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Instagram is cracking down on content aggregators

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🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,Instagram 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Instagram announced Thursday that accounts that regularly repost content they didn't create, or primarily share other people's work as photos and carousels, will no longer be eligible for recommendations through the app. The Meta-owned platform says the idea behind the change is to ensure original content creators get the credit and distribution they deserve. It should be noted that this protection was already applied to reels, and is now applied to images and carousels, which are posts that contain a collection of images and videos…

Granite 4.1: IBM’s 8B Model Is Competing With Models Four Times Its Size

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: - Advertisement - IBM just released Granite 4.1, a family of open source language models built specifically for enterprise use. Three sizes, Apache 2.0 licensed and trained on 15 trillion tokens with a level of pipeline obsession that’s worth understanding. But there’s one result in the benchmarks I keep coming back to. The 8B model. Dense architecture, no MoE tricks, no extended reasoning chains. It matches or beats Granite 4.0-H-Small across basically every benchmark they ran. That older model has 32B parameters with 9B…

Burnley: Scott Parker leaves; Craig Bellamy wanted the manager’s position

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🔥 Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Burnley won three of their first nine league matches this season, but losing the next seven matches meant they fell into the relegation zone.Despite five draws in their next seven matches, including defiant performances against Manchester United and Liverpool, a 3-0 defeat to Sunderland followed by a loss to fellow strugglers West Ham led to some fans calling for Parker to be sacked.He expressed his frustration at the chants, and backed chairman Alan Peace Parker in an interview with BBC Football Focus, where he compared…

The Zig project’s rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words. The most prominent project written in Zig may be the Bun JavaScript runtime, which was acquired by Anthropic in December…

Earth AI vertically integrates the search for important minerals

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,critical minerals,Earth AI,Exclusive 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A model is only as good as its data, and for Roman Teslyuk, the data wasn't coming fast enough. “I hate delays,” Tslik, founder and CEO of Earth AI, told TechCrunch. Over the past few years, Earth AI has searched for important metals such as copper, platinum and palladium in parts of Australia where no one expected any to be found. The startup's AI models suggested some locations that proved promising, but locating the rocks with the highest concentration of minerals was slower…

Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig.

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve been tinkering around with Zig to explore what’s possible with comptime. Whenever I evaluate a new language I use three axes: How well can I express my ideas in this language. Or in other words, how easy is it for me to express the domain of the program. This is a test on how much noise is applied to the ideas I want to express in the program. Noise is anything that must be written for the program to function that is not relevant…

Uber is now in the hotel business, thanks in part to artificial intelligence

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✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,agentic ai,Expedia,hospitality,Uber,uber go-get 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Uber customers in the United States can now book hotels directly through the app, one of several new features announced Wednesday that go far beyond the company's original purpose of transporting passengers and even deeper into the lives of its users. Uber announced the new hotel booking feature on Wednesday during its annual product-rich Go-Get event in New York City. At launch, Uber customers will have access to more than 700,000 hotels around the world through a partnership with Expedia Group, the travel…

Monad tutorials timeline – HaskellWiki

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a comprehensive timeline of monad tutorials and related articles. Please update this list as it becomes outdated! If you find a tutorial, article, post, comment, or message that stands on its own as an explanation of monads, then please take a moment to paste the link somewhere on this page (register a throwaway account, if you prefer). The date, author, and blurb can be added later. This will greatly help others who are using this list as a resource for learning about…

Fusion energy startup Zap Energy is pulling a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

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🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,fusion power,nuclear fission,nuclear fusion,nuclear power,Zap Energy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: No one said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working on this problem for decades. But over the past year or so, nuclear fusion startup Zap Energy took a closer look at its path to a working power plant and decided it would be faster to build a fission power plant first. Wait what? “Fission and merger are two sides of the same coin,” Zabrina Johal, ZAP’s new CEO, told TechCrunch. “They have…

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Will you heed my warnings NOW?

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit the name “Aaronson.” But then continue scrolling to see 144 other inductees, including my IAS postdoctoral classmate Maria Chudnovsky, my longtime friend and colleague Salil Vadhan, and even Janet Yellen. I’m humbled to be in such company. Years ago, somewhere on this blog, I mused that, if I were ever invited to join NAS, I…