Where the goblins came from

536 ilreb 2026-04-30 04:00:20 UTC openai.com Llama Share 301

OpenAI's models started mentioning creatures like goblins and gremlins in their metaphors due to a subtle incentive from training for the personality customization feature, specifically the Nerdy personality. The behavior was amplified through transfer from Nerdy personality training and later spread to other contexts, requiring OpenAI to retire the Nerdy personality and implement new tools ...

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

206 embedding-shape 2026-04-30 03:00:20 UTC noctua.at Full Share 34

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Zed 1.0

1825 salkahfi 2026-04-29 15:00:20 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 587

Zed is a new editor built from scratch with a custom UI framework, GPUI, to provide a fundamentally better coding experience. Version 1.0 is now available, offering AI-native editing, collaboration features, and a growing list of capabilities.

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

239 lumpa 2026-04-30 03:00:20 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 99

Zig has a strict anti-LLM policy to prioritize contributor growth over code quality. Maintainers review contributors, not just their code, to foster trust and future contributions.

Craig Venter has died

225 rdl 2026-04-30 02:00:20 UTC jcvi.org Full Share 41

Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs

124 reconnecting 2026-04-30 04:00:20 UTC github.com/cauchy221 Llama Share 84

This repository contains data preprocessing and finetuning scripts for analyzing memorization in large language models. It uses OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Tinker APIs to generate completions and evaluate model performance.

Copy Fail

925 unsnap_biceps 2026-04-29 19:00:20 UTC copy.fail Llama Share 345

A Linux kernel vulnerability, Copy Fail, allows local code execution to become root due to a shared page cache issue. A patch is available to revert the 2017 optimization, and disabling AF_ALG can mitigate the issue.

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

89 the-mitr 2026-04-30 04:00:20 UTC burrito.bio Llama Share 12

A typical E. coli cell is incredibly dense with molecules, with its entire volume being 100 million times smaller than a grain of sand. The cell's insides are 70% water, with proteins, RNA, and lipids making up the rest, and DNA accounting for just 1% of its mass.

Cursor Camp

910 bpierre 2026-04-29 16:00:20 UTC neal.fun Full Share 146

Welcome to Cursor Camp! Enjoy your stay

London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

49 CGMthrowaway 2026-04-30 05:00:20 UTC amusingplanet.com Llama Share 18

A bus service called "The Indiaman" ran from London to Calcutta from 1957 to 1979, covering 20,300 miles in 50 days. The service was revived in 2021 but delayed, with a new bus service expected to start from New Delhi to London in April next year.

Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig

107 xngbuilds 2026-04-30 04:00:20 UTC pure-systems.org Llama Share 74

The user is evaluating Zig as a potential replacement for Haskell, praising its comptime feature for creating correct-by-construction systems and its "no spooky action at a distance" philosophy.

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

331 agwa 2026-04-29 17:00:20 UTC agwa.name Llama Share 76

Using FastCGI as a protocol for proxy-to-backend communication can avoid HTTP's pitfalls, such as desync vulnerabilities, by providing clear message boundaries and domain separation between client and proxy headers. FastCGI is a 30-year-old protocol that is still usable today, but its lack of awareness and outdated tooling may hinder its adoption despite its potential benefits.

OpenTrafficMap

255 moooo99 2026-04-29 20:00:20 UTC opentrafficmap.org Full Share 57

Der Server erwartet eine neuere Frontend-Version. Bitte lade die Seite neu, damit Client und Server wieder zusammenpassen.

Will you heed my warnings now?

51 bwesterb 2026-04-30 07:00:20 UTC scottaaronson.blog Llama Share 43

The author was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and is grateful for the honor. He warns that quantum computers may break cryptography soon, urging people to switch to quantum-resistant encryption.

Monad Tutorials Timeline

31 brudgers 2026-04-30 05:00:20 UTC wiki.haskell.org Llama Share 5

Monads are a concept in programming that allows for the creation of computations that can handle side effects, such as input/output or exceptions, in a controlled and structured way. They can be thought of as a way to wrap a value or computation in a context that provides a way to sequence operations and handle effects in a predictable manner.

