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Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/64dcJ
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Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)

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Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/64dwr
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Netcraft
Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown | Netcraft
A staggering 12.6 million domains on TLDs controlled by Freenom (.tk, .cf and .gq) have been shut down and no longer resolve, leading to a significant reduc ...
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Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/64dgb
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GitHub
Retiring the Mozilla Location Service · Issue #2065 · mozilla/ichnaea
The accuracy of Mozilla Location Service (MLS) has steadily declined. With no plans to restart the stumbler program or increase investments to MLS we have made the decision to retire the service. I...
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Hackintosh Is Almost Dead (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)

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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)

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Show HN: Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)

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GitHub - tspeterkim/flash-attention-minimal: Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA (forward pass only)
Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA (forward pass only) - tspeterkim/flash-attention-minimal
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macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)

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Oracle
Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should skip macOS 14.4 and update directly to macOS 14.4.1
Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update
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I always knew I was different, I didn't know I was a sociopath (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)

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WSJ
Essay | I Always Knew I Was Different. I Just Didn’t Know I Was a Sociopath.
Given the stigma of sociopathy, especially for women, I want to be open about my experiences.
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The return of the frame pointers (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)

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Show HN: Richard – A CNN written in C++ and Vulkan (no ML or math libs) (Score: 151+ in 1 day)

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This started out as a personal effort to learn more about machine learning. It's currently a CLI app where you give it a JSON file specifying your network architecture and hyperparameters and point it to your training data, then invoke it again in 'eval' mode with some data it's not seen before and it will try to classify each sample.
I don't see many other people using Vulkan for GPGPU, and there may be many good reasons for that, but I wanted to try something a bit different.
I've made every attempt to make the code very clean and readable and I've written up the math in documentation/math.pdf, so hopefully this is a useful learning resource for anyone interested in how neural nets work under the hood.
I'll be continuing to add new features over the coming months.
GitHub
GitHub - robjinman/richard: Richard is gaining power
Richard is gaining power. Contribute to robjinman/richard development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Debloat non-rooted Android devices (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)

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GitHub
GitHub - 0x192/universal-android-debloater: Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices.…
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device. - 0x192/universal-android-debloater
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IBM 360 in UK need a home (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)

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20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)

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The New Stack
20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry
GnuCOBOL "has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments," boasted contributor Fabrice Le Fessant, in a FOSDEM talk.
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Losing Faith on Testing (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)

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Thorstenball
A Few Words on Testing
Or: Losing Faith
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MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training (Score: 150+ in 1 day)

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arXiv.org
MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
In this work, we discuss building performant Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In particular, we study the importance of various architecture components and data choices. Through careful...
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Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies (Score: 152+ in 13 hours)

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LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
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How Microchips Work (Score: 153+ in 9 hours)

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Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)

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simonwillison.net
Google Scholar search: “certainly, here is” -chatgpt -llm
Searching Google Scholar for "certainly, here is" turns up a huge number of academic papers that include parts that were evidently written by ChatGPT - sections that start with "Certainly, …
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LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with LLM (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)

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GitHub
GitHub - albertan017/LLM4Decompile: Reverse Engineering: Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models
Reverse Engineering: Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models - albertan017/LLM4Decompile
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