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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,899 posts.
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MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.
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XCurl
It is often said that Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery. Also, remember libcrurl? That was the name of the thing Google once planned to do: reimplement the libcurl API on top of their Chrome networking library. Flattery or not, it never went anywhere. The other day I received an email asking me about ……
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How to Hack APIs in 2021
Detectify Crowdsource is not your average bug bounty platform. It’s an invite-only community of the best ethical hackers who are passionate about securing modern technologies ...
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Four Hours of Concentration
As I've blogged about before, and mentioned again in my previous post, the great mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré put in two hours of work in the morning and two in the evening. Apparently this is a common pattern. Cal Newport mentions this in his interview with Todd Henry. Now we also know that if
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Harness engineering for self-improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” for a specific…
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I Have No Talent
The other day someone sent me an IM and thanked me for my open source contributions. They then said something about wishing they had my gem/code creation…
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Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
Donate a Few Hours to Help Us Create a Free Software Backend for Contacting Congress, Make the World a Better Place for Digital Rights UPDATE (4/16/14): We're lowering the threshold for getting prizes, take a look below. For years, EFF has been helping concerned technology users contact Congress....
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Interaction Models
Interaction models move beyond turn-based AI interfaces by handling multimodal, real-time collaboration natively across audio, video, and text.
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The art of asking nicely
There are upsides to working with a neural net that trained on a huge collection of internet images and text. One is that, instead of ominous grey geometric blobs [https://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways] when it doesn't understand your
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A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation
A collection of tools that help you deal with color gradients & color palettes, to design better data visualizations.
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The Octo-Bouncer
I started thinking about ball juggling machines in the year 2014. I wrote about my first few attempts at creating them in this blog post from the year 2017. In 2018 I wrote another post about my then newest build. We’re now in the year 2020. And finally, the quest to get a machine to … Continue reading The Octo-Bouncer
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Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
We introduce "observed exposure," combining LLM capability with real Claude usage data, and share early evidence on employment effects.
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Coping with Copilot
CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. B…
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Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max
COVID-19 restrictions have temporarily impacted the primary iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max assembly facility located in Zhengzhou, China.
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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
Why I uninstalled Plex Media Server after over a decade and migrated my movie and TV show collection to Jellyfin instead of Emby.
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OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.
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A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
OK, so C# doesn’t share the Rust concept of “borrowing,” so it wouldn’t technically be correct to call this “borrow checking,” but in practice when people talk about “Rust’s borrow checker” they’re talking about all of the static analysis Rust does to ensure memory safety, for which I think this qualifies.
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