Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models (walt-video-diffusion.github.io)
Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies (www.ft.com)
When is hiring coming back? Our predictions for 2024 (interviewing.io)
Llama: Add Mixtral Support (github.com)
Factorio Friday Facts #388 – Smaller things for 2.0 (factorio.com)
CCI imposes a penalty of Rs. 1337 crore ($160M) on Google (www.cci.gov.in)
US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting (www.ft.com)
The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime at all (00f.net)
A functional approach to relational queries (prql-lang.org)
Mistral: Guardrailing (docs.mistral.ai)
Why does everyone love Tailwind? (old.reddit.com)
Beeper Mini App Update (www.beeper.com)
Enshittification (and some deshittification) of note-taking software (www.metafilter.com)
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Amazon scammers used hacks and bribes to make millions off fake returns (www.theverge.com)
The case of China's vanishing chairmen (www.economist.com)
Babies do not fall for illusion that fools older children, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)
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N.eko – A self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker (neko.m1k1o.net)
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A Chain Reaction (overreacted.io)
Retail Lobby: "We Lied About Organized Theft" (ritholtz.com)
Static Site Generators: Not Just for Blogs (nickmonad.blog)
Struve Geodetic Arc (en.wikipedia.org)
Why Postgres is winning over MySQL? (www.youtube.com)
China's cyber army is invading critical U.S. services (www.washingtonpost.com)
Tsdocs.dev: rustdoc style documentation for JavaScript libraries (tsdocs.dev)
Block ads and tracking on your smart TV (practicalbetterments.com)
Audiobox Demo: Where anyone can make a sound with an idea (audiobox.metademolab.com)
Vercel Functions now scale 12x faster for high-volume requests (vercel.com)
Herds of Mysterious 'Glacier Mice' Baffle Scientists – Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)
Official PR Reveals the Inference Code for Mixtral 8x7B (github.com)
Wall Street Gets Ready to Cash in on $1T Climate Market (www.bloomberg.com)
Amazon Seeks to Dismiss FTC Antitrust Lawsuit (www.publishersweekly.com)
Tcl intros dome-shaped monitors for simulator gaming (www.tomshardware.com)
Mistral is nowhere near GPT-3.5 according to corrected benchmarks (huggingface.co)
Build Real-Time Applications with the New "Watch" API in Deno KV (deno.com)
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Building for Tomorrow (www.theverge.com)
Electric spoon, bowl, and chopsticks trick taste buds by making food 'saltier' (www.designboom.com)
Regional pricing calculator for apps and products (worldwidepricing.com)
Who will lead the charge to a four-day work week? (www.politico.com)
BlackBerry Appoints John Giamatteo as CEO (www.blackberry.com)
Azure AI Speech announces public preview of text to speech avatar (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
W4 Games Announces Pricing Model for Console Ports (w4games.com)
Wi-Fi 7 to get final approval early next year, up to 4.8X faster than Wi-Fi 6 (www.tomshardware.com)
Docker Acquires AtomicJar (techcrunch.com)
AtomicJar (company behind Testcontainers) joins Docker Inc (www.atomicjar.com)
Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict Innocent People (www.scientificamerican.com)
You Can Own a Backyard Direct Air Capture Plant for $750k (heatmap.news)
Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)
Low-Background Tokens (www.latent.space)
Elon Musk brings Alex Jones and Infowars back on X after user poll (techcrunch.com)
A list of factors that act(ed) as drag on the European Tech/Startup scene (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
Supabase Studio: AI Assistant and User Impersonation (supabase.com)
Ads on X [video] (www.youtube.com)
We got 400 LoC StepFunctions to 40 LoC TypeScript by making Lambdas suspendable (restate.dev)
Pittsburgh – How a Steel City Is Transforming into a Space City (spaceref.com)
Ego killed the empowered product team (jeffgothelf.com)
