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RSA-896

A post about RSA-896.

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Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

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Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

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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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Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?

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ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

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Measure internet censorship

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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Telling a Computer to Do Things

If you don't know the shell, it's more difficult to tell a computer to do things.

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The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

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Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

Humpback whale mothers may experience grief when their calves die, a rare research observation led by Griffith University and Sea World Foundation has found.,*May cause distress to viewers* This video, taken in 2025 off the southern Queensland coast in Australia, shows a humpback whale mother returning to the seafloor to her stillborn calf. Credit: Andy Mulville

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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional side of Rust like clean functions, expressive types, that sort of thing. But I’m always curious about other languages, and Zig has been on my radar for a while as a candidate C successor: lower-level, lighter-weight, and steadily earning its place among the languages people take seriously. I spent time with C earlier in my career, so the comparison always felt like it would be interesting to make.,What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust develo

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Faster NumPy in the Browser

NumPy on Emscripten-forge now links OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, with large speedups for matmul and linear algebra in the browser.

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An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

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Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

阶跃星辰于2023年4月成立，以“智能阶跃，十倍每个人的可能”为使命。阶跃星辰坚定自研超级模型，积极布局算力、数据等关键资源，发挥算法和人才优势，已完成 Step-1 千亿参数语言大模型和 Step-1V 千亿多模态大模型的研发，在图像理解、多轮指令跟随、数学能力、逻辑推理、文本创作等方面性能达到业界领先水平。

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Asking authors about their own papers

Asking Authors About Their Own Papers By Nihar B. Shah Summary: I am one of the Editors-in-Chief of the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). I reached out to authors of 10 paper …

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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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Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

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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

RSA-896

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

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

Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

Measure internet censorship

Telling a Computer to Do Things

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

Faster NumPy in the Browser

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

Asking authors about their own papers

Brood War Bench

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

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

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.

Aeroflot Flight 36075 is hijacked at Ufa International Airport.

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.