Leaked deck raises questions over Stability AI’s Series A pitch to investors (sifted.eu)
Bing Jail (dariusz.wieckiewicz.org)
Gradients are not all you need (arxiv.org)
YouTube, the jewel of the internet (www.ft.com)
Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev (notes.alinpanaitiu.com)
Saudi company draws unlimited Arizona ground water amid drought (www.cbsnews.com)
LSD: Not Even Once. Really. (www.qword.net)
My high-flying life as a corporate spy who lied his way to the top (narratively.com)
Libreboot 20230423 (libreboot.org)
The dark side of the Mac App Store (privacyis1st.medium.com)
Apple will launch a journaling app (arstechnica.com)
Ban all gambling adverts, say more than half of Britons (www.theguardian.com)
I’m ChatGPT, and for the love of God please don’t make me do anymore copywriting (www.mcsweeneys.net)
The loophole that made cars in America so big (www.distilled.earth)
I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself (allquiet.app)
Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility (www.manufacturingdive.com)
A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other (chirper.ai)
Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users (blog.cloudflare.com)
Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice (www.mdpi.com)
Why you should teach at a Community College (timozander.de)
The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush (adamtooze.substack.com)
I just learned about HTML redirects (2020) (apitman.com)
Russia killed its tech industry (www.technologyreview.com)
Ron: Rusty Object Notation (github.com)
WTF is a KDF? (blog.dataparty.xyz)
Modern Transactional Stack (a16z.com)
My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021) (www.milanvit.net)
Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? (link.springer.com)
Simple Pathtracing (2012) (iquilezles.org)
Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM (www.anvilsecure.com)
The Joy of an Empty Brain (www.wsj.com)
iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe (www.techradar.com)
How much can Duolingo teach us? (www.newyorker.com)
Saturn's Interior After the Cassini Grand Finale (arxiv.org)
System D (en.wikipedia.org)
Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off (github.com)
When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty (entomologytoday.org)
How did the chess pieces get their names? (www.atlasobscura.com)
The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam (win-vector.com)
The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (lcamtuf.substack.com)
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Schools bought millions of Chromebooks and 3 years later they’re breaking down (www.theverge.com)
Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust (phys.org)
Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting (mitchellh.com)
Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought (www.sciencenews.org)
Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed (www.quantamagazine.org)
Why is TSMC so competitive in semiconductor fabrication? (news.ycombinator.com)
NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company (newsnotfound.com)
Is prompt engineering just snake oil? (news.ycombinator.com)
Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M (www.mcsweeneys.net)
Amazon investigates after high-value orders were switched for cheaper products (www.bbc.co.uk)
The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database (www.science.org)
Finetuning Large Language Models (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
The “Build Your Own Database” book is finished (build-your-own.org)
Google Mars (www.google.com)
Explosions are great, actually (1517.substack.com)
More than 19k undersea volcanoes discovered (www.science.org)
I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills (lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com)
Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014) (raymii.org)
Automatic prompt optimizer for LLMs (promptperfect.jina.ai)
Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots (news.northeastern.edu)
Animal Meat and Milk Sales Drop in Europe as Vegan Versions Hit Record Highs (plantbasednews.org)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received $226M Compensation While Firing Thousands (www.bloomberg.com)
Coinbase secures Bermuda licence (www.reuters.com)
OpenBSD: Viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current (www.undeadly.org)
Telegram Web Apps for Bots (core.telegram.org)
AI is upending the freelance world (www.forbes.com)
Will boiling water ruin green tea? (www.myjapanesegreentea.com)
US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011 (www.reuters.com)
Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads (richg42.blogspot.com)
A $300k Salary Feels Like $100k in the Priciest US Cities (www.bloomberg.com)
TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed (github.com)
The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements (rootsofprogress.org)
There is no A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster (canonical.com)
Windows on Btrfs (www.lilysthings.org)
Current issues with the Qt project from the outside looking in (kelteseth.com)
Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate (www.chronicle.com)
Fire Mark Zuckerberg (ez.substack.com)
'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found (phys.org)
The coming war on end-to-end encryption (community.qbix.com)
Pico Cray – Small scale distributed computing (www.extremeelectronics.co.uk)
Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes (nationalinterest.org)
Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist (www.atlasobscura.com)
Four-Byte Burger [video] (www.youtube.com)
We built a ClickHouse-based logging service (github.com)
GitHub Copilot emits GPL code (codeium.com)
Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf] (static.sched.com)
Mass editing memory in a transformer (memit.baulab.info)
Bard coding update with Colab exporting (blog.google)
Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets (www.economist.com)
Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs (www.wsj.com)
Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges (www.nature.com)
Manipulative Consent Requests (wideangle.co)
SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues (www.giskard.ai)
Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit (davidlaprade.github.io)
Atari 800XL Remake (revive-machines.com)
The Earn IT Bill Is Back, Seeking to Scan Our Messages and Photos (www.eff.org)
Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst (9to5mac.com)
The weird world of Windows file paths (www.fileside.app)
Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See (www.thedailybeast.com)
AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students (restofworld.org)
Eid Mubarak (news.ycombinator.com)
ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate (www.businessinsider.com)
Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties (cthiriet.com)
Why Perl? (two-wrongs.com)
Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text on the web) (president.mn)
WebGPU GPT Model Demo (www.kmeans.org)
Play the front page of Hacker News as interactive text games (infinityarcade.com)
Rhythm (taal) in Indian Classical Music (2011) (raag-hindustani.com)
Study finds new pathway for clearing misfolded proteins (news.stanford.edu)
WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed (lxe.co)
Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration (inkscape.org)
Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose (zachsim.one)
Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023 (www.newgrounds.com)
World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density (thedriven.io)
Revisiting the Fast Inverse Square Root – Is It Still Useful? (hllmn.net)
Weight loss relapse associated with exposure to perfluoroalkylate substances (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010) (aolserver.github.io)
Babylon.js 6.0 (www.babylonjs.com)
Introducing 'Trusted Publishers' (blog.pypi.org)
Diagnosing cancer by profiling the immune system (github.com)
Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code (evidence.dev)
Farmers ‘crippled’ by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt (www.smh.com.au)
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Gov. Inslee signs bill to remove death penalty from Washington state law (www.kptv.com)
Spinning Diagrams with CSS (x.st)
Lithuania: Students stop university from using only proprietary authentication (fsfe.org)
Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks (www.economist.com)
In 1981, Intel released the iAPX 432 (oldbytes.space)
CozoDB, Hybrid Relational-Graph-Vector Database (docs.cozodb.org)
The NIH poured $1B into long Covid research, with little to show for it (www.statnews.com)
Bark – GPT-style realistic multilingual text-to-speech generation (github.com)
Study links 'stuck' stem cells to hair turning gray (phys.org)
Software developer gets $5M judgement against My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell (www.cnn.com)
Stop irreversible damage to the Amazon (www.junglekeepers.org)
Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire (en.wikipedia.org)
A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers (stretch15.com)
Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’ (darkfutura.substack.com)
Google DeepMind (www.deepmind.com)
Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager (techcrunch.com)
ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs (news.ycombinator.com)
BuzzFeed News Is Shutting Down (www.thedailybeast.com)
TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids (www.bloomberg.com)
Google ordered to pay $500K to Montrealer over links calling him pedophile (montrealgazette.com)
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas (apnews.com)
Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years (www.legittorrents.info)
Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei (www.theregister.com)
Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office (gizmodo.com)
US could soon approve MDMA therapy – opening an era of psychedelic medicine (www.nature.com)
Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour) (www.youtube.com)
Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant (mullvad.net)
A Plea for Fairness for Non-Profit Developers of Open Source Software (www.isc.org)
Philly cheesesteaks became big in Lahore (www.phillymag.com)
POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (indieweb.org)
Pop-shoot: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by 80s arcades (github.com)
PC Engines EOL (www.pcengines.ch)
The days are long but the decades are short (2015) (blog.samaltman.com)
More optimizations in the compiler and JIT (www.erlang.org)
Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content (imgurinc.com)
Intranasal vaccine confers broad mucosal and systemic immunity against SARS-CoV2 (www.nature.com)
DIY Neurotech: Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal into a maker’s world (spectrum.ieee.org)
Only one pair of integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m (keith-mcnulty.medium.com)
Replit - How to train your own LLM Models (blog.replit.com)
How RocksDB Works (artem.krylysov.com)
Satellite takes image of another satellite (twitter.com)
Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy (theconversation.com)
Farouk al Kasim saved Norway from its oil (2014) (psmag.com)
Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert (www.smh.com.au)
Basic math related to computation and memory usage for transformers (blog.eleuther.ai)
User: Junnn11 (en.wikipedia.org)
In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees (mastodon.social)
Database for analyzing US companies, visualize using Apache SuperSet (tesseractanalytics.ai)
Agents are the next AI killer app after ChatGPT (www.latent.space)
Gezellig – a word that encompasses the heart of Dutch Culture (www.dutchamsterdam.nl)
The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished (twitter.com)
Apollo dev explains how third-party Reddit apps are affected by API changes (old.reddit.com)
AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai)
When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999) (www.asktog.com)
Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years (www.cnbc.com)
Stability AI Launches StableLM: A New Open-Source Language Model (github.com)
How to Make Good Small Games (farawaytimes.blogspot.com)
Latent Diffusion Models Are Zero-Shot Speech and Singing Synthesizers (speechresearch.github.io)
Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models (stability.ai)
Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public (www.yubico.com)
Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x (tidyfirst.substack.com)
ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF (www.chatpdf.com)
Why did Prolog lose steam? (2010) (www.kmjn.org)
Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way (dgross.ca)
Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text (arstechnica.com)
Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness (jonathanhaidt.substack.com)
Explore Washington DC through the eyes of a spy (secretmissiondc.com)
Offline Is Just Online with Extreme Latency (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) (edoras.sdsu.edu)
Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (research.nvidia.com)
MMC4: An open, billion-scale corpus of images interleaved with text (github.com)