Common Mistakes of Building a Productivity Tool (acreom.com)
What accounting goes into Snowflake's earnings report? (www.withorb.com)
BabyBird: CSS Animation Collection (babybird.pages.dev)
I launched my first full-stack app (Feedback please) (www.g2p.io)
Kids with cats have more than double the risk of developing schizophrenia (medicalxpress.com)
Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta (techcrunch.com)
SmileDirectClub, the telehealth tooth-alignment company, has shut down (www.theverge.com)
Introducing LLM360: Fully Transparent Open-Source LLMs (www.llm360.ai)
LLM360 – transparent LLMs with intermediate checkpoints and data buckets (twitter.com)
Smallest Linux Distros (www.makeuseof.com)
Tippe Top (en.wikipedia.org)
Cactus Comments – Federated Web Comments (cactus.chat)
Alibaba's 'Animate Anyone' Is Trained on Scraped Videos of Famous TikTokers (www.404media.co)
Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo (cdacamar.github.io)
Why Li-Fi Might Be Better Than Wi-Fi (spectrum.ieee.org)
Doom on IPU (github.com)
Rise in U.S. Traffic Deaths What's behind America's unique problem with crashes? (www.nytimes.com)
Google: 25 Years in Search (2023) (www.youtube.com)
The Eternal Jukebox: For when your favorite song just isn't long enough (jukebox.davi.gq)
The coloured stripes that explain climate change (www.bbc.com)
NASA's Webb Stuns with New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star (www.nasa.gov)
Where do Journals go to Die? (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
.NET binding for WebGL through WebAssembly (github.com)
How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Need? (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
Gomponents – HTML 5 components in pure Go (www.gomponents.com)
I brought LCP down to under 350 ms for Google-referred users on my website (blog.pawelpokrywka.com)
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(GNU/)Linux's forgotten man (www.wired.com)
Bolero – F# in WebAssembly (fsbolero.io)
Obesity may be caused by ancestors' exposure to toxic chemicals (www.spokesman.com)
How Relational Algebra powers Klaro Cards (www.klaro.cards)
Attacking Journalists as Terrorists (www.craigmurray.org.uk)
Best of 2023 in MuratBuffalo Distributed/Database Systems Blog (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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Trying chDB, an embeddable ClickHouse engine (antonz.org)
Concerns about misconduct at Harvard's department of government and elsewhere (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
Future of noncompete agreements in NY in Gov. Hochul's hands (gothamist.com)
Blade Runner (a movie) by William S. Burroughs (en.wikipedia.org)
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What happened on Mars Pathfinder? (1997) (www.cs.unc.edu)
Interpol reveals further insights into 'globalization' of cyber scam centres (www.interpol.int)
XsData: Naive XML Bindings for Python (xsdata.readthedocs.io)
Designing a WebAssembly Toolchain for Ada/Spark (blog.adacore.com)
Marmot: Multi-writer distributed SQLite based on NATS (github.com)
Huh – Go library for terminal forms and prompts (github.com)
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Where are all the robot trucks? (www.theverge.com)
VS Code now support multiple windows (code.visualstudio.com)
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Whirlygig Volumetric Display LPC1768 Demo (2014) [video] (www.youtube.com)
New England stone walls deserve a science of their own (theconversation.com)
Mistral-Medium outperforms GPT-4 in Winogrande benchmark (twitter.com)
Command Line for the 21. Century: The Low Hanging Fruit (ileriseviye.wordpress.com)
Cyber 0.3: New JIT compiler, Embed API, and more (cyberscript.dev)
Why so many new immigrants are leaving Canada? (www.thestar.com)
Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing – Even in the Human Body (www.scientificamerican.com)
Linux 6.6.6 Released Due to WiFi Regression (www.phoronix.com)
Over 26M Americans are unemployed. Now imagine you're one of them (playspent.org)
Mixture of Experts Explained (huggingface.co)
