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Bing AI can't be trusted
Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,903 posts.
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That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
It's just normal crime
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Attention Is Off By One
Let’s fix these pesky Transformer outliers using Softmax One and QuietAttention.
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Fired
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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OpenAI and Elon Musk
We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way.
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Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max feature groundbreaking technologies that deliver dramatically increased performance and unleash new capabilities for Mac.
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The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
This pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 just west of the Minneapolis Airport . It connects Bloomington to Richfield. I drive under it often and I wondered: why is it there? It's not in an area that is particularly walkable, and it doesn't connect any establishments that obviously need to be connected. So why was it built?
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The cognitive costs of air pollution
Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality are widely documented . However, our understanding of its cognitive costs is more recent and those costs are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasized. For example, cognitive effects are not mentioned in…
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There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
Today, The Guardian published a story falsely claiming that WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption contains a “backdoor.”
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I quit the tech industry
This Friday, June 12, will be my last day at Yelp. I don’t intend to look for another tech job. Or another job at all. Ever.
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Claude 3 model family
The Claude 3 model family—Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus—sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks.
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How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
There have been rumors for years that the NSA can decrypt a significant fraction of encrypted Internet traffic. In 2012, James Bamford published an article quoting anonymous former NSA officials stating that the agency had achieved a “computing breakthrough” that gave them “the ability to crack current public…
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Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
(Note: This was written in 2016. I recently — in late 2019 — wrote a post about some things I’ve learned since then .)
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DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster and SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal discuss the non-payment by Disney of several contracts for works including multiple Star Wars and Aliens novelizations.
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AI winter is well on its way
Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed that it is the silver bullet that will take us to
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How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.
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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone,…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. Throughout my life, my ...
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Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.
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I am rich and have no idea what to do
Life has been a haze this last year. After selling my company, I find myself in the totally un-relatable position of never having to work again. Everything feels like a side quest, but not in an inspiring way. I don’t have the same base desires driving me to make money or gain status. I have infinite freedom, yet I…
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Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky shared our design for living and working anywhere with employees around the globe.
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New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
Today, the Norwegian Consumer Council has filed a complaint against Google. Based on new research Google is accused of using deceptive design and misleading information, which results in users accepting to be constantly tracked
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Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
Security on the web matters. Whenever you connect to a web page and enter a password, a credit card number, or other sensitive information, you want to be sure ...
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Ask vs. Guess Culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
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Gemini Robotics
Introducing Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, AI models designed for robots to understand, act and react to the physical world.
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