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Show HN: I built a tool to detect scams

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Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux

omgubuntu.co.uk

Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it’s...
Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it’s bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a post on BlueSky, Kagi said: “We’re thrilled to announce that development of the Orion Browser for Linux has officially started!”. Orion is currently only available o...
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Spark-TTS: Text-2-Speech Model Single-Stream Decoupled Tokens [pdf]

arxiv.org
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Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think

usher.dev

We are being boiled like frogs. It happened gradually, one algorithmic tweak at a time. What...
We are being boiled like frogs. It happened gradually, one algorithmic tweak at a time. What started as a way to connect with friends has become a system that gives the corporations that run social media control over what we consume and the ability to subtly shape how we think. We used to control apps like Facebook ...
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Valentin Hansen: Creating an Infinite Sound

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Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Founding Senior/Staff Software Engineer

ycombinator.com

Restaurant Data for the Enterprise$150K - $200K / 0.50% - 2.00%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with...
Restaurant Data for the Enterprise$150K - $200K / 0.50% - 2.00%San Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Join our small and nimble engineering team! We’re looking for an experienced engineer who enjoys working on a variety of different projects and large(ish) d...
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Sam Bankman-Fried Thrown into Solitary over Tucker Carlson Interview: Report

gizmodo.com

Tucker Carlson’s interview with disgraced crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, which was distributed online Thursday, appeared to...
Tucker Carlson’s interview with disgraced crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, which was distributed online Thursday, appeared to be a transparent ploy to get media attention with the goal of ultimately scoring a pardon from President Donald Trump. But it sounds like SBF is now paying a price for the interview. The former ...
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You might not need Redis

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AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps

theguardian.com

AI bots will soon be rolled out on dating apps to flirt with people, craft messages...
AI bots will soon be rolled out on dating apps to flirt with people, craft messages on users’ behalf and write their profiles for them.But depending on artificial intelligence to foster budding relationships risks eroding what little human authenticity is left on dating platforms, experts have warned.Match Group, th...
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Cat-Eared Robots Are Waiting Tables in Japan's Restaurants

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Ultrasonic deep drawing cuts friction by 20%, extends tool lifespan

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Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

bleepingcomputer.com

The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units...
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented backdoor that could be leveraged for attacks. The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and...

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Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp

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As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming...
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two Knuth reward checks. To date, my account balance on his “bank”, the...
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Cosmic ray giving 4096 votes incident

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Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed

notion.site
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Body Doubling

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The program is the database is the interface

scattered-thoughts.net
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Leave It to Manus

manus.im
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Explore Sutro Tower

sutrotower.com
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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

nature.com

Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and...
Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.Credit: Jose A. Bernat Bacete/GettyLate last year, media outlets worldwide warned that black plastic cooking utensils contained worrying levels of cancer-linked flame retardants. The risk was found to be ov...

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Smaller but Better: Unifying Layout Generation with Smaller LLMs

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Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste

theguardian.com

Many of us have been guilty of binning a mushy, overripe banana – but now scientists...
Many of us have been guilty of binning a mushy, overripe banana – but now scientists say they have a solution with the launch of a genetically engineered non-browning banana.The product is the latest in a series of gene-edited fruits and vegetables designed to have a longer shelf life. Scientists say the technology ...
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Show HN: AI art generation faster than Midjourney

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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome

wired.com

The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of...
The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its final remedy proposal in a landmark antitrust case.The proposal, filed Friday afternoon, says that Google must “promptly and fully divest Chrome, along with any assets or services necessary to successfully complete the divestitur...
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