Examples of Great URL Design (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Why Kubernetes beat Docker Swarm in our setup (our Bare Metal journey, Part 1) (kodius.com)
NVD has deprecated their RSS feed (nvd.nist.gov)
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PyTorch 2 Internals [slides] (drive.google.com)
Reddit thread explaining "Bleacher Report gutting out OTP" (old.reddit.com)
Knowledge Work's Disruption and the Future of Product Development (www.v01.io)
Elite Afghan troops face return to Taliban after UK 'betrayal' (www.bbc.com)
Every Programmer Should Know #1: Idempotency (www.berkansasmaz.com)
Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415M funding round (techcrunch.com)
The Religion of Techno-Optimism (www.disconnect.blog)
The Math for Buying a Home No Longer Works. These Charts Show You Why (www.wsj.com)
30k Crowd-Sourced Memorial Benches (shkspr.mobi)
Why So Many Pedestrians in the U.S. Are Dying at Night (www.nytimes.com)
Dear anonymous internet user asking for help.. (2019) (berthub.eu)
CAMM2: Notebooks with up to 256 GB of upgradeable RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals (www.thefp.com)
Interview with Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI [video] (www.youtube.com)
Pederasty in Ancient Greece (en.wikipedia.org)
Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware (www.theregister.com)
Writing a Debugger from Scratch – DbgRs Part 1 – Attaching to a Process (www.timdbg.com)
New York Joins IBM, Micron in $10B Chip Research Complex (www.wsj.com)
Alex Jones: Conspiracy theorist returns to X with Andrew Tate repost (www.bbc.co.uk)
TikTok Influencer Recruiting for Secret U.S. Bases in Israel (theintercept.com)
The Shirky Principle: Institutions Preserve Problems to Which They're a Solution (effectiviology.com)
30 years of DOOM: new code, new bugs (pvs-studio.com)
Is Northern Ireland a failed state? (www.thefitzwilliam.com)
Linux 6.6.6 (lore.kernel.org)
EU plan to ban geoblocking will lead to dull content, warn film-makers (www.theguardian.com)
FDA approves first CRISPR therapy–here's how it works against sickle cell (arstechnica.com)
Mistral AI only hiring female AI researchers (jobs.lever.co)
Palantir was probably the right option for the NHS (metaops.solutions)
GPS Walkthrough – A Journey from Radio Signal to Position Fix (mu2718.github.io)
SRE Doesn't Scale (2021) (bravenewgeek.com)
Surge in number of 'productive' authors concerns scientists (www.nature.com)
At this point Elon is even losing some of his biggest fanboys (twitter.com)
Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb (github.com)
How to deorbit the Chromebook and repurpose it for innovators (www.theregister.com)
Tetrisly Design System React for Free (www.npmjs.com)
Ruby 3.3.0-Rc1 Released (www.ruby-lang.org)
$35 smart calculator for small shops (smart.tohands.in)
SyncMVD: Text-Guided Texturing by Synchronized Multi-View Diffusion (github.com)
Magical Fibonacci Formulae (orlp.net)
How to Build an LLVM Toolchain for the Game Boy Advance (www.youtube.com)
Building a bare-metal bootable game for Raspberry Pi in C# (migeel.sk)
AI Cartoon Generator – Turn Text or Photos into Fun Cartoons (aicartoongenerator.net)
RePic: Enhancing Details in AI-Generated Images (repic.ai)
Apple begins scheduling Vision Pro training for retail employees as launch nears (9to5mac.com)
Automatic AI rejection letter because of a "wrong" birthdate (old.reddit.com)
DatingSites (www.thebestdatingsites.co.uk)
Moving to Berlin using GPT-3.5 and JavaScript (blog.isak.me)
Shortcomings of Helm – The Kubernetes package manager (glasskube.eu)
Comparing 6502 Multiply Routines (github.com)
Books of 2023, as Chosen by The Economist (www.economist.com)
Predictive analytics for real estate investment (propertizer.com)
IEA assessment of the evolving pledges at COP28 (www.iea.org)
We can finally end warrantless surveillance in the US (proton.me)
Google have removed RSS support from their developer blogs (developer.chrome.com)
Balancing Work and Life: Achieving Personal and Professional Harmony (mybites.co)
China decouples from Android with their own HarmonyOS (finance.yahoo.com)
Jedec Publishes New CAMM2 Memory Module Standard (www.jedec.org)
