Leveraging AI for efficient incident response
We’re sharing how we streamline system reliability investigations using a new AI-assisted root cause analysis system. The system uses a combination of heuristic-based retrieval and large language model-based ranking to speed up root cause identification during investigations. Our testing has shown this new system achieves 42% accuracy in identifying root causes for investigations at their […]
Claude’s API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications
23rd August 2024 Anthropic have enabled CORS support for their JSON APIs, which means it’s now possible to call the Claude LLMs directly from a user’s browser. This massively significant new feature is tucked away in this pull request: anthropic-sdk-typescript: add support for browser usage, via this issue. This change to the Anthropic TypeScript SDK […]
Fluid Simulation and Web Assembly
Try: Esc Space r Left Mouse Right Mouse Three weeks ago I saw a video where Sebastian Lague, a Unity developer and YouTuber, created an interactive fluid simulation in Unity. The project hooked me and I decided to make my own in C++. Here’s how it went. How to simulate a fluid# In fluid simulation, […]
Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online platforms
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Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown
This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. Markdown editors are a dime a dozen. Cheaper than that, actually, since many of them are […]
Is AI eating all the energy?
Competing trends “AI” is just a kind of program, so the “energy use of AI” is the energy used by the computers that are performing AI’s various processing tasks. So, first, what are the big-picture trends in computational performance as it relates to electricity use? At a high level, these metrics are all generally positively […]
A World Split Apart (1978)
A World Split Apartby Alexander Solzhenitsyn I am sincerely happy to be here with you on the occasion of the 327th commencement of this old and illustrious university. My congratulations and best wishes to all of today’s graduates. Harvard’s motto is “Veritas.” Many of you have already found out and others will find out in […]
Lessons in Mannerism at the Palazzo Del Te
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “Mannerist architecture is architecture that was strange then and is now.” This was just one of the thoughts Robert Venturi shared in a lecture on architectural history and design given to the Royal Society of Arts on April 8, 1987. At the time, Venturi’s […]
Python’s Preprocessor – Pydong
Every now and then you hear outrageous claims such as “Python has no preprocessor”. This is simply not true. In fact, Python has the best preprocessor of all languages – it quite literally allows us to do whatever we want, and a lot more. It’s just a little tricky to (ab)use. Python source code encodings […]
Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation
Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation Hi HN! We’re Bolu and Noah from AnswerGrid (https://answergrid.ai). We’re building an AI-powered web research tool in the form of a spreadsheet. The problem we’re starting with is helping founders who sell to businesses discover the most relevant leads worth the investment of […]