LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
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Wattenberger
LLMs are a tool for thought
Task-specific LLM evals that do and don't work (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
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eugeneyan.com
Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
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Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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Reddit
From the neovim community on Reddit: Bro been developing his 2k star plugin on a freaking touch phone 🤯🤯🤯
Explore this post and more from the neovim community
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Debanking (and Debunking?) (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
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Bits about Money
Debanking (and Debunking?)
Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for scintillating banking compliance trivia.
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New dog, old trick: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly via SD card reader (Score: 151+ in 19 hours)
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PT SWARM
New dog, old tricks: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly thru SD card reader
Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact… same ******* thing… over and over again expecting… **** to change… That. Is. Crazy.Far Cry 3 Intro The peripheral device industry has once again sacrificed security in the…
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Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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Ssrn
Quantitative Fire Risk Assessment of Battery Home Storage Systems in Comparison to General House Fires in Germany and Other Battery…
Battery storage systems are becoming an integral part of the energy transition, as they offer the possibility of bridging time windows in which self-generated r
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Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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A Java geek
Replace Philips Hue automation with Home Assistant's
This is the 3rd post in the My journey with Home Assistant focus series. I’m the happy owner of a couple of Philips Hue connected lights for a some years. Some of them are colored, some of them regular. In addition, I bought a sensor to go along with the…
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From where I left (🔥 Score: 176+ in 1 hour)
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Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74 (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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BBC News
Wisdom: World's oldest known wild bird lays egg at '74'
Laysan albatross Wisdom was spotted with her new partner and egg at a Pacific Ocean refuge.
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A simple way to scale pixel art games (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
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Common misconceptions about compilers (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
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sbaziotis.com
Common Misconceptions about Compilers
A curated list of misconceptions about mainstream compilers.
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The Google Willow Thing (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
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Shtetl-Optimized
The Google Willow thing
Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should…
Firefox removes "do not track" feature support (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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Windows Report
Mozilla Firefox removes "Do Not Track" Feature support: Here's what it means for your Privacy
Firefox is removing the Do Not Track setting from version 135 onwards. Mozilla recommends using Global Privacy Control setting as alternative,
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Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
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turso.tech
Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell (Score: 153+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6jhUR
It's the time of the year again, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
Previously asked on: 2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467691
2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421
2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167
2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863
2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306
2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6jhUR
It's the time of the year again, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
Previously asked on: 2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467691
2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421
2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167
2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863
2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306
2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
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AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
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Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB
AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelligence.
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Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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arXiv.org
Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
Large language models (LLMs) are restricted to reason in the "language space", where they typically express the reasoning process with a chain-of-thought (CoT) to solve a complex reasoning...
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Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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sibervepunk
digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job
know thyself
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U.S. math scores drop on major international test (Score: 156+ in 7 hours)
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Chalkbeat
U.S. math scores drop on major international test
U.S. math scores dropped sharply in 2023 on a major international assessment, even as fourth graders posted higher scores in more than a dozen countries.
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GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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CNBC
GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
General Motors will no longer fund its Cruise division's robotaxi development, effectively pulling out of the market.
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