Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

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User searched for Midjourney and instead got a different result, suggesting Google ranking can be compromised by paid listings. The user subscribed but acknowledges terms and privacy policies.

Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Yt-dlp will require Deno installed due to YouTube changes, ensuring it can solve JavaScript challenges. Install and upgrade yt-dlp with optional dependencies and allow Deno to download npm dependencies.

That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

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The Secret Service claimed to have foiled a major national security threat but it's actually a normal criminal mobile phone spam operation known as a SIM farm. They're using anonymous government officials and experts to exaggerate the threat, contradicting their own technical understanding of the issue.

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly

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The current societal imbalance, fueled by modern technologies and systems, has empowered large organizations at the expense of small organizations, leading to feelings of disconnection and alienation among individuals. Emerging grassroots organizations can offer valuable non-economic benefits and meaningful connections to larger organizations and systems, but are often overlooked in favor of ...

Just let me select text

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Author Artyom Bologov criticizes Bumble for making bios non-selectable, discouraging users to learn foreign languages for profiles. This limits functionality, accessibility and comprehension of UI text.

Huntington's disease treated for first time

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Doctors have successfully treated Huntington's disease with a 75% slowing down of symptoms, giving patients decades of life. The treatment involves a type of gene therapy and 12-18 hours of brain surgery.

US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

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American Airlines joins Delta and others to roll back consumer protections, adding more fees and making air travel more expensive and opaque. This deregulation push could leave travelers with fewer rights and more surprise charges.

Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

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Steam Deck Native builds require less CPU usage and memory with Baldur's Gate 3 support only on Steam Deck. Saves will be transferred from Proton to Native version if Cloud saves is on, otherwise manually copy to the Native savegame folder.

Helium Browser

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Helium is a people-first, fully open-source browser with native !bangs and split view that blocks ads, trackers, and phishing sites by default. It's lightweight, doesn't slow down, and offers full control over your browsing experience.

EU age verification app not planning desktop support

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User concerns smartphone-only focus and online age verification, disrupting private browsing and usability on PCs, making certain websites unusable. Implementing a solution may require a costly browser extension or restrictive programming languages, hindering small businesses.

Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

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Dayflow is a macOS app that records screen activity, uses AI to generate a timeline of workdays with summaries and insights, and is designed with privacy in mind. It allows users to choose their AI provider, store data locally or in the cloud, and customize the app to suit their needs.

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts

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You are a lead developer in a room of experts, but your role isn't to have all the answers, it's to facilitate discussion and make informed decisions based on trade-offs and user impact. Your value lies in recognizing which expertise is needed and creating space for experts to contribute their best work.

My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

User is blocked from script or app likely due to missing or generic User-Agent. Try switching back to default or contacting support for assistance.

Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly

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Wasmer Edge now supports running Python directly, powered by WebAssembly and WASIX, for faster and sandboxed AI workloads on the Edge. This beta release is 6x faster than previous Python releases and is comparable to native Python performance.

How to be a leader when the vibes are off

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Tech industry is experiencing a shift from optimism to anxiety due to AI, return-to-office mandates, and layoffs. Company leaders should focus on representing decisions and maintaining trust with their teams despite external changes.

How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

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AWS S3 delivers high availability and durability with tens of millions of hard drives storing hundreds of exabytes, utilizing erasure coding and load balancing. The system spreads data across many drives to achieve massive read throughput, rebalances cold data to free up space and leverage new capacity.

Product Hunt is dead

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One week after beta launch, FinFam's trend on Show HN and user interactions give founders confidence in product's unique value. FinFam appears to be a collaborative financial planner with open-source expert opinions that avoids common launch pitfalls.

Python developers are embracing type hints

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Python has become the most popular language on GitHub due to its growth in AI, data science, and scientific computing fields. Typed Python offers advantages in improving code quality and scalability with type hints that assist in early bug detection via static analysis tools.

CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells

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Lumafield analyzed 1,054 18650 lithium-ion cells from 10 brands, finding significant quality variations. 33 cells had negative anode-overhang, a defect linked to battery fires and explosions, all from low-cost or counterfeit brands.

Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

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Learning Persian with Anki, dual subtitles on YouTube and other tools creates a comprehensive language study routine. This multi-faceted technique enhances reading, listening and vocabulary by reinforcing understanding and mapping sounds with meanings.

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

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Supermicro server motherboards have two high-severity vulnerabilities allowing hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs pre-booting the OS and persists even after reinstalling the OS. A security firm discovered the vulnerabilities which reside inside silicon soldered onto Supermicro motherboards.

Traefik's 10-year anniversary

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The Traefik reverse proxy was created 10 years ago to automatically figure out routing for dynamic infrastructure and now powers many modern applications. Its evolution mirrors the cloud-native industry's shift and today it provides a stable ingress controller with a clear future roadmap.
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New Jersey's fight to legalize sports betting led to a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in 2018 that repealed the 26-year federal ban on sports betting. The ruling unleashed a massive gambling boom in the US, with 38 states now allowing sports betting.

The Beauty of Programming (2001)

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The author values programming due to its complexity and creative challenge, much like physics, where they get to create a new world within the confines of a computer. They find it captivating to combine art and engineering, making the process both rewarding and beautiful.

Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students

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YC's Early Decision lets students apply before graduating, get funded, and join YC after finishing school. This program is designed for students who want to finish their degree before starting a company.

I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game

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RidePods is an earbud-controlled motorcycle racing game where you tilt your head to steer. Download RidePods to test your reflexes and beat high scores.

New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death

Scientists detected variations in biological ultraweak photon emission using cameras in mice and plants. UPE imaging could be a non-invasive way to monitor vitality and stress responses in living organisms.

Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop

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AI is creating cheap AI-generated content, but it lacks substance and originality, requiring human cleanup. The irony is that humans are being hired for low-skilled jobs correcting AI mistakes rather than being artists themselves.

Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID

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Big Brother Watch and other organisations urge the PM to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID fearing it will damage civil liberties. They claim it won't deter illegal immigration and could lead to frequent ID checks in daily life.

Docker Hub Is Down

Docker experiencing authentication issues on hub.docker.com, investigating and implementing a fix. Users should now be able to log in after a deployed fix.

SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust

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SedonaDB is an open-source, single-node analytical database engine for spatial data that treats spatial data as a first-class citizen and is developed as a subproject of Apache Sedona. It extends the Sedona ecosystem with a single-node engine optimized for small-to-medium data analytics, delivering simplicity and speed with high-performance spatial operations and query optimizations.

SonyShell – An effort to “SSH into my Sony DSLR”

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A Linux helper connects Sony A6700 cameras over Wi-Fi/Ethernet, downloading photos. It features an interactive shell with log-draining, signal handling, and credential options.

New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil

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Researchers have developed a method to access microbial compounds from soil by extracting large DNA fragments directly from soil, piecing together the genomes of previously hidden microbes, and mining genomes for bioactive molecules. This approach enabled the discovery of hundreds of new bacterial genomes and two new antibiotic leads.

Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based

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Here is a 2-sentence summary of the user's input in under 200 characters.

Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

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SEC forgives three scammers who bilked Americans out of millions

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Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps

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Dating apps owned by Match Group fail to remove repeat offenders, allowing users like Stephen Matthews who have been accused of rape and assault to continue using their platforms. This negligence has led to numerous cases of assault facilitated by the apps, highlighting a need for improved safety protocols and enforcement.

Smartphone Cameras Go Hyperspectral

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Scientists developed a simple method to turn smartphone cameras into hyperspectral sensors by placing a chart within view and using an algorithm to extract spectral data. This technique enables the identification of chemicals and analysis of materials at the molecular level with high sensitivity.

Show HN: Vibe Linking

The concept relies on natural language for links, using a lightweight model to redirect to relevant destinations. It combines URL shorteners with Google or DuckDuckGo's 'I'm feeling lucky' searches for guessing relevant web links.

