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based_gigachad2on Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?

There's a fork of LibReddit called RedLib which should work better: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib?tab=readme-ov-file#libr...

based_gigachad2on Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha

KDE should already support VRR and fractional scaling with more improvements coming in Plasma 6, and no non-fullscreen HDR yet until the Wayland color management protocol gets finalized

based_gigachad2on The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they're innocent

There is currently no reliable automatic way to know whether your student used ChatGPT. Best you can do is to manually check the structure and vocabulary of the work, but even that is not obvious with good prompting

based_gigachad2on Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model

Earlier threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290085

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39298218

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304543

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313060

based_gigachad2on Show HN: Directory of All LLM Models(Closed and Open Source)

Just "All LLMs"

Also, nice username

based_gigachad2on Show HN: Directory of All LLM Models(Closed and Open Source)

Large Language Models Models?

based_gigachad2on AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU

One of the CPUs of all times

Edit: the title now has been fixed

based_gigachad2on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

> I worked on a chrome extension a few weeks ago that skips sponsorship sections in YouTube videos by reading through the transcript

You might want to connect that to SponsorBlock

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

based_gigachad2on JPEG XL found in wincodec.h – suggesting coming Windows support

According to Microsoft documentation[1], "This header is used by Windows Imaging Component. For more information, see[2]"

It's good to see Jpeg XL support in Windows, but unfortunately it probably won't become a widespread standard until it becomes available in Chrome (again)

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincodec... [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_wic/

based_gigachad2on M3 MacBook Pro: Base Model Has Only 8GB RAM

Well, there were M2s in the comparisons too, I'd say the improvement is still good, but again we should bench for waitmarks before jumping to conclusions here

based_gigachad2on M3 MacBook Pro: Base Model Has Only 8GB RAM

We'll need to bench for waitmarks to be certain, Apple showed some good performance improvements for the new cores. And the GPU has ray tracing acceleration now

based_gigachad2on M3 MacBook Pro: Base Model Has Only 8GB RAM

M3 Pro 14 is $1999 and has 18 Gigs of RAM. AFAIK M2 Pro 14 cost the same with 16, so at least there's a small improvement

based_gigachad2on Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

You can use LibreTube without a Piped account as well - the subscriptions will be saved locally

based_gigachad2on Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

Also check out a FOSS Android app LibreTube[1]. No ads, SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike, can proxy all the videos through a Piped instance, subscription sync with a Piped account, offline and online playlists are supported

[1]: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

based_gigachad2on Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

I wonder when we'll have fully functional HDR and neural engine so that the creative professionals could try using Linux on their Apple silicon Macs (software support is another story, though Davinci Resolve is already there)

based_gigachad2on Google execs admit users 'not happy' with search after Reddit blackouts

But when not appending "reddit" what you're left with is SEO optimized websites with much lower quality content. While Reddit comments might not get you the full picture, they still seem to be worth reading in many cases