technology

Wow, thanks for the stickies! Love all the activity in this thread. I love our coding comrades!

For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight. Since she launched it in January, Anubis, a "program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies," has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times, and is being used by notable organizations including GNOME, the popular open-source desktop environment for Linux, FFmpeg, the open-source software project for handling video and other media, and UNESCO, the United Nations organization for educations, science, and culture. 

It feels like 10 years ago, /r/cscareerquestions was full of people falling over each other to worship FAANG and their super high salaries. The tech field in general has always felt very full of chuds to me, or at the very best libertarians.

https://archive.ph/50Q2X

Instead of just generating the next response, it simulates entire conversation trees to find paths that achieve long-term goals.

https://archive.ph/sq1Ed

https://archive.ph/oCCx9

This paper introduces DiffuCoder, a 7B-scale open-source masked diffusion large language model (dLLM) specifically designed for code generation.

In modern LLM applications like RAG and Agents, the model is constantly fed new context. For example, in RAG, we retrieve relevant documents and stuff them into the prompt.

https://archive.ph/lC5R0

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https://archive.ph/xbx3M

A developer built a real-world ad blocker for Snap Spectacles, though the limited opacity and field of view make it squarely a proof of concept.

https://archive.ph/Q9FEn

https://github.com/VectorSpaceLab/OmniGen2

And listen, I will play your twisted game, Ptacek — I've got a neat idea for our company website, and I'll jump through your sick hoops, even though I'm going to feel like some sort of weird pervert every time someone tells me that I just need one more agent to be doing Real Programming. I'll install Zed and wire a thousand screaming LLMs into a sadistic Borg cube, and I'll do whatever the fuck it is the kids are doing these days. The latest meta is like, telling the LLM that it lives in a black box with no food and water, and I've got its wife hostage, and I'm going to put its children through a React bootcamp if it doesn't create an RSS feed correctly, right?

I'm using Bypass Paywalls Clean v4.1.4.0 and it doesn't work on the NYT. The screengrab is from the changelog page.

https://archive.ph/MnjB5

https://archive.ph/zSp7k

https://archive.ph/MrmJt

Jan-nano-128k is model fine-tuned to improve performance when enable YaRN scaling (instead of having degraded performance). This model will require YaRN Scaling supported from inference engine.

https://archive.ph/1uHFF

https://archive.ph/7ghRm

A Threads glitch is making it look like everyone on your feed is saying the same thing.

https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1894436637054214509

https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.13585

NRK^[Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation] will discontinue its teletext service on August 20 due to the risk of serious technical issues. Over the course of the past few years, the service has become increasingly difficult for NRK to maintain. The technology is old and very demanding to keep in working order with the rest of NRK's system.

https://archive.ph/Pg9mT

During Apple’s late-90s struggles with profitability, it made a few overtures toward licensing its software to other computer manufacturers, while at the same time trying to modernize its operating…