Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server(disco.cloud)
730 points by jryio | 492 comments
A Disco blog case study on how Idealist.org replaced roughly $3,000/month of Heroku staging environments with a single $55/month server.
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ChatGPT Atlas(chatgpt.com)
715 points by easton | 681 comments
Product landing page for ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's ChatGPT-based web browser, offering a download currently available only for macOS.
Build your own database(nan.fyi)
511 points by nansdotio | 78 comments
A step-by-step interactive guide on the NaN blog to building a key-value database from scratch.
LLMs can get "brain rot"(llm-brain-rot.github.io)
453 points by tamnd | 278 comments
Project page for a research paper from Texas A&M, UT Austin, and Purdue showing LLMs degrade ("brain rot") when trained on low-quality junk web data.
Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs(kyutai.org)
414 points by karimf | 115 comments
Kyutai explainer article by Václav Volhejn on how neural audio codecs turn audio into tokens so it can be modeled by large language models.
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws(csoonline.com)
394 points by zdw | 317 comments
CSO Online news analysis reporting that foreign hackers breached the NNSA's Kansas City nuclear weapons plant by exploiting Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities.
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video(techcrunch.com)
386 points by gmays | 358 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Wikipedia says its human traffic is declining because of AI search summaries and social video platforms.
NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission(cnn.com)
385 points by voxleone | 1020 comments
CNN article reporting that NASA's acting chief Sean Duffy suggested SpaceX could lose its moon lander contract, saying NASA won't wait for one company.
Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?(twitter.com)
381 points by JnBrymn | 150 comments
An X post by Andrej Karpathy discussing the DeepSeek-OCR paper and whether pixels might be better inputs to LLMs than text tokens.
Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
372 points by kinj28 | 90 comments
Ask HN post where a user reports their AWS account was compromised after an AWS outage, with 600 instances spawned and SES domains verified.
60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds(cbsnews.com)
329 points by zdw | 294 comments
CBS News article reporting a study finding about 60,000 children avoided peanut allergies after 2015 guidance to introduce peanuts to infants early.
Doomsday scoreboard(doomsday.march1studios.com)
200 points by diymaker | 97 comments
UA 1093(windbornesystems.com)
186 points by c420 | 86 comments
The Programmer Identity Crisis(hojberg.xyz)
182 points by imasl42 | 184 comments
Practical Scheme(practical-scheme.net)
125 points by ufko_org | 48 comments
Magit Is Amazing(heiwiper.com)
101 points by Bogdanp | 53 comments
Just Use Curl(justuse.org)
93 points by imiric | 68 comments
Cdb: Add support for cdb64(cdb.cr.yp.to)
76 points by kreco | 21 comments
Linux disk I/O diagram (2024)(zenodo.org)
75 points by vismit2000 | 2 comments
Finding my rhythm again(jeremydaly.com)
62 points by qianli_cs | 3 comments
Normalize.css(csstools.github.io)
55 points by Leftium | 39 comments
Most expensive laptops(comparelaptopprices.com)
42 points by mahin | 77 comments