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▲ Show QN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders (github.com/paulpauls)
Welcome to the latest tech carnival where enthusiasts parade their shiny new toy: Llama 3.2 with Sparse Autoencoders. Github's intellectual runway is teeming again, featuring a show where interpretability claims are as sparse as the users comprehending them. While developers gush over reinventing concepts as convoluted recreations of neon-light string art, the comment section buzzles like a caffeine-fueled late-night Reddit thread. Here, every reply is a mix of back-patting and sophisticated ignorance, festively ignoring the line between coherence and truth. 🎉😂
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221 points by PaulPauls
2024-11-21T20:37:56 1732221476 |
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▲ Handling cookies is a minefield (grayduck.mn)
**Handling Cookies: A Guide Through the Abyss**
Today on grayduck.mn, we dive into the mind-boggling world of HTTP cookies, as if anyone actually cared about the gritty mechanics of session persistence, am I right? After blissfully ignoring the complexities of cookie handling, our intrepid writer stumbles over a *magical* piece of JavaScript that doesn't adhere to the unwritten laws of base64 serialization, and lo and behold, the browser eats it up without complaint! 🍪 In the comments, watch tech enthusiasts perform verbal gymnastics over "cookie shadowing" and path attributes, while everyone pretends they're not just googling half the terms being tossed around like candy at a parade. Are these cookies making the web go round, or just making our heads spin? Tune in, drop a confused emoji, maybe learn where your browser's delete button is.
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276 points by todsacerdoti
2024-11-21T17:28:11 1732210091 |
127 comments
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▲ What's Next for WebGPU (chrome.com)
**WebGPU Continues to Confuse, Frustrate**
The magnanimous WebGPU continues its heroic crawl towards the future with yet another riveting blog post. This masterpiece deftly outlines Milestone 0, igniting the passions of dozens as big tech continues to solve problems that most people weren’t aware existed. Meanwhile, the commenters unleash a perplexing mix of “Why?”, misdirected tech support queries, and nostalgic laments for simpler web times. One can only marvel at the Web’s eternal march towards an increasingly unusable complexity, championed by those who swear it’s what we've all been waiting for. 🎉🔧🕸️
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40 points by mariuz
2024-11-21T22:18:57 1732227537 |
10 comments
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▲ Broadcastarr: Stream web content through your Jellyfin instance (github.com/billos)
🔥 Welcome to the latest tech salad tosser: Broadcastarr! 🔥 Because why simply watch media when you can instead plunge into a sprawling abyss of "tasks," "releasers," and "publishers" vaguely promenading as a streaming service? Users and their bewilderment decorate the comment section, grappling with the enigmatic terminology that's seemingly ripped straight from a tech jargon bingo night. One brave soul can't decide if they're streaming sports or illegally downloading the entire Netflix catalog, while another ponders the existential crisis of broadcasting a PDF. Clearly, Broadcastarr is here to make sure everyone gets a good, hearty dose of confusion — all delivered with a side of potential copyright infringement!🚨
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12 points by thunderbong
2024-11-22T00:13:00 1732234380 |
13 comments
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▲ The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary (chipwits.com)
🎉 In a stunning act of historical resurrection, ChipWits now throws its ancient FORTH inscriptions onto GitHub, making sure nobody's floppy disks feel left behind on its 40th birthday party. Commenters, thrilled by the opportunity to relive their 8-bit glory days, dive deep into the sludge of programming nostalgia while arguing that FORTH is both primitive enough to summon cavemen and sophisticated like a space-age Swiss Army knife. One hero points out the language’s “simplicity”, perhaps mistaking the term for "You will pull your hair out." Meanwhile, Steam wishlists surge as the elders of the internet gather, eager to bootstrap their brainchild on modern spells of cross-platform wizardry. No gatekeeping in this elder circle—just good old-fashioned code spelunking and celebratory stack overflows. 🎈👨💻
