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Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results
Quiche Industries (Greg de J.): Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I love the web too much to let that nonsense bury links to real websites made by humans. This is my modes…
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China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter model that the company says is now the largest open-source AI model in the world, and one that benchmarks show performs neck-and-neck with the…
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Princesses in Ancient Egypt Weren’t Just Royalty—They Were Trained Archers
The weapons buried with royal women weren't just for show, new research suggests.
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Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack
Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will "remain suspended" in the United States following a hack.
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Dithering: ‘Apple Sues OpenAI’
Tuesday’s episode of Dithering was a good one, especially for the DF audience, so we’ve moved it outside the paywall and made it free-to-listen on the web. (We don’t (yet?) have an RSS feed that you can put in your podcast player for these occasional free episodes, alas.) I have …
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Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her ‘Mafia’ skills)
Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series "Mafia," has joined the firm as a partner.
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International tech
XPeng launches MONA L03 in Munich, taking aim at Europe’s electric SUV market
On Thursday, XPeng unveiled the MONA L03 smart SUV at its global launch event in Munich, Germany. The model will be launched in 65 countries and regions, including China, Europe, and other overseas markets, according to the Chinese automaker. The launch marks a strategic move in …
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Fudan University Quantum Flash Technology Hits Theoretical Limit: Room-Temperature Single-Electron Storage Published in Science
Fudan team achieves world first room-temperature non-volatile single-electron quantum storage with 0.5V window, from Nature 400ps PoX flash to Science Quantum Flash milestone.
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The parents and partners we stay closest to aren’t the ones who demand constant updates — they’re the ones who made contact easy without requiring you to arrive as a polished, working version of yourself
Attachment research from Purdue's Susan South and others keeps finding the same quiet pattern: the parents and partners we stay closest to are not the ones who audit our lives or demand constant updates, but the ones who made contact so low-friction we could show up unpolished, t…
siliconcanals.com
The 1722 Easter Island myth: what Dutch sailors actually saw when they landed on Rapa Nui
When Jacob Roggeveen's Dutch crew landed on Rapa Nui in 1722, they spent roughly a day on the island and produced a founding myth that took three centuries to unwind. The walking moai hypothesis, confirmed by physics experiments in 2025, matched what islanders had said all along.
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WeWork India Sinks 10% As Q1 Net Loss Weighs On Investor Sentiment
Update | July 17, 15:55 IST Shares of WeWork India ended today’s trading session 6.7% lower at ₹679 apiece on…
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BYJU’S Inches Closer To Resolving Aakash Dispute After Creditors’ Nod
The creditors of Think & Learn, the parent company of troubled edtech giant BYJU’S, have approved a proposal to settle…
inc42.com
‘Symbol’ Is a Surreal Escape Room Trip Better Experienced Than Explained
Hitoshi Matsumoto's esoteric 2009 film invites you to leave your sanity at the door it won't let you escape from.
gizmodo.com
Lawyer for Apple Mixed Up Two OpenAI Employees’ Names, Sent One Email to the Wrong Guy, Back in February
David Ingram, reporting for NBC News (which recently added a paywall without gift links, alas): Apple alleged in a lawsuit last week that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns this year about what Apple believed was trade secret theft. But emails reviewed by NBC News show that…
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Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
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Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize
Article URL: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946010 Points: 221 # Comments: 113
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White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed
Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one …read more
hackaday.com
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
Article URL: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662 Points: 282 # Comments: 102
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Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936880 Points: 213 # Comments: 156
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How LLMs Learn to Be Helpful (RLHF vs DPO)
In this article, we will look at how that learning actually happens, starting with why instruction-following alone falls short, then walking through the two main methods for teaching preferences (RLHF and DPO).
bytebytego.com
A Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light
In 1675, while transporting a barometer by night, the astronomer Jean Picard noticed a glow inside its glass tube, just above the mercury. As the mercury sloshed and splashed across …read more
hackaday.com
A USB Port by Any Other Color…
[Dr. Gough] bought a generic USB 3.0 hub on an Asian website. Surely, USB 3 is mature enough that even the cheapest hub will have some IC in it that …read more
hackaday.com
The human-in-the-loop is tired
Article URL: https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942000 Points: 264 # Comments: 161
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