THE HACKER NEWS

JumpCrisscross
8 hours ago
Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
The retailer’s decision to close three automated fulfillment centers reflects the stark changes in grocery e-commerce that have taken place in the years since it launched its partnership wit...
18 HOURS AGO
ABD12
IBM to acquire Confluent
6 DAYS AGO
JSTRIEB
Using floating point numbers as hash keys (2017)
5 DAYS AGO
DEVONNULL
Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
7 DAYS AGO
RUNDEF
Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability
16 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Nova Programming Language
6 DAYS AGO
PANIC
Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels
5 HOURS AGO
SLEEPINGRESET
Spectrum ISP SSL/TLS Interception Bug
10 HOURS AGO
MIKHAEL
Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
10 HOURS AGO
THE-NEEDFUL
Running on Empty: Copper
7 DAYS AGO
IVANSAVZ
The consumption of AI-generated content at scale
lukeplato
7 hours ago
The universal weight subspace hypothesis
We show that deep neural networks trained across diverse tasks exhibit remarkably similar low-dimensional parametric subspaces. We provide the first large-scale empirical evidence that demonstrates that neural networks systematically converge to shared spectral subspaces regardless of initialization, task, or domain. Through mode-wise spectral analysis of over 1100 models - including 500 Mistral-7B LoRAs, 500 Vision Transformers, and 50 LLaMA-8B models - we identify universal subspaces capturing majority variance in just a few principal directions. By applying spectral decomposition techniques to the weight matrices of various architectures trained on a wide range of tasks and datasets, we identify sparse, joint subspaces that are consistently exploited, within shared architectures across diverse tasks and datasets. Our findings offer new insights into the intrinsic organization of information within deep networks and raise important questions about the possibility of discovering these universal subspaces without the need for extensive data and computational resources. Furthermore, this inherent structure has significant implications for model reusability, multi-task learning, model merging, and the development of training and inference-efficient algorithms, potentially reducing the carbon footprint of large-scale neural models.
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lattis
17 hours ago
Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
Japan is on alert for a possible mega quake after a magnitude 7.5 tremor hit northern regions late on Monday, prompting tsunami warnings. Authorities say the next few days will be critical....
taubek
18 hours ago
Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
Customers will see their bills increase from July 1, 2026 when Microsoft 365 pricing increases go into effect, adding up to $3/month for licenses....
Quizzical4230
15 hours ago
Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further....
classichasclass
2 hours ago
Modern Walkmans
List of modern, post-mp3, current Walkmans cassette players...
pbui
7 hours ago
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden....
ibobev
15 hours ago
AMD GPU Debugger
Abdelhadi' blog...
walterbell
7 hours ago
The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)
Revisit the lost automats and cafeterias of New York City, self service restaurants that offered New Yorkers a place to socialize and eat!...
https://www.untappedcities.com/automats-cafeterias-nyc/
Bezod
15 hours ago
Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently wen...
gniting
17 hours ago
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks. ...
todsacerdoti
6 days ago
Luarrow – True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function compositio
True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function composition for Lua - aiya000/luarrow.lua...
speckx
5 days ago
The web runs on tolerance
If you've ever tried to write a computer program, you'll know the dread of a syntax error. An errant space and your code won't compile. Miss a semi-colon and the world collapses. Don't close...
SchwKatze
18 hours ago
Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store - apple/foundationdb...
mpweiher
20 hours ago
Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. ...
samsolomon
11 hours ago
GitHub no longer uses Toasts
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues....
dm03514
14 hours ago
Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
Create a stream processor that reads data from Kafka in less than 5 minutes....