1419
455
Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/
a year ago
762
343
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/
718
390
The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1779920066840055847
675
174
Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
https://bawolf.substack.com/p/embeddings-are-a-good-starting-point
620
275
Stop Acting Like You're Famous
https://ajkprojects.com/stopactinglikeyourefamous
543
230
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/how-many-bathrooms-have-neandertals-in-the-tile/
533
242
Mixtral 8x22B
https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/
529
116
Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG
https://github.com/spawnmason/randar-explanation/blob/master/README.md
473
425
An electric new era for Atlas
https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/
426
201
ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves
https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/
419
114
Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)
https://asciinema.org/a/piP22yYwcaohu5cA2gyuv1W61
410
255
Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-feathers-are-one-of-evolutions-cleverest-inventions/
310
173
How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/
299
63
Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer
https://rmarcus.info/blog/2024/04/12/pg-over-time.html
294
247
The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-271-the-biggest-untapped-opportunity
289
32
libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop
https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev
287
141
Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project
https://outsiderart.substack.com/p/cyc-historys-forgotten-ai-project
276
386
The forgotten war on beepers
https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war-on-beepers
272
270
Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/long-covid-brain-1.7171918
262
38
The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening
https://yosefk.com/blog/the-state-of-ai-for-hand-drawn-animation-inbetweening.html