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English: A vs. An

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Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.23696: Semantics for 2D Rasterization

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Mayday Mysteries

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Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

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Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the largest open dataset

Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the world's largest open dataset on internet censorship. Install OONI Probe on Desktop and Mobile platforms

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Can you tell which images are AI-generated?

Real photo or AI? Trust your eyes, build a streak, and beat your score in 60 seconds.

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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

The problem

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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

Non-autoregressive decision model over 100+ languages in a single forward pass (~33ms on GPU). Built with RLCD and proper scoring rules by Convai Innovations.

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ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

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UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970

All about Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's 1970 British Sci-Fi TV series &quotUFO"

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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/37.1/changes

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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

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Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death, sometimes providing compensation to bereaved families.

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Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB

ABOUT SUPABASE Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for an engineer to drive the evolution of OrioleDB https://www.orioledb.com and its collaboration with the upstream PostgreSQL community. OrioleDB is a next-generation storage engine for PostgreSQL, and this role sits at the intersection of database internals, open source community work, and Supabase's managed Postgres platform. This role requires strong working overlap with Americas time zones due to production support and on-call res

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Tin: full-text search for Postgres

TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres

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Show HN: I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform

Self-hosted AI workspace with agents, skills, and tools (Gmail, Calendar) that runs entirely on your own provider API keys (BYOK). Bring your own keys — Groq, OpenRouter, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Google AI. - theguysudo/ENZO

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Brood War Bench

Which model wins at Brood War? Results, recordings, costs, and game-by-game analysis of Codex, Claude, and Grok across 171 matches.

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You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

Dream Devourer is a special optional boss that appears in Darkness At The End Of Time in Chrono Trigger (DS) and later versions. It is revealed that Schala and Lavos, before becoming the prototypical Time Devourer, experienced an intermediary evolutionary stage—the Dream Devourer, capable of...,Come with us on a collectors quest to Chiba, Japan! Where to got to enjoy all things One Piece, from trading card games, WT100 reveal, live performances and all fan moments.

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Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use

Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. - trycua/cua

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On this day

Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.

2019

Top Stories from Hacker News

English: A vs. An

Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia

Mayday Mysteries

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the largest open dataset

Can you tell which images are AI-generated?

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

Show HN: I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform

Brood War Bench

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use

On this day

Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.

At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.

Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.

The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.

Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.

Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.

In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".

The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.

South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing two people.

Margaret Thatcher delivers the Bruges speech, in which she articulates her opposition to further European integration.

A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.

NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.

A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.

Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.

Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.

Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.

The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, Scotland.

Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.

The Moomin comics, created by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, is published internationally in the London newspaper The Evening News.

The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.

Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.

The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.

Irish War of Independence: British police known as "Black and Tans" burn the town of Balbriggan and kill two local men in revenge for an IRA assassination.

The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.

Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.

U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day.

Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.

The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.

American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.

The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.

Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.

The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.

French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.

The Walking Purchase concludes, which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,900 km2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.

The Spanish-held Dutch town of Grave capitulates to a besieging Dutch and English army under the command of Maurice of Orange.

A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, drawn and quartered.

Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition which ultimately culminates in the first circumnavigation of the globe.

The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in; it has been located outside ever since.

Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.

Following the French defeat in the battle of Lincoln, prince Louis of France ratifies the treaty of Lambeth under which he abandons all claims to the English throne and returns to France in exchange of an indemnity payment.

Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.

Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.

On this day

Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.

At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.

Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.

The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.