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108 106 LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns

Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble

Gary Marcus 3 hours ago  »  garymarcus.substack.com
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns
41 128 Grim Fandango 5 hours ago  »  filfre.net 27 80 You too can write a book

Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi

6 hours ago  »  parentheticallyspeaking.org
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10 79 Show HN: Visprex – Open-source, in-browser data visualisation tool for CSV files 7 hours ago  »  docs.visprex.com 52 124 NYC Subway Station Layouts 7 hours ago  »  projectsubwaynyc.com 62 160 Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler

JavaScript to WASM compiler. Contribute to drogus/jaws development by creating an account on GitHub.

9 hours ago  »  github.com/drogus
GitHub - drogus/jaws: JavaScript to WASM compiler
11 85 Early Cascade Injection: From Windows process creation to stealthy injection

Get an introdcution to Early Cascade, a novel process injection technique that is effective against top tier EDRs while avoiding detection.

Dima van de Wouw 10 hours ago  »  outflank.nl
Introducting Early Cascade Injection | Outflank Blog
38 306 OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) for code have become indispensable in various domains, including code generation, reasoning tasks and agent systems.While open-access code LLMs are increasingly approaching the performance levels of proprietary models, high-quality code LLMs suitable for rigorous scientific investigation, particularly those with reproducible data processing pipelines and transparent training protocols, re

10 hours ago  »  opencoder-llm.github.io
53 58 There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring

3k words, 14 minutes reading time

Abhishaike Mahajan 10 hours ago  »  owlposting.com
There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring
18 35 20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft'

A 2002 Slashdot post informed the world that "Recently Blake Ross, a developer of the Phoenix web browser, has made a post on the Mozillazine forums looking for a new name for the project. Apparently the people over at Phoenix Technologies decided that the name interferes with their trademark since...

10 hours ago  »  news.slashdot.org
20 Years Ago Today:  'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft' - Slashdot
7 40 Russia's Flying Wing Drone Downed in Ukraine Packed with Western Components

The discovery of dozens of Western components on the S-70 highlights the challenges of keeping these items out of Russian hands.

Howard Altman 11 hours ago  »  twz.com
Russia's S-70 Hunter Flying Wing Drone Downed In Ukraine Packed With Western Components
7 83 When machine learning tells the wrong story

A story about side-channel attacks, computer architecture, and how I unexpectedly got my start in academia.

11 hours ago  »  jackcook.com
81 260 IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

IronCalc is a spreadsheet engine and ecosystem.

11 hours ago  »  ironcalc.com
IronCalc
27 75 SQLite is not a single connection database

I think the most common misconception about SQLite which drives people away from that database is that it's a . This is not only confusing (what kind of ...

12 hours ago  »  igorstechnoclub.com
Most Common SQLite Misconception
91 122 SQLite does not do checksums

SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.

13 hours ago  »  avi.im
3 40 NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations

A crew of astronauts was recently hospitalized following a return to Earth on board SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

Passant Rabie 13 hours ago  »  gizmodo.com
NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations
5 48 Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor

Over the last few weeks, the Tor Project and relay operators received abuse complaints regarding alleged port scanning activity from their servers. Thanks to a collaborative effort, the source of the spoofed packets has been identified and shut down.

13 hours ago  »  blog.torproject.org
Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor | Tor Project
166 421 Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.

13 hours ago  »  nature.com
This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
26 75 FrontierMath: A benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI

FrontierMath: a new benchmark of expert-level math problems designed to measure AI’s mathematical abilities. See how leading AI models perform against the collective mathematics community.

Tamay Besiroglu 13 hours ago  »  epochai.org
FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI
97 210 Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also perform a memory function, opening new pathways for understanding how memory works and creating the potential to enhance learning and to treat memory-related afflictions.

14 hours ago  »  medicalxpress.com
Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds
6 341 Show HN: I Analyzed 650k TikTok Influencers and This Is What I Found 16 hours ago  »  reddit.com/r/eCommerceSEO 47 90 Somebody moved the UK's oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who

Britain's oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one's really sure who moved it.

