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New top story on Hacker News: AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment

AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment 41 by theptip | 23 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Cloudflare Must Block Piracy Shield Domains and IP Addresses Across Its Service

Cloudflare Must Block Piracy Shield Domains and IP Addresses Across Its Service 30 by DanAtC | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The prisoners in Maine working remote jobs

The prisoners in Maine working remote jobs 15 by dvektor | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The fair dreamed up by art legends – unsealed after 44 years

The fair dreamed up by art legends – unsealed after 44 years 5 by ljf | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access

Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access 33 by trq_ | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A New Logo for Perl

A New Logo for Perl 27 by oalders | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The California Job-Killer That Wasn't

The California Job-Killer That Wasn't 12 by RestlessMind | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: O3 "Arc AGI" Postmortem

O3 "Arc AGI" Postmortem 15 by signa11 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain

How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain 14 by rwmj | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon

Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon 3 by primatologyxyz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Introducing S2

Introducing S2 71 by brancz | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"?

Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"? 4 by charles_f | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hey, This is a touchy subject, and that might be a lack of awareness or empathy from my part. But trust that it comes from a genuine willingness of making things better for everyone. We all work with people who we find "not as good", have different ways or work ethics. After being told for decades that this is usually a problem with communication or point of view, I had somewhat internalized the idea. And it is often true, but what I've realized as of late, is that there's a category of people who are not just working a different way, but are - to put it bluntly - plainly not smart. What I'm talking about is people below average when it comes to understanding concepts, or conceptualizing altogether. Their intuition is always twisted and wrong. Completely lack critical feedback. Work needs to be decomposed for them in extremely precise steps if yo...

New top story on Hacker News: We're about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time

We're about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time 26 by pseudolus | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB

OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB 104 by maurycy | 25 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Grayjay Desktop App

Grayjay Desktop App 58 by pierrelf | 23 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

A 10-Year Battery for AirTag 108 by dmd | 64 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Revisiting Stereotype Threat

Revisiting Stereotype Threat 10 by systemstops | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: WebGPU Tech Demo

WebGPU Tech Demo 16 by georginikolov | 20 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A Knife Forged in Fire

A Knife Forged in Fire 10 by hentrep | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips

Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips 13 by xyx0826 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior

The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior 6 by belter | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Sorry, Mad Men. The Ad Revolution Is Here

Sorry, Mad Men. The Ad Revolution Is Here 18 by marban | 28 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: NCompass Technologies – yet another AI Inference API, but hear us out

Show HN: NCompass Technologies – yet another AI Inference API, but hear us out 4 by adiraja | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hello HackerNews! I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on at nCompass Technologies: an AI inference platform that gives you a scalable and reliable API to access any open-source AI model — with no rate limits. We don't have rate limits as optimizations we made to our AI model serving software enable us to support a high number of concurrent requests without degrading quality of service for you as a user. If you’re thinking, well aren’t there a bunch of these already? So were we when we started nCompass. When using other APIs, we found that they weren’t reliable enough to be able to use open source models in production environments. To resolve this, we're building an AI inference engine that enable you, as an end user, to reliably use open source models in production. Underlying this API, we’re building optimizations at the hosting, scheduling and k...

New top story on Hacker News: Reflections on building with Model Context Protocol

Reflections on building with Model Context Protocol 4 by outlore | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How Accurate Is the Sensirion SGP41 TVOC Sensor?

How Accurate Is the Sensirion SGP41 TVOC Sensor? 5 by ahaucnx | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Isomorphic Web Components

Isomorphic Web Components 12 by Fudgel | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Animals as Chemical Factories

Animals as Chemical Factories 9 by royalroad | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do It Anyway

NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do It Anyway 11 by gnabgib | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown 5 by Handy-Man | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection

Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection 25 by maplant | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: People who are good at reading have different brains

People who are good at reading have different brains 23 by pseudolus | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made the slowest, most expensive GPT

Show HN: I made the slowest, most expensive GPT 24 by wluk | 14 comments on Hacker News. This is another one of my automate-my-life projects - I'm constantly asking the same question to different AIs since there's always the hope of getting a better answer somewhere else. Maybe ChatGPT's answer is too short, so I ask Perplexity. But I realize that's hallucinated, so I try Gemini. That answer sounds right, but I cross-reference with Claude just to make sure. This doesn't really apply to math/coding (where o1 or Gemini can probably one-shot an excellent response), but more to online search, where information is more fluid and there's no "right" search engine + text restructuring + model combination every time. Even o1 doesn't have online search, so it's obviously a hard problem to solve. An example is something like "best ski resorts in the US", which will get a different response from every GPT, but most of their rankings won't ...

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Gentrace – connect to your LLM app code and run/eval it from a UI

Show HN: Gentrace – connect to your LLM app code and run/eval it from a UI 7 by dsaffy | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN - Doug from Gentrace here. We originally launched via Show HN in August of 2023 as evaluation and observability for generative AI: https://ift.tt/vrtEQOc Since then, everyone from the model providers to LLM ops companies built a prompt playground. We had one too, until we realized this was totally the wrong approach: - It's not connected to your application code - They don't support all models - You have to rebuild evals for just this one prompt (can't use your end-to-end evals) In other words, it was a ton of work and time to use these to actually make your app better. So, we built a new experience and are relaunching around this idea: Gentrace is a collaborative LLM app testing and experimentation platform that brings together engineers, PMs, subject matter experts, and more to run and test your actual end-to-end app. To do this, use our SDK to: - ...

