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OpenAI o1 system card
This report outlines the safety work carried out prior to releasing OpenAI o1 and o1-mini, including external red teaming and frontier risk evaluations according to our Preparedness Framework.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning
Explore PaliGemma 2, which offers scalable performance with multiple model sizes and resolutions, and is designed as a drop-in replacement for existing PaliGemma users.
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AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz
Cores are the new megahertz, at least for enterprise servers. We've gone quickly from 32, to 64, to 80, to 128, and now to 192-cores on a single CPU socket! Amazon built Graviton 4, Google built Axiom, but if you want your own massive Arm server, Ampere's the only game in town. And fastest Arm CPU in the world is…
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7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
7 databases to explore in 2025.
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Next stop: Miami
Get ready for a touch of magic in the Magic City. We're excited to announce that Waymo One will be expanding to Miami!
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The “simple” 38 step journey to getting an RFC
The Internet is built on the mutual understanding of network protocols and practices, and most of those protocols are defined using Request For Comments (RFC) or Best Common Practices (BCP) documents.
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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
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Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama
K/V context cache quantisation has been added to Ollama. This enables significant reductions in VRAM usage, allowing users to realise the potential of expanded context sizes and run larger models at their existing context sizes.
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Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel
I’ve been on a weird kick lately making images using Excel. [Here’s one post. I hope to post more soon.] If you add a background color to each cell in a spreadsheet and resize the cell …
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Native dual-range input
Two native range inputs and fifty lines of JavaScript to make them work together.
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
Four archetypes in software engineering
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A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929
"Science and The Way to Health" by Andress and Brown
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Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents
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Why did clothing become boring?
An investigation into when, how, and why everyone started dressing the same — and what it was like when they didn't
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Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension
The chart shows the share of children at the end of lower-secondary school age — aged 12 to 15 — who meet the minimum proficiency set by UNESCO in reading comprehension. This means they can connect the main ideas across various texts, understand the author’s intentions, and draw reasoned conclusions.
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They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard
Nothing says ‘80s pop’ like a DX7.
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Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
There is a recent language comparison repo which has been getting shared a lot. In it, CRuby was the third slowest option, only beating out R and Python. The repo author, @BenjDicken, created a fun visualization of each language’s performance. Here’s one of the visualizations, which shows Ruby as the third slowest…
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How to grow professional relationships
My TJS model maps professional relationships across seven states, from zero-sum competition to toxic enmeshment, and why collaboration is the peak.
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AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)
Nine Technical Strategies for Reducing Hallucination
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No NAT November: My month without IPv4
Near the beginning of November, nixCraft posted this challenge on Mastodon, daring people to take the No NAT November challenge and disable IPv4 for the month, relying only on IPv6:
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I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source
Notable case of algorithmic approach to open source and non-profit giving
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Derivative at a Discontinuity
Alok Singh's Blog
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Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here
LiveView 1.0 is out!
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A new home for Python-build-standalone
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
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Amazon Nova
Amazon Nova foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, with support for text and multimodal intelligence, multimodal fine-tuning, and high-quality images and videos.
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Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards
Engineered from the ground up to deliver immersive gameplay, fast content creation, and easy-to-use AI capabilities.