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Guided by the beauty of our test suite

mattkeeter.com

This is a story about making software better. Last summer, I published Raven, an independent implementation...
This is a story about making software better. Last summer, I published Raven, an independent implementation of the Uxn CPU and Varavara ordinator. In short, this is a fictional computer designed for cross-platform portability: programs targetting it can be run on any platform that implements the specification. Here'...
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Prime Numbers So Memorable That People Hunt for Them

scientificamerican.com

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most...
One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked to name a prime number during a conversation. These numbers, which are only divisible by 1 and themselves, form the atoms ...
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Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source)

picaos.com
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How many Alpine packages can you install at once? (2024)

naff.dev
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Should We Use AI and LLMs for Christian Apologetics?

lukeplant.me.uk

The other day I received an email from Jake Carlson of the Apologist Project asking permission...
The other day I received an email from Jake Carlson of the Apologist Project asking permission to use the apologetics resources I’ve written as input for an AI chatbot they have launched on their website. I replied by email, but I think there is benefit to doing this kind of conversation more publicly. So, below are...

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0click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and other platforms

github.com
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'It's a nightmare': couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs

theguardian.com

Most days a thicket of couriers can be seen around the McDonald’s in Northern Ireland’s Ballymena,...
Most days a thicket of couriers can be seen around the McDonald’s in Northern Ireland’s Ballymena, waiting for orders and discussing the mysteries of the systems that rule their working lives.This week gig workers, trade unions and human rights groups launched a campaign for greater openness from Uber Eats, Just Eat...
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AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power

lukaspetersson.com

tl;dr: Horizontal AI products will eventually outperform vertical AI products in most verticals. AI verticals were...
tl;dr: Horizontal AI products will eventually outperform vertical AI products in most verticals. AI verticals were first to market, but who will win in the long run? Switching costs will be low. Horizontal AI will be like a remote co-worker. Onboarding will be like onboarding a new employee - giving them a computer ...
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Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

ycombinator.com
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Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation

wiley.com
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Remarks to Software Forum Dinner Meeting (1997)

klhess.com
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Show HN: Amurex – An open source AI meeting copilot

sansyrox.github.io
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Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint

printercow.com
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The Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu Results After Thirty Years

psu.edu
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People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research

science.org
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The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

theconversation.com

A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on...
A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital. This scene not only describes Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown New York – and the ensuing flood of media attention – but also the plo...

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Trump's science advisers: how they could influence his second presidency

nature.com

What Trump’s election win could mean for AI, climate and health

government policy politics
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Garmin's –$40B Pivot

readtrung.com

Thanks for subscribing to SatPost. Welcome to the new subscribers that joined from Tyler Cowen’s blog...
Thanks for subscribing to SatPost. Welcome to the new subscribers that joined from Tyler Cowen’s blog (for “11 Best Things of 2024”) and Tim Ferriss’ Five Bullet Friday e-mail (“Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki and the Pursuit of Mastery”). I am a long-time fan of both and was honored to see their recommendations. Toda...
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What I've learned about writing AI apps so far

seldo.com

I started writing a post called "how to write AI apps" but it was over-reach so...
I started writing a post called "how to write AI apps" but it was over-reach so I scaled it back to this. Who am I to tell you how to write anything? But here's what I'll be applying to my own writing of AI-powered apps, specifically LLM applications. A battle I've already lost is that we shouldn't call LLMs "AI" at...
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Fixing a uname bug (Apache NuttX RTOS)

lupyuen.org
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Poland fumes over US block on AI chips

politico.eu

artificial intelligence china companies cooperation defense
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Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

dokploy.com

application management deployment docker dokploy traefik
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We've lost our respect for complexity

wilsoniumite.com

I was talking recently to a friend about a video essayist I like, (Dan Olson of...
I was talking recently to a friend about a video essayist I like, (Dan Olson of Folding Ideas) and when asked why I thought he was any good I pondered it for a moment and said “he has a lot of respect for complexity”. On reflection, I think that is one of the virtues I look for in new people I meet more generally....
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Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith

vincentschmalbach.com
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