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The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka 4 by lermontov | 1 comments on Hacker News.

“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate 57 by jnord | 15 comments on Hacker News.

Japan's push to make all research open access is taking shape 24 by sohkamyung | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why are all major operating systems monolithic? 16 by achenet | 14 comments on Hacker News. Why are all major OS's (Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD) all monolithic kernels? Why aren't there more microkernel operating systems, like for example Redox or Minix?

Raivo OTP just deleted all tokens after update and is now asking for money 16 by parody577 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened 152 by hakanderyal | 113 comments on Hacker News.

Donating Forks to the Dining Hall 23 by kickofline | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life? 25 by shivc | 25 comments on Hacker News. Well, I'm a growth guy with hands in tech, especially development at this point. I'm also studying data science and machine learning in a 1 year diploma and create content on the side. Well, I also have 200 other interests too. So, question is am I normal? lol and if I am, how are you guys balancing or picking up what to really work upon and what to discard?

Rhodes Must Fall: The Legacy of Cecil Rhodes in the University of Oxford 12 by rawgabbit | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars 35 by minimaxir | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3M Crypto Wallet 2 by ColinWright | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I'm tired of S3 and all the nonsense around it 44 by davidkarolyi | 30 comments on Hacker News. Cmon... I just want to upload a file and make it public on the internet. Now you tell me I need to master bucket policies, ACL, CORS, multipart uploads, content headers, CDN, presigned URLs, and a bunch of other crap? I can't be asked, so I built FILE0. It's for storing files but you don't need to complete an online course.

Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal 20 by hiAndrewQuinn | 2 comments on Hacker News.

The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree 16 by jseliger | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Goodbye to My London Science Museum's 'Secret Life of the Home' Gallery [video] 16 by alexose | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Giant structure in space challenges understanding of the universe 140 by geox | 78 comments on Hacker News.

Wall Street is about to see its biggest trading change in years 14 by belter | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I generated API documentation for all Java packages 5 by martin_dd | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm excited to share a project I've been working on for the past year: Docland. It is an API documentation browser that generates documentation on demand (through compilation, not LLMs) for Java packages. Instead of relying on Javadoc, the built-in doc generator, I created the engine from scratch to give the documentations a modern look, build fast search indexes, and enable link resolution to other packages. I built Docland because I constantly found it frustrating to locate and view API definitions when programming. You'd have to Google the function/class name, skip all the SEO articles, find the page you want, yet the documentation might be poorly formatted or does not support searching. So I thought it would be really cool to create a documentation site dedicated for programming languages and libraries, so that you can find the docs all in one place with a ...

Rootless Docker in a Multi-User Environment – It's All About Context 8 by rducksherlock | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Why medieval Bologna was full of tall towers, and what happened to them 4 by geox | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Politicians fall sick after drinking raw milk to celebrate legalising raw milk 14 by ripjaygn | 7 comments on Hacker News.

The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls 74 by reqo | 71 comments on Hacker News.

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search 3 by rntn | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The deskilling of web dev is harming us all 2 by loop22 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield 13 by srameshc | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Motion (YC W20) is hiring senior engineers looking for their next challenge 1 by ethanyu94 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager 1 by kanjun | 0 comments on Hacker News.

SOAR-ing Away with Smalltalk: Berkeley RISC-III 25 by rbanffy | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Cement recycling method could help solve one of the biggest climate challenges 4 by timthorn | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Walls are starting to close in for Tesla, let's have a closer look 11 by type_Ben_struct | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597) 6 by pepys | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A comet approaching Earth could become brighter than the stars this fall 5 by belter | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Install Alpine Linux on FreeBSD Jail 14 by vermaden | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Seawater is rushing under Thwaites Glacier, potentially dire impact on sea level 30 by gary_0 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape 15 by bazil376 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

A promising 3-terminal diode for wireless comm. and optically driven computing 2 by wglb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Uber Migrates 1T Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6M Annually 25 by gronky_ | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas 9 by pge | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017) 8 by _vk_ | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How often is the wife taller than the husband? 13 by luu | 4 comments on Hacker News.

The Philosophy of Murder Ballads 3 by diaphanous | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Transforming the National Gallery, one painting at a time 6 by Petiver | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A Teacher Did All He Could to Keep Kids Off Phones. He's Quitting in Frustration 9 by wannacboatmovie | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters” 64 by sh_tomer | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Malleable software in the age of LLMs (2023) 6 by tosh | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution 6 by thunderbong | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity 5 by apsec112 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Autopilot for my little HTML game called Andromeda Invaders 6 by susam | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Hertz sold a bunch of Teslas and it turns out they're all kinds of trouble 6 by belter | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Robotic "SuperLimbs" could help moonwalkers recover from falls 6 by LorenDB | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Tragic Downfall of the Internet's Art Gallery 23 by jfryusef | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Port 666 is officially registered to Doom 5 by ughitsaaron | 3 comments on Hacker News.

NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code 23 by LeoPanthera | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML 19 by correa_brian | 12 comments on Hacker News. Desktop Docs is a Mac app that lets you search all your photos and videos in seconds with AI. Once you find the file you're looking for you can resize it, export it to Adobe Premiere Pro, or drag and drop it into another app. I built Desktop Docs because I keep tons of media files on my computer and I can never remember where I save stuff (lots of screenshots, memes, and downloads). The Apple Photos app also only supports photos in your iCloud. Desktop Docs supports adding folders or individual files to an AI Library where you can search by the contents of your files, not just file titles. You can search by objects ("cardboard box"), actions ("man smiling", "car driving"), by emotion ("surprised woman", "sad cowboy"), or the text in the frame (great for screenshots or memes). It's also 100% private. Make a...