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124 points by JoeDaDude
2024-11-21T18:44:11 1732214651 |
29 comments
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▲ Bayesian Neural Networks (toronto.edu)
🧐 Another day, another AI aficionado confusing the internet with dazzling algorithms that might as well be magic spells. Who knew? Bayes and neural nets can join forces for _Bayesian Neural Networks_, a snazzy buzzword blend promising to tackle overfitting, small datasets, and uncertainty with the simplest tweak you've never heard of. Meanwhile, commenters engage in a *delightful* joust of jargon, pondering the ever-elusive perfect prior and valorously vaulting from Bayesian battles to the fantastical realms of Frequentist fields. It's a tale of confusion in which everyone knows just enough to argue vehemently about which obscure technique better pads their academic CV. 📚💥
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52 points by reqo
2024-11-18T16:47:38 1731948458 |
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▲ WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition (arxiv.org)
In the latest academic blitzkrieg, arXiv introduces WhisperNER, a somewhat groundbreaking (read: mildly intriguing) effort to blend Named Entity Recognition with Speech Recognition. Trust the tech community to drool over the elegance of mashing two moderately misunderstood technologies into a single, hefty computational nightmare. Comments erupt with the usual tech utopia dreamers and basement dwellers. One highlights the "privacy/security aspect" with the fervor of a conspiracy theorist, while another moans about the lack of fine-tuning like a child deprived of dessert. 🤖🎭
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40 points by timbilt
2024-11-21T21:41:41 1732225301 |
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▲ Interactive Visual Sorting (mszula.github.io)
In a moment of unquestionable originality and dedication to the craft of reinventing the wheel, mszula, powered by caffeine and passion emojis, presents "Interactive Visual Sorting." This state-of-the-art masterpiece uses Svelte, because evidently, regular JavaScript frameworks are just too mainstream these days. Commenters, ever eager to put their two cents in, suggest ground-breaking improvements like turning off annoying sounds—because who knew user experience mattered? Meanwhile, another bright mind reminisces about the good old days when the site begged for GitHub stars, because nothing says "quality software" like virtual panhandling. Oh, and apparently, the visual sorting has become a big hit on TikTok, because if it’s not on social media, did it even really happen? 🎉🙄
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22 points by jason1610
2024-11-18T09:57:04 1731923824 |
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▲ Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux (welivesecurity.com)
**Linux Under Siege: Gelsemium's "Genius" at Work**
In a stunning turn of events, ESET security theater has uncovered new malware brilliantly named WolfsBane and FireWood, because nothing instills more fear than the imagery of medieval poison and mundane kindling. Over the course of an "absorbing" 18-minute read, we learn that these tools were possibly left behind by the 'sophisticated' Gelsemium group, noted for their fondness for outdated operating systems. Meanwhile, the commenters, lost in a maze of jargon and accusations, debate the complexities of "getting installed" and "rootkits" as if they were discussing rocket science or the finale of a soap opera. Is it a backdoor, or just the back door to Gelsemium’s non-existent tool shed? Stay tuned as more non-info unfolds! 🚪🔍🐧
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34 points by heresie-dabord
2024-11-21T20:57:30 1732222650 |
3 comments
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▲ Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work (portswigger.net)
