Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)
Undoubtedly you have all seen photographs of people on TV and online who have been blurred to hide faces. For example, here’s one of Bill Gates: Adapted from the Wikimedia Commons For the most part this is all fine with peoples’ faces as there isn’t a convenient way to reverse the blur back into a […]
Structured Outputs Create False Confidence
If you use LLMs, you’ve probably heard about structured outputs. You might think they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately, structured outputs also degrade response quality. Specifically, if you use an LLM provider’s structured outputs API, you will get a lower quality response than if you use their normal text output API: ⚠️ you’re […]
How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
Put that in your nginx config: location / { # needed to still allow git clone from http/https URLs if ($http_user_agent ~* ”git/|git-lfs/”) { set $bypass_cookie 1; } # If we see the expected cookie; we could also bypass the blocker page if ($cookie_Yogsototh_opens_the_door = ”1”) { set $bypass_cookie 1; } # Redirect to 418 […]
Show HN: GenresFox – Open-source, customizable new tab page extension in WASM
A fully open-source, extremely clean, and highly customizable new tab page extension. English | 中文 ✨ Features 🎨 Modern Dark Theme: Beautiful glassmorphism design with smooth animations 🔍 Multi-Engine Search: Built-in support for Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo ⚙️ Custom Search Engines: Add your own search engines with custom URLs 🔖 Quick Shortcuts: Create shortcuts to […]
Three Ways to Solve Problems
One of my favorite definitions of a problem comes from the late Gerald Weinberg [1] A problem is the difference between things as perceived and desired. This definition is great because it’s actionable. It tells you that there are three ways to approach a problem: Move the world towards the desired state Change your perception […]
Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
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Coarse Is Better
When DALL-E came out, it took me a couple of weeks to pick my jaw up from the floor. I would go to sleep excited to wake up to a full quota, with a backlog of prompts to try. It was magical, miraculous. Like discovering a new universe. I compiled the best art in this […]
Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
Bring your dotfiles to a remote machine via SSH without mess. Installation Required dependencies: POSIX shell, ssh, tar, base64, mktemp curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FOBshippingpoint/shittp/refs/heads/main/install.sh –output install.sh chmod +x install.sh ./install.sh Edit your dotfiles in ~/.config/shittp
An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%
Abstract Phosphorus atoms in silicon represent a promising platform for quantum computing, as their nuclear spins exhibit coherence times over seconds1,2 with high-fidelity readout and single-qubit control3. By placing several phosphorus atoms within a radius of a few nanometres, they couple by means of the hyperfine interaction to a single, shared electron. Such a nuclear […]
New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis
The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest on intuition rather than clear definitions, and few attempts have been made to formally spell out what “simulation” even means. A new […]