A 'plague' comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history 22 by diodorus | 2 comments on Hacker News.

How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss? 6 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it all went wrong 28 by superbyte | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Glance: A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place 20 by ulrischa | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Frank Ramsey: A Genius by All Tests for Genius (2020) 10 by EndXA | 1 comments on Hacker News.

AI Startup Co-Founded by David Sacks Officially Launches 2 by billplayfair | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Large Language Models in Containers Locally with Podman AI Lab 4 by myfear | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account 14 by toss1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Fort Worth's tallest building sells for $12.3M, bought for $137.5M in 2021 5 by Moazz | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds 11 by walterbell | 10 comments on Hacker News.

Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant from Genetically Modified Pig 5 by lxm | 6 comments on Hacker News.

An unexpected detour into partially symbolic, sparsity-expoiting autodiff 5 by HCazlab | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Automatically Detecting Under-Trained Tokens in Large Language Models 3 by veryluckyxyz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Spherical Parallel Manipulator [video] 9 by surprisetalk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Canadians have been exposed to potentially toxic chemicals 13 by barbariangrunge | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations? 14 by Jimmc414 | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Meemaw – Trustless and grandma-friendly wallet as a service 15 by marceaul | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, Marceau here, founder of Meemaw. I was working on a different project (communities with better aligned incentives) for which I needed users to have access to a crypto wallet. I couldn't afford users to have to deal with private keys and what not, and I did not feel comfortable being locked to a non-transparent third-party provider for something as important. So I built an internal "wallet-as-a-service" around audited librairies. I dropped the original project since then and that service evolved into Meemaw. Many "web3 projects" would be better off without any web3 component. But if you do need your users to have a wallet, there are a few good reasons to use something like Meemaw: - great UX (no faffing around with private keys or seed phrases, easily customisable) - great DX (get up and running quickly, integrate with your existing system e...

Serial to Parallel Port Converter 5 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News.

California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices 42 by memset | 35 comments on Hacker News.

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb 24 by gsky | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of SDI 8 by sklargh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account 28 by frays | 2 comments on Hacker News.

FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users 45 by belter | 35 comments on Hacker News.

Study: Ultra-processed food consumption association with all cause mortality 6 by jameslk | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x 33 by zhisbug | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: Baselit (YC W23) – Automatically Reduce Snowflake Costs 13 by sahil_singla | 9 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! We are Baselit ( https://baselit.ai/ ), a tool that automatically optimizes Snowflake costs. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls6VRzBQ-pQ . Snowflake is one of the most widely used data warehouses today. It abstracts out the underlying compute infrastructure into “warehouses” for the user - compute units with t-shirt sizes (X-Small, Small, Medium etc.). In general, if you want to lower your data processing costs, the only thing you can do is to just process less data (i.e. query optimization). But Snowflake’s warehouse abstraction allows an extra dimension along which you can optimize - by minimizing the compute you need to process that same data (i.e. warehouse optimization). Baselit automates Snowflake warehouse optimization for you. While we were working on another idea last year (AI for SQL generation), users frequently shared with us how...

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules 114 by zerojames | 22 comments on Hacker News.

What do you call a Rust pointer we stole the high bits off? An ointer. (2021) 2 by fanf2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers 23 by iancmceachern | 2 comments on Hacker News.

The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound 21 by 1970-01-01 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Apple unveils the redesigned 11-inch and all-new 13-inch iPad Air 26 by tosh | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 18 by quibuss | 2 comments on Hacker News.

What Is in a Rust Allocator? 7 by sulami | 0 comments on Hacker News.

American Airlines flight turns around after passenger calls attendant 'waiter' 4 by andrewfromx | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct 24 by typeofhuman | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Decoding UTF8 with parallel extract 15 by g0xA52A2A | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Got a spare Pi 1/2/3? Try RISC OS Open 5.30 It is, literally, something else 14 by lproven | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Pivot podcast host Scott Galloway: 'Tech bros conflate luck with talent' 5 by sandebert | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The business of wallets 12 by tiniuclx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Humans now share the web equally with bots 10 by belter | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric? 13 by zdw | 0 comments on Hacker News.

An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation in 2021 32 by toomuchtodo | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager 1 by kanjun | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Passkey Implementation: Misconceptions, pitfalls and unknown unknowns 13 by vdelitz | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: SpRAG – Open-source RAG implementation for challenging real-world tasks 16 by zmccormick7 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I’m Zach from Superpowered AI (YC S22). We’ve been working in the RAG space for a little over a year now, and we’ve recently decided to open-source all of our core retrieval tech. spRAG is a retrieval system that’s designed to handle complex real-world queries over dense text, like legal documents and financial reports. As far as we know, it produces the most accurate and reliable results of any RAG system for these kinds of tasks. For example, on FinanceBench, which is an especially challenging open-book financial question answering benchmark, spRAG gets 83% of questions correct, compared to 19% for the vanilla RAG baseline (which uses Chroma + OpenAI Ada embeddings + LangChain). You can find more info about how it works and how to use it in the project’s README. We’re also very open to contributions. We especially need contributions around integra...

Pet parrots prefer live video-calls 9 by agiacalone | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Not all Graphs are Trees 9 by g0xA52A2A | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video] 7 by ArtemZ | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Fed Says Inflation Progress Has Stalled, Extends Wait-and-See Stance 5 by samspenc | 0 comments on Hacker News.

All Cars Sold in the US Will Soon Have to Be Able to Automatically Avoid a Crash 30 by levinb | 36 comments on Hacker News.

Run llama3 locally with 1M token context 16 by mritchie712 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Dean Ball on the new California AI bill 2 by paulbaumgart | 0 comments on Hacker News.