AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
The Apache Iceberg community has raised a PR S3: Disable strong integrity checksums to disable the newly introduced integrity checksums in AWS S3 SDKs. AWS has introduced default data integrity protections for new objects in Amazon S3, which is a positive development. However, they have also chosen to update the default settings in all SDKs, […]
Show HN: Benchmarking VLMs vs. Traditional OCR
OmniAI OCR Benchmark Using Structured Outputs to evaluate OCR accuracy Published Feb 20, 2025 Overview Are LLMs a total replacement for traditional OCR models? It’s been an increasingly hot topic, especially with models like Gemini 2.0 becoming cost competitive with traditional OCR. To answer this, we run a benchmark evaluating OCR accuracy between traditional OCR […]
You can’t build a moat with AI
Using LLMs doesn’t make a product special anymore Last spring, we wrote an article called You can’t build a moat with AI. That post argued that prompt engineering, while important, would be difficult to defend over time given how easy it is to experiment with LLMs. As a result, you have to focus on the […]
Show HN: WinCse – Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer
WinCse is an application that integrates AWS S3 buckets with Windows Explorer, allowing you to treat S3 buckets as if they were part of your local file system. Displays S3 buckets in Windows Explorer Simple interface for easy file management Requirements Installation Install WinFsp Download WinCse (which includes AWS SDK for C++) from the release […]
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
Hi HN – we’re Jeffrey and Kritin, and we’re building Confident AI (https://confident-ai.com). This is the cloud platform for DeepEval (https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval), our open-source package that helps engineers evaluate and unit-test LLM applications. Think Pytest for LLMs. We spent the past year building DeepEval with the goal of providing the best LLM evaluation developer experience, growing […]
The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself
Jim Tucker could hardly believe what he was hearing. It sounded like fiction, a nightmare too outlandish for an unassuming town like his. Listen to this article with reporter commentary It was July 2023, and Tucker was hosting a meeting of the board of Heartland Tri-State Bank, a community-owned business in a small Kansas town […]
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering
Spice86 is a tool to execute, reverse engineer and rewrite real mode DOS programs for which source code is not available. Release are available on Nuget. Pre-releases are also available on the Release page NOTE: This is a port, and a continuation from the original Java Spice86. It requires .NET 8 and runs on Windows, […]
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library
A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library for the modern space industry Note: Lox is under active development and does not yet have a stable release. The API of all crates is subject to significant change. Lox exposes a comprehensive astrodynamics API at varying levels of granularity. The high-level interface offered by lox-space is designed specifically for […]
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
Getty Images Tom Gerken Technology reporter 20 February 2025 1282 Comments A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Professor José R Penadés and his team at Imperial College London had spent years working out […]
Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control
Introducing Helix We’re introducing Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics. Helix is a series of firsts: Full-upper-body control: Helix is the first VLA to output high-rate continuous control of the entire humanoid upper body, including wrists, torso, head, and individual […]