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Better AI Is a Matter of Timing

ieee.org

AI is changing everything in data centers: New AI-specific chips, new cooling techniques, and new storage...
AI is changing everything in data centers: New AI-specific chips, new cooling techniques, and new storage drives. Now even the method for keeping time is starting to change, with an announcement from SiTime that the company has developed a new clock that is optimized for AI workloads.The company says the development...

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New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth

quantamagazine.org

The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another...
The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the eminent mathematician David Hilbert announced a list of 23 key problems to guide the next century of mathematical research. His problems not only provided a road map for the field ...
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Evaluating Code Embedding Models

voyageai.com

Read time: 10 minutes Nearly all modern coding assistants and agents leverage some form of code...
Read time: 10 minutes Nearly all modern coding assistants and agents leverage some form of code retrieval — the task of retrieving relevant code snippets, docstrings, or documentation, etc., from complex and massive repositories. Today’s code retrieval systems are powered by embedding models, which vectorize both qu...
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AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability

github.com
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I Conditioned Myself to Fail

brainbun.com

Over the years I’ve literally built hundreds of projects. Some with a lof of potential. Others...
Over the years I’ve literally built hundreds of projects. Some with a lof of potential. Others just batshit crazy ideas. I started noticing a pattern. I’d build a project for several weeks or even months. Working long hours, maybe 12-14 hours a day. Being extremely motivated. I’d then launch the project, do one day ...
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It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work

substack.com

I’ve just come back from a seasonal gathering where it was obvious – as it is...
I’ve just come back from a seasonal gathering where it was obvious – as it is obvious every year – that the women in the heterosexual couples had done a far larger amount of work than their partners. We had initiated the idea of gathering, had clung on through the tedious months of back and forth to find a time and ...
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Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

anthropic.com

A new paper from the Anthropic Safeguards Research Team describes a method that defends AI models...
A new paper from the Anthropic Safeguards Research Team describes a method that defends AI models against universal jailbreaks. A prototype version of the method was robust to thousands of hours of human red teaming for universal jailbreaks, albeit with high overrefusal rates and compute overhead. An updated version...
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Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer

ycombinator.com

Some background on Hightouch - our mission is to help companies leverage their customer data to...
Some background on Hightouch - our mission is to help companies leverage their customer data to grow. We started with the problem of “Reverse ETL” or helping companies sync data from their data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) to 200+ SaaS tools (Salesforce, Marketo, Facebook Ads, etc.) without coding. S...
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

ycombinator.com
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Developer Philosophy

qntm.org

Amazing as it may seem after all these years, there are still junior developers in the...
Amazing as it may seem after all these years, there are still junior developers in the world. A few weeks ago at work we had a talk where senior developers (including me) were invited to spend around five minutes each talking about our personal software development philosophies. The idea was for us to share our year...
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Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game

shalzuth.com

Security vulnerabilities in online games aren't just theoretical - they happen more often than you'd think....
Security vulnerabilities in online games aren't just theoretical - they happen more often than you'd think. Recently, I discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit in Marvel Rivals that could allow an attacker on the same network to run arbitrary code on another player's device.The ElephantThe issue is the game...
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He Went to Jail for Stealing Someone's Identity. But It Was His All Along

nytimes.com

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we...
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A decades-long theft of a man’s identity raised questions about who gets believed in the justice system, and what happens when your name is taken.“I’m trying to go on and conti...

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How do scientists get lead into the LHC

symmetrymagazine.org

Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, scientists at CERN store a small glass vial...
Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, scientists at CERN store a small glass vial filled with 10 grams of lead. But this is no ordinary metal. The lead in this vial is worth $15,000, and it’s about to go on a journey back to the origins of the universe.Every fall, the Large Hadron Collid...
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Setting up a Linux writecache as a RAM disk

admin-magazine.com

The idea of block I/O caching isn't revolutionary, but it still is an extremely complex topic....
The idea of block I/O caching isn't revolutionary, but it still is an extremely complex topic. Technically speaking, caching as a whole is complicated and a very difficult solution to implement. It all boils down to the I/O profile of the ecosystem or server on which it is being implemented. Before I dive right in, ...
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Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

github.com
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Optimizing with Novel Calendrical Algorithms

jhpratt.dev

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First place in Tetris 99 using computer vision and classical AI

bpinzone.github.io

We created a program to play Tetris 99, an online multiplayer game for the Nintendo Switch....
We created a program to play Tetris 99, an online multiplayer game for the Nintendo Switch. The algorithm used computer vision to determine the state of the board, a depth-first search algorithm with a hand-crafted utility function to find a good next block placement, and sent the series of button presses required t...
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Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking

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Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

videotoflip.com
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

ycombinator.com
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Google removed 2.36M apps from Google Play using AI threat detection

googleblog.com

Posted by Bethel Otuteye and Khawaja Shams (Android Security and Privacy Team), and Ron Aquino (Play...
Posted by Bethel Otuteye and Khawaja Shams (Android Security and Privacy Team), and Ron Aquino (Play Trust and Safety) Android and Google Play comprise a vibrant ecosystem with billions of users around the globe and millions of helpful apps. Keeping this ecosystem safe for users and developers remains our top priori...
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OpenAI: Out of Ideas

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5 years of maintaining India's largest dev community on the web

bhupesh.me

📅️ Published: February 2, 2025 • 🕣 22 min read I have been part of the...
📅️ Published: February 2, 2025 • 🕣 22 min read I have been part of the r/developersIndia community team since its inception in Jan 2020. A lot has happened since we started this initiative, this post is my personal collection of some learnings as someone behind the scenes along with my failures, community’s successe...

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The Inefficiency of Greed: How DeepSeek Exposed Silicon Valley's Tech Bros

medium.com

Once heralded as the birthplace of transformative technologies and disruptive innovation, Silicon Valley now feels more...
Once heralded as the birthplace of transformative technologies and disruptive innovation, Silicon Valley now feels more like an overpriced flea market for recycled ideas. The tech bros, cloistered in their gilded towers, seem more interested in influencing elections and hoarding venture capital than nurturing the ho...

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