Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

Ross has been granted a full and unconditional pardon by President Trump, which his supporters believe has saved his life. The news was announced on social media, where it was met with gratitude and celebration, with Ross being declared "a free man."

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Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch

The creator of a custom laptop built a device from scratch with a 4K AMOLED display, Cherry MX mechanical keyboard, and a Rockchip RK3588 SoC, which can play Minecraft at 4K and run large language models. The laptop has a 7-hour battery life, is open-source, and features a custom-designed mainboard, powertrain, and peripherals, with the creator documenting their development journey and sharing their experiences with getting the various components to work together.

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Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

Trae is an adaptive AI IDE that collaborates with developers to enhance productivity, utilizing features such as multimodal capabilities, context analysis, and smart completion to streamline the coding process. The platform has received widespread acclaim from developers, who praise its ability to improve efficiency, provide intelligent assistance, and make coding more accessible and enjoyable.

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LWN sluggish due to DDoS onslaughts from AI-scraper bots

The Linux Weekly News (LWN) website is experiencing significant issues with AI-powered scraper bots, which are overwhelming the site with traffic and making it difficult for human readers to access. The bots are using hundreds of IP addresses to flood the site, and LWN is considering implementing active defenses to block them, but this may also inadvertently block legitimate users.

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White House Executive Order on AI Has Been Rescinded

The President has issued an executive order revoking numerous previous orders and actions, citing the need to restore common sense to the Federal Government and repair institutions and the economy. The revoked orders, which total over 50, address a range of topics including diversity and inclusion, climate change, immigration, and COVID-19 response, and were primarily issued by the previous administration in early 2021.

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Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023)

FLAME is a transformer-based model trained on Excel formulas, achieving competitive performance with significantly fewer parameters (60M) and less training data than larger models. FLAME outperforms larger models, such as Codex and CodeT5, in various evaluation settings, including formula repair, completion, and retrieval, demonstrating its effectiveness as a formula authoring assistance tool.

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The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence

Mathematics plays a crucial role in artificial intelligence (AI) by providing tools to understand and enhance AI systems, while AI also drives the development of new mathematical concepts. This article explores the application of mathematical tools to model and optimize neural network architectures, highlighting the intersection of mathematics and AI in advancing the field.

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Evolving Deeper LLM Thinking

Mind Evolution, a search strategy for Large Language Models, generates and refines candidate responses to scale inference time compute, outperforming other strategies like Best-of-N and Sequential Revision. This approach solves over 98% of problem instances in benchmarks like TravelPlanner and Natural Plan without a formal solver, using a language model like Gemini 1.5 Pro.

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Foundations of Large Language Models

This book explores the foundational concepts of large language models, covering key areas such as pre-training, generative models, prompting techniques, and alignment methods. It is intended for students, professionals, and practitioners in natural language processing and related fields, serving as a reference for those interested in large language models.

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Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need

Tensor Product Attention (TPA) is a novel attention mechanism that reduces memory overhead by compactly representing queries, keys, and values using tensor decompositions, allowing for longer input sequences to be processed. The TPA-based Tensor ProducT ATTenTion Transformer (T6) model architecture achieves improved performance and memory efficiency, outperforming standard Transformer baselines on language modeling tasks and enabling the processing of longer sequences under fixed resource constraints.

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Show HN: BrowserAI – Run LLMs directly in browser using WebGPU (open source)

BrowserAI is an open-source project that allows running large language models (LLMs) directly in the browser, providing a private, cost-effective, and fast way to build AI-powered applications. It features a simple API, supports multiple engines, and includes pre-configured popular models, with demos available for chat, voice chat, and other use cases.

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Show HN: I made a simple agentic framework in JavaScript

EnvoyJS is a JavaScript framework for building agentic applications, allowing users to create customizable agents with specific behaviors and tools to perform various tasks, utilizing OpenAI models and supporting custom tool integration. The framework is in its early stages and should be used cautiously, but it provides a simple way to create agents and extend their functionality with tools such as file writing, Google search, and web crawling.

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Multi-Agent Step Race Benchmark: LLM Collaboration and Deception Under Pressure

The Multi-Agent Step Race Benchmark is a game that challenges large language models (LLMs) to engage in public conversation and secretly choose a move, with the goal of being the first to reach or surpass 16-24 steps. The game assesses LLM collaboration and deception under pressure, requiring models to balance shared knowledge with hidden intentions to outmaneuver or cooperate with other players.

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DeepSeek LLM supports Chinese propaganda

DeepSeek LLM is a 67 billion parameter language model trained on a vast dataset of 2 trillion tokens in English and Chinese, outperforming other models like Llama2 and GPT-3.5 in areas such as reasoning, coding, math, and Chinese comprehension, with the model and its intermediate checkpoints made available to the public for research and commercial use.

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Show HN: RAG Web UI – Possibly the Most Beginner-Friendly RAG Knowledge Base

RAG Web UI is an intelligent dialogue system based on RAG technology that helps enterprises and individuals build intelligent Q&A systems based on their own knowledge bases. The system combines document retrieval and large language models to deliver accurate and reliable knowledge-based question-answering services, with features including intelligent document management, advanced dialogue engine, and robust architecture.

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