Apple/OpenELM: Efficient Open-Source Family Language Models (huggingface.co)
Empty S.F. office tower formerly valued at $62M sold for $6.5M (www.sfchronicle.com)
US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok (www.semafor.com)
How to Use I2C Devices in (Apache) NuttX: Scanning for Devices (www.embeddedrelated.com)
Kaldo – Cross Shell Aliases (github.com)
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Maxtext: A simple, performant and scalable Jax LLM (github.com)
ESPHome (esphome.io)
Meta 'Opening Up' Quest Headset Operating System to Rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface (beebase.sourceforge.io)
I'm giving up on open source (nutjs.dev)
Simulating Jupiter (emildziewanowski.com)
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US breaks ground on its first-ever high-speed rail (www.popsci.com)
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The Open Compute Project (www.opencompute.org)
The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important (www.mindprison.cc)
Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neural networks (github.com)
Protecting the Darkness in Chile's Atacama Desert (undark.org)
FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers (www.ftc.gov)
The Rare Earth Metals Handcuffing the EV Revolution (exoswan.com)
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Bottle Plotter (vgnotepad.blogspot.com)
iRobot Lays Off 350 Employees as Amazon Kills Merger (reason.com)
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Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are calling the police (apnews.com)
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American Flag Sort (xlinux.nist.gov)
Jsfxr: 8-Bit sound maker and sfx generator (sfxr.me)
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Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Dafny is a verification-aware programming language (github.com)
Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists (github.com)
Intel Meteor Lake's NPU (chipsandcheese.com)
a poem about the Turing halting proof (www.lel.ed.ac.uk)
Lower mortality, hospital readmission rates if treated by female physicians (www.thenationalnews.com)
How does deploying a fine-tuned model work (news.ycombinator.com)
FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching (www.wsj.com)
Chemists invent a efficient way to extract lithium from mining sites (phys.org)
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The FTC has banned noncompete agreements (www.theverge.com)
Thefastest.ai (thefastest.ai)
Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script (www.theregister.com)
Shortbread (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer in SF for AI comics creation (www.ycombinator.com)
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Tesla's in Its Flop Era (www.theverge.com)
Phi-3: Redefining what's possible with SLMs (azure.microsoft.com)
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Tesla Q1 2024 Update [pdf] (digitalassets.tesla.com)
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HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages (github.com)
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Rabbit R1 source code [part 1] (github.com)
The Feminist Botanist (nautil.us)
Apple's Risky Bet on CarPlay (www.theturnsignalblog.com)
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Fallout1-ce: Fallout for modern operating systems (github.com)
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Reverse Engineering a Software Crack (twitter.com)
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Phi-3 Technical a Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone (huggingface.co)
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
EU Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers (www.europarl.europa.eu)
The 40-Year-Old Cable Modem (a NABU network modem teardown) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms (www.msn.com)
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OpenCores: A-Z80 CPU (opencores.org)
Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis (hashquery.dev)
The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language (aethermug.com)
NASA officially greenlights $3.35B mission to Saturn's moon Titan (arstechnica.com)
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Bloom Filter Indexes in PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org)
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Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager (getada.dev)
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Framework Series A-1 (frame.work)
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Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware (arstechnica.com)
TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers (restofworld.org)
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Dr Jay Bhattacharya Lecture at MIT (www.youtube.com)
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Claude 3 beats Google Translate (arxiv.org)
1build (YC W20) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
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Segal's Law (en.wikipedia.org)
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Waymo illegal overtake into wrong-way driving (old.reddit.com)
10 Level Balancing Game for the Mobile Browser w/ increasing difficulty (www.balanc3dgame.com)
The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016) (realdougwilson.com)
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And There Was Digitron (www.retrobit-izlozba-digitrona.com)
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Web Game Engines and Libraries (www.webgamedev.com)
Changelog-Driven Releases (mathieularose.com)