America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides

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The Financial Times offers digital access to quality journalism, providing expert analysis from industry leaders. Subscribing now will save you 20% off the year upfront, or monthly plans available for later.

The DHS has been harvesting DNA from Americans for years

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US Customs and Border Protection secretly collected DNA from nearly 2,000 American citizens and minors, sending it to the FBI's crime database without Congress' authorization. Experts warn this genetic surveillance program could subject citizens to lifelong scrutiny by US law enforcement.

Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing

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Raymond is a 30-year Windows expert who created popular 'The Old New Thing' website and book. He occasionally shares humorous stories on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account.

How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV

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A Go programmer simulated millions of particles in a multiplayer particle simulation on a CPU, targeting smart TV compatibility. The project involved implementing determinism, TCP via websockets, and frame buffers with pool to optimize speed.

The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol

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President Trump and Robert Kennedy announced the cause of autism is Tylenol at an event that promoted conspiracy theories on vaccines. The announcement's goals are to restrict access to certain vaccines, particularly the MMR.

Questions to ask when you think need to finish something

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You question your motivation for avoiding existing projects by asking if you'd still pursue it without past investment. Your "mental audit" helps you ship projects by determining their worth and refocusing on initial goals.

Exploring GrapheneOS secure allocator: Hardened Malloc

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GrapheneOS's hardened malloc is a security-focused allocator designed to protect against memory corruption vulnerabilities, using features like MTE and canaries to detect and block attacks. It integrates with GrapheneOS's security mechanisms to provide a robust defense against common exploit vectors, including use-after-free and heap overflow vulnerabilities.

Launch HN: Flywheel (YC S25) – Waymo for Excavators

Jash and Mahimana, cofounders of Flywheel AI, develop a remote teleop and autonomous stack for excavators using retrofits. They're open-sourcing 100 hours of excavator dataset to enable others to train autonomy models.

The Lambda Calculus (2023)

The λ-calculus represents functions using rules and abstraction, with β-reduction allowing functions to be reduced to simpler terms. The λ-calculus is used to model intensional functions, where functions-as-rules lead to hyperintensionality.

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC

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DATAS is a new GC feature in .NET 9 that adapts to the application size, reducing memory usage during non-peak hours, but may regress throughput. To optimize DATAS, you need to consider your workload, memory constraints, and use of free memory, and adjust settings like GCDTargetTCP and GCDGen0GrowthPercent.

My Ed(1) Toolbox

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The author is a huge ed(1) fan and uses it for various tasks, but wants to ensure his scripts are portable across different implementations of the editor.

Engineering a fixed-width bit-packed integer vector in Rust

Developers can face a bottleneck when working with massive datasets due to memory usage, particularly with vectors of integers where values exceed the dynamic range. A compressed, bit-packed vector-like data structure called FixedVec was developed in Rust to minimize memory usage and achieve O(1) random access performance while adapting to the dynamic range of the data.

The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign

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The @ symbol has thousands of years of history tied to ancient Greece's amphora and was used to denote unit of measure, then in business, and eventually became the internet's plumbing. Its meaning was reinterpreted in various cultures and languages.

Quadratic memory reductions for Zero-knowledge Proofs

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This code implements a sublinear-space Zero-Knowledge Prover/Verifier described in the whitepaper "Zero-knowledge Proofs in Sublinear Space." It achieves O(√T) memory for tracing length T by using streaming accumulators and blocked IFFTs.

You didn't see it coming

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A friend's authentic and then contrived online persona reflects how social media encourages founders to curate evidence of their judgment rather than sharing honest accounts of their decision-making processes. This can lead to echo chambers where uncertainty and improvisation are lost, and the value of admitting mistakes and constraints is overlooked.

Zutty: Zero-cost Unicode Teletype, high-end terminal for low-end systems

Before coming into serious contact with Zutty (e.g., reporting a bug, asking for anything), all the below pages are required reading:

Better Curl Saul: a lightweight API testing CLI focused on UX and simplicity

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User provided a GitHub API curl command to create an issue and a script for a command line tool named "saul" to make API calls.

