Vision Language Models Are Biased (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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vlmsarebiased.github.io
Vision Language Models are Biased
Vision Language Models are Biased: VLMs fail on simple counting tasks when familiar objects are subtly modified
A manager is not your best friend (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Stay SaaSy
Your Manager Is Not Your Best Friend
As people become managers, it's quite common for their team members to want to commiserate with them. This is especially true for friendly, competent, reasonable-seeming managers – people want to commiserate with winners. But commiseration, especially with…
Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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Wouldn't this basically give us Google Books and searchable Scihub at the same time?
What would it cost?
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Wouldn't this basically give us Google Books and searchable Scihub at the same time?
What would it cost?
A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine (Score: 152+ in 15 hours)
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richardcsuwandi.github.io
AI that can improve itself | Richard Cornelius Suwandi
A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine.
Binary Wordle (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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Chengeric
Binary Wordle
slightly lower entropy wordle
Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
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Google Cloud Blog
Cloud Run GPUs are now generally available | Google Cloud Blog
Support for GPUs in Cloud Run makes running GPU-accelerated applications simpler, faster, and more cost-effective, as well as enabling new use cases.
Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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Science
Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population
Why I Wrote the BEAM Book (Score: 158+ in 4 hours)
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Happihacking
Why I Wrote the BEAM Book
The story behind writing The BEAM Book—ten years, three publishers, and an open‑source sprint.
Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do? (Score: 155+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyUg
Longtime user posting from a new account out of an abundance of caution.
I founded an e-commerce marketplace startup. We use PayPal's Multiparty APIs (PayPal Commerce Platform) for checkout. For the 10 days, someone has been bombarding us with purchases that they later dispute. There's consistent pattern to it:
* They use an email address that has no footprint online, always from the same two domains
* They use an unverified PayPal account to pay
* They pay a low amount, not always the same, in a narrow range for a digital item
* All of the charges were disputed within a few hours
They're not doing this through our API. The purchase process requires a browser because of the way our payment form is configured. There's an amount of variation to each purchase that tells us they're automating a browser. Logs indicate that they're changing IP each time. The events come in bursts and seem to be spaced to avoid automated detection.
We added the typical mitigations to our network stack and code. A few are still slipping through. Logs indicate a high amount of bot traffic.
PayPal does not seem equipped to deal with this. Their support is always extremely slow, relies on canned responses, and to date has a very limited understanding of how their own Multiparty APIs work. Their phone support people will not talk with me, they see no indication that my PayPal account is affiliated with these purchases in any way. They want each of our sellers to contact them independently, which we know will result in disparate cases that don't tell the complete story or offer any assistance.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before? We're struggling to find the motive or intended outcome by the attacker(s). We're a small company with a niche audience, we've never had a conflict with anyone that got serious enough that we'd expect them to come after us like this.
Any thoughts and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. We feel like we are on our own here and are unsure of how to handle it.
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vyUg
Longtime user posting from a new account out of an abundance of caution.
I founded an e-commerce marketplace startup. We use PayPal's Multiparty APIs (PayPal Commerce Platform) for checkout. For the 10 days, someone has been bombarding us with purchases that they later dispute. There's consistent pattern to it:
* They use an email address that has no footprint online, always from the same two domains
* They use an unverified PayPal account to pay
* They pay a low amount, not always the same, in a narrow range for a digital item
* All of the charges were disputed within a few hours
They're not doing this through our API. The purchase process requires a browser because of the way our payment form is configured. There's an amount of variation to each purchase that tells us they're automating a browser. Logs indicate that they're changing IP each time. The events come in bursts and seem to be spaced to avoid automated detection.
We added the typical mitigations to our network stack and code. A few are still slipping through. Logs indicate a high amount of bot traffic.
PayPal does not seem equipped to deal with this. Their support is always extremely slow, relies on canned responses, and to date has a very limited understanding of how their own Multiparty APIs work. Their phone support people will not talk with me, they see no indication that my PayPal account is affiliated with these purchases in any way. They want each of our sellers to contact them independently, which we know will result in disparate cases that don't tell the complete story or offer any assistance.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before? We're struggling to find the motive or intended outcome by the attacker(s). We're a small company with a niche audience, we've never had a conflict with anyone that got serious enough that we'd expect them to come after us like this.
Any thoughts and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. We feel like we are on our own here and are unsure of how to handle it.
The Small World of English (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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www.inotherwords.app
The Small World of English: Building a 1.5M Word Semantic Network for Language Games
Discover how we mapped 1.5 million English words into a
navigable semantic network where any two words connect in 6-7 hops, enabling innovative
word games and linguistic exploration.
navigable semantic network where any two words connect in 6-7 hops, enabling innovative
word games and linguistic exploration.
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State (🔥 Score: 163+ in 2 hours)
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington.Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians' right to access tools, parts, and information so they can
"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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SparkToro
"AI will replace all the jobs!" Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing - SparkToro
Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (🔥 Score: 167+ in 2 hours)
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Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
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Sky News
Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook
Google says Meta and search engine company Yandex used Android capabilities "in unintended ways that blatantly violate our security and privacy principles".
Consider Knitting (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
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IRS Direct File on GitHub (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
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https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file
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https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file
Chrisgiven
Direct File on GitHub
Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
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Rest of World
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
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The New Yorker
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
Machine Code Isn't Scary (Score: 151+ in 15 hours)
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Jimmyhmiller
Machine Code Isn't Scary
Machine code isn't scary. If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a JSON schema, you can write machine code.