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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,475 posts.
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Function calling and other API updates
We’re announcing updates including more steerable API models, function calling capabilities, longer context, and lower prices.
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Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems…
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Hacking root EPP servers to take control of zones
Finding vulnerabilities in global domain infrastructure to take control of ccTLD zones. Vulnerabilities in EPP
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Oyster: Towards Unsupervised Object Detection from Lidar Point Clouds
Transform your supply chain with Waabi’s AI-first autonomous trucking solution. Scale freight operations, improve safety, and boost efficiency. Learn more.
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SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices Within Two Seconds
Text-to-image diffusion models can create stunning images from natural language descriptions that rival the work of professional artists and photographers. However, these models are large, with complex network architectures and tens of denoising iterations, making them computationally expensive and slow to run. As a…
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Lisp Game Jam – “Wireworld” in WebAssembly Using Spritely's Hoot Project
This blog post focuses on our second Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 entry, wasm4-wireworld , an implementation of Wireworld on top of Hoot 's lower-level assembly tools which are a part of our Guile → Wasm project to bring Spritely Goblins -powered distributed applications to the common web browser.
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For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades
Despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today's real average wage in the U.S. has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. And most of what wage gains there have been have flowed to the highest-paid tier of workers.
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Every Signature Is Broken: Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s Ooxml Signatures
Simon Rohlmann, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, Daniel Hirschberger, and Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr University Bochum
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Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia
An Air India flight from New Delhi to San Francisco diverted to Russia after experiencing problems with one of its engines.
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It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
Drugs cause addiction*. It is a rhetoric deeply ingrained into the American psyche based on a series of rat experimentations that placed one rat alone in a cage with two water bottles--one containing cocaine or heroin, the other just water. The rat chose the cocaine- or heroin-laced water every time until it died. The…
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A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list
Today's main topic is the "freezing" of the JEP list in JDK 21. In addition to that, however, we will also talk about Nulls in Valhalla. And finally, the obligatory Release Radar.
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Mental Liquidity
I recently heard a phrase I love: Mental liquidity.
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The AI Hype Wall of Shame
Menu Home Editorial Collective Events Blog The AI Hype Report Design Justice AI Design Justice Labs The AI Hype Report Welcome to the AI HypeContinue reading
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CS:GO: From Zero to 0-Day
We identified three independent remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game. Each vulnerability can be triggered when the game client connects to our malicious python CS:GO server. This post details our journey through the CS:GO binary and conducts a technical deep…
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Debian 12 “Bookworm”
After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 12 (code name bookworm ).
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Buy well, buy once
Carl Jeffrey @fellowcreative (fellow™) is a Designer and Doer sharing ideas and thinking on creativity, community, sustainability, strategy, technology…
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AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
AI-powered browser extensions come with alarming security risks, but most companies still don't have policies for how their employees can use them.
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The guide to software development with Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat
The new version of Vivaldi on Android, tablets, and Chromebooks masquerades as competitors to benefit its users and lets users access Bing Chat.
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Tailscale doesn't want your password
Tailscale ditches passwords for passkeys, offering a secure, phishing-resistant, and convenient way to authenticate. Learn how passkeys work, why they’re better than passwords, and how to set them up on your tailnet.
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“Fractureiser” malware in popular Minecraft mods and modpacks
Malware is being distributed through Minecraft mods and modpacks mainly through CurseForge
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Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
Two improvements are launching in Bard to help you get more accurate responses and export to Google Sheets.
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