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Desktop apps | Deno Docs

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: deno desktop turns a Deno project (anything from a single TypeScript file to a Next.js app) into a self-contained desktop application. The output is a redistributable binary that bundles your code, the Deno runtime, and a web rendering engine into one bundle per platform. Coming in Deno 2.9 deno desktop ships in Deno v2.9.0 and is not in a stable release yet. To try it now, run deno upgrade canary to install the canary build. The command, configuration keys, and TypeScript APIs may still change…

Ethan Thornton tries to do everything at once

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💥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Hardware,Startups,defense tech,Ethan Thornton,Khosla Ventures,mach industries,Ribbit Capital,Sequoia Capital 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ethan Thornton left MIT at the age of nineteen to build weapons. The first, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped using parts from Home Depot and Amazon, didn't work out — "hydrogen was just a bad bet overall," he told me last week at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles. Three years later, his company, Mach Industries, runs six weapons programs, and earlier this month closed a $300 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.8 billion. The startup…

Lars Andersen (@LarsAnders1620) on X

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Police go directly for the circuit breaker panel to avoid being filmed This post will be in English, because there apparently is a lot of interest in what happened to me yesterday. I'm a libertarian danish privacy activist and former police officer and I have been doing activism for about 15 years. I have had a bit of time to think about my arrest and the actions of the masked police that broke down my door - with no prior warning. The prefece to the…

The best NAS devices for your home after months of testing

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🔥 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Computers,Buying Guide ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Whether you want To back up all your precious files, facilitate sharing and collaboration, or create your own entertainment cloud, network attached storage (NAS) devices are the way to go. These versatile servers can boost your home network and help you offload tasks from your computer and other devices.I've spent the past few months testing NAS devices from some of the top brands with a focus on families looking to create backups and perhaps run an…

Fine Tuning a Local LLM to Categorize Questions

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: As a fun personal project, I have been working on a chatbot for answering general questions about my household on anything from maintenance questions to doctor’s appointments. The general idea is that the chatbot will get its household knowledge through RAG from querying a vector database, but for better results I have made the vector searches metadata aware. Basically, I am running questions through a pre-processing step to categorize questions into known metadata categories (e.g. pool, car, hvac, cooking). The main goal…

28 tips to take your ChatGPT claims to the next level

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✨ Read this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear / How To and Advice,Gear,Hello World ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: GPT Chat, Google Gemini, And other tools like it make AI available to the masses. We can now get all kinds of responses to almost any topic imaginable. These chatbots can compose sonnets, write code, get philosophical, and automate tasks.However, while you can just type anything you want into ChatGPT and have it understand you, there are ways to get more interesting and useful results from the bot. This “rapid engineering” has become a specialized skill in its own…

1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone Limited Edition. The Curious Case of the Commodore Phones: A Canadian-Only Tech Oddity In the early days of home computing, the VICModem was Commodore’s answer to getting users online. But in Canada, things got… complicated. To get around strict telecom regulations and technical limitations, Commodore did something unique: they bundled the modem with a rotary dial telephone made by Northern Telecom—specially branded and only ever sold in Canada. Here’s the strange-but-true story behind one of the rarest pieces of Commodore…

If you’re looking for a new frying pan, consider stainless steel

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Smart Kitchen 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: If you will excuse me Pans always seem to be a hot topic.More than in other sections of the art of cooking, there is a constant quest to find the best, or at least the best you can afford. I've seen cycles of craze come and go for copper, cast iron, and carbon steel.At a mall in New Hampshire in the 1980s, I remember watching a culinary store's miracle demonstration of an omelet that slid easily out of…

Sakana Fugu — Multi-Agent System as a Model

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This experiment shows an AI agent autonomously improving a small GPT's training recipe. Using AutoResearch (Karpathy et al.) – which iteratively edits training code, runs experiments, and keeps only changes that lower validation bits-per-byte (BPB) – the agent ran 123 experiments over ~14 hours on a single H100 GPU. Each line traces a system's best BPB as experiments accumulate: Fugu-Ultra is in bold red (solid = mean over three seeds, dashed = best single run), with three frontier-model baselines (Model A, B, and C) faded…

Wooting 60HE v2: the pinnacle of keyboard perfection

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✨ Discover this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Gaming,Product Review ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The most controversial feature is the simultaneous discordant cardinal direction (SOCD) assignment. This allows one key to override another rather than registering both simultaneously, which is ideal for bombing in tactical shooting games such as Counter Strike 2 and brave. The difference in reaction speed is immediately noticeable, making quick peeks more consistent. However, due to the distinct advantage it provides, this feature has been banned in some competitive games because it reduces the delay between directional movement…