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January 27

Mineral Oil Cooled PC

pugetsystems.com

Over the years, we have seen many custom pc projects on the web that cooled a...
Over the years, we have seen many custom pc projects on the web that cooled a computer using common vegetable oil, including a very popular video by Tom’s Hardware. After seeing all these projects, we had a lot of ideas of how we could do it better and more easily. Many projects used vegetable oil, which would go ra...
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January 27

Using the Rust standard library with the NuttX RTOS

lupyuen.org
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January 27

Janus-Pro: Autoregressive framework unifying multimodal understanding&generation

huggingface.co
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January 27

Ask HN: How to produce a 3D scan of a car from a mobile phone?

ycombinator.com
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January 27

DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]

github.com
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January 27

Non-random uniform disk sampling

victorpoughon.fr
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January 27

The Curious Case of Quentell

startifact.com
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January 27

The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us

scd31.com
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January 27

Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit

unsloth.ai
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January 27

New Zealand welcomes digital nomads by loosening visitor visa rules

abc.net.au

New Zealand's economic growth minister, Nicola Willis, has announced changes to visitor visas, permitting remote work...
New Zealand's economic growth minister, Nicola Willis, has announced changes to visitor visas, permitting remote work for foreign companies while in the country.The so-called "digital nomads" include visitors such as IT specialists, as long as they are not receiving any income from New Zealand sources.It would also ...

digital nomads economy taxes travelling visas
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January 27

Null Byte on Steroids

medium.com

Hello, I’m 0xold, a penetration tester who began exploring bug bounty hunting about 8 months ago....
Hello, I’m 0xold, a penetration tester who began exploring bug bounty hunting about 8 months ago. Today, I’ll be sharing a couple of vulnerabilities I discovered leveraging null byte injection — exploits that wouldn’t have been possible without this technique. For confidentiality, I’ll refer to all the websites invo...
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January 27

DeepSeek FAQ

stratechery.com

It’s Monday, January 27. Why haven’t you written about DeepSeek yet? I did! I wrote about...
It’s Monday, January 27. Why haven’t you written about DeepSeek yet? I did! I wrote about R1 last Tuesday. I totally forgot about that. I take responsibility. I stand by the post, including the two biggest takeaways that I highlighted (emergent chain-of-thought via pure reinforcement learning, and the power of disti...
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January 27

Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30 per cent

uwaterloo.ca

Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a small modification to the Linux...
Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a small modification to the Linux kernel that could reduce energy consumption in data centres by as much as 30 per cent. The update has the potential to cut the environmental impact of data centres significantly, as computing accounts for as much ...
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January 27

Peanut Butter Day: Going Nuts over NIST's Standard Reference Peanut Butter

nist.gov

Products you use every day are carefully formulated in a lab. Experts at NIST are now...
Products you use every day are carefully formulated in a lab. Experts at NIST are now working to revolutionize how those products are made.

srms
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January 27

Show HN: I Created ErisForge, a Python Library for Abliteration of LLMs

github.com
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January 27

Operation Leg: When the RAF airdropped a prosthetic leg into a German POW castle

rafbf.org

Douglas Bader was a Battle of Britain pilot unlike any other. Medically discharged against his will...
Douglas Bader was a Battle of Britain pilot unlike any other. Medically discharged against his will in 1932, the outbreak of the war was an opportunity for Bader to re-join the RAF and take back to the skies. Although hampered by the loss of his two legs, Bader was a remarkable pilot and, once captured by the German...
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January 27

Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)

bartwronski.com

See this ugly pixel shift when upsampling a downsampled image? My post describes where it can...
See this ugly pixel shift when upsampling a downsampled image? My post describes where it can come from and how to avoid those! It’s been more than two decades of me using bilinear texture filtering, a few months since I’ve written about bilinear resampling, but only two days since I discovered a bug of mine related...
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January 27

HuggingFace/open-r1: open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

github.com
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January 27

How DeepSeek-R1 Was Built, for Dummies

vellum.ai

TLDR;DeepSeek just made a breakthrough: you can train a model to match OpenAI o1-level reasoning using...
TLDR;DeepSeek just made a breakthrough: you can train a model to match OpenAI o1-level reasoning using pure reinforcement learning (RL) without using labeled data (DeepSeek-R1-Zero). But RL alone isn’t perfect — it can lead to challenges like poor readability. A mix of methods in a multi-stage training fixes these (...
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January 27

UK first as vertical rocket launch licence granted

bbc.com

RFAA company behind a rocket engine which exploded during a test at the UK's new spaceport...
RFAA company behind a rocket engine which exploded during a test at the UK's new spaceport in Shetland could still be the first in Europe to carry out vertical launches into orbit.German firm Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) have been awarded the first Launch Operator Licence allowing it to launch rockets from the Saxa...
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January 27

Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

defn.io
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January 27

My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%

evanhahn.com
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January 27

Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals

nature.com

Tiny pieces of plastic were found lodged in blood vessels in the brains of mice.Credit: Sinclair...
Tiny pieces of plastic were found lodged in blood vessels in the brains of mice.Credit: Sinclair Stammers/SPLFor the first time, scientists have tracked microplastics moving through the bodies of mice in real time1. The tiny plastic particles are gobbled up by immune cells, travel through the bloodstream and eventua...

brain imaging microscopy
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January 27

YouTube plays out hours long unskipable ads to adblock users

reddit.com

youtube
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