How HubSpot scaled AI adoption

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HubSpot's engineering team successfully scaled AI adoption, driven by strategic investment and executive support, after initially cautiously experimenting with GitHub Copilot in 2023. They created a dedicated Developer Experience AI team, set clear expectations, and continually measured the impact, eventually achieving near-universal AI adoption.

Harvard's Public Health Dean Was Paid $150k to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism

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Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol's manufacturer in a 2023 lawsuit. Experts say his later research linking Tylenol to autism may be an overstatement based on only a correlation.

Ruby Central Is Not Behaving in Good Faith, and I've Got Receipts

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The user, a lead maintainer of the Bridgetown Ruby web framework, is criticizing Ruby Central's handling of Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson's polarizing views and his return to RailsConf. The user believes Ruby Central is complicit in Hansson's behavior and calls for a new Ruby ecosystem that doesn't associate with fascists and promotes good-faith, transparent, and democratic ...

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

QoS: Quality of Signal is a metric based on the number of observations and observers [Full-screen Graph] [2 Years only Graph] Mouse-over graphs to interact with data. Select a range to zoom in, double click to zoom back out. Modify the number in the corner to smooth over multiple days. Full-screen graphs available!

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to PlayStation for the first time, offering realism and authenticity with up to 125 aircraft. The game utilizes PS5 features like DualSense controller and gyro controls for immersive gameplay.

Waymo for Business

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Waymo for Business offers fully autonomous ride-hailing services to organizations for reliable transportation needs. With Waymo, employees and guests can reclaim their time while meeting sustainability goals with an electric fleet.

Who Funds Misfit Research?

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Non-dilutive funding supports research with no repayment or ownership expectations, often for projects with long timescales or high uncertainty. Dilutive funding involves investing with expectations of financial return and ownership, which can steer research towards shorter-term goals.

Periodic Table of Cognition

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The early history of electricity's discovery reveals profound misconceptions by its pioneers who achieved breakthroughs despite their ignorance of underlying forces. Similarly, AI creators will likely be wrong in their theories of artificial intelligence until they understand human intelligence, a complex system of multiple cognitive elements.

Just how resilient are large language models?

Here is a 2-sentence summary of the user's input in plain text format. The summary does not exceed 200 characters.

Investigating a Forged PDF

A tenant in California disagreed with a letting agency over a security deposit issue. The agency claimed they didn't hold the deposit, but their provided contract stated they did.

Why do wind turbines have three blades?

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What makes three the perfect blade count for wind turbines? Why not two for simplicity, or five to catch more wind? The answer connects physics,

Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014)

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Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium - in chronological order - of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars. We’ve a selection of images from this post in our online prints shop—all custom made to the highest standards, framed or unframed, and shipped to your door.

Electromechanical Calculating Machines from the 1960's

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The 1960's was a decade of transition. At the dawn of the decade, electronic desktop calculators were not yet available. By the end of the decade, there were almost no mechanical calculators left in production. During the intervening years, some of the most complex and capable machines of the mechanical era were introduced in a last ditch effort to stave off the electronic competition.

What Happens to Artists' Studios After They Die?

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Elephantshark, a tool to monitor Postgres network traffic

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Elephantshark is a Ruby script that monitors Postgres network traffic by forwarding and logging messages in both directions, helping to troubleshoot or decode encrypted traffic. It works with any Postgres-protocol traffic and allows use of Wireshark for analysis.

Amiga SPICE is a program for simulating electronic circuits

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SPICE is a public-domain program for simulating electronic circuits, used for designing electronics and prototyping. The Amiga version, SPICE 3f5, allows for interactive calculations and graphical plots.

Replace PostgreSQL with Git for your next project

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Git can serve as a database alternative for certain projects, offering versioning, concurrent access, and atomic transactions through its built-in query language and backup system. It's not suitable for production applications, but exploring Git's architecture reveals insights into modern databases, and companies like Upsun use its database-like properties for specific use cases with their ...

