Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news (Score: 155+ in 9 hours)
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Science
Tiny number of ‘supersharers’ spread the vast majority of fake news
Less than 1% of Twitter users posted 80% of misinformation about the 2020 U.S. presidential election
Arthur Whitney releases an open-source K with MIT license (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
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CERN Root (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
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ROOT
ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data, scientifically.
An open-source data analysis framework used by high energy physics and others.
Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000% (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68Rde
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Dolthub
Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 500%
An exhaustive set of benchmarks on different ways to approach error handling in Golang. We demonstrate that common sentinel error idioms are slow your code down by 5x.
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Space secrets leak disclosure (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68SRD
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huggingface.co
Space secrets security update
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68T3E
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Torrentfreak
Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago * TorrentFreak
A quarter-century ago, Napster was the talk of the town, triggering a global piracy frenzy that never disappeared.
This Message Does Not Exist (Score: 169+ in 1 day)
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Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68Twa
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Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68Twa
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China Media Project
Goldfish Memories - China Media Project
In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer's reflections had vanished too.
Repairing my mug with Kintsugi (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68P85
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Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68Sn4
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unit.nginx.org
NGINX Unit: Universal web app server
A lightweight web app server that combines several layers of the typical application stack into a single component.
What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68QQw
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Medium
What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60,000 lines of code?
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Nytimes
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Futility Closet
Footwork - Futility Closet
Albert Einstein used to say that he went to his office at the Institute for Advanced Study “just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Gödel.” The two would meet at Einstein’s home each day between 10 and 11 and undertake the half-hour walk to the…
LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68UbF
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Allen Pike
LLMs Aren’t Just “Trained On the Internet” Anymore
A path to continued model improvement.
Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68UTE
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X (formerly Twitter)
Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) on X
Signal strongly opposes this proposal.
Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.
This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.
It's surveillance wine in…
Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.
This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.
It's surveillance wine in…
Parable of the Sofa (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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ongoing by Tim Bray
Parable of the Sofa
Lisp: Icing or Cake? (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68UfL
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How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part? (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/68UQg
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University of Cambridge
Getting to grips with an extra thumb
Members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb – to pick up and manipulate objects.