Researchers introduce DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1, two reasoning models with improved capabilities. DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 demonstrate remarkable reasoning and achieve comparable performance to OpenAI-o1-1217.
A user modified the Steam Deck to make it smaller and lighter by removing the screen and controller, creating a "Steam Brick" that fits in a backpack. The modified console is about 1/3 the size of the original Deck and 24% lighter, but lacks a screen and has some functionality issues.
OpenRA releases Playtest 20241228 with fixes and minor features, encouraging feedback on the forum, Discord, or GitHub. The team also presents Playtest 20241116 with enhanced visuals, new tools, and improved performance.
The author, a former hedge fund analyst and AI developer, is skeptical about Nvidia's valuation due to the emergence of new AI technologies and potential competitors that could disrupt Nvidia's dominance in the market. The author highlights the rise of new scaling laws, such as inference time compute scaling, and innovative companies like Cerebras and Groq that are developing alternative AI ...
CIA now favors lab leak theory over natural emergence of Covid pandemic, based on existing evidence. Agency still considers market theory plausible and will evaluate new intelligence.
The user discussed various HTML elements, their uses, and differences. They also mentioned a form for a survey about deprecated elements and favorite HTML elements.
Caltrain announced at its monthly Board of Directors meeting that regenerative braking on the new trains is generating and sending back to the electric grid approximately 23% of the energy consumed by the system.
FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.
The user discovered an undocumented MC68030 instruction that modifies the A1 register and prevents a Sad Mac error on the Macintosh Classic II, which was a result of an out-of-bounds jump in the ROM code. The instruction was accidentally executed by the 68030 CPU, which fixed the value of A1 and allowed the machine to boot, and the user created custom ROMs to verify the behavior on hardware.
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The database is often the bottleneck in Rails applications, but this doesn't necessarily mean the application is IO-bound, as CPU starvation can be misinterpreted as IO waiting. Understanding the ratio of IO to CPU in an application is crucial to determine the best execution model, and Ruby performance should not be disregarded in favor of database optimization.
A threat actor targeted low-skilled hackers with a fake malware builder that secretly infected them with a backdoor to steal data. The malware infected 18,459 devices globally, mostly in Russia, the US, India, Ukraine, and Turkey.
TinyZero is a reproduction of DeepSeek R1 Zero in countdown and multiplication tasks, built upon veRL with self-verification and search abilities. It works on single GPU for models up to 1.5B and develops reasoning skills for 3B+ models.
The user searched for anomalous tokens in the DeepSeek-V3 model, finding many that induce bizarre behavior when repeated, and documented their observations and preliminary findings. The tokens exhibit a range of unusual behaviors, including substitution with unrelated words, math-related questions, and endless repetition, and the user plans to explore the embedding space further.
DIY plane spotting with a Raspberry Pi and an Android phone
Wikenigma is a wiki-based resource documenting unsolved scientific and academic questions. It aims to inspire research by highlighting unknown problems.
Loops is a new short-form video platform reminiscent of TikTok, but with a Fediverse-first approach. It's still in beta with some limitations, but shows promise for attracting new users to the Fediverse.
SQLook is a modern web-based SQLite database manager with a nostalgic Windows 2000 interface. It includes a sample database with tables for artists, albums, media tracks, invoices, and customers with unique values and 10% NULL values.
French cryptocurrency executive David Balland was kidnapped from his home on January 21, 2025, and rescued by police on January 22. Balland, co-founder of Ledger, was held against his will and suffered injuries, including a severed finger, before being freed.
Larry Ellison says AI-fueled surveillance will ensure citizens behave well by constantly recording and reporting everything. He also expects AI drones to replace police cars in high-speed chases.
North England's economic decline is due to centralisation of power and resources in South East England, stifling local growth and innovation. Reversing this trend through decentralisation and competition can boost British prosperity and improve the North's economy.
Fenwick trees are a data structure that allows for both updates and range queries in sublinear time, and they can be viewed as a variant of segment trees with some nodes removed. By storing the active nodes of a thinned segment tree in a Fenwick array, we can implement update and range query operations using bitwise operations and index conversions.
Men's emotional support networks shrink by 50% between 30 and 90 years old, from two to one support providers. Early-life family warmth and not socioeconomic status predict larger emotional support networks in adulthood.
Devin, an AI software engineer, failed to complete 17 out of 20 tasks in a recent evaluation, with some tasks taking days to complete or producing unusable solutions. The AI's autonomous nature became a liability, as it would pursue impossible solutions rather than recognizing fundamental blockers.
A meteorite named "Charlottetown" struck a Canadian man's yard, narrowly missing him, and was captured on video by a Ring doorbell camera. The meteorite, an ordinary chondrite, was later confirmed and is now part of the University of Alberta's Meteorite Collection.
Computing is trending towards immutability due to cheap storage and computation, allowing for reduced coordination challenges and increased data availability. Immutability is being leveraged in various ways, including append-only data, immutable DataSets, and log-structured file systems, which provide robustness and scalability.
Arsenal Football Club is hiring a Research Engineer to apply AI/deep learning expertise in football analytics research. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying bespoke AI models and collaborating with colleagues to tackle complex challenges.
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President Trump signed an executive order to reorganize the US Digital Services as the US DOGE Service, giving Elon Musk and allies access to federal data. This move raises concerns about surveillance and transparency, as DOGE teams will have access to sensitive information and can hire special government employees with less oversight.
