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Forgoing implicity and using abstractions: CLIPS 6 by ryjo | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Pearls Before Breakfast: Can a great musician cut fog of rush hour? (2007) 7 by wglb | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Trial of the effects of kefir on behaviour, sleep and the microbiome in ADHD 22 by ValentineC | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Blot – code, art, robots and open source education 8 by apexedison | 3 comments on Hacker News. For the last few years, I've been working at a non-profit called Hack Club developing tools to support self-motivated teens to learn about technology and build community with other like-minded peers while doing so. This has resulted in the development of a model called "you ship, we ship." We build open source creative coding environments, and when teenagers share the projects they make with these tools, we send them materials to dive deeper into the subject and related technologies. Our approach is predicated on the constructionist idea that people learn best by building things they care about and sharing them with others. The vision we have is to create a public collection of creative learning tools that offer people projects they can do right away and communities of practice to engage with. Blot is our next installment in the series. It's designed to be a gat

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Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit 17 by pedrosbmartins | 3 comments on Hacker News.

IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos 3 by gmays | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates 31 by ArchAndStarch | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am proud to present my solo hobby project NAND. This year-long undertaking follows the completed Nand to Tetris course, but ported to the web with its own runtime, user interface, and IDE. Using the "Load example program" selector, you can try out some programs I wrote on NAND's emulated hardware such as 2048, a genetic algorithm, and a manual stack overflow to corrupt the screen. Check out NAND at https://nand.arhan.sh Additionally, I've authored an extensive writeup about the project. Read about it on the GitHub repository's readme.

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It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon 7 by Brajeshwar | 1 comments on Hacker News.

TypeScript Essentials: Distinguishing Types with Branding 26 by arbol | 23 comments on Hacker News.

Length and thickness of bamboo internodes: a beautiful curve 8 by elsewhen | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Mathematicians Marvel at 'Crazy' Cuts Through Four Dimensions 15 by nsoonhui | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Survey Study on AI Agent Architectures (2024) 11 by jslampe | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Espressif Acquires Majority Stake in M5Stack 15 by chl | 1 comments on Hacker News.

It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says 17 by paulpauper | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York 8 by leotravis10 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility. (2021) 19 by fanf2 | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Robotic arms that assemble panels at solar farms 8 by justicz | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Google is combining its Android and hardware teams – and it's all about AI 24 by thecybernerd | 5 comments on Hacker News.

An Obscure Actions Workflow Vulnerability in Google's Flank 3 by varunsharma07 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection 10 by sipofwater | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Search HN for interesting comment sections 10 by isoprophlex | 6 comments on Hacker News.

PicoGK is a compact and robust geometry kernel for computational engineering 22 by neom | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Show HN: I built Stack, the open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative 15 by n2d4 | 6 comments on Hacker News.

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AI-Startup Launches Ever-Expanding Library of Free Stock Photos and Music 10 by nen-nomad | 2 comments on Hacker News.

The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework 17 by msolujic | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets 34 by rntn | 47 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Stream of Consciousness – watch an artificial persona making art 9 by jamez | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, moved by curiosity about how to build an autonomous agent, and to explore the boundaries of machine creativity, I built a fictional entity (dubbed Livia) powered by LLMs, Multimodal models and text-to-image models to find some answers. What happened instead is that more questions have cropped up. An important hypothesis of this project is that, by observing the train of thought and witnessing the simulated state of mind and emotional emulation surrounding it, humans could empathize with a machine. What happens when that's the case? Would people enjoy companionship from a synthetic person? Would the Art establishment ever consider a non-human author (capable of making art and interacting with other humans) an Artist? Whatever the answers, I can't shake away the feeling that human uniqueness is being eroded and that we risk facing a crisis of meaning. Perhap

Surprising public health benefit of unemployment? 30 by RickJWagner | 8 comments on Hacker News.

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Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a text prompt 10 by gk1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

KPMG Fined Record $25M in Exam-Cheating Scandal 6 by mfiguiere | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Sonauto – a more controllable AI music creator 59 by zaptrem | 29 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/ Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec ( https://ift.tt/Iwk16oP ) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal variational autoencoder bottleneck (along with some other important changes to enable insane compression ratios). This gave us a nice, normally distributed latent space on which to train a diffusion transformer (like Sora). Our diffusion model is also particularly interesting because it is the first audio diffusion model to generate coherent lyrics! W

Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation 54 by geox | 82 comments on Hacker News.

It's Dante's Hell–We're Just Living in It 11 by pepys | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. Also an alledged prolific thief 12 by blondie9x | 0 comments on Hacker News.

It's Not What the World Needs 24 by cribbles | 15 comments on Hacker News.

The Useful Village 7 by flanged | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Identifying Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 images from VAE artifacts 18 by rcarmo | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Reaching LLaMA2 Performance with 0.1M Dollars 2 by gyre007 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

LSST Camera: largest camera for astronomy 9 by defrost | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The speed of sight: Individual variation in critical flicker fusion thresholds 8 by bookofjoe | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Wonderful $25/HR opportunity -or- Canada LMIA abuse and immigration fraud 4 by llm_nerd | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Meow.camera 3 by kalkr | 0 comments on Hacker News.