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Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2025/vana-lets-users-own-piece-ai-models-trained-on-their-data-0403
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564834
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Ladybird browser update (March 2025) [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsPIgTdUd_I
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564794
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News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World
Article URL: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2025/Journalists
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564788
Points: 9
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I made my home fossil-fuel-free. Why did my utility bills nearly double?
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/04/02/electric-power-home-conversion/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564779
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Why Does Microsoft HQ Use SAP Instead of Microsoft Dynamics ERP? (2012)
Article URL: https://erpsoftwareblog.com/2012/11/why-does-microsoft-hq-use-sap-instead-of-microsoft-dynamics-erp/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564775
Points: 1
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Latent Space Guardrails That Reduce Hallucinations by 43 Percent Now Open Source
Heyah,
This is Lukasz. I am running Wisent, a representation engineering company. I created guardrails that allow you to block certain patterns of LLM activations on the latent space level. It is now fully self-hosted and open source. Think stopping hallucination, harmful thoughts of the LLM or bad code generation. Let me know how it works for your use case- happy to help you generate the most value from it.
Check out more at https://www.wisent.ai/ or https://www.lukaszbartoszcze.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564752
Points: 4
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Four decades not sleeping well – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/02/chronic-insomnia-cause-experience
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564723
Points: 3
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Reverse engineering of the formula used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs"
Article URL: https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1907600619420147833
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564717
Points: 6
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Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typetting system
Article URL: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564649
Points: 2
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Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.greshm.org/files/2025-04-01-calibrated-basic-income.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564644
Points: 3
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Are AI Models Advanced Enough to Translate Literature?
A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions are at risk
Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/california-home-insurance-underinsured/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564628
Points: 3
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Breaking computers taught me to build them. What was your start in computing?
Article URL: https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-1-the-foundation-years/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564625
Points: 1
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Photons, neutrinos, and gravitational-wave astronomy
Article URL: https://www.as.arizona.edu/~mrenzo/courses/notes-lecture-GWprog.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564591
Points: 2
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AmigaOS 3.2 Update 3 Released
Article URL: https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/news
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564577
Points: 3
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Fossgis 2025 – Impressions
Article URL: https://imagico.de/blog/en/fossgis-2025-impressions/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564563
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Ask HN: For the privacy minded, How do you prepare for gadget Border Searches?
This is coming up a lot these days in the news- but Customs and Border Patrol have increased the amount of searches they do for travelers coming to and leaving the US. I find this fascinating- because it feels like an area that should have answers -but that there are only some.
With Laptops, one can do things like dual booting, and basic file or OS encryption -so if you are asked to unlock your laptop, you can show someone your OS- and if they decide to do a advanced search, take it and image it- files and items will still be encrypted. Now, this is the sort of thing Veracrypt's Hidden OS would solve without resorting to individual container and file encryption- however that is not a real option these days as that only works with MBR partitioning, not EFI- and nothing else in that space has appeared.
For phones - the situation is messier.
It appears there is no general encrypted profile app or feature one can do in a similar manner, say with steganography features- Sure one could obtain a Graphene phone or the very latest updated Apple or Android device so the Cellebrite or Greykey device can't break into it if you refuse to unlock your password and they take it to image it. If you cooperate and unlock something for them to do a basic search on and then they take it to image presumably- there's a lack of hidden/profile options that are encrypted or steganographically able to hide files in files which would be enough for this sort of thing.
There also is no whole-imaging solution to make a perfect backup, as current backup methods don't include everything, like if someone has apps not covered by a backup or full settings.
And one does not want to unlock the bootloader or Root a phone to attempt this,that would make them easier from a Cellebrite type attack.
For those of you a bit privacy minded who do like to see how private and secure a setup you can do- How do you handle this? This isn't something totally new, but mobile devices are not as far along as computers it appears- and that is something the general public is fully susceptible to.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564550
Points: 3
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Firefox 137.0 released with vertical tabs
Article URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/whatsnew/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564520
Points: 1
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Mastering diverse control tasks through world models
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08744-2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564519
Points: 1
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