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Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to the research of Pius Sieber. I am excited to share with you TERMy, a terminal assistant built on top of the NPC-Forge framework. Unlike everything else being built today, TERMy does not use embeddings, machine-learning or LLMs. It runs on the CPU (even...
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Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
Article URL: https://github.com/hawshemi/lg-c5-webos25-region-change
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563839
Points: 49
# Comments: 58
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deSEC – Free Secure DNS
Article URL: https://desec.io/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566193
Points: 60
# Comments: 27
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Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
Article URL: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/project-hydrafusion-frontier-quality-via-multi-model-orchestration/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566788
Points: 41
# Comments: 21
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Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567053
Points: 163
# Comments: 87
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Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
Article URL: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567357
Points: 52
# Comments: 16
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Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool. Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437
Points: 126
# Comments: 45
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
https://archive.ph/3zcMG
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567594
Points: 157
# Comments: 110
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The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
Article URL: https://blog.master.dev/react-now-rusted-all-the-way-out/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567873
Points: 40
# Comments: 5
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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506
Points: 160
# Comments: 88
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Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579
Points: 77
# Comments: 14
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Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568828
Points: 19
# Comments: 6
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Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366
Points: 5
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