Textile Encoding via Elastically Graded Embroidered Tessellations

Researchers developed a skin-like textile mechanical metamaterial using machine embroidery. They encoded local tensiometric response and demonstrated scalable mass manufacturing strategies.

Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI

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Researchers propose Attribution-Based Control (ABC) to address the "access problem" of AI training data, arguing that the world has digitized a zettabyte-scale of data, waiting to be utilized. ABC aims to create a sustainable data economy by allowing owners to control their data's usage and generate ongoing revenue streams, thereby incentivizing sharing and collaboration.

Compositor 0.3 for Windows

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Compositor Windows 0.3 has basic WYSIWYG editing and mouse interaction, but lacks complex editing and is still unstable. Next milestone will add user document support and automatic package downloader.

Show HN: Mosaic – A Kotlin framework for cleaner back end code

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Mosaic is a Kotlin framework for declarative backend development with composable tiles and automatic caching. It simplifies data composition and testing while providing enterprise-grade performance and reliability.

How Secure is Tor? Not secure at all

A critic of the Tor Project claims Tor doesn't protect against adversaries with sufficient budgets or resources. The critic estimates the probability of Tor failing based on adversary resources.

Giving users choice with Cloudflare's new Content Signals Policy

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Cloudflare introduces Content Signals Policy to let website owners control what crawlers and scrapers do with their content. This policy is added to robots.txt to express preferences for how data is used after being accessed.

Bring true randomness to Spotify with Fisher-Yates shuffle

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Experience true randomness in your music. Break free from algorithmic bubbles with mathematically pure shuffle using the Fisher-Yates algorithm. Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

How This Retro Cafeteria Became a Launchpad for Buffalo’s Food Entrepreneurs

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Paul's family business, Stephen Development, converted a former GM training facility into the vibrant Clarence Creative Kitchen in Buffalo, NY, which has become a thriving shared-use kitchen for food entrepreneurs. With the help of The Kitchen Door and The Food Corridor's integrated tools, the kitchen now offers flexible bookings and supports over 30 active users with diverse businesses.

The Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

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Google has released the Data Commons Model Context Protocol Server, a major milestone that enables AI developers to access public datasets. This server accelerates the creation of data-rich AI applications that reduce Large Language Model hallucinations.

Show HN: Inferencer – Run and deeply control local AI models (macOS release)

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An AI tool processes data offline, supports SOTA models, and offers fast inferencing performance with on-device model control. The tool provides customizable features, parental controls, and supports unlimited prompt prefilling, token entropy, and probabilities.

Frankenstein's Sheep

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Jack Schubarth, an 82-year-old Montana rancher, created the world's biggest horned ram through cloning but was sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling the argali sheep's genetic material. His case highlights the ethics of biotechnology in creating rare animals for the big-game hunting market and the potential risks of gene-edited animals entering ecosystems.

Broker-Side SQL Filtering with RabbitMQ Streams

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Here is a 2-sentence summary of the input in 200 characters or less.

Diffusion Finetuning Myself

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The user is working on a project to fine-tune a diffusion model, specifically Flux, to generate images of themselves with different styles and settings, and they tried three main methods: DreamBooth, full finetuning, and LoRA fine-tuning, with the latter proving to be the most successful.

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956) [pdf]

The author describes experiments on how accurately people can assign numbers to stimuli, analyzing results in terms of information theory. He finds that the channel capacity of listeners varies from 2.5 to 3.9 bits, with 2.6 bits being the mean across different variables.

A proposal to add GC-less, unmanaged memory spaces to C#

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This proposal introduces a new C# feature called "Spaces" that unifies managed and unmanaged code into a single platform, allowing for concurrent and high-performance systems with better control and isolation. The Spaces model provides an additional layer on top of C# for complex systems, adding functionality like isolated memory heaps, asynchronous message passing, and contextual ...