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Atari 800XL Remake
Link: revive-machines.com/index-en.h…
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Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst
Link: 9to5mac.com/2023/04/18/iphone-…
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Apple put up a lengthy fight against being forced to allow iPhone sideloading – the ability for owners to install...Ben Lovejoy (9to5mac)
The Earn IT Bill Is Back, Seeking to Scan Our Messages and Photos
Link: eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn…
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In a free society, people should not have their private correspondence constantly examined. U.S. lawmakers, we would hope, understand that individuals have the right to a private conversation without the government looking over their shoulder.Electronic Frontier Foundation
The weird world of Windows file paths
Link: fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_w…
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File system paths on Windows are stranger than you might think. On any Unix-derived system, a path is an admirably simple thing: if it starts with a /, it’s a path.www.fileside.app
Klimaschutz, autofreie Städte, Kindergrundsicherung: Deutschland bekommt's nicht auf die Reihe. Da helfen nur noch Wettbewerbe als Treibstoff.
Innovationsunwille in der Politik: Deutschland denkt nichts neu
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Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and Bluetooth speakers
Link: vice.com/en/article/v7beyj/car…
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Motherboard posed as an interested buyer to learn more about the wild world of car hacking.Joseph Cox (VICE)
Fictional Brands Archive
Link: fictionalbrandsarchive.com/
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Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See
Link: thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-te…
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Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
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AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students
Link: restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-t…
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For the past nine years, Collins, a 27-year-old freelance writer, has been making money by writing assignments for students in the U.S. — over 8,500…Martin K.N Siele (Rest of World)
ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate
Link: businessinsider.com/how-much-c…
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ChatGPT is costly because it requires massive amounts of computing power to generate answers to queries. Microsoft is making a chip to change that.Aaron Mok (Insider)
Former President Donald Trump maintains a commanding lead in the polls over his possible challengers for the GOP nomination even as Republican voters acknowledge he’s not the strongest candidate to take on President Joe Biden.Cami Mondeaux (Washington Examiner)
Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties
Link: cthiriet.com/articles/scaling-…
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More details on the science of training large autoregressive language models.cthiriet.com
Why Perl?
Link: two-wrongs.com/why-perl
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Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text on the web)
Link: president.mn/mng/
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Эв нэгдлийг эрхэмлэж, үндэсний эрх ашгаа дээдэлсэн Эх оронч Ерөнхийлөгч байна. Эрх чөлөө, шударга ёсыг сахин хамгаалж, иргэнээ дээдэлсэн Эх оронч Ерөнхийлөгч байна. Эдийн засгаа сэргээж, аж үйлдвэрийг хөгжүүлсэн Эх оронч Ерөнхийлөгч байна.ᠮᠣᠩᠭ᠋ᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠶᠡᠷᠦᠩᠬᠡᠢᠢᠯᠡᠭᠴᠢ ᠤᠬᠤᠨ᠋᠋᠋᠋ᠠ ᠢᠢᠨ ᠬᠦᠷᠡᠯᠰᠦ᠋ᠬᠡ
WebGPU GPT Model Demo
Link: kmeans.org/
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Rhythm (taal) in Indian Classical Music (2011)
Link: raag-hindustani.com/Rhythm.htm…
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What is taal and how does it work? What are some common taals in Indian classical music? Learn how improvisation takes place within the framework of rhythm.raag-hindustani.com
Study finds new pathway for clearing misfolded proteins
Link: news.stanford.edu/2023/04/20/s…
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Stanford researchers defined a novel cellular pathway – including a “dump site” – for clearing misfolded proteins from cells. The pathway is a potential therapy target for age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s diseases.Stanford News
Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed
Link: lxe.co/wasmgpt/
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WASM-powered chatbot directly in the browser. No WebGPU or server is required to enjoy.lxe.co
Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
Link: inkscape.org/news/2023/04/17/i…
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inkscape.orgInkscape is hiring a senior C++ developer with GTK experience to accelerate the migration to GTK4.
Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose
Link: zachsim.one/blog/2023/4/19/int…
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Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023
Link: newgrounds.com/portal/view/881…
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World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density
Link: thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds…
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"A new era of universal electrification of sea, land and air transportation." CATL announces new battery that doubles energy intensity.Daniel Bleakley (The Driven)
Revisiting the Fast Inverse Square Root – Is It Still Useful?
