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Ask HN: What do you use for content moderation of UGC?

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Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

huggingface.co

Published January 28, 2025 Update on GitHub If you’ve ever struggled with a tough math problem,...
Published January 28, 2025 Update on GitHub If you’ve ever struggled with a tough math problem, you know how useful it is to think a little longer and work through it carefully. OpenAI’s o1 model showed that when LLMs are trained to do the same—by using more compute during inference—they get significantly better at ...
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Undiagnosed Cognitive Decline Eats into Seniors' Retirement Savings

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DeepSeek on Consciousness

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Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)

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Human corpses move around significantly as they decompose, according to an Australian researcher who observed a...
Human corpses move around significantly as they decompose, according to an Australian researcher who observed a dead body over a 17-month period.Australian researcher Alyson Wilson, the lead author of the study, found that the dead body moved for more than a year after death—findings which could have significant imp...

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Ask HN: Confused about how DeepSeek hurts Nvidia

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Wall Street Enters Darker Age with Most Stock Trading Now Hidden

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United States Camel Corps

wikipedia.org

U.S. military experiment, 1856–1866 Military unit The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by...
U.S. military experiment, 1856–1866 Military unit The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. Although the camels proved to be hardy and well suited to travel through the region, the Army declined to adop...
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Immunotherapy Extended President Jimmy Carter's Life

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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, passed away on December 29, 2024, at...
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, passed away on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. The former U.S. president had been in hospice care since February 2023 following declining health. Prior to his political career, President Carter served 15 years in the U.S....
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Turning the Database Inside-Out

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A talk at Øredev, Malmö, Sweden, 05 Nov 2015 This was a repeat of my talk...
A talk at Øredev, Malmö, Sweden, 05 Nov 2015 This was a repeat of my talk at Strange Loop 2014. Abstract Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most self-respecting developers have got rid of mutable global variables ...
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Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)

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I break down the logic behind the company’s towering price tag and why I think the...
I break down the logic behind the company’s towering price tag and why I think the most valuable AI companies have yet to be built. When OpenAI raised $6.6B earlier this month—the second-largest private funding round in history, topped only by its own $10B raise from Microsoft last January—it wasn’t just setting rec...
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DeepSeek, Unitree and Game Science all are based in Hanghzou

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A 20-Year-Old Small Company

hacklook.com

Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve, and it also happens to be the 20th anniversary of...
Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve, and it also happens to be the 20th anniversary of our company - our official date of incorporation was January 28, 2005. I wanted to jot down a few thoughts this morning to mark the occasion.The Beginning of the JourneyAt the time, I was in Shenzhen and Glacier was in Beijing. We wer...
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The Vikings also used crampons to avoid slipping on ice

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Norwegians have been contending with slippery winters for over 1,000 years. Crampons, also known as ice...
Norwegians have been contending with slippery winters for over 1,000 years. Crampons, also known as ice grips – with spikes that dig into the ice to stop people from slipping – are a relatively common find in graves from the Viking Age. In particular, graves containing sled equipment from the Viking Age often includ...

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Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

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For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each "branch"...
For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each "branch" leads to a win, loss, or draw. Players face the challenge of finding the best move amid all this complexity, particularly midgame, in order to steer gameplay into favorable branches. That's where those crucial tipping poi...
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Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)

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Highlighting Parts of Lua as Bash

xnacly.me

Since i am currently working on a little tool for synching my old macbook pro, my...
Since i am currently working on a little tool for synching my old macbook pro, my workstation at home and my work thinkpad - I want to highlight a part of the lua configuration for said tool as bash, not as a lua string.I use this tool (mehr2) to keep my installed packages on all systems in sync. I plan to use the f...
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Big brother becomes little brother

kenklippenstein.com

Envious of the power and wealth of corporate America, the head of U.S. intelligence has issued...
Envious of the power and wealth of corporate America, the head of U.S. intelligence has issued a new directive calling on the spy agencies to “routinize” and “expand” their partnerships with private companies. Agencies are even authorized to incur “risk” in these relationships, the directive says. The move underscor...
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Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source

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Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media platform X in recent weeks. The...
Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media platform X in recent weeks. The ads are designed to lure Canadians into a sophisticated scam that uses Russian internet infrastructure, CBC News has found. CBC News' visual investigations unit has investigated both the internet infrastructure behind the...
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Slack Overflow

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Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation

itch.io

HikHak2222 hours agoVery entertaining! My girlfriend and I defeated it a couple of times. Now we...
HikHak2222 hours agoVery entertaining! My girlfriend and I defeated it a couple of times. Now we are waiting for a 2.0.0. release!loumimi2 hours agoloved the game, finally got 303 tricks&truques4 hours agoWhat a beautiful game, congratulations mr sr guy gal, you are awesome!Negreb5 hours ago(+2)is 303 the maximum sc...
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Working Americans Turn to Food Banks as Fed Inflation Battle Drags On

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Ask HN: How should I divide equity?

ycombinator.com

Hello HNI’m working on a startup with a partner, and we’re struggling to figure out how...
Hello HNI’m working on a startup with a partner, and we’re struggling to figure out how to divide equity. We are very early stage and have not launched yet.I am a software developer (technical cofounder), and my partner is handling the business side of things (non technical cofounder). We’re both working part time o...
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Ask HN: Anyone want models snail-mailed to them?

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