January 2025 Archive
2821.
Selene Mini: Open-sourced SOTA small language-model-as-a-judge (huggingface.co)
2822.
A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System [pdf] (mrochkind.com)
2823.
FTC: Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Pricing (ftc.gov)
2824.
Egg prices are soaring. Don't expect that to change anytime soon (apnews.com)
2825.
When Futurism Led to Fascism–and Why It Could Happen Again (2019) (wired.com)
2826.
Amazon Raises Its Ad Spending on Elon Musk's X, in Major Reversal (wsj.com)
2827.
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest 'reasoning' model (techcrunch.com)
2828.
Toward a Sparse Interpretable Audio Codec (blog.cochlea.xyz)
2829.
Nazi Ties to Credit Suisse Ran Deeper Than Was Known, Hidden Files Reveal (wsj.com)
2830.
Stay Gold, America (blog.codinghorror.com)
2831.
Longest context up to 4M, MiniMax-01 hybrid 456B Open source model (github.com)
2832.
Create, Edit and Convert PPT, PPTX and ODP Presentation via Open Source PHP APIs (products.fileformat.com)
2833.
Porting the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64 (briancallahan.net)
2834.
Instagram is now blocking pro-Democrat, anti-Republican hashtags (old.reddit.com)
2835.
The smallest VLM ever: 250M parameters (huggingface.co)
2836.
Michael Foord Has Died (discuss.python.org)
2837.
Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API (arstechnica.com)
2838.
Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness (2014) (theappendix.net)
2839.
Opengrep – The Security Industry Deserves Better (crashoverride.com)
2840.
Apple will pay $95M to people who were spied on by Siri (theverge.com)
2841.
The Autumn of the Middle Ages (en.wikipedia.org)
2842.
Saving 100+ Desk Phones from E-Waste Doom with TFTP and a Simpler PBX (difuse.io)
2843.
MathReader: Text-to-Speech for Mathematical Documents [pdf] (arxiv.org)
2844.
Integration of 1,024 silicon quantum dots with on-chip electronics (phys.org)
2845.
From tiny to immense: Geological spotlight on the Alexander Mosaic (journals.plos.org)
2846.
Cutting off HIV medication will kill 10MM+ people - Bill Gates (youtube.com)
2847.
Elon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System–At Any Cost (newrepublic.com)
2848.
How do non-software engineers feel upon reflection, about their degrees?
2849.
ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War (daringfireball.net)
2850.
I want my AI to get mad (jesseduffield.com)