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Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts?
As an enthusiast sometimes I feel that I get stuck in a corner and could use some overview. A newsforum about AI engineering could help. E.g. most articles about practical things (think civitai guides), some articles dive deeper into how this tech works (think 3b1b). Do you know a good one? I only google things […]
Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone
iOS 18 includes a new over-the-air recovery feature designed to revive bricked iPhone 16 devices using another iPhone or an iPad, according to a new report. Image credit: 9to5Mac As things stand, if you have a malfunctioning iPhone 15 or earlier model, a Mac or PC needs to be used to restore the firmware, which […]
The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry
Every hype cycle in the technology industry continues a steady march towards a shitty future that nobody wants. The Road to Hell Once upon a time, everyone was all hot and bothered about Big Data: Having lots of information–far too much to process with commodity software–was supposed to magically transform business. How do you build […]
HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?
I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn’t grok. {
Why wordfreq will not be updated
The wordfreq data is a snapshot of language that could be found in various online sources up through 2021. There are several reasons why it will not be updated anymore. Generative AI has polluted the data I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans. The open Web (via OSCAR) was […]
Tax the Rich – European Citizens’ Initiative
Depuis plus d’une décennie, l’Union européenne est confrontée à une multiplication de crises : économique, sociale, sanitaire, géopolitique, environnementale, etc. Ces crises sont le symptôme de la défaillance des politiques économiques, fiscales et sociales conduites par les gouvernements nationaux et l’Union européenne, qui ont affaibli les systèmes de santé, les services publics, la protection de […]
Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy
In 1985, brothers Dene and Simon Carter vowed to each other that they would one day start their own development studio together. The game they imagined was ambitious, as Simon outlined in a developer diary: a fantasy role-playing game, “populated with compelling and convincing characters with real personality, people who actually reacted to what you […]
Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
15 Sep, 2024 There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system to load up software and install. This was the 2000’s, when computers prided themselves on being personal computation devices. A Chromebook was a curiosity […]
Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains
Paleontologists have uncovered dozens of fossils in northern B.C., only one of which came from a dinosaur that was previously known to that area. Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology at the Royal B.C. Museum, said it was her team’s third time to the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park, about 200 kilometres south of the B.C.-Yukon […]