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OpenAI agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack(reuters.com)
8 points by bcks 1d ago|0 comments
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Bsky.land – a photo stream from the Bluesky firehose(bsky.land)
7 points by bcks 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bcks 2y ago
A month ago. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/cnn-launch-digital-subs...
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Who Says You Can't Live Off the Grid in Manhattan?(nytimes.com)
7 points by bcks 2y ago|1 comments
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by bcks 2y ago
Unrelated, "Harvard cancer institute moves to retract six studies, correct 31 others amid data manipulation claims" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097031
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by bcks 2y ago
Back in 2018, I ran a little test to see if I could push Google Cloud Vision to recognize objects, shapes, or patterns in clouds. No matter how I treated the images ahead of time, the answer always came back: clouds. Would be interesting to
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by bcks 2y ago
Damn, search for "Tardis" turns up zero results.
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by bcks 3y ago
A text-based, multiplayer, real-time virtual world. Sometimes more group-chat, sometimes more adventure story scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
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by bcks 3y ago
When putting together a large RAR file that's been split into smaller files, one can use PAR and PAR2 files to repair and replace damaged or missing segments.
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NonprofitAMA.ai: chatbot trained on U.S. nonprofit resources(nonprofitama.ai)
1 points by bcks 3y ago|0 comments
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by bcks 3y ago
I had a lot of fun playing with the Flipper's Bad USB DuckyScript to automate some repetitive and tedious CMS workflow for a client, filling in a lot of input fields on multiple browser windows with a single press of a button. It impro
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How an Indian educational startup became a leading cyberespionage firm(reuters.com)
9 points by bcks 3y ago|0 comments
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At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars(reuters.com)
121 points by bcks 3y ago|84 comments
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by bcks 3y ago
Sure thing, check out NICAR-L: https://www.ire.org/resources/listservs/
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by bcks 3y ago
I lurk in an online community of journalist coders and some folks there are excited about PMTiles as cost-saving way to host your own custom-styled map tiles. See, for instance, "How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source soluti
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by bcks 3y ago
Ah, my bad - looking at induction forge images and links in this thread, the coil was probably closer to 3 or 4 inch diameter.
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by bcks 3y ago
Maybe 6 inch diameter.
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by bcks 3y ago
Took my daughter to check out a blacksmithing class in Brooklyn and was pleasantly surprised to find there was no open fire at all. The iron and steel are heated by an induction machine. Just use the tongs to hold up your material near the
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Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving Beta tried to kill me last night(electrek.co)
4 points by bcks 3y ago|7 comments
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by bcks 3y ago
A cat would never. I'm just saying.
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by bcks 6y ago
I really enjoyed this film, but in telling the story of the cultural power and ubiquity of Helvetica, I think it dramatically underplays the fact that variations on Helvetica have been pre-installed on most modern personal computers by defa
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by bcks 6y ago
I started collecting images of interesting COVID-19 related posters, graphics and street art at https://backspace.com/covid19
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by bcks 6y ago
There's a wonderful, interactive playground of variable fonts up at https://v-fonts.com . Most variable fonts let you interpolate font weight, width, or slant, but some go much further. See for instance, http://va
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Hey Robot, a party game for smart speakers(kickstarter.com)
1 points by bcks 7y ago|0 comments
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by bcks 7y ago
If you are looking to contribute meaningful edits beyond your local area, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager always has things to do that can help folks working in areas affected by natural disasters: https://tasks.ho
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by bcks 7y ago
Off topic maybe: are there resources out there for teaching coders how to journalism?
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by bcks 7y ago
The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement is a contract to do just that - for the artist to earn royalties from resale (if the price of the work has increased) and to have some control over public exhibition even after a work
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by bcks 8y ago
Related: whatever happened to The Immunity Project, the AIDS vaccine funded by Y Combinator in 2014? http://www.immunityproject.org
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by bcks 8y ago
The project is more or less abandoned. It was scheduled to shut down last year: https://twitter.com/golan/status/976202325076467712 It's also open source, though the code hasn't been touched in a few yea
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NYC passes minimum pay wage for Uber and Lyft drivers(engadget.com)
4 points by bcks 8y ago|0 comments

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