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Stealing Part of a Production Language Model Link:

Stealing Part of a Production Language Model

We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39675735

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga Link:

Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga 前挽大鋸 – Covington & Sons Tools

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Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

How Miles Davis hired John Coltrane Link:

How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane

A fascinating interlude from James Kaplan's new book '3 Shades of Blue'

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673014

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity? Link:

arXiv.org

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Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP Link:

Cloning a laptop over NVME TCP

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Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP | Hacker News

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Learn CSS Layout the Pedantic Way Link:

Learn CSS Layout The Pedantic Way

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534937

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Testcontainers Link:

Testcontainers

Testcontainers is an opensource library for providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else...

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Testcontainers | Hacker News

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Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van Link: https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/culture/hip-square-70-years-citroen-h-van/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39431809

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Smart binoculars can identify 9k birds Link:

Digital Camera World

World

Swarovski AX Visio binoculars bring AI tech to the forefront of wildlife observation

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964575

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PipeWire 1.0.0 Link:

Making sure you're not a bot!

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PipeWire 1.0.0 | Hacker News

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Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage Link:

Medieval staircases were NOT built going clockwise for the defender’s advantage – Fake History Hunter

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37822774

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America Link: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/10/04/productivity-has-grown-faster-in-western-europe-than-in-america Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789290

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg Link:

CCC | CCC invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg

Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37788153

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells Link:

pv magazine Global

US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells - pv magazine Global

Antora Energy says its new 2 MW factory will make thermophotovoltaic cells for thermal storage applications. The cells are based on III-V semicondu...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37775649

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine Link:

Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734531

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Python 3.12 Link:

Python.org

Python Release Python 3.12.0

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Python 3.12 | Hacker News

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Winklevoss twins secretely withdrew $280M in assets before crypto firm collapsed Link:

Exclusive | Winklevoss twins secretly withdrew $282M in Gemini assets before Genesis collapse: sources

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694118

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Quadlets might make me finally stop using Docker-compose – Major Hayden Link:

Major Hayden

Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose

Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37654891

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

Google is killing Gmail's Basic HTML View in early 2024 Link:

Use the latest version of Gmail in your browser - Gmail Help

If your browser is supported, Gmail automatically opens to the most recent version with the latest features and security updates. Learn how to use ...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37630914

Hacker News 100 2 years ago

The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths Link:

Scientific American

The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is

The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths. Instead it’s something more nuanced but no less glorious

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37613299