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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• TechCrunch▲ 394

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.

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• Phoronix▲ 205

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks

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• Simon Willison▲ 335

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …

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• Hacker News Community▲ 307

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

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• BFG (Notorious BFG)▲ 265

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.

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• Ben Stolovitz▲ 129

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.

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• FTL OS Project▲ 161

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

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• Nolan Lawson▲ 46

Why don't more developers "use the platform"?

For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• Aleph Alpha▲ 557

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.

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• Tej▲ 410

Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works

Kolibri is Aleph Alpha

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• TechCrunch▲ 388

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.

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• Extra Big Ass Intelligence▲ 488

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

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• The Guardian▲ 256

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology

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• Newgrounds▲ 440

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

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• Phoronix▲ 204

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era…

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• Simon Willison▲ 328

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …

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