New top story on Hacker News: Crypto Doesn't Deserve a Tax Exemption

Crypto Doesn't Deserve a Tax Exemption 10 by paulpauper | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell 91 by cvbox | 78 comments on Hacker News. It's the time of the year again, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up. Previously asked on: 2023 → https://ift.tt/j0y8mYD 2022 → https://ift.tt/qzFspin 2021 → https://ift.tt/FKdWXxk 2020 → https://ift.tt/PNT8RaE 2019 → https://ift.tt/W4qVRBb 2018 → https://ift.tt/fRt5IHM 2017 → https://ift.tt/VXx3tg0

New top story on Hacker News: Tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures

Tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures 24 by YeGoblynQueenne | 22 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner

Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner 19 by ksec | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI; they're being written out of history

Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI; they're being written out of history 25 by YeGoblynQueenne | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Next best to incorporate other than Delaware?

Ask HN: Next best to incorporate other than Delaware? 10 by ksec | 9 comments on Hacker News. I wish this was more of Ask YC / VC. I have been told it is either Nevada, Wyoming and Texas. Considering Stripe Atlas dont support anything other than Delaware. Does anyone have any Pros and Cons or recommendation.

New top story on Hacker News: Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind Covid

Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind Covid 14 by rntn | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program

OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program 31 by marban | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Exploring inference memory saturation effect: H100 vs. MI300x

Exploring inference memory saturation effect: H100 vs. MI300x 11 by latchkey | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I combined spaced repetition with emails so you can remember anything

Show HN: I combined spaced repetition with emails so you can remember anything 17 by iskrataa | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I am a student shipping apps in my free time. This is my 4th for the year! Non-fic books and podcasts have been part of my life for years now but I always struggled with remembering what I’ve read or listened to. I wanted it to stick even after years. My notes list grew large but I never really revisited them. That’s why I created GinkgoNotes. You can enter notes you want to recall and leave it to the app to create a personalised (based on spaced repetition) email schedule. That means you’ll get your notes emailed to you a couple of times exactly when you should read them again (based on Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve) so it’s certain that you’ll remember them. I hope this will be helpful as it was for me. Would love some feedback! Iskren

New top story on Hacker News: We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)

We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you) 38 by steffoz | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: On-scalp printing of personalized electroencephalography e-tattoos

On-scalp printing of personalized electroencephalography e-tattoos 6 by bookofjoe | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Automate your studio – mute a mixer channel to turn your PTZ camera

Show HN: Automate your studio – mute a mixer channel to turn your PTZ camera 4 by kcsaba2 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Seamlessly automate your audio-visual setup! This open-source framework uses the Open Sound Control protocol to integrate audio mixer consoles, OBS, PTZ cameras, and more. Perfect for live production enthusiasts, streamers, and tech tinkerers. I have made it originally to meet our needs, then opensourced it: We needed to move a PTZ cam based on the stage/pulpit mute states on our X32, but it is capable for way more. Let me know what do you guys think! Cheers!

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust

Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust 16 by wolfgarbe | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: SQL Simulator – Create Subsetted Databases in Docker or K8s

Show HN: SQL Simulator – Create Subsetted Databases in Docker or K8s 3 by westonOG | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm Weston Goodwin. I originally posted about my project on HN back in June 2023 ( https://ift.tt/CncLVZo ) and wanted to share some of the updates I’ve made since then. As a referesher SQL Simulator is a tool that simulates SQL script execution by creating a subsetted database. Below is a list of changes I've made: 1.)It now supports both Docker and Kubernetes. 2.)The database container automatically self-destructs after 15 minutes of inactivity to improve security. 3.)A Data Governor limits the amount of sensitive data that can be retrieved in a day. 4.)The K8s version can be used as a database proxy. Simply remove direct access to the database and force users to go through the K8s cluster/Data governor to view any data. The tool is available without requiring signup or credit card. I’d appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Thanks for this post reading. Doc...

New top story on Hacker News: OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks

OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks 70 by oliverrice | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends

Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends 12 by Pringled | 0 comments on Hacker News. We’ve just open-sourced Vicinity, a lightweight approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) search package that allows for fast experimentation and comparison of a larger number of well known algorithms. Main features: - Lightweight: the base package only uses Numpy - Unified interface: use any of the supported algorithms and backends with a single interface: HNSW, Annoy, FAISS, and many more algorithms and libraries are supported - Easy evaluation: evaluate the performance of your backend with a simple function to measure queries per second vs recall - Serialization: save and load your index for persistence After working with a large number of ANN libraries over the years, we found it increasingly cumbersome to learn the interface, features, quirks, and limitations of every library. After writing custom evaluation code to measure the speed and performance for the 100t...

New top story on Hacker News: Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified

Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified 22 by WhyNotHugo | 5 comments on Hacker News.