Texas Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Allstate for secretly collecting and selling driver data without customer consent. The lawsuit alleges Allstate and its subsidiaries violated Texas' data privacy and security act by collecting trillions of miles of consumers' driving behavior data.
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Norway's power exports are under threat due to spiking wholesale prices and domestic concerns. Politicians are considering curbing exports to reduce household bills, despite the potential economic impact.
To avoid being a JIRA ticket zombie, prioritize work based on company values and management's top priority. Focus on the most important tasks, and be willing to drop less important work to maximize impact.
A researcher is building a "silicon brain" model using AI to mimic human brain activity, restore speech, and understand complex behaviors. This technology could revolutionize neuroscience, mental health, and patient care, but raises significant ethical questions.
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The Pentagon's Replicator initiative aims to develop AI-empowered weapons, but its goals and protocols remain unclear. The program's focus on autonomous systems raises concerns about human control and accountability in warfare.
OpenAI's Operator AI agent browses the web, potentially disrupting traditional internet usage and economics. This could lead to a shift where informational content providers charge for API access or structured data feeds to AI companies.
GitHub WARNING: This is experimental code that goes against and breaks the QR code standard. This should NEVER be used for real world applications and is merely a proof of concept.
YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, with some lasting up to 2 hours and 52 minutes. Google suggests ad blockers may be contributing to the issue, and users may be shown longer ads if they use ad blockers.
Tandem's NonStop system is a fault-tolerant computer system that provides single-fault tolerance, online diagnosis and maintenance, and simplified user interfaces, with a mean time between failures (MTBF) measured in years. The system's architecture includes dual-pathed processors, modularity, fail-fast design, and good price/performance, with various improvements made in peripherals and ...
Banks charge fees to maintain profit margins despite low revenue from individual transactions. These fees are often a legacy system, but also help banks offset costs and maintain customer loyalty.
Schrödinger uses quantum mechanics to design new medicines and materials, with top 20 pharmaceutical companies as customers. Its hybrid model of software and biotech has made it hard to value, but it's poised for growth with AI and clinical data.
The user learned the BQN array language during the 2024 Advent of Code challenge, documenting their journey and sharing solutions to various puzzles. They found the language to be fun and challenging, but also noted some drawbacks such as the lack of a debugger and the need to reformulate problems to fit the array paradigm.
User shares 3D paint effects utilities with better control and convenience. Utilities require texture and layer settings for optimal results, with unique eraser solution and varying RGBA effects.
You recovered your old ZX Spectrum game 'Atomix' from an audio cassette and uploaded a screencast of it to LinkedIn.
Modified SMS Gateway uses Android phone as SMS gateway, but not all phones and carriers work due to API differences and accessibility issues. It requires Samsung S10 Lite and other specific devices with accessibility features to read messages and close USSD dialogs.
Bloomberg Philanthropies will cover the US funding gap to UN Climate Change Secretariat and uphold reporting commitments. The organization will also continue supporting America Is All In, a coalition of US cities, states, and businesses working to reduce emissions.
Actionate integrates GitHub Actions into JetBrains IDE, boosting productivity and eliminating context-switching. It allows users to manage multiple GitHub accounts and view workflow runs, logs, and artifacts directly within the IDE.
Three researchers from the Public Sociology Laboratory traveled to different regions in Russia to study people's views on the war in Ukraine. They found that most Russians are conflicted and undecided about the war, with some supporting it and others opposing it.
Apple-like smooth corners for Tailwind CSS. Contribute to gtokman/corner-smoothing development by creating an account on GitHub.
The user learned Gleam in 2 days and enjoyed working with it, appreciating its small size, typed functional design, and compilation to Erlang or JavaScript. They created a website project using Gleam and Lustre, but ultimately decided not to launch it due to a similar project already existing, and are now working through Exercism's Gleam track.
WebFFT is a metalibrary containing multiple FFT libraries for JavaScript and WebAssembly. It supports 1D and 2D FFTs, profiling, and deployment to GitHub Pages using npm.
Engineers need continuing education to stay competitive and maintain licenses. IEEE Credentialing Program offers training with CEUs and PDHs through approved external providers.
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.
US government has paused aid funding to programs already approved, except for Egypt and Israel, and emergency food assistance. The move may harm key allies like Ukraine, Jordan, and Taiwan, and could lead to civil liability.
The author revisits their decade-old arguments for quitting social media after trying TikTok and finding it lacks obvious purpose and is more about consuming content than connecting with others. The author's students use TikTok for relaxation and learning, but also for humor and escapism.
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User created a game called Gongzilla using ChatGPT's o1 and v0 tools, spending weekly allowance on a "nonsense" project. Gongzilla is a playable game created in under an hour with minimal coding.
You and Brian Casel have a podcast discussing business realities, and in a recent episode, you debated AI's impact on launching software products, concluding that AI can't replace human expertise and a good user experience.
Monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility two months ago have been recaptured safely. The 43 rhesus macaques are back at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in good health.
UC Berkeley grad student seeking datacenter insights for sustainability project, conducting 100+ customer discovery interviews. Interested in 20-30 minute calls with datacenter professionals, especially management with buying power.
Help Scout's AI Quality Lead role bridges domain expertise and AI development, improving prompts and prioritizing issues with engineering and PMs. This role has led to tighter feedback loops, more trust in performance metrics, and faster time to market.