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AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude
We analyzed 207,000 research sessions to learn how Claude is used in science, why some tasks get more use than others, and how AI could speed up discovery.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,933 posts.
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Inkling 2 Small
Today we are introducing the second generation of Inkling models with the release of Inkling 2 Small.
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A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization
The basics of GPUs, profilers, distributed computation, and kernel optimization
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$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
The Nasdaq wiped out roughly $2.5 trillion in market cap on Thursday, officially pushing the index into correction territory.
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Pangram Image 1.0
Introducing Pangram Image 1.0, our AI image and video detector.
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The Hackintosh Reborn
Almost a decade ago, I released a hackintosh guide on running macOS 10.14 through a VM with an x86 host. A "Hackintosh" is the feat of running macOS on non-Apple hardware, and has a history dating back to the late 1980s. At the time KVM and PCI
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My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
Extracting my gym’s QR check-in from its Flutter app, with a rooted phone and a lot of ripgrep.
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Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
Meet motorola signature 27, Motorola's most advanced flagship smartphone ever with next-gen AI, industry-leading tech, & a distnctive design.
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Building a Multi-Agent System from Scratch: Architecture Patterns
Orchestrator-worker, blackboard, and pipeline patterns for coordinating multiple AI agents — with the failure modes that only show up once you go past a single-agent demo.
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We can do better than line-buffered output
Buffered output typically comes in two flavors: fully buffered and line buffered. If output goes to a terminal then the implementation automatically selects line buffering, flushing its buffer when a line is completed so that it reaches the user immediately. Otherwise it fully buffers, holding output until the buffer…
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Image of our satellite-choked night skies
To create this composite image, photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. Thi
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September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more
Plus new CSS functions and WEbGL2 improvements.
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I wish tech companies knew more about me
I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext
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Download your favourite YouTube videos
Signal boosting Laura's post that you should absolutely download and archive the stuff that matters to you.
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Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64
Sorry for the clickbait title. I promise this post delivers: 44100 Hz stereo with near-Opus bitrates using about 4% of the N64’s CPU time.
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OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM
OpenSSH release notes
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Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
Erik Gahner Larsen
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Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280B-A14B hybrid-attention MoE pretrained on 33.5T tokens. An open, efficient pretraining base.
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GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
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Being a kid making games in the early 2000s
An autobiographical essay by Jay Tholen about being a youngster making games and posting them online!
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Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer
Like some of you, we have several kitchen appliances with integrated digital timers.
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Images 2.6
Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
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A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
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Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements
Improving the Xbox 360 Bad Update exploit to trigger nearly instantaneously with near 100% success rate.
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Everything is an AI scam now
Whenever you watch a video on YouTube now, you will likely get an advert for a scammy product. In the past few weeks I've seen:
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Insects don't swarm at LED lights
Remember when you used to encounter swarms of insects around outdoor electric lights? Their well known attraction to outdoor lights is used by entomologists and moth lovers to conduct insect surveys. All you need is a light and a white sheet to see who’s flying at night.
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Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon.
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.