Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

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The author worked at GenieDB, a UK startup acquired by US VC fund Frost VP, and later discovered the fund was sued for fraud by the SEC. The author questions if their job and life changes were a result of the alleged fraud.

Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

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Apertus is an open-source AI model developed by Swiss AI Initiative, meeting EU AI Act requirements with opt-out respect and data protection. It's a multilingual model trained on 1000+ languages, competitive with top open models.

Help I accidentally a wigglegram

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You created a script to use perceptual hashing to find similar images in your camera roll, automatically identifying potential wigglegrams. The script calculates the hamming distance between image pairs to find a threshold, helping to distinguish between intentional and accidental shots.

Sakana Fugu

One Model to Command Them All マルチエージェントを指揮する、一つのモデル Frontier-level performance without single-vendor dependency. Fugu dynamically orchestrates the world's best models to tackle complex, multi-step tasks. Plug collective intelligence directly into your workflows today with a single API. Sakana Fugu ...

Memory Safe Inline Assembly

Fil-C supports memory-safe inline assembly for various use cases such as constant-time crypto, SIMD intrinsics, and atomic operations, while rejecting unsafe uses like memory accesses and control flow. The implementation involves parsing and analyzing assembly instructions, constraints, and clobbers, and uses a database of acceptable instructions and their effects to ensure safety.

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

The author notes that using Linux has become more viable due to improved compatibility and software ecosystem. However, they express concern about the growing penalty for using open LLM models due to performance and trust issues.

Everything is logarithms

The dimension of a vector space is the cardinality of its basis. [log f = by x] gives something that at least resembles the function's representation as scalar relation, but i suspect these are merely confusions of concepts. when you take general covariance to its extreme you end up asking that all of your mathematics be formulated in an explicit co-variant way, and that

Efficient C++ Programming for Modern C++ CPUs, Chapter 4/part 2

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The performance of various CPU operations such as multiplication, division, RTTI, exceptions, atomic operations, function calls, and thread context switches can vary significantly, with some operations being relatively cheap and others being very expensive. The costs of these operations can range from a few CPU cycles to tens of thousands or even millions of CPU cycles, depending on the ...

The Flat Curve Society

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Model intelligence has plateaued for most people due to government lockdowns and access restrictions, but today's models are still transformative for coding and knowledge work. Companies must now focus on AI literacy, teaching employees to use and manage models effectively, to unlock their full potential.

1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone

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Commodore bundled a special phone with the VICModem in Canada due to hardwired handsets. They created the VIC-1605 adaptor to work around Bell Canada's regulations and make the setup functional.

Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions

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The user is developing a chatbot that uses a local LLM to categorize household-related questions, and they tested the performance of a 0.6B parameter model through prompting and fine-tuning, achieving 92% accuracy after tweaking the finetuning approach. The model's performance improved significantly after mapping categories to two-character opaque IDs with no semantic overlap, reducing ...

How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy

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Andrei Cebotar, a 37-year-old from Moldova with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, uses assistive tech to work and play. He relies on PlayAbility, Handy, and the Xbox Adaptive Controller to interact with his computer.

JSON-LD explained for personal websites

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The user added JSON-LD to their site to aid web crawlers and improve SEO, declaring a new script with MIME type application/ld+json. They described their webpage using JSON-LD nodes such as WebSite, Person, ProfilePage, and BlogPosting to provide metadata and improve search engine results.

Identity verification on Claude

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We are implementing identity verification to prevent abuse, enforce policies, and comply with laws, using Persona Identities as our partner. Your verification data is used solely to confirm your identity and is protected by industry-standard security controls.

PowerFox Browser

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PowerFox brings modern security features and supports dozens of languages to keep users safe online. It's standards compliant and feature-rich, supporting latest web technologies for compatibility with modern websites.

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

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The game offers real-time simulation with fully simulated projectile ballistics and terrain deformation, allowing for diverse strategies on each map. Players can choose from over 10 unit classes to balance resource income and production for victory.

Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way

Japanese verb conjugation involves adding suffixes to a verb's stem. The stem is the unchanging part of the verb, and suffixes can be added by pure concatenation.

Canadian government spent $46.8M on a secret Palantir contract

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Records from the IJF’s Open By Default database reveal the government made over a dozen amendments to a contract with Palantir Canada to provide services to an elite unit of the military

Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)

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The "wrong abstraction" problem occurs when code is modified to accommodate new requirements, leading to conditionals and duplicated logic, making it hard to understand and maintain. The solution is to "go back" and remove the abstraction, inlining code to make it easier to understand and add new features, rather than trying to preserve the existing code.

Show HN: HN Game Stories – mini-documentary of games that hit the front page

Short documentary videos about the games that climbed to the top of Hacker News — their stories, their makers, and why they matter. Click a title to watch; click the ▲ to upvote.

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero

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HPV vaccine has virtually eliminated cervical cancer deaths in women under 30 in England, with a 63% lower risk of death from the disease for vaccinated women aged 30-34. Falling vaccination rates could see a rise in avoidable deaths, with thousands of cervical cancer deaths preventable if vaccine uptake returns to pre-pandemic levels.

From Combinatorial Mess to Linear Elegance: Architecting a Conversion Engine

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Minimal's conversion engine uses an Intermediate Representation (IR) to simplify file format conversions, allowing for easy addition of new formats without increasing complexity. The IR enables features like bulk export, Quick Export, and Rich Text copy-and-paste, making Minimal's conversion engine a powerful tool for writers.

Show HN: Recall – fully-local project memory for Claude Code

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Recall is a local summarizer for Claude Code that captures session history and condenses it into a resume-ready summary. It's free, zero-friction, and doesn't send data anywhere, using a classical Python summarizer and local memory.

Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

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Minecraft Java Edition has a new update with Chaos Cubed, a new cave biome, and features like Sulfur Cubes and geyser blocks.

The minimum viable unit of saleable software

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The author is considering building a sustainable business around their side project River, a job queue for Go and Postgres, despite the rise of AI-powered software. They argue that while LLMs make software cheaper to build, they don't eliminate the need for human oversight and maintenance.

Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch

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BSharp app helps children develop absolute pitch by associating chords with colors, tracking accuracy and adjusting difficulty. It introduces new chords every 2 weeks after mastering previous ones with 100% accuracy.

Rent collections are down in New York

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signs executive orders to address housing crisis, but rent collection rates remain low in affordable housing units. Landlords struggle to stay afloat due to insufficient rental income, while tenants face financial duress and limited options.

Wildcard (YC W25) is hiring an applied ML engineer

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Wildcard is an agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands. They're looking for a Founding Applied ML Engineer to help shape the product and company from the earliest stage, with expertise in AI, data, and customer problems.

Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf

· Spines/languages: Wikidata · covers/countries: Criterion shop · cover art © The Criterion Collection · unofficial fan project. · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama

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FDA advisors voted 9-0 in support of Moderna's seasonal mRNA flu vaccine, citing its 27% higher efficacy and good safety profile. The vaccine's approval is pending FDA decision by August 5 and CDC recommendation.