Posts

What Are Shaders?

Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply to AI Training

Developer says Reddit will charge him $20M/yr API fees to keep his app working

[ASAP] Catalytic Enantioselective Intramolecular Oxa-Michael Reaction to α,β-Unsaturated Esters and Amides

[ASAP] Dual Nickel/Photoredox-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carbosulfonylation of Alkenes

Controllable Music Inpainting with Mixed-Level and Disentangled Representation

WebRTC support being added to FFmpeg

Noncompete Clauses Violate Labor Law, NLRB Lawyer Says

Venetian Arsenal

25 things I’ve learned about life the hard way before turning 25

Ask HN: What challenges are you facing offshoring development to India?

Sigils are an underappreciated programming technology

How much would it have cost if GPT-4 had written your code

Chocolate and the Steam Engine (2014)

Fossil tells the 'tail' of an ancient beast

The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France

A measles vaccine painlessly delivered via sticker shows promising early results

Ask HN: Did students lose interest in electronics as a hobby in the early 80s?

Landauer's Principle

State of Space-Based Solar Radiation Management [pdf]

MediaMTX: Zero-dependency server for live video and audio streams

Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

The Homebrew Hercules Graphics Card

Show HN: Open Fire Serverless CI

Unbounded memory usage by Linux TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it

Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches

Emily Wilson on Epictetus

Why Timothy Cain creator of Fallout left Fallout 2 during development

Women Mapping New York City’s Halal Food

I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

The History of CMOS

Former Deadspin writer raided by FBI for Fox News hack

[ASAP] Preorganized Nitrogen Sites for Au11 Amidation: A Generalizable Strategy toward Precision Functionalization of Metal Nanoclusters

Sudo and signal propagation

DARPA’s silent MHD magnetic drives for replacing naval propellers

There May Be a Second Kuiper Belt, and New Horizons Is Headed There

Ask HN: Indic languages OCR and searchable pdfs

[ASAP] Confirming High-Valent Iron as Highly Active Species of Water Oxidation on the Fe, V‑Coupled Bimetallic Electrocatalyst: In Situ Analysis of X‑ray Absorption and Mössbauer Spectroscopy

[ASAP] Alkylcysteine Sulfoxide C–S Monooxygenase Uses a Flavin-Dependent Pummerer Rearrangement

[ASAP] Cation Co-Intercalation with Anions: The Origin of Low Capacities of Graphite Cathodes in Multivalent Electrolytes

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

Sony confirms its working on a new Playstation portable, codenamed Project Q

Kenny Log-Ins

[ASAP] Enhanced Excited-State Hydricity of Pd–H Allows for Unusual Head-to-Tail Hydroalkenylation of Alkenes

[ASAP] Thiol and H2S‑Mediated NO Generation from Nitrate at Copper(II)

Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies

Regent – 100% Electric Coastal Travel

Safety I vs. Safety II: An overview (2018)

Aptible (YC S14) Is Hiring: Security Engineer and Head of Product

[ASAP] Dissolution of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase and Its Effects on Lithium Metal Anode Cyclability

Salt Lake 2002 – not enough memory/crashes to desktop after starting error

In Defense of Pure 16-Bit Floating-Point Neural Networks

Show HN: Blotter – An interactive, never ending music video

Talks That Attendees See in Person More Likely to Be Cited

More Than 600k Students and Teachers Use Z-Library

[ASAP] Multi-Electron Visible Light Photoaccumulation on a Dipyridylamine Copper(II)–Polyoxometalate Conjugate Applied to Photocatalytic Generation of CF3 Radicals

Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel at Netflix

Hoarding

China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya

LLVM's Libc Gets Much Faster memcpy For RISC-V

The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source

The 0+ HFT Strategy

China overtakes United States on contribution to research in Nature Index

How Somali workers in the US are fighting Amazon’s surveillance machine

An exploit can reveal your KeePass master password in plaintext

Roger's little rule book (2008)

Nonius Clock

[ASAP] Highly Productive C3H4/C3H6 Trace Separation by a Packing Polymorph of a Layered Hybrid Ultramicroporous Material

[ASAP] Chemical Design of Pb-Free Relaxors for Giant Capacitive Energy Storage

AmpereOne with 192 Cores 128x PCIe Gen5 Lanes and DDR5 in 2023

Ts-morph – programmatically manipulate TypeScript source code with TypeScript

Bevy and WebGPU

Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic

Show HN: PAKman – A new build system built around Alpine Linux Packages

Inject My PDF: Prompt Injection for Your Resume

[ASAP] Ultrasmall Coinage Metal Nanoclusters as Promising Theranostic Probes for Biomedical Applications

IntelligentPad (1989) a component-based drag-and-drop software creator

Show HN: Smallville – Create generative agents for simulations and games

Show HN: PENVM – Programmable, extensible, network virtual machine

Tracking Blocked Scripts

[ASAP] Resolving the Formation Mechanism of HONO via Ammonia-Promoted Photosensitized Conversion of Monomeric NO2 on Urban Glass Surfaces

ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft

AI can’t do hiring because it lacks the data

On the foolishness of “natural language programming”