Arm CEO Fears Humans Could Lose Control of AI (www.bloomberg.com)
Spotify CFO out after mass layoffs (variety.com)
Mistral: Mixtral of Experts (mistral.ai)
Why Blogging Platforms Suck (bannerblog.dev)
Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access (mistral.ai)
Stop Focusing on 40 Hours of Work (mohaboelez.medium.com)
Pull Pics from Your Gameboy Camera with an ESP32 (github.com)
Windows Feature Exploration: Default CLI Text Editor (github.com)
Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol [pdf] (www.hpl.hp.com)
"Human error" means they don't understand how the system worked (surfingcomplexity.blog)
Javier Milei: New president tells Argentina 'shock treatment' looms (www.bbc.com)
Fixing Classical Cats: How I Got Tricked by 28-Year-Old Defensive Programming (www.mistys-internet.website)
Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using Sun for Oberth maneuver (twitter.com)
YouTube animates subscribe button when video says the word "subscribe" (twitter.com)
GTA6 – Deconstructing a System and Method for Virtual Character Locomotion (jdsemrau.substack.com)
Trustless USD-INR Swaps Using Indian UPI, Ethereum and MPC (devfolio.co)
A financial news site uses AI to copy competitors (www.semafor.com)
Tiobe Index for December 2023 (www.tiobe.com)
Tessell – Database as a Service (www.tessell.com)
Our Three Blind Mice (twitter.com)
LLMs as Copilots for Theorem Proving in Lean (github.com)
Eleanor Cross (en.wikipedia.org)
Flu cases on the rise in NY, soaring in other states (www.fox5ny.com)
Showstopper: Nobody is writing new operating systems any more (blog.codinghorror.com)
Luma WebGL Library (lumalabs.ai)
Robotics Q&A with Boston Dynamics' Aaron Saunders (techcrunch.com)
On this day over 200 years ago the first programmer, Ada Lovelace, was born (www.xda-developers.com)
Stomach contents of dinosaur found preserved in Alberta (calgary.ctvnews.ca)
How to Manage Feature Flags (www.featbit.co)
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Be skeptical about QR codes, warns the FTC (www.theverge.com)
Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330 (datatracker.ietf.org)
Will this be the last Christmas you can get an Apple Watch? (theapopkavoice.com)
Convolutional Network Demo From 1989 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Marvell Octeon CN103 DPU 50Gbps Encryption on One Core (www.servethehome.com)
Space station astronauts solve the mystery of a missing tomato (www.npr.org)
Is there a way that I can do programming on my phone? (old.reddit.com)
UK's first air capture plant is turned on to remove CO2, turns it into jet fuel (news.sky.com)
Sen. Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's iMessage on Android app (techcrunch.com)
Watch OCaml (watch.ocaml.org)
Templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go (github.com)
DOJ is spying on Apple and Google users through push notifications (twitter.com)
Humans have 'large, negative impact on wildlife,' researchers find (www.msn.com)
You can run Doom inside (DOS) Doom, for real [video] (www.youtube.com)
NeurIPS 2023: Expo Day (mlcontests.com)
QLever – Fast Sparql Engine (github.com)
What Is Modern CSS? (geoffgraham.me)
Flipper 1.1.0 (blog.flippercloud.io)
HN-comments-drawer: one line HN comments integration into sites (github.com)
Discover Boring Businesses That Rake in the Cash (boringcashcow.com)
Nvidia Once Again Teases Potential Deal with Intel (wccftech.com)
VS Code and AI for power users (sourcegraph.com)
Scientists discover unknown prehistoric world – on Earth (mashable.com)
Social viruses part 2: Your mind as a coalition of social viruses (medium.com)
What happened to Bloomberg's Supermicro story? (www.interestingmysteries.com)
Pliosaur discovery: huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs (www.bbc.com)
What if the Twitter replacement isn't a Twitter clone? (onemanandhisblog.com)
Linux kernel maintainer pain points (lwn.net)
Postpartum depression is unpredictable. The immune system may hold answers (www.washingtonpost.com)
Brain Area Associated with Impulse Control Discovered (neurosciencenews.com)
US Ag Trade Model Didn't Boost Exports, Fostered Agribusiness Monopolization (medium.com)
