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Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub

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Our online playground lets you create and share marimo notebooks for free, without creating an account. Playground notebooks are great for embedding in other web pages — all the embedded notebooks in marimo’s own docs are playground notebooks. They are also great for sharing via links. Try our playground! Just navigate to https://marimo.new. WebAssembly notebooks […]

Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:   Section 1.  Purpose.  Artificial intelligence (AI) is a defining technology of our era.  Recent advancements in AI demonstrate its rapidly growing relevance to national security, including with respect […]

Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

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This article describes how I generate an infinite city using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm in a way that is fast, deterministic, parallelizable and reliable. It’s a follow-up to my 2019 article on adapting the WFC algorithm to generate an infinite world. The new approach presented in this article removes the limitations of my original […]

Apple will soon receive ‘made in America’ chips from TSMC’s Arizona fab

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Apple is already testing the initial batch of processors produced for its devices by TSMC Arizona, reports Nikkei Asia. To begin with, the tests intend to compare the Arizona output to see if the quality is similar to chips produced in TSMC’s cutting-edge fabs in Taiwan. If the chip quality verification testing does not encounter […]

Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior

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Texas has sued insurance provider Allstate, alleging that the firm and its data broker subsidiary used data from apps like GasBuddy, Routely, and Life360 to quietly track drivers and adjust or cancel their policies. Allstate and Arity, a “mobility data and analytics” firm founded by Allstate in 2016, collected “trillions of miles worth of location […]

Millions of Accounts Vulnerable Due to Google’s OAuth Flaw

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Millions of Americans can have their data stolen right now because of a deficiency in Google’s “Sign in with Google” authentication flow. If you’ve worked for a startup in the past – especially one that has since shut down – you might be vulnerable. I demonstrated this flaw by logging into accounts I didn’t own, […]

Show HN: Value likelihoods for OpenAI structured output

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structured-logprobs is an open-source Python library that enhances OpenAI’s structured outputs by providing detailed information about token log probabilities. This library is designed to offer valuable insights into the reliability of an LLM’s structured outputs. It works with OpenAI’s Structured Outputs, a feature that ensures the model consistently generates responses adhering to a supplied JSON […]

Making an Intersection Unsafe for Pedestrians to Save Seconds for Drivers

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How the redesign of a street in a walkable college town reflects our broader values for cars over people. Today, I bring you to Orange, California, a small college town that hosts Chapman University. Being in Orange County, you may think this area is just a big highway with suburban neighborhood houses. While that is […]