Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

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Pirate Face is a decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI, mirroring open models from Hugging Face as peer-to-peer torrents. It ensures model availability outlives any single hosting platform through checksum-verified downloads and verification of matching Hugging Face identities.

Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

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OpenAI's ad collector, __obi, tracks users' browsing data and sends it to their ChatGPT account via cookies on visited websites. The cookie is set by advertisers using OpenAI's pixel SDK, which collects identity from both advertiser-supplied and scraped values.

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

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Sherline Tools, a US manufacturer of precision lathes and CNC machines, is winding down operations due to changing market conditions. The company will continue selling products and parts until October 2026 before ceasing all activities.

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

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Radius is a modern Meetup alternative for local groups, events and activities. Find people with shared interests, join what they are doing nearby, or start your own community.

Prompts Aren't Real

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The author, an engineer in Los Angeles, has been working on making agents run reliably in production for 25 years and finds it a fun and challenging task. He discusses the difficulties of creating minimally-embarrassing agentic experiences with subjective outputs and outcomes.

Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

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Apple created unique keyboard layouts for Canada and Japan to comply with local standards, featuring distinct symbols such as Ctrl, Alt, Tab, and Esc. These custom designs were used in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being phased out or replaced by standard symbols.

Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books

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Singapore's ReadSG program rewards daily reading with virtual coins redeemable for cash, aiming to build reading habits among a phone-first population. The initiative has drawn attention from governments and educators worldwide as a test of gamification shifting screen habits at scale.

A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and quitting

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io

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The Gorai robot framework is a distributed system that uses NATS mesh for service discovery and capability-based programming. It allows robots to be composed of multiple components, each with its own capabilities, and enables autonomy without replay.

So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

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The user is trying to reduce their home's temperature and has started using an e-paper display with ESP32 to show weather, news, tasks, and air quality data. They've designed a simple layout but are now working on making it more attention-grabbing and wireless.

Custom home server built from spare parts

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The author built a custom NAS using an old Zotac EN1070K GPU, adding six 8TB hard drives and a touch screen interface. The system runs Kubuntu with ZFS and various Docker containers, offering more control than traditional NAS solutions like TrueNAS.

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

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Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

The user is setting up a script to monitor endpoint status, schedule, and recent events via SSH. They want unlimited endpoints, heartbeats, and 90 days of history on the free tier with email notifications for missed pings.

FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

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The AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen edition NAS meets the author's requirements for a small, low-power FreeBSD machine with NVMe and SATA storage. The device has a metal case, quiet operation when idle, and adjustable fan settings to reduce noise.

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.

More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001)

More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size David A. Wheeler (dwheeler@dwheeler.com) June 20, 2001 Version 1.0 This paper analyzes the amount of source code in GNU/Linux, using Red Hat Linux 7.1 as a representative GNU/Linux distribution, and presents what I believe are interesting results. In particular, it would cost over $1 billion ($1,000 million - a Gigabuck) to develop this ...

The senior engineer death spiral

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A friend is struggling with imposter syndrome in a new senior role, feeling pressure to work long hours and prove himself. To overcome this, he needs to shift from an outcome-based mindset to momentum-based, focusing on building relationships and reliability rather than trying to do big projects alone.

The Millennium Problems for Biology

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Researchers aim to create self-replicating cells from a primordial soup with energy, and also develop various biotechnologies such as cryopreservation of mice, reverse translation enzymes, and protein binders.

Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong

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Birds sing at dawn, when air is stillest, making their songs more effective. International Dawn Chorus Day celebrates birdsong and highlights regional dialects among species.

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。

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.

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.

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

Mathematical Billiards (2024)

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The author discusses mathematical billiards, a study of the trajectories of balls in idealized games on convex tables. They explore two types: outer billiards, where a ball moves along tangent lines to a table's boundary, and outer length billiards, which adds complexity to the distance traveled at each bounce.

A Model for Winning Survivor

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A user built a machine learning model to predict the winner of Survivor based on episode-by-episode analysis, using logistic regression and various features such as player age, confessional share, and immunity win rate. The model's predictions were found to be roughly 2x better than chance at picking the eventual winner.

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.