16 hours ago  »  bbc.co.uk
Skynet-1A: Why did the UK's oldest space satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?
50 52 Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you? 16 hours ago  »  news.ycombinator.com 35 115 Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator 16 hours ago  »  twitter.com/mrdoob 69 324 Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git 16 hours ago  »  mergiraf.org 7 58 Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space

Nasa ‘still piecing things together’ two weeks after return from ISS but crew members cite medical privacy

17 hours ago  »  theguardian.com
Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space
43 250 Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI

⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules. - JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown

18 hours ago  »  github.com/JohannesKaufmann
GitHub - JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown: ⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
58 52 US government wants devs to stop using C and C++

Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn't think so

18 hours ago  »  theregister.com
The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++
64 56 When you ask ChatGPT "Tell me a story" it's always is about a girl named Elara 18 hours ago  »  reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance 52 156 SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup 20 hours ago  »  hanlab.mit.edu 46 181 Texture-Less Text Rendering

How to draw text to a Vulkan renderpass without binding a single texture

@tgfrerer 20 hours ago  »  poniesandlight.co.uk
Texture-less Text Rendering
7 56 Maxun: Open-Source No-Code Web Data Extraction Platform

Free, open-source no-code web data extraction platform. Build custom robots to automate data scraping [In Beta] - getmaxun/maxun

22 hours ago  »  github.com/getmaxun
GitHub - getmaxun/maxun: Free, open-source no-code web data extraction platform. Build custom robots to automate data scraping [In Beta]
138 75 NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown

The four astronauts were hospitalized after returning from an eight-month stay on board the ISS.

Passant Rabie 24 hours ago  »  gizmodo.com
NASA Remains Stubbornly Silent on Why Crew Went to Hospital After Dragon Splashdown
16 88 Following up "Mother of all Htmx demos"

Almost 2 years since my talk at DjangoCon Europe about migrating from React to htmx. A lot has been said and asked, here is my follow-up.

David Guillot yesterday  »  david.guillot.me
Following up
15 51 A Random Walk Through Ada (2014) yesterday  »  cowlark.com 13 48 Ask HN: Best Cyber Warfare Books? yesterday  »  news.ycombinator.com 8 39 EFF to Second Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at Border Require a Warrant

EFF, along with ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices, an argument EFF has been making in the courts and Congress for nearly a decade.The...

Sophia Cope yesterday  »  eff.org
EFF to Second Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
241 269 It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end yesterday  »  text.npr.org 83 571 Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output

A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output - dandavison/delta

yesterday  »  github.com/dandavison
GitHub - dandavison/delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output
170 229 Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

Critics worry Anthropic is endangering its “ethical” AI stance due to defense associations.

yesterday  »  arstechnica.com
Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
111 140 What Is a Staff Engineer?

"I've worked with a couple of Staff Engineers on different teams in the past and I've seen them do different things, but I've not been able to pin down exactly what they do." I get this question quite frequently. Sometimes from engineers looking to elevate their roles. At other times,

yesterday  »  nishtahir.com
102 115 Notes on Guyana

Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-ana), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come to fruition. Sometimes while …

yesterday  »  mattlakeman.org
Notes on Guyana
12 35 Apple indeed added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1 yesterday  »  twitter.com/naehrdine 52 154 My Notes on Apple Math Notes

Apple's effort to improve the UX of math

Milan Lajtoš yesterday  »  mlajtos.mu
New Kind of Paper, Part Five
76 101 Apple Macintosh before System 7 yesterday  »  earlymacintosh.org 211 338 I quit Google to work for myself (2018)

For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.

Michael Lynch yesterday  »  mtlynch.io
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
76 51 Judge: Zuckerberg not liable for social media harm to children

The judge found a lack of specifics about what Zuckerberg did wrong, and said “control of corporate activity alone is insufficient” to establish liability.

yesterday  »  nypost.com
Mark Zuckerberg not liable in dozens of lawsuits over social media harm to children: judge
10 44 Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can't punish us for selling user location data

Carriers claim location data isn’t protected, say they have right to jury trial.

yesterday  »  arstechnica.com
Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data
4 40 TSMC to stop supplying advanced AI processors for all of its China customers

Chips at 7nm and below are affected.

yesterday  »  tomshardware.com
TSMC to stop supplying advanced AI processors for all of its China customers: Report
67 70 Algol-68 seemed like a good idea

The 1960s saw rapid growth in programming languages, which was both good and bad. The first (commercial) languages appeared in the late 1950s, in the guise of Fortran, and Cobol, which were very su…

yesterday  »  craftofcoding.wordpress.com
Algol-68 seemed like a good idea – until it wasn’t
39 89 Why 4D geometry makes me sad [video] yesterday  »  youtube.com 18 105 The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction

Didn't even make it out of the gate.

