You gotta think outside the hypercube
A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen. If you’re a nerd, you probably have encountered visualizations of a tesseract: a four-dimensional equivalent of a cube. Heck, various representations of the shape have made it into blockbuster sci-fi films, music videos, and more. What might be harder […]
Rebasing in Magit
Here I have opened the git log1 I’m sorry about the mouse cursor – it’s an artifact of selecting the area to screenshot., by first opening Magit (which I have bound to the F3 key), and then pressing lL. The first l is the prefix key for dealing with the git log, and the second […]
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional. Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added. Amazon said the review of website availability was “part of normal business” and it aims for continual improvement. “TWiST is our regular weekly operations meeting with […]
Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP
The goal of this tutorial is to set up a simple REST API that allows you to send XMPP messages to an existing XMPP account. This can be easily integrated into monitoring solutions or other scripts that send out status information. While there are command-line tools like go-sendxmpp that send messages by connecting to an […]
Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs
LLM Neuroanatomy: How I Topped the AI Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight In mid-2024, the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard was the Colosseum for Open-Weight AI. Thousands of models were battling it out, submitted by both well-funded labs with teams of PhDs and fine-tuning wizards creating fantastically named models (e.g. Nous-Hermes, Dolphin and NeuralBeagle14-7B…), fighting […]
Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data
6 min read Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum’s semiconductor editor. Intel’s prototype FHE chip can keep a secret. Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the services that compute the answer? There is […]
PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel
The Query Tool is a powerful, feature-rich environment that allows you to execute arbitrary SQL commands and review the result set. You can access the Query Tool via the Query Tool menu option on the Tools menu, or through the context menu of select nodes of the Object explorer control. The Query Tool allows you […]
Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
FidoNet was great fun. Despite finding it difficult to remember any useful numbers in my life (credit card, NI etc) I can still remember my FidoNet addresses from when I was a youngster. I’m not sure how I’d feel about an archive though, I’m sure I wrote a lot of childish nonsense on it! like […]
OpenTelemetry for Rust Developers
Updated Mar 10, 202615 min read Over the past several years, Rust has become the go-to language for reliable, high-throughput systems. It also influencing other ecosystems, with teams increasingly adopting Rust for the ”heavy-duty” data processing layers. Case in point: Python developers have been enjoying order-of-magnitude faster performance after switching to developer tools like Astral’s […]
Yann LeCun’s AI startup raises $1B in Europe’s largest ever seed round
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