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Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner

github.com
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Microsoft Copilot shows AI increasingly appears like an unwanted party guest

theregister.com

Microsoft customers are claiming the Windows giant's Copilot AI service sometimes ignores commands to disable the...
Microsoft customers are claiming the Windows giant's Copilot AI service sometimes ignores commands to disable the thing, and thus turns itself back on like a zombie risen from the dead. A bug report to the corporation's Visual Studio Code, aka VS Code, Copilot repository from crypto developer rektbuildr claims Githu...
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Cybertruck Rusting? That's Normal

autobuyersguide.com

It’s all over the news: Cybertrucks are rusting and folks are mad. Me? I’m surprised they...
It’s all over the news: Cybertrucks are rusting and folks are mad. Me? I’m surprised they are surprised. If you own a stainless steel fork or knife and a dishwasher, rusty bits on stainless steel should be familiar. But why does it happen? Isn’t stainless steel… well… stainless? Not quite. One of the benefits of co-...
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Why Drinking Coffee in Iran Has Become So Complicated

adelbordbari.github.io
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Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Design Engineer in San Francisco

ycombinator.com

Open-source secrets manager for developers$140K - $200K / 0.10% - 0.50%San Francisco / Remote (US)Connect directly...
Open-source secrets manager for developers$140K - $200K / 0.10% - 0.50%San Francisco / Remote (US)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›<u>Infisical</u> is looking to hire exceptional talent to join our engineering and product teams in building the open source security infrastr...
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How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores

alexarmbr.github.io

This post details my recent efforts to write an optimized matrix multiplication kernel in CUDA using...
This post details my recent efforts to write an optimized matrix multiplication kernel in CUDA using tensor cores on a NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU. The goal is to compute $D = \alpha * A * B + \beta * C$, as fast as possible. In this equation $D,A,B$ and $C$ are large matrices full of half precision floating point numbers, ...
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First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

bbc.com

Fergus WalshMedical editorWatch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the "miracle"...
Fergus WalshMedical editorWatch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the "miracle" of baby AmyA "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her siste...
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The Long History of Nitrous Oxide

smithsonianmag.com
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Librarians Are Dangerous

substack.com

Dear Enthusiasts, I write to you today as a concerned citizen.Many aren’t brave enough to say...
Dear Enthusiasts, I write to you today as a concerned citizen.Many aren’t brave enough to say it, but the time has come. So, I will say it:Librarians are dangerous.(Dramatic music should be playing in your head right now.)You thought they were just keepers of the quiet. Guardians of the “shhh.”The ones who handed yo...
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Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

theregister.com

A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being...
A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash, creating security risks and giving the oligarch's artificial intelligence lab an inside track to train its models on government info. Led by Representatives Don B...
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Tesla delays new 'affordable EV/stripped down Model Y' in the US

electrek.co

Tesla has reportedly delayed the launch of its new “affordable EV,” which is believed to be...
Tesla has reportedly delayed the launch of its new “affordable EV,” which is believed to be a stripped-down Model Y, in the United States. Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a pivotal decision that altered the automaker’s direction for the next few years. The CEO canceled Tesla’s plan to build a cheaper new “$25,00...
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Against Transparency

pluralistic.net

Today's links Against transparency (permalink) Walk down any street in California for more than a couple...
Today's links Against transparency (permalink) Walk down any street in California for more than a couple minutes and you will come upon a sign warning you that a product or just an area "contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer." These warnings are posted to comply with Prop 65, a 1986 law...
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Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig

github.com
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Inferring the Phylogeny of Large Language Models

arxiv.org
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Claude Code Best Practices

anthropic.com
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China Can Have It All – China is currently winner of America's self-sabotage

substack.com

Both good news and bad news is relative, and since Trump took office the line has...
Both good news and bad news is relative, and since Trump took office the line has become increasingly blurred. Today’s silver lining is that if the US indeed gives up its peace plan for Ukraine, of all the possible bad outcomes that may be the least bad one. If the US admits defeat, like Secretary of State Marco Rub...
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Taking Notes with Joplin

lwn.net
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Ask HN: why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers?

ycombinator.com

I've changed some facts a bit. The story still stands.This is definitely one of those times...
I've changed some facts a bit. The story still stands.This is definitely one of those times where I'm breaking my brain because something isn't logical and I haven't yet understand the cultural side of things, or hidden reasons I haven't identified yet. In almost all aspects of life, I don't have this issue anymore,...
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'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years

phys.org

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Frankenstein's `__init__`

ohadravid.github.io

Inspired by a recent post about the woes of __init__ methods in Python, I thought I’d...
Inspired by a recent post about the woes of __init__ methods in Python, I thought I’d share the untold story of the absolute craziest __init__ I’ve come across in a production codebase.It all started when I tried to add a failing test to a Python service.The test was indeed failing, but every now and then it would f...

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Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation

lllyasviel.github.io
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Show HN: Parqv – Interactive TUI Parquet Visualizer

github.com
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Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study

forbes.com

NewsGuard analysis found that leading Western AI models repeat Russian propaganda laundered by the ... More...
NewsGuard analysis found that leading Western AI models repeat Russian propaganda laundered by the ... More Pravda disinformation network 33% of the time.getty A troubling trend in which most western AI chatbots are unknowingly spreading Russian propaganda has been uncovered by a NewsGuard audit published last week....

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Show HN: DeadDrop – Tiny tool to share files anonymously

deaddrop.space
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