Australia plans to halve migrant intake, tighten student visa rules (www.reuters.com)
Founders, Beware Hardware (alexkolchinski.com)
Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her. (daringfireball.net)
The Year A.I. Ate the Internet (www.newyorker.com)
In Defense of Patch Nearest Neighbors as Single Image Generative Models (2022) (www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reinstated on X after Musk poll (www.reuters.com)
Webassemblycompiler.jl: Compile Julia Code to WebAssembly (tshort.github.io)
Fabric-Centric Computing [pdf] (sigops.org)
Stock Trade Typo Costs Firm $225M (www.cbsnews.com)
A simple high-dynamic-range (HDR) histogram (wingolog.org)
Books of 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
Alex Jones Joins Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Andrew Tate in Spaces Conversation (www.yahoo.com)
All about Sixels (1990) (www.digiater.nl)
John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary (www.pcgamer.com)
Web Design in 4 Minutes (jgthms.com)
Could We Stop Yellowstone from Erupting with a Giant Geothermal Power Plant? (www.construction-physics.com)
Where Is My NFT? (whereismynft.xyz)
Analytics Inside Any Markdown (md-analytics.vercel.app)
Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface (www.pitivi.org)
Tesla Cybertruck "Wade-Mode" (www.thedrive.com)
Anti-plagiarism policies 'harm Black and Latinx students,' professor argues (www.campusreform.org)
300-Day Timelapse of Pine Cone Growing into a Pine Tree (petapixel.com)
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Is it dangerous to eat dark chocolate because of its cadmium and lead content? (english.elpais.com)
Littlefs – a little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers (github.com)
Few people are talking about how Gemini will integrate into Google Workspace (twitter.com)
Things I Learned in 2023 (medium.com)
SomaFM (somafm.com)
High school math doesn't prepare most students for their college majors (hechingerreport.org)
Simulatrex – LLM-Based Simulations (github.com)
Oregon launches online database to track public investments (www.opb.org)
How good is the U.S. economy? It's beating pre-pandemic predictions (www.washingtonpost.com)
Dual-screen laptop with Intel N100 and 16GB RAM sells for $699 and up (liliputing.com)
Yemen's Houthis to Target All Ships Heading to Israel (shipandbunker.com)
Silver Dollar Game (www.technoblogy.com)
Wasabi linked to "substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
Operation Berkshire (en.wikipedia.org)
The XMPP Newsletter November 2023 (xmpp.org)
We saved $15k a month on GitHub Actions – Part 1 (trunk.io)
iOS 17: New Version, New Acronyms – Round 2 (www.df-f.com)
The math behind Attention: Keys, Queries and Values matrices (www.youtube.com)
Event-Centric Temporal Knowledge Graph Construction: A Survey (www.mdpi.com)
Please, Expose Your RSS (rknight.me)
Training Wanted: 41% of Employees to Walk Out on Employers in 2024 (www.forbes.com)
Future Proof Secrets Management. No footguns. Just good, boring cryptography (rotx.dev)
MTCP NetDrive (www.brutman.com)
Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk)
An American Tiktoker's journey to supporting Palestine (www.trtworld.com)
S.F. dropped its housing failures on this California city's lap (www.sfchronicle.com)
The Bare Minimum Video Game: The Odyssey 100 (nicole.express)
Pompeii archaeologists unearth disturbing bakery-prison (www.euronews.com)
A Systems Programmer's Perspectives on Generative AI (www.bennee.com)
Israel's onslaught drags U.S. Jewish life into the abyss (mondoweiss.net)
TurnVoice: Transform and translate voices in YouTube videos (github.com)
Largest brain scan study to date identifies drivers of brain aging (www.sciencedaily.com)
How to Do Idea Discovery (toluakinola.substack.com)
The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity (slack.com)
Vitamin D supplements didn't prevent kids' broken bones, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
Machine Learning in Elixir (pragprog.com)
Packaging Language Models into Desktop Apps (www.bmacd.xyz)
The SAT Museum [pdf] (ceur-ws.org)
Eat less meat: Will the first global climate deal on food work? (www.nature.com)