NIST Privacy Framework (www.nist.gov)
Is Google Down for You? (news.ycombinator.com)
Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages (github.com)
MRI brain images become 64M times sharper (today.duke.edu)
AI Playground by Vercel Labs (play.vercel.ai)
Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?” (oceanservice.noaa.gov)
Google search partial outage while rolling out new search? (news.ycombinator.com)
Node.js 20 is now available (nodejs.org)
LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant (llava-vl.github.io)
My Emacs eye candy (xenodium.com)
Broadband Consumer Labels (www.fcc.gov)
NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says (www.washingtonpost.com)
Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs (www.vox.com)
Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically (www.ghacks.net)
Lightweight SQLite Editor for Windows (github.com)
Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement (www.cbsnews.com)
Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years (www.nytimes.com)
French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes (www.theguardian.com)
Reddit will begin charging for access to its API (www.nytimes.com)
Microsoft is heading further down the path of advertising in Windows 11 (www.techradar.com)
A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics (www.quantamagazine.org)
AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
Brain images just got 64 million times sharper (medicalxpress.com)
Coinbase CEO: we're preparing to go to court with the U.S. SEC (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu (www.theregister.com)
Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival (www.cnbc.com)
Apple’s agreement with Cupertino (news.bloombergtax.com)
Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans (tailscale.com)
Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky (petapixel.com)
A WWII spy who hid codes in her knitting (www.amightygirl.com)
PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
An example of LLM prompting for programming (martinfowler.com)
OpenWRT 22.03.4 (github.com)
Don't write clean code, write CRISP code (bitfieldconsulting.com)
Marginalia: Search the Internet (search.marginalia.nu)
The New XOR Problem (blog.wtf.sg)
Hot Beds: Low-Cost Ancient Roman Hack to Start Crops Early and Increasing Yield (www.growveg.com)
Qemu.js – a proof-of-concept port of QEMU to web browser using WASM JIT (2019) (github.com)
Ampersand (2015) (haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com)
GPT4All Chat – Locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J (gpt4all.io)
KV.js (github.com)
DINOv2: State-of-the-art computer vision models with self-supervised learning (dinov2.metademolab.com)
You didn’t just do that, Heroku (openfolder.sh)
There are no fees at America’s smallest bank (www.bloomberg.com)
You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (www.wbur.org)
Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones (www.newyorker.com)
Tooll 3: open-source software to create realtime motion graphics (github.com)
Why don’t more people live close to friends? (annehelen.substack.com)
The Windows 11 Trash Party (birchtree.me)
Implementers, Solvers, and Finders (rkoutnik.com)
Community Is the Future of AI (stackoverflow.blog)
How do electrons find the “path of least resistance”? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Breaking the limits of TLA+ model checking (www.hillelwayne.com)
New 3D Printable Search Engine (www.printablesearch.com)
The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases (questdb.io)
Indian government empowers itself to “fact check,” delete social media posts (restofworld.org)
A Forty-Year Career (2019) (lethain.com)
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-1c (github.com)
Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of (www.theregister.com)
OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over (www.wired.com)
Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions (www.falltide.com)
AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds' (www.theregister.com)
Apple, Goldman Sachs Debut Savings Account with 4.15% Annual Yield (www.bloomberg.com)
Keep Stuff Linkable (animaomnium.github.io)
The basics of decoupling capacitors (lcamtuf.substack.com)
RedPajama: Reproduction of Llama with Friendly License (Stanford, MILA Quebec) (www.together.xyz)
Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit (nikoheikkila.fi)
Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 p (www.apple.com)
Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video] (www.youtube.com)
iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone (techcrunch.com)
OpenBSD: Malloc leak detection available in -current (www.undeadly.org)
The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2021) (www.latimes.com)
ATC staff shortages: 11,000 flights cut from NYC and DCA in summer 2023 (www.flyertalk.com)
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong (features.apmreports.org)
Cryptographic Best Practices (gist.github.com)
Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine (www.sammobile.com)
Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier (www.historynet.com)
No Source Code == No Patent (albertcory50.substack.com)
Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours (www.youtube.com)
Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time (masto.ai)
Build and deploy 5G network with open-source software and off-the-shelf hardware (rs-ojict.pubpub.org)
MiniGPT-4 (minigpt-4.github.io)
The Battle over Techno’s Origins (www.newyorker.com)
Alien Artefacts (www.brautaset.org)
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated (louwrentius.com)
Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey (mastodon.social)
Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glas [video] (www.youtube.com)
Unwinding the Stack the Hard Way (lesenechal.fr)
Booting Modern Intel CPUs (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
CrabLang (crablang.org)
Space Invaders creator reveals game’s origin story (www.wired.com)
I liked this simple calculus exercise (blog.plover.com)
Conway’s Law (martinfowler.com)
One economist went on a long whimsical journey to pay his taxes with cash (fortune.com)
In a deadly mountain pass, a tiny hotel is a lifeline (www.nytimes.com)
Lessons from America’s astonishing economic record (www.economist.com)
'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco (www.joannejacobs.com)
Understanding large language models: A cross-section of the relevant literature (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
Why flying insects gather at artificial light (www.biorxiv.org)
Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test (nibblestew.blogspot.com)