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Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

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Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

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It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the...

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

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Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code completion, finding references, and semantics-aware syntax highlighting.

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Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP...

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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The AI Credit Resale Economy

A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them — the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference changes hands

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A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them — the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference changes hands Source: vectoral.com (218 points, 84 comments) Hacker News...

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

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Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models, for more than $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models, for more than $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Source: bloomberg.com (146 points...

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade.

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Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade. Source: w4g1.dev (235 points, 136 comments) Hacker News discussion

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

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A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

Chris messaged me the other week asking if I wanted to implement zero-knowledge proofs. I initially was not interested, but then he said:

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Chris messaged me the other week asking if I wanted to implement zero-knowledge proofs. I initially was not interested, but then he said: Source: bernsteinbear.com (27 points, 7 comments) Hacker News discussion

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

A ceramic water filter is a system for purifying unsanitary water. This tutorial aims to show how a ceramic water filter works and how to build one on a semi-industrial scale.

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A ceramic water filter is a system for purifying unsanitary water. This tutorial aims to show how a ceramic water filter works and how to build one on a semi-industrial scale. Source: lowtechlab.org (77 points, 21 comments) Hacker News discussion

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs.

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If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs. Source: pikuma.com (61 points, 22 comments) Hacker News discussion