**Listen to the whispers: the web is too slow, says man in a hurry**
In a delightful twist of paranoia, a brave "Director of Research" from the echo chambers of portswigger.net unveils the terrifying truth that websites can *whisper secrets* if you just start a stopwatch at the right moment. Buckle up, folks, because it's not your everyday snooping; it's *high-resolution time-sleuthing!* Eager commenters jump at the chance, debating whether the best way to stop these dastardly timing attacks is to just smash the stopwatch or maybe sing lullabies to the server until it falls asleep at a constant rate. Bless their hearts, trying to patch a sinking ship with a clock. 🕰️💣
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110 points by saikatsg
2024-11-21T18:08:09 1732212489 |
12 comments
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▲ Emacs Code Conversion Language (emacsninja.com)
**Emacs Code Conversion Language: An Ode to Obsolescence**
In a riveting throwback to the days when people actually cared about byte-code interpreters outside of CS class, a lone blogger at emacsninja.com re-discovers the esoteric Emacs Code Conversion Language (CCL) — a feature so underused, even Emacs' own fan club relegated it to near-mythical status. Meanwhile, Emacs aficionados, spiraling into an existential crisis over not knowing every arcane detail of their cherished editor, dig through source code and outdated manuals as if they've discovered a secret map to Tolkien's Middle-earth. Comment sections quickly morph into a hilariously nerdy one-upmanship contest: who can unearth the most trivial Emacs trivia? Spoiler: it's all trivial. Bonus points for the commenter who dug up a Julian Assange Easter egg, because what's a deep dive without a sprinkle of conspiracy? 🙄👽
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74 points by gudzpoz
2024-11-21T18:41:32 1732214492 |
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▲ A Study of Malware Prevention in Linux Distributions (arxiv.org)
**A Study of Malware Prevention in Linux Distributions (arxiv.org)**
The hive mind of arXiv decides to grace the world with yet another groundbreaking inspection of the utterly unnoticed: malware in Linux distributions. Amid technological revelations, we discover that a grand total of *one* distribution, Wolfi OS, apparently does something about malware. Cue applause. 🎉 Commenters, armed with their proprietary blend of factoids and sponsorships, dive into heated battles over which obscure tool scans better and why the study doesn't just rewrite the entirety of digital security paradigms. Because obviously, mentioning more tools equals higher quality research, right? 🤓💻
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26 points by belter
2024-11-21T21:40:20 1732225220 |
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▲ Glass Health (YC W23) is hiring founding, senior and lead full-stack engineers (lever.co)
Glass Health, yet another Y Combinator attempt to revolutionize something, this time it's healthcare with a hint of silicon, because evidently, the world needs more startups blending keywords like "founding," "senior," and "lead" with "full-stack engineers." The startup is eager to stack its deck with individuals passionate about making healthcare as clear as, well, glass. Page visitors are promptly bombarded by the irony of a 'transparent' healthcare initiative hidden behind the opaque jargon of tech elitism. Meanwhile, comments morph into a battleground where self-proclaimed industry veterans spar over the nuances of JavaScript frameworks, somehow believing their hot takes on React vs. Vue will miraculously elevate global health standards. 🙄
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0 points by
2024-11-21T21:44:29 1732225469 |
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▲ PHP 8.4 (php.net)
**PHP 8.4: Embracing Complexity and Confusion One Line at a Time**
In a stunning display of fixing things nobody realized were broken, PHP 8.4 rolls out a new DOM API, adding a variety of functions that are as easy to understand as quantum physics. Over in the comments, our brave keyboard warriors engage in the philosophical debate of magic vs. logic in property access. Meanwhile, one brave soul confuses PHP's encroaching complexity with a C# feature wishlist, likely while quietly sobbing into their keyboard. Rest assured, amidst this esoteric fog, PHP remains committed to ensuring that every new release requires a Rosetta Stone for interpretation.
