.co.uk Llama Share

A French woman was conned out of €830,000 by scammers posing as Brad Pitt, leading to a wave of mockery and a TV show being withdrawn. The woman, 53, has spoken out saying she was not crazy but got played by sophisticated scammers using AI and deepfakes.

Ludum Dare 2025 is cancelled

68 JSLegendDev 2025-01-15 21:17:53 UTC 18 ludumdare.com Llama Share

Ludum Dare organizer is stepping down due to financial, medical, and family reasons. They will focus on finding work and taking care of themselves and their family.

Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms

68 sanusihassan 2025-01-15 20:30:30 UTC 35 saveplays.com Llama Share

SavePlays.com is an online video downloader that allows users to easily download videos in high-definition MP4 format. Simply paste the video URL, select the desired quality, and click the Download button to save the video.

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

62 rntn 2025-01-15 13:23:30 UTC 80 theregister.com Llama Share

US adults are resistant to returning to the office, with 46% saying they'd quit if forced to, and women and younger people more likely to prefer remote work. Many tech companies are enforcing return to work policies despite research suggesting it may cost them top talent.

Gemini Advanced now included in Google Workspace

59 simonpure 2025-01-15 18:24:36 UTC 3 workspace.google.com Llama Share

Google Workspace now includes the best of Google AI in its Business and Enterprise plans, making AI accessible to every business at an affordable price. This move aims to simplify plans and pricing, allowing customers to unlock employee productivity, creativity, and innovation without additional costs.

South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested, local media reports

53 r721 2025-01-15 01:58:24 UTC 25 cnbc.com Llama Share

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested by the Corruption Investigation Office for High Ranking officials. He faces charges of insurrection after declaring martial law, which was later voted down by lawmakers.

Train faster static embedding models with sentence transformers

52 stephantul 2025-01-15 20:06:14 UTC 1 huggingface.co Llama Share

Researchers trained static embedding models that run 100x to 400x faster on CPU than state-of-the-art models while retaining most quality. The models, sentence-transformers/static-retrieval-mrl-en-v1 and static-similarity-mrl-multilingual-v1, are suitable for on-device and in-browser execution, edge computing, and low power applications.

Maintaining and sustaining soil health

50 dnetesn 2025-01-15 13:42:45 UTC 26 worldsensorium.com Llama Share

Soil is a vital component of ecosystems, supporting a vast array of living organisms and serving as a foundation for plant growth. However, soil health is frequently ignored and is being degraded at an alarming rate due to erosion and industrial agriculture practices.

I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton

48 true_pk 2025-01-15 05:22:12 UTC 77 shilin.ca Llama Share

The user transitioned from Google to Proton services, but had issues with Proton Calendar, specifically with exporting and syncing calendars. They were unable to add events to their calendar from other apps due to Proton's limitations.

Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a

43 Wasserpuncher 2025-01-15 16:59:11 UTC 23 minecraft.net Llama Share

Minecraft has a new game tests system with block-based tests and function tests that can be run from code in mods, and the system has been updated with new features and commands. The game also has new equipment slot for saddles and other items, and various bug fixes have been implemented in the latest snapshot.

Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI

43 rntn 2025-01-15 16:09:44 UTC 64 theregister.com Llama Share

Businesses adopting AI are unprepared for its energy demands, with 72% of corporate leaders aware of the issue but only 13% monitoring power consumption. AI's increasing complexity and power-hungry GPUs are driving energy woes, prompting companies to seek more efficient cooling solutions.

German economy contracts 0.2% in 2024 in second consecutive annual slowdown

41 belter 2025-01-15 13:57:58 UTC 105 cnbc.com Llama Share

The German economy contracted by 0.2% in 2024 due to cyclical and structural pressures. The country's GDP fell 0.1% in the fourth quarter, with economists warning of stagnation in 2025 unless policy reforms are introduced.

Show HN: LLMpeg

41 jjcm 2025-01-15 02:29:43 UTC 10 github.com/jjcm Full Share

Uses an llm to generate ffmpeg commands. Contribute to jjcm/llmpeg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fixing a real world bug in Redis vector sets with LLMs [video]

36 epolanski 2025-01-15 11:14:59 UTC 4 youtube.com Embed Share

Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step In

35 teqsun 2025-01-15 18:12:50 UTC 139 aclu.org Llama Share

The Supreme Court is set to decide on TikTok v Garland, a case that could ban the popular app in the US, potentially endangering First Amendment rights. The ACLU argues the government has not met the high bar to ban TikTok, citing a lack of evidence of national security harm.

Fun with Timing Attacks (2024)

33 robbieo 2025-01-15 07:12:52 UTC 4 ostro.ws Llama Share

A timing attack can be used to guess a secret by measuring the time it takes for a function to return true or false, and using this information to make informed guesses about the secret. This can be done using Thompson Sampling, a stochastic multi-armed bandit algorithm, to select the next guess based on the expected information gain.

Scientists Discover New Molecule That Boosts Fat Metabolism Naturally

31 bookofjoe 2025-01-15 13:53:56 UTC 4 scitechdaily.com Llama Share

Researchers discovered a molecule called BA-MCY that balances bile acid production, regulating fat metabolism and cholesterol levels. This discovery could lead to new treatments for metabolic diseases and emphasizes the role of diet in health through beneficial gut microbes.

Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition

31 notmine1337 2025-01-15 08:30:07 UTC 2 courk.cc Llama Share

A custom Laser Fault Injection Platform was designed and built to bypass the Secure Boot feature of the RP2350 microcontroller, which is a new feature introduced by Raspberry Pi. The platform uses a high-power laser diode to inject faults into the microcontroller, and a custom FPGA board is used to synchronize the laser pulse with the execution of the Boot ROM.

Create, Edit and Convert PPT, PPTX and ODP Presentation via Open Source PHP APIs

18 FileFormatCom 2025-01-15 07:39:04 UTC 1 products.fileformat.com Llama Share

PHP Open Source Presentation Libraries and APIs allow developers to create and customize presentations without design knowledge. They provide flexibility, tutorials, and community support for easy setup and problem-solving.

Laptop

16 jandeboevrie 2025-01-15 19:02:35 UTC 11 mijndertstuij.nl Llama Share

The writer bought a base model M1 MacBook Air for €950 and is extremely satisfied with its performance for light use. It's a great example of affordable tech that does its job without breaking the bank.

Your brain is lying to you about the “good old days”

15 lr0 2025-01-15 14:51:17 UTC 13 vox.com Llama Share

People often think the past was better due to nostalgia and selective memory, which can make them forget the many improvements made in the present. Despite this, the world has made significant progress in areas like economics, education, and social rights, with many problems being solved more efficiently than before.

Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: 'We don't care about professional coders anymore

14 marban 2025-01-15 18:37:16 UTC 5 semafor.com Llama Share

Replit's CEO Amjad Masad says their AI-powered tool "Agent" has been a huge success, allowing users to create working software with natural language prompts. The company's growth is driven by a breakthrough in AI capabilities, but raises questions about its competitive advantage.

Show HN: Open-Source Document Extraction Tool

13 harishd30 2025-01-15 03:05:32 UTC 2 github.com/harishdeivanayagam Llama Share

Rowfill uses AI to extract data from complex documents, images, and PDFs with high precision. It's a work in progress, licensed under AGPLV3, not yet ready for production use.

Let the user help solve their own problem

13 zdw 2025-01-15 00:33:42 UTC 3 boredzo.org Llama Share

User wants to customize public transit routes in maps apps by adding specific routes for comparison. They propose allowing users to contribute to the solution to improve algorithmic suggestions.