Hacker News 100 19 hours ago

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch Link:

GitHub

GitHub - angelos-p/llm-from-scratch

Contribute to angelos-p/llm-from-scratch development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hacker News 100 20 hours ago

About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them Link:

Empty Screenings

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Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 days ago

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction Link:

arXiv.org

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

Conversational large language models are fine-tuned for both instruction-following and safety, resulting in models that obey benign requests but re...

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Hacker News 100 6 days ago

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown Link:

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown; Hundreds of Papers At Risk of Retraction

"This is not a series of coincidences; it is a blatant, industrial-scale quid pro quo."

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Hacker News 100 6 days ago

Online age verification is the hill to die on Link: https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560 Discussion:

Online age verification is the hill to die on | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 week ago

Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI Link:

The Verge

Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for ‘any lawful’ use of AI

The classified deal apparently doesn’t allow Google to veto how the government will use its AI models.

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Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 week ago

High Performance Git Link:

High Performance Git

High Performance Git by Ted Nyman, a book about Git internals and large Git repositories.

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High Performance Git | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 week ago

Box to save memory in Rust Link:

Box to save memory

dystroy - blog

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Box to save memory in Rust | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 week ago

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem Link:

Scientific American

Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

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Hacker News 100 2 weeks ago

ChatGPT Images 2.0 Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/ Discussion:

ChatGPT Images 2.0 | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 weeks ago

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification Link:

Reclaim The Net

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

Buried in the definitions is a mandate that reaches every laptop, console, smart TV, and car infotainment system in the country.

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US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 weeks ago

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs Link:

Darkbloom

Darkbloom — Private AI Inference on Apple Silicon

Decentralized inference on hardware-verified Apple Silicon. End-to-end encrypted. The node operator never sees your data. OpenAI-compatible — cha...

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Hacker News 100 3 weeks ago

BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/bunnycdn_has_been_silently_losing_our_production/ Discussion:

BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 3 weeks ago

Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] Link: Discussion:

Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Why are we still using Markdown? Link:

Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? | BGs Labs

Burak Güngörs lab where he does some stuff

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Why are we still using Markdown? | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps Link:

Only EU

European Alternatives to US Products & Software | Only EU

European alternatives for software, products and services. More privacy, more independence.

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European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week Link:

Inquirer.com

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation.

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Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019) Link:

Consequence

It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology

Juggalos had it right all along. It turns out the Insane Clown Posse fans' makeup effectively blocks some facial recognition software.

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Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland Link:

Bluesky Social

ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social)

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordi...

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Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 1 month ago

Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video] Link: Discussion:

Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video] | Hacker News