How to ask for help from people who don't know you

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Exapunks (2018)

AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0

No LLM Code in Dependencies

Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2607.01232: Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training

JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview

Podman v6.0.0

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

So. For the past few days I've been deep in a fun and very rewarding, but also extremely scary debugging saga. To cut a long git-bisecting story short: Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop's drive on suspend had been silently failing. Like many of my friends, I use full-disk encryption (LUKS) to protect my data if my laptop is lost, seized or stolen. Highly recommended to everyone; in combination with tested and automated backups, it contributes greatly to peace of mind. (Under Windows, the canonical software to do that is VeraCrypt.) Except that, for more than two years, the encryption key remained resident in memory across suspend, leaving it there for the taking by anyone who seized the still-powered laptop. (It

Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection

If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...

German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells

John Boepple settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he produced pearl buttons made from freshwater mussel shells. His innovations brought economic prosperity to the town—and disaster to the local mussel populations

Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract

Note: This role is exclusively available to U.S. citizens who can obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Top Secret security clearance with full-scope polygraph. There are no exceptions. Who We Are: Our mission at Hazel is simple and powerful. We use AI to help U.S. government purchasing teams buy at the speed of need with unparalleled efficiency and cost-effectiveness. It is a $2.7T problem every single year, and Hazel is at the forefront with Federal and State, Local, and EDucation (SLED) agencies.   Hazel has identified a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve this by deploying cutting-edge AI to the public sector and unlocking the full potential of our nation. We empower our partners to move with expediency against the most pr

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

When workflow metadata and application data live in the same Postgres database, they can be updated in the same database transaction, which simplifies tough problems like workflow task idempotency and atomicity.

Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

Manufact builds and maintains mcp-use, the open-source SDK for building MCP servers, clients, and agents in TypeScript and Python, and Manufact Cloud for dep...

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser - Chocobozzz/PeerTube

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

The Spanish government has blacklisted U.S. data analytics giant Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled companies due to growing concerns over the potential misuse of classified national security information.

Vulkan is now available on NetBSD

This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD. Contribute to segaboy/vulkan-netbsd development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models

Embedding-based code duplication detector. Contribute to rafal-qa/slopo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years

A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all the wrong reasons.,A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all the wrong reasons.