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Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,852 posts.
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ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
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So you want to parse a PDF?
Suppose you have an appetite for tilting at windmills. Let's say you love pain. Well then why not write a PDF parser today?
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A Response to Paul Graham’s Article on Income Inequality
While perusing HackerNews today, I encountered this article and this comment thread by Paul Graham (PG for short), founder of Ycombinator. I think that a lengthy response is in order. I originally …
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Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why…
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Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling
YouTube resolution down again? Through a collaboration with another Massachusetts university, this Northeastern team unveils exactly who’s responsible.
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How SSH port became 22 (2017)
The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
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Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
For web automation/testing, Selenium has been the de facto "standard" since forever. It's simple to get started with and supports almost every programming language. My problem with it has been: It's good enough, but nothing more. It doesn't work that well with modern, Javascript framework heavy sites (Angular, React
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The Apprentice Programmer
I dropped out of school when I was 16 years old. School was not for me. To me, computers were so much more interesting. Right or wrong, I felt like I wasted my time there and my real education was starting when I came home. I lost respect for the institution and of course this meant that I no longer bothered to put any
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LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Researchers find large language models use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge when they respond to a user prompt. These mechanisms can be leveraged to see what the model knows about different subjects and possibly to correct false information it has stored.
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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior.
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The Internet of Unprofitable Things
Gather 'round children. Uncle Andrew wants to tell you a festive story. The NTPmare shortly after Christmas
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Emacs appearances in pop culture
Thank you for the support, this blog post got featured on the front page of Hacker News (YCombinator).
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How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
On Friday Oct 2, 09:35am, 333 infected exit nodes started a coordinated campaign to intercept SSH connections and gather as much unencrypted data as possible.
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My offer to Google Reader
Like many others, I was curious when Google announced that it would be revamping the Google Reader UI and refactor its social components into Google Plus. To that end, I wrote a brief blog post about what I felt would be a better alternative to stripping out Google Reader's social functionality .
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Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs
Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
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Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
Researchers move closer to gene therapy solution for hearing loss
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Ghrc.io appears to be malicious
A simple typo of ghcr.io to ghrc.io would normally be a small goof. You’d typically get a 404 or similar error, finally work out the issue, fix it, and move along. But in this case, that typo appears to be doing something very malicious, stealing GitHub credentials. What’s ghcr.io? First, a quick bit of background…
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Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
Let’s Encrypt had a great year in 2018. We’re now serving more than 150 million websites while maintaining a stellar security and compliance track record. Most importantly though, the Web went from 67% encrypted page loads to 77% in 2018, according to statistics from Mozilla. This is an incredible rate of change! We’d…
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Defensive CSS
A list of defensive CSS techniques to avoid potential future issues
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Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US
On using a new dataset and ensuring your analytic findings aren't a data reporting issue.
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iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Apple announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering an advanced pro camera system and improved battery life and performance.
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Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play
And why adults’ fears put them at risk