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Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles (apnews.com)
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Source Code for CSVs (scroll.pub)
The Resurrection of Rajasthan's Royal Liquors (www.atlasobscura.com)
Alienating Tesla Buyers by the Cybertruck-Load (ritholtz.com)
OpenAI Japan (openai.com)
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Intro to "Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power": Naming power (firstmonday.org)
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Hackers Broke into Change Healthcare's Systems 9 Days Before Cyberattack (www.wsj.com)
Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary (carapace.sh)
Future of Food: This Company Just Opened the First "Air Protein" Factory (www.speciesunite.com)
Helios-NG: massively-parallel OS for manycore CPUs (www.geekdot.com)
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Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs (gajus.com)
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI (www.theregister.com)
Why Cats Knock Stuff Over (2023) (gwern.net)
Modal is a matrioshka language based on pattern-matching to rewrite trees (wiki.xxiivv.com)
Anonymizing research funding applications could reduce 'prestige privilege' (www.science.org)
A Million Years Without a Megaslide (eos.org)
Krazam OS (www.krazam.tv)
Cubic Life: Conway's Game of Life in 3D (github.com)
Finding the First 10-digit Prime in Digits of e (2017) (www.hanshq.net)
HN Flooded with Spam AI Girlfriend Comments (news.ycombinator.com)
HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI (www.franken-ui.dev)
It's Hyperobjects All the Way Down (www.wired.com)
A TikTok Ban Would Deal a Blow to Creators, Businesses and the American Economy (www.forbes.com)
AI programming tools should be added to the Joel Test (blog.waleson.com)
Google search no longer has a link to maps in Europe (news.ycombinator.com)
Dify, a visual workflow to build/test LLM applications (github.com)
FPGA Architecture for Deep Learning: Survey and Future Directions (arxiv.org)
Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised' (www.bbc.com)
No One Buys Books (www.elysian.press)
The emotional trial of clinical trials: like online dating with death risk (jakeseliger.com)
Metashade – a Pythonic GPU shading/compute EDSL (github.com)
Continue (YC S23) is hiring a founding engineer in San Francisco (www.ycombinator.com)
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Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline (www.wonkypedia.org)
Burn After Wearing (grist.org)
Senate Approves Section 702 Reauthorization, Keeps Only the Bad Stuff (www.techdirt.com)
Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots? (news.ycombinator.com)
It's OK to feed wild birds – here are some tips for doing it the right way (worldsensorium.com)
What Phones Are Doing to Reading (www.newyorker.com)
Don't waste your time recycling plastic (www.washingtonpost.com)
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth (blogs.nasa.gov)
Delay email delivery with Postfix for a relaxing weekend (www.enricobassetti.it)
E-Commerce Tactics Tech Employers Can Use to Improve the Candidate Experience (checkr.com)
Llama-3 and Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with Zuckerberg (thezvi.substack.com)
North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series (www.38north.org)
Reddit is quietly changing the way its homepage works (sherwood.news)
AI Regulation Is Unsafe (www.maximum-progress.com)
What Are You Working On? (www.hackerupdates.com)
The Web Data Landscape Map (github.com)
Lolita: A tagless, dependently typed, self-aware programming language (hirrolot.github.io)
The dangers of single line regular expressions (greg.molnar.io)
Survey Study on AI Agent Architectures (2024) (arxiv.org)
The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword (16bpp.net)
The New Reality of Digital Nomads (hbr.org)
Espressif Acquires Majority Stake in M5Stack (www.espressif.com)
HockeyStack (YC S23) is hiring founding engineers in the Bay Area (www.ycombinator.com)
When will computer hardware match the human brain? (Hans Moravec, 1998) (www.jetpress.org)
FDNY Arrests E-Bike Shop Owner for Allegedly Selling Illegal Batteries (www.thecity.nyc)
EU opens probe of TikTok Lite, citing concerns about addictive design (techcrunch.com)
Meta Horizon OS (about.fb.com)
The 100-year-old railway Mexico hopes will rival the Panama Canal (2023) (theweek.com)
Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data (github.com)
JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Spec to 8800 MT/S, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features (www.anandtech.com)
Review of the MoErgo Glove80 Keyboard (arslan.io)
AI Is Smoke and Mirrors (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
Meta opens Horizon OS for other companies to build VR headsets (www.threads.net)
Intel Gaudi 3 the New 128GB HBM2e AI Chip in the Wild (www.servethehome.com)
A New Era for Mixed Reality (www.meta.com)
El Niño to flip to La Niña in what could be the hottest year on record (www.livescience.com)
The 'blem wit' error messages: Things get terse (2008) (www.theregister.com)
American politics has infected investing (www.economist.com)
An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020) (simonsafar.com)
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
The Castration of Sima Qian (ijtihad.substack.com)
Stanford AI Syllabus (1980) (www.saildart.org)
Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-Terminating Object Programs (2009) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it? (news.ycombinator.com)
Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector (spectrum.ieee.org)
Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler (wasmer.io)
Apple acquires French startup behind AI and computer vision technology (9to5mac.com)
Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021) (github.com)
Internet of Desks: How I Connected My Standing Desk to the Internet (kn100.me)
Gitlab Duo (about.gitlab.com)
Paying for it doesn't make it a market (pluralistic.net)
Fallout style RPG made in Excel (storyteller-blog.com)
Equinox.space (equinox.space)
I made a multiple runtime version manager that can be used on Windows (github.com)
Outstanding Programmers (news.ycombinator.com)
Lemur's lament: When one vulnerable species stalks another (source.wustl.edu)
Apple Vision Pro Customer Interest Dying Down at Some Retail Stores (www.macrumors.com)
AMD: Additional Parts of the Radeon Stack to Be Open Sourced Throughout the Year (www.phoronix.com)
Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness (www.theregister.com)
OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds (openorb.idiot.sh)
AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff (simonwillison.net)
MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes (news.ycombinator.com)
Don Bluth's Garage Band (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Curl is just the hobby (daniel.haxx.se)
Development of the Domain Name System (1988) (dl.acm.org)
Deep Space Trajectories: Exiting the Heliosphere (www.centauri-dreams.org)
Why you shouldn't run a BSD on a PC? (michal.sapka.me)
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Software Engineers in Austria (bitmovin.com)
'Human intelligence' (helenbeetham.substack.com)
The Art of Decision-Making (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
Python Metrics Library (news.ycombinator.com)
A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection (vanderbei.princeton.edu)
The Unix-Haters Handbook [pdf] (simson.net)
Infinitown (demos.littleworkshop.fr)
A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture (2022) (www.oilshell.org)
The Super Nintendo Cartridges (fabiensanglard.net)
Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021) (softwaredoug.com)
Pico.sh – Hacker Labs (github.com)
The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee (thehustle.co)
Walmart joins other big retailers in scaling back on self-checkout (www.cbsnews.com)
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (1999) (bikeshed.com)
Incident: Swiss A333 at New York, rejected takeoff due to traffic on runway (avherald.com)
A Rigorous Derivation of the Bubble Sort Curve (linesthatconnect.github.io)
Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age (2018) (www.newscientist.com)
Cameras and Lenses (2020) (ciechanow.ski)
Louisiana's flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price (www.theguardian.com)
Many-Shot In-Context Learning (arxiv.org)
RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models (arxiv.org)
What is chlormequat in Quaker Oats and Cheerios, and can it impact fertility? (www.cbsnews.com)
Scientists Warn Gulf Stream Slowdown Could Begin as Early as 2025 (oilprice.com)
Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater's Occult Chemistry (1908) (publicdomainreview.org)
Why I hate your Single Page App (www.freecodecamp.org)
StreetComplete OSM Contribution App Begins iOS Port (gonzoknows.com)
Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises (www.theregister.com)
GPT Overperformance over Humans in Cognitive Reframing of Negative Scenarios (osf.io)
Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler? (news.ycombinator.com)
EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring (www.easypost.com)
The dangers of "decentralized" ID systems (paper.wf)
Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models? (www.kadoa.com)
tiny11builder (github.com)
Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North Face logo (old.reddit.com)
Google Reader shutdown tidbits (2013) (blog.persistent.info)
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk)
I Should Have Loved Biology (jsomers.net)
The Fading Memories of Youth (www.science.org)
California Electricity Mix Live Dashboard (www.gridstatus.io)
Our biggest ever river catch? (theoceancleanup.com)
Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding (arxiv.org)
Coroutines and Effects (without.boats)
How do you recognize an expert? (lemire.me)
It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says (www.cnn.com)
Understanding What Matters for LLM Ingestion and Preprocessing (unstructured.io)
Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York (communitynets.org)
A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work (www.lostlanguageofthemachines.com)
Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table (jacobin.com)
What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people (www.vox.com)
Cambly (YC W14) is hiring engineers in SF to help people learn and teach English (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before Diagnosis, Study Finds (www.sciencealert.com)
Volume rendering 3D data in Three.js and GLSL (github.com)
penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets (github.com)
Hackers had access to Volkswagen IT systems for years (www.zdf.de)
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Maybe I don't want a Rosey the Robot after all (www.theverge.com)
BQN for Birdwatchers (mlochbaum.github.io)
Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director (www.theregister.com)
Never struggle to give feedback again (read.highgrowthengineer.com)
The Design of Everyday APIs (2022) (www.roguelynn.com)
All Fritz Box modems have been hijacked (crapts.org)
Intermediate Activations – The Forward Hook (web.stanford.edu)