First screen, captured .
822 points by janandonly | 435 comments
Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, which addresses LLMs and crawlers and points them to bulk downloads instead of scraping past CAPTCHAs.
977 points by jerheinze | 463 comments
A blog post from the Anna's Archive team saying the shadow library is still operating amid increased attacks, hardening its security, and recapping its scraping and preservation work.
370 points by RyanShook | 125 comments
Anna's Archive blog post visualizing all ISBNs by file availability and announcing a $10k bounty for better visualizations by 2025-01-31.
564 points by yamrzou | 62 comments
Anna's Archive blog post announcing the winners of its $10,000 bounty for visualizing the ISBN space and which books it has archived.
1656 points by vitplister | 551 comments
Anna's Archive blog post announcing a ~300TB torrent backup of Spotify metadata and music files, including 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files.
527 points by Cider9986 | 834 comments
Anna's Archive blog guest post arguing AI companies are buying and destroying physical books for training, and urging volunteers to scan and upload rare books.
822 points by janandonly | 435 comments
Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, which addresses LLMs and crawlers and points them to bulk downloads instead of scraping past CAPTCHAs.
336 points by CharlesW | 121 comments
MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.
426 points by jaykru | 552 comments
Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.
690 points by karimf | 222 comments
Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.
355 points by nalgeon | 230 comments
Intended to be antirez's blog post on using LLMs for programming in early 2024, but the capture shows a Redis-branded 404 error page.
467 points by mazzystar | 271 comments
A 2023 personal blog post reflecting on how six months of intensive ChatGPT/GPT-4 use gives individuals leverage to build things.