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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Unsung▲ 524

“I just chose words carefully”

A blog about software craft and quality

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• Haiku▲ 283

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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• Simon Willison▲ 114

Understanding ChatGPT Work

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …

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• Komoroske▲ 144

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

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• Sander AI▲ 74

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

Fully discrete methods dominated for a few years, but language models based on continuous diffusion are making a comeback.

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• Matrox▲ 68

Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

Graphics for Professionals

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• Righto▲ 97

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• Ares Luna▲ 523

“I just chose words carefully”

A blog about software craft and quality

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• Tom's Hardware▲ 730

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

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• European Commission▲ 391

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

ProtectEU strategy by EU Commission targets encrypted data access, expanding EUROPOL powers and cross-border intelligence sharing.

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• The Register▲ 330

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

Polling finds two-thirds don

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• Fortune▲ 288

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Around 99% of Hungary’s lands are currently under severe or extreme drought conditions.

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• Omarchy▲ 476

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

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• The Zvi▲ 239

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen…

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• GitHub▲ 189

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing requests and this feature hasn't been requested yet This is a single feature request (not multiple features) Problem Statement Every commit…

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• Green Lightning▲ 290

Hacking IKEA Furniture

When something you want is not available for purchase, well, you can always build it yourself! I recently moved and have a dedicated office room now. I wanted …

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• Haiku▲ 283

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

After about two years since the last beta, and only about a week after Haiku’s 25th birthday, Haiku R1/beta6 has been released! See “Release Notes” for the release notes,…

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• No AI Fridays▲ 266

No AI Fridays

A weekly ritual for software teams to unplug from AI coding assistants, prevent skill atrophy, and rediscover the joy of craftsmanship.

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