THE HACKER NEWS

bilsbie
13 hours ago
I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
Someone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to....
2 HOURS AGO
SIMONEBRUNOZZI
Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo
20 HOURS AGO
CAMPUSCODI
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
17 HOURS AGO
THE-MITR
Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
16 HOURS AGO
RYANVOGEL
A website for debloated open source alternatives
13 HOURS AGO
ROOT-PARENT
Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG
14 HOURS AGO
TCHALLA
Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
19 HOURS AGO
MDP2021
Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi
13 HOURS AGO
SIMONEBRUNOZZI
Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms
2 HOURS AGO
ALEXDRAGUSIN
Hugging Face has been fielding M&A interest for a deal worth at least $13B
7 HOURS AGO
BILLYBUCKWHEAT
Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency
A DAY AGO
ANDSOITIS
To become a better writer, read as much as you can
AN HOUR AGO
DOENER
Hybrid energy system cools and generates electricity and hot water
7 HOURS AGO
BILLYBUCKWHEAT
Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency
17 HOURS AGO
MDP2021
Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
A DAY AGO
ANDSOITIS
To become a better writer, read as much as you can
15 HOURS AGO
0MEGION
AI and Infrastructure Engineering
schlarpc
11 hours ago
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
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vanpra
14 hours ago
How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas....
austinallegro
3 hours ago
New EU-wide product repair rules come into force
New EU rules have come into force aiming to tackle the 35 million tonnes of waste the premature disposal of consumer goods generates across the bloc....
tosh
19 hours ago
What Is a Harness?
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within....
thiagolima
3 hours ago
OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM
Chrome extension: pin a screen region once, then hotkey your way through a paginated document. OCR runs 100% offline via bundled Tesseract. - thiagotigaz/ocr-it...
reasonableklout
2 hours ago
Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law. ...
pantelisk
10 hours ago
I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences....
dabinat
3 hours ago
FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
The blood-based biomarker test is based on technology developed at WashU Medicine by Randall Bateman, MD, and David Holtzman, MD....
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/fda-clears-blood-test-to-aid-evaluation-for-alzheimers-disease/
Finbarr
a day ago
AI Chip Architectures
A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras....
dbreunig
14 hours ago
Fable and the end of the free lunch
There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the f...
porridgeraisin
12 hours ago
Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake
Implementation of the GPT-2 model in pure CMake. Contribute to AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake development by creating an account on GitHub....
ibobev
17 hours ago
Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II
It is now possible and easy to use a Kodak DC50 camera with an Apple II....
henryaj
a day ago
The Sloppification of Peptides
Nobody in the comments is real...
hugodan
12 hours ago
Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions
WebGPU wiring you can ship and share...
Brajeshwar
19 hours ago
Death to px, long live ch
Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels ar...
allisdust
15 hours ago
The Vibe Tax
Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained....