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Vitamin D toxicity: What if you get too much?
Understand the risks of taking high doses of this vitamin in supplement form.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,916 posts.
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The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery
Building a social network is not easy. Social networks have value proportional to their size, so participants aren’t motivated to join new social networks which aren’t already large. It’s a paradox where if people haven’t already joined, people aren’t motivated to join. The trouble is that whi...
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Employers steal billions from workers’ paychecks each year: Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage, at significant cost to taxpayers and state economies
This report assesses the prevalence and magnitude of one form of wage theft—minimum wage violations (workers being paid at an effective hourly rate below the binding minimum wage)—in the 10 most populous U.S. states. We find that, in these states, 2.4 million workers lose $8 billion annually (an average of $3,300 per…
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Cancer
Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?
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Not just “a few bad apples”: U.S. police kill civilians at much higher rates than other countries
Police violence is a systemic problem in the U.S., not simply incidental, and it happens on a scale far greater than other wealthy nations.
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War and national security uses of AI.
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GPT-6 Astra
Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.
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ChatGPT Plugins
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
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A 10x Faster TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.
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Keybase launches encrypted Git
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
Last week, we received the following email from Amazon: From: [redacted], [redacted] <[redacted]@amazon.com> Subject: Notification of potential account suspension regarding AWS Service Terms Moxie, Yesterday AWS became aware of your GitHub and Hacker News/ycombinator posts des...
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WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. A year ago, we announced a partnership with WhatsApp and committed to integrating the Signal Protocol into their product, moving towards full end-to-end encryption for all of their users by default. Over the past year, we...
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Ending Bitcoin Support
Starting today, we are winding down support for Bitcoin payments. Over the next three months we will work with affected Stripe users to ensure a smooth transition.
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
We traced recent reports of Claude Code quality issues to three separate changes. Here's what happened, what we fixed, and what we're changing.
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Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search. Privacy Pass is an authentication protocol first introduced by Davidson et al., in [1], and recently standardized by the IETF as RFCs [2—4]. Our...
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Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem
When you're playing your favorite game on Dolphin with a powerful computer, things should run fairly well. The game is running full speed, there are no graphical glitches, and you can use your favorite controller if you want. Yet, every time you go to a new area, or load a new effect, there's a very slight but…
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Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
[Update: Wladimir Palant has posted a response on the AdBlock Plus blog. Also, a Chrome developer using the handle “Klathmon” has posted numerous good comments in the Reddit discussion of this post , explaining why ad-blockers are inherently CPU- and memory-intensive, and why integrating ad-blocking into a browser…
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An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
In this article, Carson Gross explores how the term REST (Representational State Transfer) evolved to mean nearly the opposite of its original definition in modern web development. It traces how REST, originally defined by Roy Fielding to describe the web's architecture of hypermedia-driven interactions, came to be…
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
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API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
An update on our findings, the actions we’ve taken, and technical details of the bug.
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Fighting spam with Haskell
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Kagi/Orion status update: First three months
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago. We thought we'd give a full status update. If you are new to Kagi - Kagi search is an attempt to make the...
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Go fonts
Announcing the Go font family, by Bigelow & Holmes.