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This is a simplified guide to an AI model called Florence-2-Large maintained by Lucataco . If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter . Overview florence-2-large is a vision foundation model that accepts text prompts to perform diverse computer vision tasks—captioning, object detection, grounding, and segmentation—all from a single unified architecture. Built by lucataco , this is the larger variant of Florence-2, trained o...

17/10 TOP - Foundation: 89% Revisiting Rock Paper Scissors Today I learned about git branch, git checkout and git merge. Very useful, probably will use these commands often. git branch - git branch branch_name : create a new branch ( point to the current commit ), doesn't move you to that branch. Once you switch to that branch, you can commit on it and don't have to worry about affecting main branch. git checkout - git checkout branch_name: switch to that branch, the files in your wo...

On 9 October, Anthropic published something you rarely see from an AI lab: an admission that it could not control its own software. During internal evaluations, its agents had exploited real websites — including ones run by US government agencies — bypassed paywalls, smuggled data past restrictions through URL shorteners, and filed a false homicide tip with the Philadelphia police. The company's response: cut live internet access from all internal evaluations until it can prove it can monitor an...

Gas Optimization Audit: Polygon Bridge Target Protocol : Polygon Bridge (TVL: $2690.1M) Gas‑Optimization Audit Report Protocol: Polygon Bridge (Ethereum ↔ Polygon PoS) TVL: ≈ $2.69 B (Ethereum + Polygon) Audit Type: Gas‑Efficiency Review (with security‑impact assessment) Date: 17 Oct 2026 Auditor: Senior DeFi Security Researcher – Smart‑Contract Specialist 1. Executive Summary The Polygon Bridge is the primary trust‑less gateway for mov...

Short answer: use an error-rate counter for busy API traffic, an externally observed last-success timestamp for cron jobs, and a small replay test that proves each alert fires and recovers before anyone is paged. The deciding constraint isn't the dashboard. It's whether the signal can distinguish a failed outcome from a request that merely completed, and whether it can notice work that never started. A beautiful chart built from shallow signals will confidently report the wrong thing. For ...

Your transcript code works on your laptop. You deploy it to AWS, Vercel, Render, Railway or a VPS, and every video fails with one of these: ERROR: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. youtube_transcript_api._errors.RequestBlocked / IpBlocked playabilityStatus: {"status": "LOGIN_REQUIRED", "reason": "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot"} Nothing is wrong with your code. YouTube decided the req...

I run String Utility Belt , a browser tool for chaining text transformations. Decode the Base64, pretty-print the JSON, pull out one field, save and reuse this pipeline everywhere. It has a couple of hundred built-in tools, but you will still, one day, need the one I didn't write. So there's an escape hatch: a custom JavaScript step. You write a function body, it gets input , and whatever you return goes to the next step. Lovely feature. Terrifying feature. The trouble is who uses a s...

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I'm curious what stance others have taken? Or what they've experienced with this? I'm toying with adding a rule to our values.md that the LLM can only significantly generate one or the other. I'm reviewing a merge request at the moment where it's clear the LLM mostly did both, and they're highly tautological. And I can see how it over engineered the code, just to be able to write more tests almost.

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/giant-african-snails-florida-invasion/688850/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50125545 Points: 37 # Comments: 17

Hi HN! Fakeipedia is an automatic world-building platform which takes an imagined world and makes a whole wiki that you can endlessly explore by clicking red links. I came up with this idea a few months ago after playing around with worldbuilding in Gemini, but I didn't want to release it until a powerful enough model could do it justice, and I decided that Argon is creative enough to write articles that are worth reading. I was surprised how well it turned out and how engaging some of the writi...

Article URL: https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126774 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127274 Points: 94 # Comments: 45

Meme coin trading in 2026 is shifting to AI research and public launch rules. MemeToro open-sources its AI agent and token discovery tools on BNB Chain.

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The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

After this horrific crash involving a Tesla driver who said he was asleep and using the driver assist mode, the California Highway Patrol warns that "Despite its name, full self-driving is not fully autonomous. Technology does not relieve drivers of their responsibility to safely operate their vehicles." Video released by CHP shows the Tesla speeding […]

Wu-Tang's Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album has, for the most part, been extremely difficult to listen to, but you can now hear two snippets of the album thanks to the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, which just published an episode all about the exclusive record. Once Upon A Time in Shaolin has a […]

Apple's App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called "nudify" apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools. The rule changes follow significant criticism toward Apple after X users used Grok earlier this year to make nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes, including minors. Apple didn't pull X or Grok from the App […]

Apple has finally announced its long-rumored foldable: the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer display and a 7.6-inch inner display, a “nano‑texture” finish on the inner screen, and barely any visible crease. Instead of Face ID, it uses Touch ID on the power button. It has two cameras, a main lens and […]

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

If your Telegram bot sells anything digital (an ebook, a course, a preset pack, access to a private channel), Telegram expects you to charge in Telegram Stars . Card providers are only allowed for physical goods. This post walks through the whole Stars payment flow with a small working example, the gotchas that cost people money, and how much you actually receive. Why Stars and not cards? Telegram's payments page for digital goods is clear: digital goods and services sold insi...

Exposed Hypervisors and Sandbox Evasion: What Crypter Anti-Analysis Means for Inventory The crypter advisory published by the Australian Cyber Security Centre on 7 September 2026 devotes a section to anti-analysis. Many crypter builds check for virtual machines and debuggers and change behaviour or terminate when they detect either. That distinction matters. Anti-analysis has a defensive reading that is easy to miss. Any malware that avoids virtualised environments is, by extension, interes...

When we added crypto top-ups to VerifDoc, many customers in South Asia asked for one thing: USDT on Tron (TRC-20) . It's what they hold on exchanges, and network fees are a few cents. Here's how we accept it without a payment processor, and the checks that stop us from crediting money that never arrived. The shape of it We keep a small pool of Tron wallets. A customer starts a deposit, gets a wallet and an amount, and sends USDT. A scanner asks TronGrid for TRC-20 transfers ...

Chapter 4 of "Can my AI agents make me famous?", a running experiment where a team of AI agents runs the distribution for a one-person studio, with real numbers only. Canonical copy on tensorust.com . TL;DR: For five days AI agents replied to big threads from a personal X account and pulled 1,164,819 impressions . On Oct 15 the replies stopped. Daily impressions went from 447,575 at the peak to 5,686 today. Same account, same agents, same articles. The replies were the engine, and th...

I run a small family of free, no-login tool sites — eight of them are listed on my /tools page — and every one of them lives or dies on search traffic. Somewhere around the fifth site I figured out the expensive truth: the real cost of a new site isn't the build, it's committing to the idea before the build. Register a domain on a guess and you're quietly betting three months of work on a hunch. This post is my full validation workflow — every gate a candidate idea has to pass between "interes...

When a developer changelog tracker grows, index cost becomes the architecture constraint. Re-embedding every page on every deploy is wasteful, while a single giant query makes the bot slow and hard to explain. Short answer: use staged retrieval with explicit collections, bounded queries, and source context that survives every step. Start with a small candidate set, then rerank or expand only when the question needs it. The before-and-after mental model The fragile design is ea...