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Show HN: I made a C program to create a vanity SHA-1 hash for a text file

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Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Lead Solutions Engineer

ycombinator.com

The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors.$130K - $160K / 0.25% - 0.50%Palo...
The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors.$130K - $160K / 0.25% - 0.50%Palo Alto, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›About the Company Distro is the holistic AI platform designed to supercharge counter staff and inside sales reps at industrial...
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Launch HN: Augento (YC W25) – Fine-tune your agents with reinforcement learning

ycombinator.com

Hi HN, we’re the cofounders of Augento (https://augento.ai/). We’re building Deepseek R1-like fine-tuning as a service....
Hi HN, we’re the cofounders of Augento (https://augento.ai/). We’re building Deepseek R1-like fine-tuning as a service. You connect your agent, tell us when it’s right or wrong, and we deliver an LLM optimized for that agent. There’s a demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RQaTdRrKE, and our docs are at https...
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RLHF Is Cr*P, It's a Paint Job on a Rusty Car: Geoffrey Hinton

officechai.com

RLHF, or Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, is behind some of the recent advances in AI,...
RLHF, or Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, is behind some of the recent advances in AI, but one of the pioneers of the field doesn’t think highly of it. Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI,” has some harsh words for RLHF, comparing it to a shoddy paint job on a rusty car. “I think our RLHF i...
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23andMe bankruptcy: With America's DNA put on sale

cnbc.com

The bankruptcy of consumer genetics testing company 23andMe last week led to widespread fears about the...
The bankruptcy of consumer genetics testing company 23andMe last week led to widespread fears about the DNA of millions of Americans going on sale to the highest bidder.23andMe has 15 million customers and with calls for users to delete their data, traffic to its website surged 526% on the day of its bankruptcy fili...

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John Ousterhout and Robert Martin Follow-Up to Aposd vs. Clean Code [video]

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science & technology
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Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs Acme'

deadline.com

'Coyote vs. Acme' Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros has completed the sale we told you about...
'Coyote vs. Acme' Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros has completed the sale we told you about a couple weeks ago for their previously shelved Coyote Vs. Acme movie. Ketchup Entertainment today confirmed their completed deal for worldwide rights to the live-action/animated hybrid film that brings Looney Tunes charact...
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Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs

tendollaradventure.com

summary: I automated the creation of transaction tracking logic for an Emacs-based interactive fiction book using...
summary: I automated the creation of transaction tracking logic for an Emacs-based interactive fiction book using an LLM (via gptel). I have been writing an interactive children's book in Emacs where the protagonist Daphne earns, saves or spends money during her weeklong entrepreneurial adventure. The passages in my...
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C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness (2023)

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The original ANSI C standard, C89, introduced the concept of “undefined behavior,” which was used both...
The original ANSI C standard, C89, introduced the concept of “undefined behavior,” which was used both to describe the effect of outright bugs like accessing memory in a freed object and also to capture the fact that existing implementations differed about handling certain aspects of the language, including use of u...
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Python lock files have officially been standardized

python.org

I’m a bit late to the party, but I just wanted to say thanks to Brett...
I’m a bit late to the party, but I just wanted to say thanks to Brett for addressing all the late-in-process comments and nits. 7 Likes Brett Cannon: The PEP says “SHOULD NOT”, but I’m fine if it said “MAY” instead. In my opinion “MAY” makes more sense, especially considering that even in your expectation “dev” is i...
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A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication

nature.com
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Europe's Nuclear Trilemma:Difficult and Dangerous Options for Post-US Deterrence

foreignaffairs.com

Over the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency, it has become increasingly clear to European leaders...
Over the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency, it has become increasingly clear to European leaders that remaining reliant on the United States to underwrite the continent’s security would be a dangerous gamble. Trump’s overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vice President JD Vance’s public attacks on t...
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Runway Gen-4

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With Gen-4, you are now able to precisely generate consistent characters, locations and objects across scenes....
With Gen-4, you are now able to precisely generate consistent characters, locations and objects across scenes. Simply set your look and feel and the model will maintain coherent world environments while preserving the distinctive style, mood and cinematographic elements of each frame. Then, regenerate those elements...
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Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers

aumont.fr
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Analysis of amplified ground motion in Bangkok from recent earthquakes (2023)

springeropen.com
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Oracle attempt to hide serious cybersecurity incident from customers

doublepulsar.com
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Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life

newslttrs.com

nostalgia
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Palma 2

boox.com
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Debugging Lotus 1-2-3 by fax

jgc.org
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Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta

turso.tech

We're excited to announce that Turso Offline Sync is now available in public beta! Your applications...
We're excited to announce that Turso Offline Sync is now available in public beta! Your applications can continue functioning seamlessly, even when disconnected from the internet. Local database operations can proceed normally, with automatic sync occurring once connectivity is restored. Historically, SQLite has bee...
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MLB: Yankees' new ''Torpedo Bats'' legal and likely coming to a dugout near you

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You score 20 runs, hit 9 bombs, and people start asking questions. That’s exactly what happened...
You score 20 runs, hit 9 bombs, and people start asking questions. That’s exactly what happened to the Yankees on Saturday after they revealed the “torpedo bat” during their demolition of the Milwaukee Brewers. Yes, the Yankees have a literal genius MIT Physicist, Lenny (who is the man), on payroll. He invented the ...

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Java Minecraft in the Browser

cheerpj.com
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Show HN: AI-powered reading companion that helps you read hard books

collabai.live
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There is no Vibe Engineering

serce.me

By Sergey Tselovalnikov on 31 March 2025You've probably heard about "vibe coding" by now. The term...
By Sergey Tselovalnikov on 31 March 2025You've probably heard about "vibe coding" by now. The term was recently coined by Andrej Karpathy in his tweet. Andrej defines Vibe Coding as "a new kind of coding, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists". The key diffe...
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