Raymond Chen yesterday  »  devblogs.microsoft.com
The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction - The Old New Thing
377 610 Mitochondria Are Alive

The physical world is an intricate dance between matter, information, and energy. Recognizing that mitochondria are alive will open new horizons into how we learn about, and build with, biology.

Asimov Press yesterday  »  asimov.press
Mitochondria Are Alive
81 105 Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

The Pirate Bay made its debut as a TV series on Swedish public television today. But finding a pirated copy is proving surprisingly difficult.

yesterday  »  torrentfreak.com
61 110 Genetic repair via CRISPR can inadvertently introduce other defects

The CRISPR molecular scissors have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases. This is because they can be used to correct specific defective sections of the genome. Unfortunately, however, there is a catch: under certain conditions, the repair can lead to new genetic defects—as in the case of chronic granulomatous disease.

yesterday  »  phys.org
Genetic repair via CRISPR can inadvertently introduce other defects, researchers show
40 85 Colors of the Court – NBA Uniforms

Traditions, trends, and who's wearing what in today's NBA

The Pudding yesterday  »  pudding.cool
Colors of The Court
42 41 It feels like 2004 again

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash yesterday  »  anildash.com
It feels like 2004 again. - Anil Dash
23 47 Thunderbird Turns 20 Years Old

Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!

yesterday  »  updates.thunderbird.net
132 96 The Weeds Are Winning

"As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds?"

Michelle Weber yesterday  »  technologyreview.com
68 170 Making Electronic Calipers yesterday  »  kevinlynagh.com undefined 3 37 Gravity's Eastern Voyage

We speak to the author, Dr Zhaoyuan Wan, to find out more about him and his recently published Notes and Records article.

2 days ago  »  royalsociety.org
Gravity’s Eastern Voyage | Royal Society
5 50 Man sick of crashes sues Intel for allegedly hiding CPU defects

Intel’s faulty 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs trigger lawsuit out for blood.

2 days ago  »  arstechnica.com
Man sick of crashes sues Intel for allegedly hiding CPU defects
58 79 TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers

US restrictions on semiconductor tech are spurring the move.

2 days ago  »  arstechnica.com
TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers
4 43 The Cybergypsies (Indra Sinha, 1999) 2 days ago  »  blog.eamonnmr.com 75 90 Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted to Same Tier as Gnome-Based Fedora Workstation

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42

2 days ago  »  phoronix.com
Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation
35 81 Ease of maintenance is a feature

As a person in tech, I see that there is a lot of emphasis on scalability, speed, the next shiny doll that everyone wants to…

2 days ago  »  ronakgothi.com
32 162 Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died 2 days ago  »  nytimes.com 0 42 Toy Models of Superposition (2022) 2 days ago  »  transformer-circuits.pub 87 94 How is the SSD installed – M4 Mac Mini (2024)

Is the SSD soldered? - Mac mini (2024)

2 days ago  »  ifixit.com
How is the SSD installed - Mac mini (2024)
79 132 How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)

this is a blog. there are many like it, but this one is mine.

2 days ago  »  alice.bsky.sh
alice.bsky.sh
25 44 Functional Programming in Go

Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go. This article explains how we can use functional programming techniques like Map, Filter, and Reduce, and what kind of problems they might help us to solve.

2 days ago  »  bitfieldconsulting.com
Functional programming in Go — Bitfield Consulting
19 81 Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals

In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond  patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of pate…

2 days ago  »  techdirt.com
Judge’s Investigation Into Patent Troll Results In Criminal Referrals
52 225 LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence

Fine-tuning is a crucial paradigm for adapting pre-trained large language models to downstream tasks. Recently, methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) have been shown to match the performance of fully fine-tuned models on various tasks with an extreme reduction in the number of trainable parameters. Even in settings where both methods learn similarly accurate models, \emph{are their learned solutions really equivale

2 days ago  »  arxiv.org
54 233 Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language

 An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus

2 days ago  »  media.mit.edu
Project Overview ‹ λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus – MIT Media Lab
93 317 Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web

Online roguelike with sci fi & space themes.

