February 2024 Archive
1.
Sora: Creating video from text (openai.com)
2.
Airfoil (ciechanow.ski)
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I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner (willempennings.nl)
4.
Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site (old.reddit.com)
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Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished (troyhunt.com)
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European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption (eureporter.co)
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Alexei Navalny has died (reuters.com)
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Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution (effectiviology.com)
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Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero (saveflipper.ca)
10.
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames (signal.org)
11.
Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll (scrollprize.org)
12.
Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 (blog.google)
13.
Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret (cep.dev)
14.
Is something bugging you? (antithesis.com)
15.
FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal (fcc.gov)
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The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input (simonwillison.net)
17.
Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork (mailman.nginx.org)
18.
Gemma: New Open Models (blog.google)
19.
GPT in 500 Lines of SQL (explainextended.com)
20.
Relativistic Spaceship (dmytry.github.io)
21.
Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial (blog.cloudflare.com)
22.
John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died (scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)
23.
My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io)
24.
AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source (phoronix.com)
25.
The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing (arxiv.org)
26.
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
27.
Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML (leanrada.com)
28.
Stable Diffusion 3 (stability.ai)
29.
Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
30.
Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration (pkl-lang.org)