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TWINNY

Twinny is a completely free AI code completion plugin for VS Code. It uses local or API-hosted LLMs to power its code completion and is compatible with multiple tools and frameworks, like Ollama and LM Studio.

VUE-I18N-NEXT

An internationalization plugin for Vue.js.

CORENET

Apple CoreNet is a deep neural network toolkit that allows researchers and engineers to train standard and novel small and large-scale models for a variety of tasks, like object classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation.

THE MAN WHO KILLED GOOGLE SEARCH

Google Search's search quality has been reportedly declining since 2019 due to revenue pressures. In 2020, Prabhakar Raghavan, the former head of Yahoo Search, replaced Ben Gomes, a dedicated search engineer who prioritized user experience, as the head of Google Search. Raghavan's focus on advertising and growth metrics prioritized profit over search quality, leading to more ad-heavy search.

HELP US INVENT CSS GRID LEVEL 3, AKA “MASONRY” LAYOUT

A potential implementation of CSS Grid Level 3 called the “Masonry layout” allows for much more flexibility in designing web pages. Developers would be able to define grid columns, use subgrid functionalities, and explicitly place grid items. Level 3 is still being developed, so the WebKit team is inviting feedback from the web development community to guide the direction of this CSS specification.

APPLE'S RISKY BET ON CARPLAY

Apple's latest version of CarPlay deeply integrates with a car's entire infotainment system. While some carmakers are excited to partner with Apple, others see CarPlay 2 as a threat to their own software platforms and brands. Apple has to balance control over the user experience with carmaker desires, while carmakers need to see how much CarPlay is a factor in car buying decisions.

NONCOMPETES ARE DEAD—AND TECH WORKERS ARE FREE TO ROAM

The FTC has banned most noncompete agreements that will allow tech workers to freely move between jobs, potentially leading to higher wages and more tech entrepreneurship.

MAP OF THE WEB

This is a network visualization of 50,000 blogs and links.

DJANGO FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

Django's reputation for complexity is somewhat unfair because it often stems from a comparison with oversimplified Flask examples.

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APPLE WORKING TO SECURE STREAMING RIGHTS TO FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP

Apple is working to secure an exclusive TV deal with FIFA, who plans to launch a revamped version of Club World Cup in 2025. Apple wants the TV rights to the event, which will feature 32 teams from each of the six confederations. The first tournament will take place in the US next summer. The deal could be worth around $1 billion. Apple has already paid $2.5 billion to secure global broadcasting rights to Major League Soccer and it has also secured a deal with Major League Baseball. The company sees live sports as a way to lure new customers to the Apple TV+ streaming service.

FIRST REAL-LIFE PIXEL 9 PRO PICTURES LEAK, AND IT HAS 16GB OF RAM

Real-life pictures of the Pixel 9 Pro have leaked. The prototypes look just like the renders that came out back in January. The device features a new pill-shaped camera bump with rounded corners that match the body shape. The front and back of the phone are totally flat, with a metal band around the side. There will be three models of the phone this year: the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL.

GENERATIVE A.I. ARRIVES IN THE GENE EDITING WORLD OF CRISPR

Profluent, a Berkeley startup, has used generative AI technology to create new gene editors based on CRISPR. The company has used one of the AI-generated gene editors to edit human DNA, but it has yet to put any of them through clinical trials. While Profluent plans to open source the gene editors generated by its AI technology, it will not be open sourcing the AI technology itself. The project is part of a wider effort to build AI technologies that improve medical care.

MEET QDEL, THE BACKLIGHT-LESS DISPLAY TECH THAT COULD REPLACE OLED IN PREMIUM TVS

Quantum dot electroluminescent (QDEL) screens produce wide color spaces and are bright, affordable, and resistant to burn-in. Also known as NanoLED, the technology is being eyed as one of the most potentially influential developments for consumer displays over the next two years. There aren't any QDEL products yet and they may not be released for a while yet. This article explains how the technology works, looks at its advantages, and explores competing technologies.

PROMPT LIBRARY

This site allows users to submit and explore optimized prompts for a breadth of tasks. The prompts on the site can help generate games, extract insights from reports, create websites, write Excel formulas, and more. They are split into three categories: personal prompts, business prompts, and user-submitted prompts. The prompts can be filtered by keyword.

