Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

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Apertus is an open-source AI model developed by Swiss AI Initiative, meeting EU AI Act requirements with opt-out respect and data protection. It's a multilingual model trained on 1000+ languages, competitive with top open models.

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

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The author worked at GenieDB, a UK startup acquired by US VC fund Frost VP, and later discovered the fund was sued for fraud by the SEC. The author questions if their job and life changes were a result of the alleged fraud.

Everything is logarithms

The dimension of a vector space is the cardinality of its basis. [log f = by x] gives something that at least resembles the function's representation as scalar relation, but i suspect these are merely confusions of concepts. when you take general covariance to its extreme you end up asking that all of your mathematics be formulated in an explicit co-variant way, and that

I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner

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The user initially misunderstood the potential benefits of the Midjourney ultrasound scanner due to its high resolution, low cost, and convenience. They now see how it could lead to early cancer detection and potentially save lives, but acknowledge that actual results may take a couple of years to confirm.

JSON-LD explained for personal websites

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The user added JSON-LD to their site to aid web crawlers and improve SEO, declaring a new script with MIME type application/ld+json. They described their webpage using JSON-LD nodes such as WebSite, Person, ProfilePage, and BlogPosting to provide metadata and improve search engine results.

Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

We demand Meta stop collecting employee computer-use data for AI training due to privacy concerns and lack of consent. This includes mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen content, which may contain sensitive data like SSNs and protected health information.

PowerFox Browser

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PowerFox brings modern security features and supports dozens of languages to keep users safe online. It's standards compliant and feature-rich, supporting latest web technologies for compatibility with modern websites.

Identity verification on Claude

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We are implementing identity verification to prevent abuse, enforce policies, and comply with laws, using Persona Identities as our partner. Your verification data is used solely to confirm your identity and is protected by industry-standard security controls.

Simple hard way to conjugate Japanese verbs

Japanese verb conjugation involves adding suffixes to a verb's stem. The stem is the unchanging part of the verb, and suffixes can be added by pure concatenation.

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

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The game offers real-time simulation with fully simulated projectile ballistics and terrain deformation, allowing for diverse strategies on each map. Players can choose from over 10 unit classes to balance resource income and production for victory.

Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)

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The "wrong abstraction" problem occurs when code is modified to accommodate new requirements, leading to conditionals and duplicated logic, making it hard to understand and maintain. The solution is to "go back" and remove the abstraction, inlining code to make it easier to understand and add new features, rather than trying to preserve the existing code.

I Play Video Games with Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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Andrei Cebotar, a 37-year-old from Moldova with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, uses assistive tech to work and play. He relies on PlayAbility, Handy, and the Xbox Adaptive Controller to interact with his computer.

Show HN: Recall – fully-local project memory for Claude Code

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Recall is a local summarizer for Claude Code that captures session history and condenses it into a resume-ready summary. It's free, zero-friction, and doesn't send data anywhere, using a classical Python summarizer and local memory.

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero

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HPV vaccine has virtually eliminated cervical cancer deaths in women under 30 in England, with a 63% lower risk of death from the disease for vaccinated women aged 30-34. Falling vaccination rates could see a rise in avoidable deaths, with thousands of cervical cancer deaths preventable if vaccine uptake returns to pre-pandemic levels.

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

The author notes that using Linux has become more viable due to improved compatibility and software ecosystem. However, they express concern about the growing penalty for using open LLM models due to performance and trust issues.

Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions

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As a fun personal project, I have been working on a chatbot for answering general questions about my household on anything from maintenance questions to doctor’s appointments. The general idea is that the chatbot will get its household knowledge through RAG from querying a vector database, but for better results I have made the vector searches metadata aware. Basically, I am running questions ...

The minimum viable unit of saleable software

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The author is considering building a sustainable business around their side project River, a job queue for Go and Postgres, despite the rise of AI-powered software. They argue that while LLMs make software cheaper to build, they don't eliminate the need for human oversight and maintenance.

FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama

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FDA advisors voted 9-0 in support of Moderna's seasonal mRNA flu vaccine, citing its 27% higher efficacy and good safety profile. The vaccine's approval is pending FDA decision by August 5 and CDC recommendation.

From Combinatorial Mess to Linear Elegance: Architecting a Conversion Engine

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Minimal now supports importing and exporting across Markdown, Rich Text, HTML, PDF, plain text, and our proprietary format MNML. The following essay describes how we accomplished this system in the Swift programming language. To read about the human-centered design and how we fit this new technology into our iOS and macOS app, read the design-centric essay right here. It’s not easy to coerce ...

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)

This page describes how to build an interpreter for most of the scheme dialect of lisp. it uses python 3 as the implementation language, and the lambda special form is a good example of scheme syntax. if you are familiar with other languages, you might think that while or for loop would be needed, but scheme manages to do without these just fine. in which we judge lispy on several criteria: ...

Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

· Spines/languages: Wikidata · covers/countries: Criterion shop · cover art © The Criterion Collection · unofficial fan project. · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Wildcard (YC W25) is hiring an applied ML engineer

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Wildcard is an agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands. They're looking for a Founding Applied ML Engineer to help shape the product and company from the earliest stage, with expertise in AI, data, and customer problems.

Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

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Having a bias for action and making progress is key, and one habit to make this happen is to ask for "no" instead of "yes" when seeking permission for a task. This approach involves offering a chance for feedback with a deadline, allowing you to move forward while still keeping your boss informed.

An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy

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FLOPPINUX is a minimal Linux distribution for old hardware, requiring 20MB RAM and 32-bit x86 CPUs. It's free, open-source, and perfect for reviving old hardware or educational purposes.

Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs

This site performs a twice-daily scan and plots out thousands of MiniPCs from Amazon and eBay, according to their prices and specs. You can adjust the horizontal axis, or the color code, in order to search several dimensions at once (e.g. CPU Performance vs Graphics). See my blog post for more info. BTW it of course uses affiliate links - scraping and parsing all these PCs from Amazon and ...

Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Minecraft Java Edition has a new update with Chaos Cubed, a new cave biome, and features like Sulfur Cubes and geyser blocks.

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992

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In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer language called FORTRAN. They had a pretty good FORTRAN compiler, called the FORTRAN G compiler. It was fast at translating FORTRAN into machine instructions, and the machine instructions it produced implemented the desired behavior fairly efficiently. Nevertheless, IBM ...

Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch

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BSharp app helps children develop absolute pitch by associating chords with colors, tracking accuracy and adjusting difficulty. It introduces new chords every 2 weeks after mastering previous ones with 100% accuracy.

Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects

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CleverCrow allows community members to fund issues they care about, and the maintainer directs the agent to implement the solution. The agent drafts a plan, iterates until approved, and implements the solution in a credential-less sandbox, with the maintainer reviewing and approving before shipping the code.

Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day

The user shares a heartfelt Father's Day message from a founder of Brunt, a work wear boot and apparel company, which resonates with their own experiences as a father. They also share their own stories of fatherhood, including memories with their sons and lessons learned from their own father, a commercial artist.