OpenEuroLLM
openeurollm.eu — including data, documentation, training and testing code, and evaluation metrics; including community involvement OPENEUROLLM, 1
AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
xuanwo.io — The Apache Iceberg community has raised a PR S3: Disable strong integrity checksums to disable the newly introduced integrity checksums in AWS S3 SDKs. AWS, 2
Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)
popzazzle.blogspot.com — It might look scarily primitive at first glance, but Lynx browser - a product as old as the World Wide Web itself - could not be more of a friend. And neither could it be more relevant amid the surveillance dystopia of the 2020s. If you find it hard to keep up with the latest content-blocking customisations... If your brain is fried with endless reports of new tracking technologies... If you're sick of seeing a page of static text hang your system because some pillock of a front-end dev decided to hit your RAM with a one gigabyte JavaScript object... Well, Lynx is here to take the confusion out of dodging Big/Stupid Tech. LYNX, 3
You can't build a moat with AI
substack.com — Last spring, we wrote an article called You can’t build a moat with AI. That post argued that prompt engineering, while important, would be difficult to defend over time given how easy it is to experiment with LLMs. As a result, you have to focus on the quality of data your application has access to and your use of that data to differentiate yourself. YOU, 4
Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering
github.com — Reverse engineer and rewrite real mode DOS programs! SPICE86, 5
Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control
figure.ai — We're introducing Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics. Helix is a series of firsts: HELIX, 6
After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem
quantamagazine.org — Kristina Armitage/Quanta Magazine AFTER, 7
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
news.ycombinator.com — Hi HN - we're Jeffrey and Kritin, and we're building Confident AI (https://confident-ai.com). This is the cloud platform for DeepEval (https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval), our open-source package that helps engineers evaluate and unit-test LLM applications. Think Pytest for LLMs. LAUNCH, 8
Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
eieio.games — Finally a use for my unclosed tabs RUNNING, 9
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library
github.com — Note: Lox is under active development and does not yet have a stable release. The API of all crates is subject to significant change. LOX, 10
RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports
github.com — RT64 is an N64 graphics renderer for playing with enhancements in emulators and native ports. RT64, 11
Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes
ox.ac.uk — A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity) and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. LIFESTYLE, 12
New Horizons for Julia
lwn.net — The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! HORIZONS, 13
Show HN: WinCse – Integrating AWS S3 with Windows Explorer
news.ycombinator.com — WinCse is an application that integrates AWS S3 buckets with Windows Explorer. Utilizing WinFsp and the AWS SDK, WinCse allows you to treat S3 buckets as part of your local file system, making file management simpler. The application is currently in development, with plans for additional features and improvements. WINCSE, 14
Do ambiguous images provide psychological insights? Testing a popular claim
peerj.com — Recent popular social media posts and website pages have claimed that the way in which people first perceive ambiguous images (i.e., pictures that can be interpreted in different ways) reveals insights into their personality and thinking style. In one example, people are shown an image that can be seen as either a young woman or man, and informed that seeing the woman first suggests that they are optimistic and curious, whereas perceiving the man first indicates that they are honest and tend to avoid impulsive decisions (New Zealand Herald, 2016). Regardless of their veracity, these claims have the potential to make a valuable contribution to research. AMBIGUOUS, 15
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
jazco.dev — Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. IMPERFECT, 16
Customizable HTML Select
chrome.com — Una Kravets X Mastodon Homepage CUSTOMIZABLE, 17
Show HN: Agriquery – helping people sell their food
news.ycombinator.com — We built Agriquery, a simple online marketplace designed to help farmers and small producers sell their produce directly to consumers (and businesses). Think Etsy, but for food. AGRIQUERY, 18
1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
tuhs.org — UNIX, 19
Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake
space.com — Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago, however, liquid water flowed freely across the planet. And, while NASA's various Mars rovers have uncovered signs that such water once existed on Mars, there's perhaps no better evidence of an ice-free, shallow lake than these two sets of ripples in Martian rock. CURIOSITY, 20
Show HN: EVMole for Analysing EVM Bytecode
news.ycombinator.com — Hi HN, EVMOLE, 21
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
kyunghyuncho.me — [UPDATE: Feb 8 2025] my amazing colleague Max Shen noticed a sign mistake in my derivation of the partial derivative of the log-harmonic function below. SOFTMAX, 22
Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
civileats.com — Family-sized egg operations create resiliency, and the rewards can outweigh the risks. EGG, 23
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing
scottaaronson.blog — Q1. Did you see Microsoft’s announcement?A. Yes, thanks, you can stop emailing to ask! Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak was even kind enough to give me a personal briefing a few weeks ago. Yesterday I did a brief interview on this for the BBC’s World Business Report, and I also commented for MIT Technology Review. FAQ, 24
iText PDF Library turns 25
itextpdf.com — On 14th February 2000 the first public version of the iText PDF library was released to the open-source community. A quarter of a century later, Apryse is proudly celebrating with the release of iText Suite 9.1 on iText’s 25th anniversary, which is also Valentine’s Day! This release brings significantly expanded SVG and CSS support, huge performance increases, GraalVM for pdfHTML, and a whole lot of love! ITEXT, 25
Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it
arstechnica.com — Fire tablets and Fire TV devices will still have access to apps, though. REMEMBERS, 26
AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
kanenarraway.com — Absolutely nobody likes the hiring process. Not the managers hiring, not the recruitment people, and certainly not the candidates. KILLED, 27
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation
humanaigc.github.io — Recent character image animation methods based on diffusion models, such as Animate Anyone, have made significant progress in generating consistent and generalizable character animations. However, these approaches fail to produce reasonable associations between characters and their environments. To address this limitation, we introduce Animate Anyone 2, aiming to animate characters with environment affordance. Beyond extracting motion signals from source video, we additionally capture environmental representations as conditional inputs. The environment is formulated as the region with the exclusion of characters and our model generates characters to populate these regions while maintaining coherence with the environmental context. We propose a shape-agnostic mask strategy that more effect... ANIMATE, 28
The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A
wordpress.com — It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at an architecture that’s completely new to me, and I haven’t done any since creating my new scheme for dedicated platform guides. I’ve now gotten enough material together that I can kick off an exploration of a new platform for me: the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. For this new introduction, I’ll be splitting it into three parts, two of which go live today: 8-BIT, 29
Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineer ycombinator.com
The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring ycombinator.com
Corvus Robotics (YC S18) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer dover.com