[ASAP] Room-Temperature Solid-State Synthesis of Cs3Cu2I5 Thin Films and Formation Mechanism for Its Unique Local Structure

Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true

A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert

Show HN: Hat-syslog – Syslog Server with real time web UI

Speaking of Illusions: Sirtuins and Longevity

[ASAP] Unveiling Unexpected Modulator-CO2 Dynamics within a Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework

StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length

Bruce McCall’s “Safe Travels”

How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975)

Pimoroni Badger W display server

The day you became a better writer (2007)

The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection

The path to path-traced movies (2016)

Boron-assisted abiotic polypeptide synthesis

Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups

Why is there no open source firmware for laser or inkjet printers? (2019)

Donkeycar: A Python self driving library

TypeScript is 'not worth it' Svelte switches to JavaScript and JSDoc

[ASAP] Liquid Phase Edge Epitaxy of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers

[ASAP] Second-Shell Residues Contribute to Catalysis by Predominately Preorganizing the Apo State in PafA

[ASAP] Selective Formation of Acetic Acid and Methanol by Direct Methane Oxidation Using Rhodium Single-Atom Catalysts

[ASAP] Cleavage of an Aromatic C–C Bond in Ferrocene by Insertion of an Iridium Nitrido Nitrogen Atom

[ASAP] Ketoreductase Domain-Catalyzed Polyketide Chain Release in Fungal Alkyl Salicylaldehyde Biosynthesis

The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe

Understanding Modern Storage APIs: A systematic study of libaio, SPDK, io_uring [pdf]

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)

Ibramenu: Bash-based self-hosted app deployment

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

[ASAP] Correction to “A Reactive, Photogenerated High-Spin ( = 2) FeIV(O) Complex via O2 Activation”

We fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments

Creatures That Don’t Conform

Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger

What if we covered every warehouse in the mountain West with solar panels?

The World’s Greatest Freediver (2021)

[ASAP] Solvent-Dependent Structural Dynamics in the Ultrafast Photodissociation Reaction of Triiodide Observed with Time-Resolved X‑ray Solution Scattering

File Locks on Linux

Electrical Characteristics of Telephone Lines (2023)

The Strange Devirtualization of Techno

[ASAP] On the Rational Design of Core/(Multi)-Crown Type-II Heteronanoplatelets

The pain points of teaching computer science

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes. The courts are not amused

Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium

[ASAP] Chloride Ligands on DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters

[ASAP] Tyrosinase-Catalyzed Peptide Macrocyclization for mRNA Display

[ASAP] Triplex-Forming Peptide Nucleic Acid Controls Dynamic Conformations of RNA Bulges

Makeitfrom.com – Material Properties Database

America’s jobs report is not as strong as it seems

Implementing Value Speculation in OCaml

Amazon Tried Not to Pay a Woman After Driver Totaled Her Car

Free Public Domain Audiobooks

A Short History of DragThing – Ten Years of Tidying Up Your Desktop

MSFT exec admits console wars are over: ‘We lost the worst generation to lose'

Mailbox.org discovers unencrypted password transmission in myMail

Show HN: MoodFood – AI Chef Assistant for Personalized Meals and Mood Dining

Show HN: Mini-spend-tracker – a self-hosted server for tracking your spendings

Transcending My Father's Abuse

FDA Finalizes Rule to Deregulate Hearing Aids

Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation (2021)

Pioneer – An Open Source space adventure game set in our galaxy

Hard feelings over mission change for NASA’s Pluto spacecraft

At Musk’s brain-chip startup, animal-testing panel is rife with conflicts

Dump these insecure phone adapters because we're not fixing them, says Cisco

[ASAP] Prebiotic Synthesis of Formylaminonitriles and Derivatives in Formamide

How to Survive Your Project's First 100k Lines

MaMMUT: A simple vision-encoder text-decoder architecture for multimodal tasks

Electronic Music and the NeXTcube – Running Max on the Ircam Musical Workstation

Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code

[ASAP] Catalyst-Controlled Annulations of Strained Cyclic Allenes with π‑Allylpalladium Complexes

A Little Calculus

Apple reports Q2 2023 results

Protect your art against AI/machine learning theft with customizable watermarks

Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami

Wearing an eye mask during sleep improves episodic learning and alertness

[ASAP] Expanding Transition Metal-Mediated Bioorthogonal Decaging to Include C–C Bond Cleavage Reactions

[ASAP] Spontaneous Oxidation of Thiols and Thioether at the Air–Water Interface of a Sea Spray Microdroplet

Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators

Google DeepMind CEO Says Some Form of AGI Possible in a Few Years

Spinning the Decks and Startup Success: A Lesson from My DJ Days

Cardinal/WASM: In-Browser Modular Synth Based on VCV Rack

African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize

[ASAP] Surface Confinement of Finite-Size Water Droplets for SO3 Hydrolysis Reaction Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations Based on a Machine Learning Force Field

The “Location Off” switch on your phone is a lie

[ASAP] Gold-Catalyzed Precise Bromination of Polystyrene

Change My Mind: Density Increases Local but Decreases Global Prices

BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring a Growth Associate

I Was Laid Off in Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination Whistleblowing

Universal Railway Bus

Flame-Throwing Tractors Kill Weeds [video]