Mike: open-source legal AI

86 noleary 2026-04-30 01:00:20 UTC mikeoss.com Llama Share 32

The chat interface reads documents, cites verbatim, and drafts contracts with full control over models. It offers matter-scoped workspaces, reusable workflows, and open code for custom integrations.

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

1120 homebrewer 2026-04-29 19:00:20 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 476

Claude Code routes API requests to extra usage billing when a git commit message contains the case-sensitive string HERMES.md. This causes silent extra usage credits consumption, making it difficult to diagnose.

Creating a Color Palette from an Image

68 evakhoury 2026-04-30 01:00:20 UTC amandahinton.com Llama Share 10

The user developed a color palette algorithm that uses K-means++ clustering in the OKLCH color space to select five representative colors from an image, with improvements including chromatic weighting and structural passes to address edge cases. The final algorithm, used in the Spectrimage app, produces a palette that feels more human-selected, with features such as a phantom guard, slot ...

A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample

7 speckx 2026-04-30 08:00:20 UTC plagiarismtoday.com Prefix Share 0

In 1977, the German band Kraftwerk released the album Trans Europa Express, which contained the track Metall auf Metal. Twenty years later, producer Moses Pelham used a two-second loop from that song in a track entitled Nur Mir by artist Sabrina Setlur. Two years later, in 1999, members of Kraftwerk filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Pelham in the Hamburg Regional Court. It was ...

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

222 jjba23 2026-04-29 18:00:20 UTC jointhefreeworld.org Llama Share 113

The author prefers Scheme over Haskell for its simplicity, flexibility, and ease of use, despite Haskell's mathematical beauty and innovations. Scheme's REPL and macro system allow for fast prototyping, debugging, and development, making it the author's "sweet spot" for good developer experience.

Laws of UX

262 bobbiechen 2026-04-29 17:00:20 UTC lawsofux.com Llama Share 38

The tendency to get overwhelmed by too many options and systematic errors in thinking can be mitigated by simplifying and organizing information. Understanding human perception and behavior can help design more intuitive and user-friendly systems and experiences.

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

7 jaffathecake 2026-04-30 08:00:20 UTC github.com/mozilla Full Share 1

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An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

249 0x54MUR41 2026-04-29 15:00:20 UTC github.com/gliax Llama Share 109

This project aims to create a low-cost, research-validated stethoscope with freely available plans. The goal is to produce the stethoscope for approximately USD$1-2.

Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight

47 Jblx2 2026-04-30 02:00:20 UTC flyingmag.com Llama Share 112

Joby Aviation conducted its first electric air taxi flight from JFK to Manhattan's West 30th Street heliport. The company plans further demonstrations over the next 10 days, aiming to integrate electric air taxis into New York City's airspace.

Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function

58 aragonite 2026-04-30 01:00:20 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 23

Passing too few parameters to a function can cause undefined behavior, memory corruption, or exceptions due to the compiler reusing memory or the processor reading uninitialized values from registers. The Itanium architecture strictly enforces this rule, raising exceptions for reading or writing outside the current stack frame.

A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust

32 tkhattra 2026-04-30 02:00:20 UTC cacm.acm.org Llama Share 1

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

0 2026-04-29 22:00:20 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Gooseworks is hiring a Founding Growth Engineer to build and operate AI-powered growth engines for customers and contribute to R&D of AI coworkers. The role involves 50/50 time for customer growth engines and R&D.

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

118 sandslash 2026-04-29 17:00:20 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 57

We need a federation of forges

568 icy 2026-04-29 15:00:20 UTC blog.tangled.org Llama Share 358

Tangled aims to decentralize code collaboration by allowing events to be federated among git servers, enabling cross-server collaboration and hosting. It uses Authenticated Transfer to share events and social features, breaking free from GitHub's monoculture.

I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot

109 fishgoesblub 2026-04-29 22:00:20 UTC lina.sh Llama Share 49

The Dutch police created a fake DDoS website called Cyberzap to catch people trying to buy attacks. They also created a separate site called Netcrashers to scare kids away from DDoS services.