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Free Julian Assange
Article URL: https://freeassange.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409197
Points: 1
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CodeAid: A classroom deployment of an LLM-based programming assistant
Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/codeaid.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409191
Points: 1
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Deriving the Mortgage Payment Formula
Article URL: https://www.jessym.com/articles/deriving-the-mortgage-payment-formula
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409189
Points: 1
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Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date
Article URL: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_detects_most_distant_black_hole_merger_to_date
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409185
Points: 1
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AI Therapist Online
Article URL: https://www.therapist-online.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409142
Points: 1
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Largest ever extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2023)
Article URL: https://x.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/1690000280530616320
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409136
Points: 1
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Am I too old to create a popular programming language?
Article URL: https://pldb.io/posts/age.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409129
Points: 4
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Somnium
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_(novel)
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409117
Points: 2
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Have you successfully fine-tuned an LLM for anything useful?
I'm interested to see if people are fine-tuning the larger LLMs just for kicks or if there are situation where it makes sense (not including high-stakes decision making like medical/legal) and it is computationally efficient?
Smaller models that are cheap to host, sure, but in which cases does fine-tune a larger model (and host it) really shine? Oppose to just using RAG and a closed-source API.
Perhaps it makes sense if it is serving a huge customer base, and the tone of voice needs to be different, but the question is how much work it is to train it and if it is worth it.
I'm not against fine-tuning but curious what the actual use cases are, where it makes economic sense and how successful people/organisations have been.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409098
Points: 1
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Google declares the end of the World Wide Web
Article URL: https://unherd.com/newsroom/google-declares-the-end-of-the-world-wide-web/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409087
Points: 2
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First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/19/ed-dwight-blue-origin-first-black-astronaut-candidate
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409043
Points: 9
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Llama3 Implemented from Scratch
Article URL: https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408880
Points: 2
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Show HN: Checkpoint 401 – forward auth server in TypeScript / Deno
I wrote a forward auth server in TypeScript and Deno.
I've written several forward auth servers before but they have always been specifically written for that application. I wanted something more generalised that I could re-use.
What is forward auth? Web servers likes Nginx and Caddy and Traefik have a configuration option in which inbound requests are sent to another server before they are allowed. A 200 response from that server means the request is authorised, anything else results in the web server rejecting the request.
This is a good thing because it means you can put all your auth code in one place, and that the auth code can focus purely on the job of authing inbound requests.
Checkpoint 401 aims to be extremely simple - you define a route.json which contains 3 things, the method, the URL pattern to match against and the filename of a TypeScript function to execute against that request. Checkpoint 401 requires that your URL pattern comply with the URL pattern API here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URLPattern/...
Your TypeScript function must return a boolean to pass/fail the auth request.
That's all there is to it. It is brand new and completely untested so it's really only for skilled TypeScript developers at the moment - and I suggest that if you're going to use it then first read through the code and satisify yourself that it is good - it's only 500 lines: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crowdwave/checkpoint401/ma...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408876
Points: 2
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PERMA Theory - From Burnout to Thriving: 5 Key Components
Traefik with SSL: Understanding Acme
Article URL: https://imagineer.in/blog/traefik-ssl-with-letsencrypt-and-cloudflare/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408840
Points: 1
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Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408804
Points: 25
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Vision only FSD cannot work 100% reliably
Article URL: https://x.com/ArtemR/status/1792059155324494219
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408788
Points: 2
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Trying a new UI for AI driven search (feedback welcome)
Article URL: https://bootlr.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408763
Points: 2
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New research shows gas stove emissions contribute to 19,000 deaths annually
Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17052024/california-gas-stove-warning-label-health-research/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408755
Points: 3
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Isomnia 9.2.0
Article URL: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%409.2.0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408737
Points: 1
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