Software Engineering Hacker News

Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love

Introduction to KizunaShelf, a personal organization tool for tracking and showcasing items you love.

Other Hacker News

World-War-Ⅱ-era telephone line still in use in Upper Tanana Valley Alaska (2021)

A WWII-era telephone line is still operational in the Upper Tanana Valley of Alaska.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed

Teenagers have been jailed after live-streaming a cyber-attack on Transport for London (TfL).

Other The Verge

Ninja’s microwave air fryer could be the fix for soggy reheated pizza

Ninja introduces the Crispi, a hybrid microwave and air fryer designed to prevent soggy food.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8 leaks a week before launch event

Leaked details of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 suggest minimal changes from the Z Flip 7, featuring an Exynos 2600 chip.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learning Physics-Guided Residual Dynamics for Deformable Object Simulation

Researchers propose Physics-Guided Residual Dynamics (PGRD), a hybrid framework combining physics-based simulation with neural networks for deformable object simulation.

Other Hacker News

Panel meter calculator with floating point

A discussion on a calculator for panel meters that supports floating point numbers.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

Apple Intelligence is approved for launch in China, partnering with Alibaba and Baidu for local AI services.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

OnePlus never had a chance in the US

OnePlus announces its exit from the United States market after eight years of attempting to establish a footprint.

AI/ML The Verge

Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you

1Password introduces a browser integration for Claude, allowing the AI to securely access credentials for multi-step tasks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Improving Text-to-Audio Instruction Following via Fine-Grained Feedback from Audio-Aware Large Language Models

Researchers propose a framework using audio-aware LLMs to provide fine-grained feedback for improving text-to-audio instruction following.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Is the Statistical Advantage Worth the Cost? An Empirical Comparison of KANs and MLPs for Structured Data Classification

A comparative study on KANs versus MLPs for structured data classification, finding KANs superior in precision but more computationally expensive.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Can We Steer the Black-Box? Towards Controllability-Centric Evaluation of Recommender Systems with Collaborative Agents

The CtrlBench-Rec framework is introduced to evaluate and improve the controllability of black-box recommender systems.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ScanFocus: A Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding

ScanFocus introduces a coarse-to-fine framework for spatio-temporal video grounding to better balance global context and precise boundary localization.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Data-Efficient Adaptation of LLMs via Attention Head Reweighting

Attention Head Reweighting (AHR) is proposed as a data-efficient method for adapting LLMs using far fewer parameters than LoRA.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation

A new unified conceptual framework for discrete diffusion models (DDMs) is proposed, linking tokenization and generation processes.

Other Hacker News

British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply

The UK government has taken British Steel into public ownership to ensure the stability of the national steel supply.

AI/ML Hacker News

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

A discussion on the utility of Large Language Models despite common criticisms of their accuracy and limitations.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

A technical guide or deep dive into building a distributed database infrastructure similar to PlanetScale from scratch.

Other Hacker News

The Act and the Outcome of Creation

An exploration of the act and outcome of creation, likely focusing on the philosophy of development or art.