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Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens

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Legion Health (YC S21) Is Hiring Founding Engineers to Fix Mental Health with AI

workatastartup.com

We’re rebuilding psychiatry from the ground up—AI-native, insurance-covered, and engineered to scale. Legion Health is a...
We’re rebuilding psychiatry from the ground up—AI-native, insurance-covered, and engineered to scale. Legion Health is a high-quality psychiatry network where patients get care from licensed clinicians, fast and affordably. Under the hood, our LLM agents and orchestration layer automate operations, reduce admin, and...
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Google Worried It Couldn't Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal

theintercept.com

Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control...
Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals. The report makes explicit the extent to which the t...
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Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues

bbc.com

Hannah O'Grady, Joel Gunter & Rory TinmanBBC PanoramaA video compiled by UK Special Forces shows how...
Hannah O'Grady, Joel Gunter & Rory TinmanBBC PanoramaA video compiled by UK Special Forces shows how members of one squadron kept count of their killsFormer members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afg...
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Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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RIP Usenix ATC

dtrace.org

USENIX made the decision this week to discontinue its flagship Annual Technical Conference. When USENIX was...
USENIX made the decision this week to discontinue its flagship Annual Technical Conference. When USENIX was started in 1975 — before the Internet, really — conferences were the fastest vector for practitioners to formally share their ideas, and USENIX ATC flourished. Speaking for myself, I came up lionizing ATC: I w...
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Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice

asteriskmag.com

You are as likely to die driving on an American road as you are driving in...
You are as likely to die driving on an American road as you are driving in Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan. The American traffic-related death rate ranks 87th in the world. At 12.8 deaths per 100,000 people, it is double that of Greece, triple that of Austria, and six times more than Japan. In 2022, more than 42,000 people...
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I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)

alexschapiro.com

Startups Need to Take Security Seriously Timeline & Responsible Disclosure: Upon identifying these vulnerabilities, I reached...
Startups Need to Take Security Seriously Timeline & Responsible Disclosure: Upon identifying these vulnerabilities, I reached out to the Cerca team via email on February 23, 2025. The next day (Feb 24), we held a productive video call to discuss the vulnerabilities, potential mitigations, and next steps. During our ...
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Launch HN: ParaQuery (YC X25) – GPU Accelerated Spark/SQL

ycombinator.com

Hey HN! I'm Win, founder of ParaQuery (https://paraquery.com), a fully-managed, GPU-accelerated Spark + SQL solution. We...
Hey HN! I'm Win, founder of ParaQuery (https://paraquery.com), a fully-managed, GPU-accelerated Spark + SQL solution. We deliver BigQuery's ease of use (or easier) while being significantly more cost-efficient and performant.Here's a short demo video demonstrating ParaQuery (vs. BigQuery) on a simple ETL job: https:...
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The Audio Stack Is a Crime Scene

mataroa.blog

Published on May 12, 2025 You plug in headphones. Nothing. You unplug them again. Still nothing....
Published on May 12, 2025 You plug in headphones. Nothing. You unplug them again. Still nothing. The speakers are muted. The system says they aren’t. You check volumes. You restart Pulse. You restart PipeWire. You restart your whole damn session. And still—no sound. That’s just a Tuesday on Linux audio. Sometimes th...
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Optimizing My Hacker News Experience

substack.com

Like many, I try to stay updated on tech news via Hacker News (HN) posts. I...
Like many, I try to stay updated on tech news via Hacker News (HN) posts. I have been using HN actively for slightly more than 5 years now. During weekdays, I usually open or refresh a HN tab in my Chrome browser at least twice in a day. I then open up the links having a high number of comments or sometimes, the one...
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The Barbican

arslan.io

Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and...
Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and discovered a building complex that that was beyond my imaginations.Young Fatih would definitely find it ugly; current me finds it beautiful. The estate was built between 1965 and 1976. And, since I first saw it, I start...

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Demonstrably Secure Software Supply Chains with Nix

nixcademy.com
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Tailscale 4via6 – Connect Edge Deployments at Scale

tailscale.com

When deploying software or hardware solutions to the edge or into customer networks, you’ve probably experienced...
When deploying software or hardware solutions to the edge or into customer networks, you’ve probably experienced these connectivity problems: multiple layers of NAT without an available public IP, restrictive network policies blocking open ports, fixed CIDR ranges, and a constantly moving list of unknown unknowns.To...
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OpenEoX to Standardize End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support (EOS) Information

openeox.org
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Reviving a Modular Cargo Bike Design from the 1930s

core77.com
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Embeddings Are Underrated

technicalwriting.dev

Here’s an overview of how you use embeddings and how they work. It’s geared towards technical...
Here’s an overview of how you use embeddings and how they work. It’s geared towards technical writers who are learning about embeddings for the first time. Someone asks you to “make some embeddings”. What do you input? You input text.1 You don’t need to provide the same amount of text every time. E.g. sometimes your...
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Show HN: MMORPG prototype inspired by World of Warcraft

github.com
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Show HN: CLI that spots fake GitHub stars, risky dependencies and licence traps

github.com
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Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals

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Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read

ruby-lang.org

While I believe namespaces would be a good addition to Ruby, I'm not convinced this particular...
While I believe namespaces would be a good addition to Ruby, I'm not convinced this particular implementation of namespaces is what Ruby needs. First, I'm not convinced by the motivations: Avoiding name conflicts between libraries: Applications can require two different libraries safely which use the same module nam...

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Have you ever seen an emolument fly?

reason.com

Trump Administration From Qatar, with love, a "palace in the sky." ABC News reports: In what...
Trump Administration From Qatar, with love, a "palace in the sky." ABC News reports: In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government, the Trump administration is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar -- a gift that ...

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Replacing tmux and GNU screen with Emacs

masteringemacs.org

If you’re a command line hacker – and I know you are – then I am...
If you’re a command line hacker – and I know you are – then I am sure you are familiar with, and possibly use, GNU screen or its contemporary replacement, tmux. If you are in the process of switching from Vim to Emacs, then tmux is no doubt a large part of your workflow. But here’s the thing: you do not need a termi...
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Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights

hrw.org

(Washington, DC) – Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United...
(Washington, DC) – Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 155-page report, “‘The Gig Trap’: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitatio...
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