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Transitioning from the attention era to the automation era

dbreunig.com

We are at a major inflection point in our internet journey: transitioning from earning and packaging...
We are at a major inflection point in our internet journey: transitioning from earning and packaging attention to selling summarization and automation. Our key metric is moving from time-spent to time-saved. The first era – the Attention Era – was marked by the creation of giant piles of content and connections, whi...
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$8k Suzuki from India Received a 5-Star Crash Test Rating

jalopnik.com

There aren’t any new models available under $20,000 in the for American car buyers anymore, but...
There aren’t any new models available under $20,000 in the for American car buyers anymore, but emerging auto markets like India have plenty of cheap cars to go around. One of these budget cars just proved that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to be safe.Motor 1 spotted a recent crash test done by Global NCAP,...

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Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible

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Fireworks F1: A Breakthrough in Complex Reasoning with Compound AI

fireworks.ai

By Fireworks AI|11/15/2024
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Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits

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Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

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Playful, intricate Japanese leaf art – in pictures – Art and design

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Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference

cerebras.ai

Frontier AI now runs at instant speed. Last week we ran a customer workload on Llama...
Frontier AI now runs at instant speed. Last week we ran a customer workload on Llama 3.1 405B at 969 tokens/s – a new record for Meta’s frontier model. Llama 3.1 405B on Cerebras is by far the fastest frontier model in the world – 12x faster than GPT-4o and 18x faster than Claude 3.5 Sonnet. In addition, we achieved...
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'Achilles heel' of antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered

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(Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock) SAN DIEGO — In the ongoing battle against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” researchers have uncovered...
(Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock) SAN DIEGO — In the ongoing battle against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” researchers have uncovered an unexpected vulnerability that could change how we fight these deadly infections – and it all comes down to a microscopic competition for resources. The discovery comes at a cr...
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Histogramming Bytes with Positional Popcount

bitmath.blogspot.com

A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix, I dropped some implementation...
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix, I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaining anything. This post aims to rectify that lack of explanation. pospopcnt Imagine an array of N k-bit words as an N-by-k matrix of bits. It's easy to take a plain old popcnt across a...
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Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API

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Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

reason.com

Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously...
Earlier this week, Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. "I've decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief," she wrote on Bluesky. "I'm going to take some time to think about what come...

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Finland and Germany on the severed undersea cable in the Baltic Sea

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JGS ASCII ART gallery (2001)

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Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned

arstechnica.com

After Ars spent Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary week looking back at the game's history and impact,...
After Ars spent Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary week looking back at the game's history and impact, Valve marked the occasion with a meaty two-hour YouTube documentary featuring insider memories from the team behind the game itself. Near the end of that documentary, longtime Valve watchers also get a chance to see fo...
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DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

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Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink

theregister.com

Opinion In 1968's Star Trek episode, "The Ultimate Computer," Captain Kirk had his ship used to...
Opinion In 1968's Star Trek episode, "The Ultimate Computer," Captain Kirk had his ship used to test M5, a new computer. A copilot, if you will, for the Starship Enterprise. Designed to more efficiently perform the jobs of the human crew, the M5 indeed did those jobs very well yet with such a terrifying lack of unde...
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Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board

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Ubuntu Summit 2024 The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V...
Ubuntu Summit 2024 The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V main board now available. Framework CEO Nirav Patel had one of the bravest tech demos that we've seen at a conference yet – modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage. In the five-minute duration of one o...
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Arizona girl, 10, sold chickens. Chase froze her check and closed the account

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Arizona girl, 10, sells prize chicks for $2,100 — but then Chase froze her check, closed...
Arizona girl, 10, sells prize chicks for $2,100 — but then Chase froze her check, closed the account. Here’s why Some 10-year-olds sell cookies and lemonade to earn a bit of spending cash, but not Kinley Maner. Kinley, from Thatcher, Arizona, is earning money by raising and selling chickens at the local fair. “She r...

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End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015)

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I’ve found that there is a fair amount of confusion regarding how text rendering actually ends...
I’ve found that there is a fair amount of confusion regarding how text rendering actually ends up working. In particular, it seems that the design of the system in general often goes unnoticed. First of all, there is a major division between the layout of text and the rendering of text. These two problems are very d...
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An Uncanny Moat

boristhebrave.com

Back in the early days of computer animation, the technology at the time really struggled with...
Back in the early days of computer animation, the technology at the time really struggled with realism. The first cartoons were necessarily abstract, or cartoony. As time progressed, the technology caught up. CGI now can be all but indistinguishable from real life. But there was a brief period, as seen in films like...
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DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

malwarebytes.com

A DNA testing company that promised clients insights into their genetic disposition has suddenly disappeared. The...
A DNA testing company that promised clients insights into their genetic disposition has suddenly disappeared. The BBC reports it tried several methods to reach the company but failed in this effort. London offices are closed, nobody answers the phone, and clients are no longer capable of accessing their online recor...
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Trieve (YC W24) Is Hiring a software engineer to build OpenAPI tooling

ycombinator.com

All-in-one API for search, RAG, & recommendations$130K - $180K / 0.30% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, USAny...
All-in-one API for search, RAG, & recommendations$130K - $180K / 0.30% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, USAny (new grads ok)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › Trieve is an all-in-one solution for discovery written in Rust with UI’s in SolidJS. Check it out at github.com/devflowinc...
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Apple Intelligence notification summaries are pretty bad

arstechnica.com

I have been using the Apple Intelligence notification summary feature for a few months now, since...
I have been using the Apple Intelligence notification summary feature for a few months now, since pretty early in Apple’s beta testing process for the iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 updates. If you don’t know what that is—and the vast majority of iPhones won’t get Apple Intelligence, which only works on the iPhone 16 serie...
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