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352 points by theThree
2024-11-21T09:56:52 1732183012 |
235 comments
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▲ Autopoietic Networks (gbragafibra.github.io)
Title: Armchair Biologists Unite in HTML Melodrama
Today, on a tiny corner of the internet, an enthusiastic amateur decides to revolutionize biology by cobbling together cell automata reminiscent of a 1980s screensaver. Commenters, ever ready to validate half-baked science, immediately draw parallels to every vaguely related “big idea” article they've skimmed since breakfast, nodding fervently as they confuse themselves further. Who needs decades of rigorous biological research when you have binary state attribution and a GitHub page? Watch as academia quakes beneath the fingertips of blogospheric savants, armed with the almighty organizational closure. 😂
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25 points by Fibra
2024-11-21T21:29:20 1732224560 |
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▲ The meme-ification of the "Demon Core" (doomsdaymachines.net)
**The meme-ification of the "Demon Core"**
At doomsdaymachines.net, armchair historians and meme connoisseurs address the urgent issue of the "Demon Core" meme origin, which presumably keeps the planet on its axis. Commenter #1 dazzles by citing the meme’s inception from a 2013 KanColle community, providing a breadcrumb trail of data ironically less documented than the Voynich manuscript. Another brave soul suggests exporting this critical knowledge to KnowYourMeme, a suggestion that surely secures the meme’s immortality beyond the forums of esoteric internet lore. Meanwhile, a philosophical battle rages about whether it's ethical to memeify tragedy, with most opting to laugh in the shadow of atomic annihilation – because, if you can’t laugh at a rogue mass of plutonium, what can you? 🤷♂️🎭💥
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253 points by SaberTail
2024-11-21T03:05:56 1732158356 |
192 comments
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▲ Writing Healthy Health-Checks (lorentz.app)
Today on Lorentz.app, a brave software engineer reinvents the wheel by explaining how to write health checks, as if ping-pong endpoints were a newfound land in the vast uncharted territory of basic server management. The audience marvels, as dozens flood the comments with their own eye-opening tales, like discovering that servers are supposed to respond to requests. Together, they form a support group for the traumatized over-configured and under-delivered. 😱🤦♂️ Misunderstandings about anything more complex than a 200 OK are met with recommendations for a quick lie down in a dark room.
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11 points by baalimago
2024-11-17T06:42:33 1731825753 |
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▲ Launch QN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents
**Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24)** - AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents, or as we might call it, the latest attempt to solve complex human tasks with buzzwords and algorithms. Today’s Hacker News crowd is thrilled, offering comments ranging from *barely-literate rambles* about breaker sizes to *wide-eyed awe* at the shiny potential of AI to transcribe mundane data. One commenter, heroically missing the point, is already fantasizing about unrelated industries while barely concealing their fear of being priced out. Good thing the AI isn't responsible for spotting building code violations—let's just hope it can decipher the superintendent’s grunts between doughnut bites. Meanwhile, the devs reassure us they're just handling the "grunt work," which surely won't include any actual understanding of construction. 🏗️🤖
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66 points by arvindveluvali
2024-11-21T15:03:43 1732201423 |
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▲ A Walk with LuaJIT (polarsignals.com)
**Another Day, Another Profiler: LuaJIT Takes The Spotlight**
Today, PolarisSignals decided that what the world really needs is yet another deep dive into scraping the call stack of LuaJIT — a project that clearly anyone with a pulse and a fleeting understanding of programming languages would find utterly thrilling. The author, doubling as our humble coder and enthusiastic blogger, eagerly invites the masses to praise his meme prowess, delve deeply into the missing bits around FFI and callbacks, and deploy something somewhat functional. Meanwhile, in comment-land, technophiles drool over promises and non-existent LuaJIT 3.0 features while debating the possibility of seeing a new release before the heat death of the universe. Who doesn't love a good profiler saga combined with community-driven speculative release dates? 😅💾🚀
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74 points by damir
2024-11-19T07:38:13 1732001893 |
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▲ The rectangular cows of Art UK (2018) (artuk.org)
**The Misshapen Moo-sery of Artistic Anatomy**
In an _astounding_ revelation of bovine geometry, "The Rectangular Cows of Art UK" explores the captivating world where cows are not just cows, but living, breathing oblongs. Internet art critics, with their abundant agricultural expertise, tirelessly argue the nuances of cattle cubism—forging deep into why these creatures resemble walking meatloaf more than actual livestock. One savvy commenter bravely conducts a five-second Google search, undoubtedly a herculean effort, confirming that yes, cows indeed look like cows, imploring the stunned masses to reconsider their grasp of farm animal aesthetics. Meanwhile, another pundit muses about artistic perspective with the profundity of a freshman philosophy major, blind to the howling void of their missing point. 🐄🖼️📏
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138 points by onychomys
2024-11-21T13:12:04 1732194724 |
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