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How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself

coryzue.com

Jan 31, 2025 — 9 min read Yesterday I had a couple hours to kill and...
Jan 31, 2025 — 9 min read Yesterday I had a couple hours to kill and decided to try out a project I’ve been meaning to explore for a long time: training my own AI image model so I can generate pictures of myself that look like this: Me as Superman I had a few reasons for wanting to do this: It sounded fun....

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Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in Go for 64-bit Linux

github.com
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Developers should embrace creative coding again

figma.com

When I was a budding design engineer in 2010, having a custom website meant something. It...
When I was a budding design engineer in 2010, having a custom website meant something. It was your digital calling card—a space to showcase craft, build reputation, and attract new business. Developers like me were hired to harness the emerging capabilities of HTML5: expressive inline SVG, timeline-based animations ...
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Quantel Paintbox History

quantelpaintbox.com

Quantel were a small company based in Newbury, England that had achieved success by developing early...
Quantel were a small company based in Newbury, England that had achieved success by developing early digital video products, notably the innovation of being able to combine two live video feeds by using a framestore. The development of a Paint Box started in the late 70's but the first prototype (utilizing the Intel...
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Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware

jgc.org

Some time ago I bought a replacement motherboard for my classic Casio F-91W from Crowd Supply....
Some time ago I bought a replacement motherboard for my classic Casio F-91W from Crowd Supply. The project keeps the original Casio LCD but replaces the entire motherboard with a modern microcontroller and open firmware. The combination gives you long battery life but lots of new functionality in a classic case.Here...
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Traffic spikes are bad for your product

substack.com

Product launches work differently in the age of social media.Imagine that one day, you launch an...
Product launches work differently in the age of social media.Imagine that one day, you launch an app. Your new app is received well. A small trickle of users shows up, and they are loyal and loving. With their feedback, you iterate on the product. You ship. They send in nice comments. Feels good man. One night, a fr...
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MillenniumDB: A graph database engine using domain graphs

github.com
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Images Reveal Exocomets Around 74 Nearby Stars

skyandtelescope.org
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Linux Mobile at FOSDEM 2025

linmob.net

With FOSDEM, a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate in Brussels,...
With FOSDEM, a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate in Brussels, Belgium, approaching (1st & 2nd February 2025), let's have a little preview on the talks and other things that are particularly exciting for #LinuxMobile. The "FOSS on Mobile Devices" Track/Developer Room. Like the la...
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Code Golf

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This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Code golf" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Rec...
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CFPB Orders Wise to Pay $2.5M for Illegal Remittance Practices

consumerfinance.gov

Washington, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today ordered the international remittance company Wise...
Washington, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today ordered the international remittance company Wise to pay nearly $2.5 million for a series of illegal actions, including advertising inaccurate fees and failing to properly disclose exchange rates and other costs. Wise allows customers to send, ...
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RamaLama

github.com
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Patient Monitor Contec CMS8000 Contains a Backdoor

cisa.gov
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Building a Mesh Using Spherical Embedding

andrews.wiki
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Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain

ft.com
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Battery-powered electric ferry service to connect Spain and Morocco

theiet.org

The first-ever ‘green’ ferry service carrying passengers from mainland Spain to Morocco has been announced by...
The first-ever ‘green’ ferry service carrying passengers from mainland Spain to Morocco has been announced by Spanish operator Baleària.The firm will launch two 100% electric, zero-emission fast ferries connecting the cities of Tarifa, Spain, and Tangier, Morocco.Both vessels will be built at the Armon shipyard in n...

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Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard

frontiersin.org

An older man presses his fingers to the side of his head, next to his ear.To...
An older man presses his fingers to the side of his head, next to his ear.To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — scientists attached electrodes to the sides of people’s heads, and asked them to listen closely to an audiobook. Differen...

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Why I'm Boycotting the American Quilter's Society

iothealien.com
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Casio F91w at 5KM underwater – watches of espionage

watchesofespionage.com

By Benjamin Lowry While the stories we tell typically explore the world of intelligence in the...
By Benjamin Lowry While the stories we tell typically explore the world of intelligence in the terrestrial sense, espionage and the deep sea have been closely linked for decades. Starting during the Cold War, a shadowy conflict has been waged on the ocean floor. From submarines and divers tapping (or cutting) cables...
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Hedge fund warns White House is inflating crypto bubble that could wreak havoc

ft.com
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NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders

science.org
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Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?

github.com
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An Interview with Chris Lattner

pldb.io

HTML | TXT January 26, 2025 — Chris Lattner created many of the core platforms today's...
HTML | TXT January 26, 2025 — Chris Lattner created many of the core platforms today's programmers build on including LLVM, Clang, Swift and MLIR. Now he is focused on a new language, Mojo, which allows Python programmers to write code that runs orders of magnitude faster. Chris took the time to talk to us about som...

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