Link: hllmn.net/blog/2023-04-20_rsqr…
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Babylon.js 6.0
Link: babylonjs.com/
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Babylon.js is one of the world's leading WebGL-based graphics engines. From a new visual scene inspector, best-in-class physically-based rendering, countless performance optimizations, and much more, Babylon.Babylon.js
AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010)
Link: aolserver.github.io/
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Analyzing the websites that are used to train AI chatbots
Link: washingtonpost.com/technology/…
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An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.Kevin Schaul, Szu Yu Chen, Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post)
PyPI Introduces “Trusted Publishers”
Link: blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-20…
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Announcing a new, more secure way to publish to PyPIblog.pypi.org
Diagnosing cancer by profiling the immune system
Link: github.com/jostmey/msm
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Improved statistical classifier for immune repertoires - GitHub - jostmey/msm: Improved statistical classifier for immune repertoiresGitHub
Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code
Link: evidence.dev
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Evidence enables analysts to build a trusted, version-controlled reporting system by writing SQL and markdown. Evidence reports are publication-quality, highly customizable, and fit for human consumption.evidence.dev
Conway's Game of Life digital clock
Link: copy.sh/life/?gist=f3413564b1f…
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A JavaScript version of Conway's Game of Life, based on the Hashlife-algorithm.copy.sh
Gov. Inslee signs bill to remove death penalty from Washington state law
Link: kptv.com/2023/04/20/gov-inslee…
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The death penalty is no longer in Washington state law.Fox 12 Oregon
Farmers ‘crippled’ by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt
Link: smh.com.au/national/farmers-cr…
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A failure in Australia’s GPS satellite system has halted the planting of winter crops and exposed “a critical risk to rural industries”.Mike Foley (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel
Link: informatimago.free.fr/i/linux/…
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Nano How-To explaining how to setup a root file system with only emacs.informatimago.free.fr
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
Link: x.st/spinning-diagrams-with-cs…
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This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.Harold Cooper (exist)
Lithuania: Students stop university from using only proprietary authentication
Link: fsfe.org/news/2023/news-202304…
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Vilnius Tech officials attempted to enforce the use of proprietary two factor identification (2FA) methods. Some students were concerned the methods would ...FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
Show HN: CozoDB, Hybrid Relational-Graph-Vector Database
Link: docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/rele…
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Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
Link: economist.com/united-states/20…
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In 1981, Intel released the iAPX 432
Link: oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/11…
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The NIH poured $1B into long Covid research, with little to show for it
Link: statnews.com/2023/04/20/long-c…
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A STAT and MuckRock investigation shows the NIH hasn’t picked up the pace on its long Covid research. Instead, the delays have compounded.Betsy Ladyzhets (STAT)
Study links 'stuck' stem cells to hair turning gray
Link: phys.org/news/2023-04-links-st…
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Certain stem cells have a unique ability to move between growth compartments in hair follicles, but get stuck as people age and so lose their ability to mature and maintain hair color, a new study shows.Science X (Phys.org)
Bark – GPT-style realistic multilingual text-to-speech generation
Link: github.com/suno-ai/bark
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🔊 Text-prompted Generative Audio Model. Contribute to suno-ai/bark development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire
Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smugglin…
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Stop irreversible damage to the Amazon
Link: junglekeepers.org/
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Stop feeling bad about the Amazon being destroyed and do something about it. Help us protect a crucial part of the Amazon Rainforest!Junglekeepers
Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers
Link: stretch15.com
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A free 15 min daily stretch routine to help desk workers avoid aches and painsstretch15.com
Der russische Staat geht immer strenger vor, um Männer für das Militär zu rekrutieren. Kritiker sprechen bereits von einem „elektronischen Gulag“.
Einberufung in Russland: Erst überwacht, dann an die Front
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Google DeepMind
Link: deepmind.com/blog/announcing-g…
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DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research will join forces to accelerate progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity.www.deepmind.com
Aus Kiew kommt der Vorwurf, statt Russlands Präsident Putin habe ein Doppelgänger zuletzt die Kriegsgebiete in Cherson besucht. Der Kreml wies diese Spekulationen zurück und nannte sie "merkwürdig".
Nach Bildern von Cherson-Besuch: Kreml dementiert Einsatz von Putin-Double
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Tell HN: ChatGPT is absolutely fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs
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BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down
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TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids
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Die Bundesregierung will die Infrastruktur für Flüssiggas auch vor der größten deutschen Ostseeinsel ausbauen – laut einem Gutachten rechtswidrig.
Neues Flüssiggas-Terminal vor Rügen: LNG-Pläne womöglich illegal
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