GOOD IDEAS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Programmers love to argue for their favorite technologies, but there are some ideas that are universally agreed on. This article provides a list of ideas within computer science that are universally considered good and the year each idea appeared. These ideas are so widespread and effective that many may not even think of them as being invented. The list focuses on ideas, not implementations, so some things like Unix aren't on the list. Some example items from the list include binary numbers, boolean algebra, arrays, and version control.

MARK ZUCKERBERG SAYS META WILL OFFER ITS VIRTUAL REALITY OS TO HARDWARE COMPANIES, CREATING IPHONE VERSUS ANDROID DYNAMIC

Meta plans to partner with external hardware companies to build virtual reality headsets using its Meta Horizon operating system. The move will result in new hardware devices that run on the same operating system and software as Meta's current first-party virtual reality hardware. It will recreate the Android versus iOS dynamic in smartphones with virtual reality headsets. Apple will soon have to compete against a range of different hardware devices at various prices, all running on Meta's operating system.

SAM ALTMAN INVESTS IN ENERGY STARTUP FOCUSED ON AI DATA CENTERS

Sam Altman and other investors, including venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, have put $20 million into Exowatt, a company that aims to provide big data centers with clean energy. The AI industry uses a lot of energy - a single new data center can use as much electricity as hundreds and thousands of homes. Exowatt has developed modules roughly the size of shipping containers that hold solar lenses that convert energy from the sun into heat. The company hopes to eventually offer electricity as cheap as 1 cent per kilowatt-hour without subsidies.

THE LITTLE SMART HOME PLATFORM THAT COULD

The Open Home Foundation now owns and governs all of Home Assistant, an open-source smart home platform known for its unmatched power and flexibility, and its related entities.

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS NOW USE AD BLOCKERS

52% of Americans use an adblocker, up from 34% in 2022.

ASK HN: WHAT RABBIT HOLE(S) DID YOU DIVE INTO RECENTLY? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

Sometimes while researching, reading, or debugging, you stumble across something interesting, and upon looking into that, yet another subject catches your attention.

COPYLEFT LICENSES ARE NOT “RESTRICTIVE”

Copyleft is predicated on an understanding of freedom in which freedom is a positive guarantee of rights.

APPLE ORDERS CAPACITIVE BUTTON COMPONENTS ALLEGEDLY FOR IPHONE 16

Apple reportedly ordered system-in-a-package modules from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering that will be used to integrate capacitive components with Taptic Engine motors.

A GAME OF TAKE RATES

A look at why Cash App hasn't taken advantage of the difference in take rate between Cash App Pay and Cash Card.

US AIR FORCE CONFIRMS FIRST SUCCESSFUL AI DOGFIGHT

DARPA's AI-controlled jet successfully engaged a human pilot in a dogfight, showcasing progress in autonomous aviation within the Air Force's ACE program. Tests will continue through 2024 amid discussions on military applications of AI for defense and drone enhancement.

INTEL COMPLETES ASSEMBLY OF FIRST COMMERCIAL HIGH-NA EUV CHIPMAKING TOOL — ADDRESSES COST CONCERNS, PREPS FOR 14A PROCESS DEVELOPMENT IN 2025

Intel Foundry has completed assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV lithography machine, an advancement critical for its 14A process node R&D targeted for 2025. The High-NA tool, by ASML, enables smaller feature printing and up to 2.9X transistor density improvement. Intel's early adoption of this technology aims to overcome past delays and regain leadership in semiconductor process technology.

ADOBE PREVIEWS AI INNOVATIONS TO ADVANCE PROFESSIONAL VIDEO WORKFLOWS

Adobe is integrating generative AI video tools into Premiere Pro, including new capabilities for shot extension, object addition/removal, and text-to-video features, streamlined by its Firefly video model. The updates, including a technology preview and general availability of AI-powered audio workflows, aim to enhance video production efficiency and creativity.

BYTEDANCE'S DECOUPLEQ FOR MODEL COMPRESSION

DecoupleQ is a quantization approach that significantly enhances the accuracy of large models at ultra-low bit levels. This method restructures the quantization process by splitting model parameters into integer and floating-point parts that are then optimized using traditional methods.

MOVA: A NEW MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE MODELS

MoVA is a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that improves image content understanding by selectively integrating different vision encoders. It addresses the limitations of current encoders like CLIP by using a context-aware expert routing strategy and a mixture-of-vision-expert adapter to dynamically fuse expertise from various sources.