2 days ago  »  asterogue.com
Asterogue
139 215 Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s

I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with the fairly recent LivePortrait model, generating deepfakes of my friends for some cheap laughs. The inevitable Elon Musk deepfake, picture by Debbie Rowe The emerging field of 2D avatar/portrait animation (being able to animate any still image, avoiding the need to render cumbersome 3D models that would struggle with small facial details) is a harbinger of things to come.

Martin Lumiste 2 days ago  »  mlumiste.com
14 71 The 'Invisibility Cloak' – Slash-Proc Magic

Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)

2 days ago  »  dfir.ch
The 'Invisibility Cloak' - Slash-Proc Magic | dfir.ch
129 218 Principles for product velocity 2 days ago  »  ssoready.com 181 553 Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities

This is a blog post for my presentation at the conference POC2024. The slides are uploaded here.

Mickey's Blogs 2 days ago  »  jhftss.github.io
69 38 There's Almost No Gitlab

A word on a French bias.

Julien Danjou 2 days ago  »  julien.danjou.info
There's (almost) no GitLab
15 78 Intentrace: Strace for Everyone

intentrace is strace with intent, it goes all the way for you instead of half the way. intentrace is currently in beta - sectordistrict/intentrace

2 days ago  »  github.com/sectordistrict
GitHub - sectordistrict/intentrace: intentrace is strace with intent, it goes all the way for you instead of half the way. intentrace is currently in beta
103 502 Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017) 2 days ago  »  forums.tigsource.com 3 299 After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves

Last year, FDA advisors unanimously voted that oral phenylephrine is ineffective.

2 days ago  »  arstechnica.com
After decades, FDA finally moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves
250 276 Rust for tokenising and parsing

Macros, iterators, patterns, error handling and match make Rust almost perfect

2 days ago  »  xnacly.me
16 130 Guild Builds 2 days ago  »  nytimesguild.org 3 73 iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out

Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according to a document obtained by 404 Media.

2 days ago  »  404media.co
Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
491 276 FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant 2 days ago  »  fda.gov 65 163 Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?

Learn how WSPR (weak signal propagation reporter) technology is a fascinating facet of the Ham radio hobby in this easy-to-follow article.

Elizabeth Klinc, KE8FMJ 2 days ago  »  onallbands.com
Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?
37 55 Wild Ball 2 days ago  »  r3f-drei-rapier.surge.sh 11 101 Rails 8.0 Released

Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make deployment friendly and usable. That’s a job for open source, and Rails 8 is ready to solve it. So it’s with

2 days ago  »  rubyonrails.org
Rails 8.0: No PaaS Required
256 184 Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots

Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for...

2 days ago  »  macrumors.com
Cops Suspect iOS 18 iPhones Are Communicating to Force Reboots, Making Unlocking Harder
390 303 Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill

The cyclist, who suffered a broken nose, was initially treated at the scene by the ambulance driver.

2 days ago  »  oregonlive.com
Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit says
136 117 Trump's likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he'd run the agency

Brendan Carr wants to preserve data caps, punish NBC, and give money to SpaceX.

2 days ago  »  arstechnica.com
Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency
25 62 Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram 2 days ago  »  news.ycombinator.com 9 42 The Charms of Catastrophe (1978)

If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black and white? —Pope, An Essay on Man "All things," said Charles Peirce, "swim

Martin Gardner 2 days ago  »  nybooks.com
The Charms of Catastrophe | Martin Gardner
68 92 Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam

A bunch of classic Sega titles will leave Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch in early December, but not if you already own them.

2 days ago  »  arstechnica.com
Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them
42 40 Bird flu infections undetected

A new study found that a small but not insignificant number of bird flu infections are going undetected among farm workers

Megan Molteni 2 days ago  »  statnews.com
Bird flu infections in farmworkers are going undetected, study shows
169 186 Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

The head of a company specializing in cryptocurrency was kidnapped and held for ransom in downtown Toronto during rush hour Wednesday. 

2 days ago  »  cbc.ca
Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released | CBC News
179 256 Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure

The research looked at data from more than 14,000 volunteers and shows the importance of activities that raise heart rate for blood pressure control– such as uphill walking or stair-climbing, into your day may help to lower blood pressure.

2 days ago  »  sydney.edu.au
Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure
91 83 Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

Anthropic has teamed up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI family of models called Claude to defense customers.

Kyle Wiggers 2 days ago  »  techcrunch.com
Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | TechCrunch

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