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Is telling a model to "not hallucinate" absurd?

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(gist.github.com)

2h ago

Radiology-specific foundation model

(harrison.ai)

6h ago

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Tech Apple loses EU court battle over 13B euro tax bill in Ireland

(www.cnbc.com)

~28m ago

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

(blogsystem5.substack.com)

16h ago

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Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion

(www.warnercompanion.com)

EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf]

(curia.europa.eu)

~26m ago

Affordable DE10-Nano compatible boards for MiSTer FPGA retro platform

(www.retrorgb.com)

8h ago

Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project

(www.decarpentier.nl)

15h ago

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Sigrok – a portable, cross-platform, FOSS signal analysis software suite

(sigrok.org)

10h ago

Show HN: Vomitorium – all of your project in 1 text file

(www.npmjs.com)

Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe code

(sqlc.dev)

Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector

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(jacobfilipp.com)

16h ago

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2016 was first year on record for zero roof fall fatalities in coal mining in US

(www.washingtonpost.com)

DOJ claims Google has "trifecta of monopolies" on Day 1 of ad tech trial

(arstechnica.com)

7h ago

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Launch HN: Deepsilicon (YC S24) – Software and hardware for ternary transformers

(HN)

16h ago

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Estimating Bidders' Valuation Distributions in Online Auctions (2005) [pdf]

(www.cs.ubc.ca)

iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

(www.apple.com)

14h ago

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are mostly made of hydrogen

(www.aps.org)

B-Trees and Database Indexes

Just for Fun (2022)

(justforfunnoreally.dev)

6h ago

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(planetscale.com)

17h ago

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Litecli: CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

(github.com)

Transfusion: Predict the next token and diffuse images with one multimodal model

(www.arxiv.org)

14h ago

Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined

(worksinprogress.co)

19h ago

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Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide

(blog.intigriti.com)

(blog.gitbutler.com)

Every webpage deserves to be a place

(interconnected.org)

FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates

(www.techdirt.com)

13h ago

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Talaria: Interactively Optimizing Machine Learning Models for Efficient Inferenc

(arxiv.org)

Oxygene: A modern language built on the foundation of Object Pascal

(www.remobjects.com)

James Earl Jones has died

(variety.com)

12h ago

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300μs typo detection for 1.3M words

(trieve.ai)

(mntre.com)

Show HN: Io_uring for Ruby

(github.com)

21h ago

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API Complexity Is a Lie

(apichangelog.substack.com)

Gdi.js: JavaScript Runtime Written in Object Pascal

(gdi.sh)

Why I Wrote Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python (2023)

(crimede-coder.com)

18h ago

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College Pulse (YC S18) Is Hiring

(www.ycombinator.com)

21h ago

Apple Watch Series 10

(www.apple.com)

14h ago

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Porting C to Rust for a Fast and Safe AV1 Media Decoder

(www.memorysafety.org)

12h ago

Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation

(puckipedia.com)

12h ago

Who uses Accept-Language header?

(serpapi.com)

4h ago

PSA: Eget That Executable from GitHub

(taras.glek.net)

How colorful ribbon diagrams became the face of proteins

(www.quantamagazine.org)

Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase

(www.notateslaapp.com)

8h ago

How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works

(www.empirical.health)

15h ago

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ASCII cam – I made this using replit agent

(ascii-cam.replit.app)

Rɐbbit Dynamic Datascapes

(github.com)

A Pipeline Made of Airbags

(ferd.ca)

5d ago

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In the Labyrinth of Unknown Unknowns

(www.antithesis.com)

AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature

(9to5mac.com)

15h ago

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Sail – Built in Rust, 4x Faster Than Spark, 94% Lower Costs, PySpark-Compatible

(github.com)

8h ago

Design Patterns Are Temporary, Language Features Are Forever

(ptrtojoel.dev)

22h ago

The 'Save Money and Pursue Passion Later' Myth

(www.bucketlistly.blog)

The layers of strategic thinking behind our everyday conversations

(www.optimallyirrational.com)

A tiny self-remaking C program

(www.humprog.org)