LIDAR-BASED MOVING OBJECT SEGMENTATION

Researchers have developed MambaMOS, a new approach for segmenting moving objects in LiDAR point clouds.

ENHANCED IMAGE HARMONIZATION

TF-GPH is a new method for Painterly Image Harmonization called that bypasses the need for training data or prompts by using an innovative "share-attention module".

CREDIT RISK PREDICTION

FinLangNet is a model designed to enhance risk prediction in the financial sector. By adopting natural language processing techniques, FinLangNet uniquely models credit loan trajectories akin to linguistic structures.

A PLATFORM FOR MULTI-AGENT EXPLORATION

The newly introduced MAexp platform supports multi-agent exploration by offering a high-efficiency, flexible environment that supports a wide array of scenarios and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms.

INTRODUCTION TO TRITON (71 MINUTE VIDEO)

Triton is a high level language for writing low level CUDA kernels. It allows you to write in a Python style form and dramatically accelerate your AI model performance.

BUILDING RELIABLE SYSTEMS OUT OF UNRELIABLE AGENTS

AI agents might not be inherently reliable, but they can be harnessed to build reliable systems. Strategies include starting with simple prompts and creating an evaluation system for iterative improvement, deploying with observability, leveraging Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), considering model fine-tuning, and using complementary agents to cover each other's weaknesses and improve the system's overall reliability.

FOUNDATION CAPITAL SEES AI LEADING $4.6T OPPORTUNITY IN SERVICE-AS-SOFTWARE

Many VCs are talking about AI taking a bite out of the services business. Foundation Capital believes there is $4.6 trillion worth of work to be automated, thanks to AI: both for in-house functions and outsourced services. We're entering the era of Service-as-Software.

FINE-TUNE LLAMA3 WITH Q-LORA AND FSDP

Great blog covering a quick and efficient fine-tuning method using PyTorch on the recent Llama 3 model.

LEAST USEFUL LLAMA 3 LAYERS

Model pruning takes layers with extremely high similarity and removes them, saving costs with minimal accuracy reduction.

LLAMA 3 JAILBREAK

A trivial programmatic Llama 3 jailbreak.

CRYPTO FUNDS SEE $206M IN OUTFLOWS

Investors recently withdrew ~$206 million from crypto investment products (e.g., ETF/ETP), likely due to expectations of persistently high interest rates. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs had significant withdrawals, while crypto futures in the U.S. saw even larger outflows, contrasting with inflows in Canada and Switzerland.

THAILAND TO BLOCK CERTAIN CRYPTO PLATFORMS

Thailand's SEC is expected to restrict access to unapproved crypto platforms to prevent illegal activities like money laundering. This aligns with measures in India and the Philippines and follows Thailand's positive regulatory steps towards cryptocurrency this year.

GPU-EVM: THE MOST PERFORMANT PARALLEL-EVM BY 100X

INTRODUCING BIP-420: FORMAL BITCOIN IMPROVEMENT PROPOSAL FOR OP_CAT

The OP_CAT opcode has formally received proposal number 420. BIP-420 will allow two values to be concatenated in the Bitcoin scripting language. Though trivial in implementation, this feature greatly increases Bitcoin's functionality by introducing covenants that enable smart contracts, cryptographically secure bridges, zero-knowledge proof verification, and other useful features. OP_CAT has received much attention recently because the Taproot Wizards promoted the opcode through its Quantum Cats Ordinals.

A FULL BREAKDOWN OF ZKASINO'S $33M THEFT

In a brazen $33 million rug pull, the crypto betting platform ZKasino converted over 10,500 ETH of user funds into $ZKAS tokens at an inflated price without consent and imposed a 15-month vesting schedule. Despite numerous red flags, including the founder's shady past, unpaid employees, and abruptly canceled token listings, ZKasino managed to raise a massive war chest before ultimately shutting down communication channels and banning users who called out the scam.

UNPACKING THE STACKS BITCOIN L2 NAKAMOTO UPGRADE

PUNK6529 ON THE PROGRESSION OF MEMES RELATING TO FREEDOM

The increasing centralization of power, exacerbated by AI, poses significant risks to society. Decentralized systems like open-source software, public blockchains, and NFTs, combined with the power of memes and culture, can serve as an essential safety valve against potential centralized nightmares.