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61.Meta puts a halt to training its generative AI tools in Brazil (techcrunch.com)
34 points by belter on July 18, 2024 | 25 comments
62.Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World (afterbabel.com)
58 points by trevin on July 18, 2024 | 108 comments
63.Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio and video converter (tommyjepsen.com)
52 points by tommyjepsen on July 18, 2024 | 23 comments
64.He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (npr.org)
92 points by tosh on July 18, 2024 | 114 comments
65.Winamp Skin Museum (webamp.org)
42 points by vladde on July 15, 2024 | 6 comments
66.The Semmelweis myth and why it's not true (2018) (digitaltonto.com)
13 points by OgsyedIE on July 18, 2024 | 18 comments
67.Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections (lwn.net)
37 points by rbanffy on July 18, 2024 | 4 comments
68.Intel's CPUs Are Failing, Ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs [video] (youtube.com)
45 points by rjzzleep on July 18, 2024
69.FCC closes "final loopholes" that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high (arstechnica.com)
59 points by rbanffy on July 18, 2024 | 22 comments
70.Figma Retrospective on the "Make Designs" Feature (figma.com)
29 points by otterwise on July 18, 2024 | 9 comments
71.Police warn of thieves using WiFi-jamming tech to disarm cameras, alarms (ktla.com)
27 points by Bluestein on July 18, 2024 | 43 comments
72.Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015) (shazow.net)
40 points by cristoperb on July 18, 2024 | 15 comments
73.ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting – Scientific American (scientificamerican.com)
62 points by cratermoon on July 18, 2024 | 25 comments
74.A 378-day Mars simulation changed this Canadian scientist's outlook on life (cbc.ca)
23 points by bookofjoe on July 18, 2024 | 11 comments
75.Concealed backdoor in fake AWS files escaped mainstream notice (arstechnica.com)
16 points by isaacfrond on July 18, 2024 | 4 comments
76.PyCon 2024 Videos Released (youtube.com)
46 points by ampersand42 on July 18, 2024 | 4 comments
77.Claude by Anthropic Now on Google Play Store (play.google.com)
39 points by vyrotek on July 18, 2024 | 20 comments
78.Htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions (erikheemskerk.nl)
49 points by thunderbong on July 17, 2024 | 26 comments
79.Elastocalorics could replace heat pumps, air conditioning systems (pv-magazine-usa.com)
41 points by watchdogtimer on July 17, 2024 | 7 comments
80.Apple tells over a billion iPhone users to stop using Chrome (tomsguide.com)
34 points by mandeepj on July 18, 2024 | 23 comments
81.Vaccines Significantly Reduce the Risk of Long Covid, Study Finds (nytimes.com)
36 points by infotainment on July 18, 2024 | 24 comments
82.I gave myself a month to make one new friend (esquire.com)
38 points by nickwritesit on July 18, 2024 | 69 comments
83.Ford spends $3B to expand large truck production in plant previously set for EVs (cnbc.com)
34 points by rntn on July 18, 2024 | 110 comments
84.Kaspersky gives US customers six months of free updates as a parting gift (theregister.com)
20 points by clwg on July 18, 2024 | 4 comments
85.Anti-ageing 'supermodel granny' drug extends life in mice by 25% (bbc.com)
39 points by isaacfrond on July 18, 2024 | 48 comments
86.Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes (sciencedaily.com)
23 points by pwmtr on July 17, 2024 | 1 comment
87.EfficientQAT: LLM Quantization, gets a 2-bit llama2-70B outperform regular 13B (reddit.com)
21 points by jackbravo on July 18, 2024
88.Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. Experts Say They're Close to Meaningless (themarkup.org)
28 points by billybuckwheat on July 18, 2024 | 19 comments
89."Smart soil" grows 138% bigger crops using 40% less water (newatlas.com)
18 points by Brajeshwar on July 18, 2024 | 2 comments
90. [flagged] Why parenting makes you human (josem.co)
32 points by josem on July 17, 2024 | 19 comments

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