Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

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When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic

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Mauricio Molano, a 47-year radio veteran, successfully received transatlantic FM signals from North America using software-defined radios. He logged four U.S. stations across North and South Carolina via sporadic-E propagation in July 2026.

English: A vs. An

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The function a_or_an should use the spoken word's sound, not its written letter. Only 129 of 32,455 words in the data required exceptions to this rule.

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

阶跃星辰于2023年4月成立,以“智能阶跃,十倍每个人的可能”为使命。阶跃星辰坚定自研超级模型,积极布局算力、数据等关键资源,发挥算法和人才优势,已完成 Step-1 千亿参数语言大模型和 Step-1V 千亿多模态大模型的研发,在图像理解、多轮指令跟随、数学能力、逻辑推理、文本创作等方面性能达到业界领先水平。

RSA-896

The given RSA keys are 896 bits long, with modulus RSA-896 and prime numbers p and q. The values of p and q are provided for decryption purposes.

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

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Spain's Intellectual Property Commission blocked several domains of Archive.today, a web archiving service, due to copyright concerns. Users are redirected to a government page accusing them of accessing an "illegal" website and potentially contributing to criminal activity.

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

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UTF-8000 is a variable-width encoding scheme that extends UTF-8, allowing for arbitrarily large code units and self-synchronization at the byte level. It uses a prefix-free code binary tree to encode content bits, which are used to store the length of the code unit in bytes.

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

This text introduces the Discrete Fourier Transform using interactive visualizations and animations to explain a complex concept in digital signal processing. The author emphasizes that this is not a rigorous resource, but rather a simplified introduction to engage readers visually.

Brood War Bench

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Researchers tested AI models' performance in Starcraft games, finding that Codex excelled at disruption but struggled with sustained production. The agents showed varying levels of improvement as they learned and adapted to the game environment.

A Model for Winning Survivor

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The new season of Survivor airs next week. My favorite thing about watching Survivor is arguing about the strategy of the show: who should have won the season? Is it better to play under the radar? Or does making big moves set you up to win? Who is the greatest player of all time: Cirie? Tony? Boston Rob? I thought it’d be fun to build a machine learning model to help answer these questions. ...

Telling a Computer to Do Things

The author learned to write shell scripts by gradually mastering the syntax and tools, eventually gaining the ability to stitch together existing programs. They argue that knowing a shell is 20% syntax and 80% having a good toolbox of related commands.

Measure internet censorship

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Measure the speed and performance of your network with the NDT test, developed in collaboration with M-Lab. Test WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram to check if they are blocked. Run OONI Probe to check if circumvention tools work on your network.

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago?

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Researchers at the Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter in Uzbekistan have found evidence of projectile points, including small micropoints, dating back around 80,000 years. These findings suggest that early humans may have used these lightweight sharp armatures as arrowheads or spear tips.

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

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The Lemmings franchise, created by DMA Design in the early 1990s, experienced a brief period of success before declining due to poor sequels and changes in market expectations. The series' momentum was squandered with games like Lemmings 2: The Tribes and Lemmings 3D, which failed to live up to the original's charm.

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

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A user tests ChatGPT's ability to create posters in various styles, finding that the AI can produce unique designs but may still feel repetitive or familiar. The user discovers a range of design styles and prompts ChatGPT to generate posters in each style, resulting in distinctive and varied results.

Chess Atlas

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All chess set designs at a glance. A visual grid of 30+ chess sets spanning 1,300 years of design history.

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

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The author developed a non-autoregressive decision model called Laya, which provides lightning-fast probability predictions over structured schemas and is 6-8 times faster than TypeSafe AI's Jev. Laya uses reinforcement learning to guide schema-based decisions and has been open-sourced with zero API subscription costs.

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

Asking authors about their own papers

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

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Deep fake images can be detected using camera attestation tools that verify an image's origin from a physical camera. The new tool, zkjpeg, integrates zero-knowledge proof into JPEG compression to detect and prevent image transformations.

Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

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Microsoft's GitHub Copilot software engine is now written entirely in Rust, with AI agents doing most of the porting work, resulting in a 15.9x speedup and significant memory reduction. The project used multiple LLMs to execute different parts of the job and highlighted challenges with understanding Rust semantics.

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

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Grant Sanderson proposes elevating the status of "motivated explanations" in mathematics, which involve explaining mathematical concepts and ideas in a clear and relatable way. He suggests giving academic credit to these types of explanations similar to what is given for generating new proofs.

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

The author, a Rust developer, spent 7 years working on open-source projects and is now exploring Zig as a candidate C successor. They reimplemented JSONPath in Zig to compare its features with the Rust version.

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

LearnDB and IRC channels are available for monster stats, items, and concepts. Report bugs through the official channels or mantis tracker.

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

Faster NumPy in the Browser

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NumPy can now call an accelerated BLAS in WebAssembly, delivering large gains on matrix products and np.linalg. The Emscripten-forge NumPy package links OpenBLAS 0.3.34 with WASM SIMD, resulting in a speedup of about 30-64 times versus the no-BLAS baseline.

Benchmarking Wild vs. Mold

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Mold's linker benchmarks have shown Wild to be substantially slower than Mold, with differences attributed to output file configuration and filesystem usage. The performance gap has narrowed since Mold's recent updates, but a 16-core machine still shows significant differences between the two linkers.

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

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In 1829, hundreds of people died when a floor collapsed at the Norfolk Arms Hotel, and their families received only 5 shillings from the jury as compensation due to an outdated law called deodand. The concept of deodand was eventually abolished in 1846 but its legacy lives on as a way to think about accountability for nonhuman entities like AI systems that may cause harm.