Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find — and SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields

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Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find arstechnica.com \| points: 623 \| comments: 215

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SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields smerf-3d.github.io \| points: 591 \| comments: 139

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip bsc.es \| points: 327 \| comments: 127

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Australia to ban engineered stone abc.net.au \| points: 312 \| comments: 493

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Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine searchagora.com \| points: 293 \| comments: 250

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Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 286 \| comments: 116

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Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android blog.mozilla.org \| points: 269 \| comments: 113

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The AI Trust Crisis simonwillison.net \| points: 268 \| comments: 249

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Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine community.ui.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 233

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Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects github.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 148

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Lessons from building GitHub code search [video] youtube.com \| points: 247 \| comments: 92

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Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers scifiinterfaces.com \| points: 245 \| comments: 136

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Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half reuters.com \| points: 242 \| comments: 77

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Ledger’s NPM account has been hacked github.com \| points: 218 \| comments: 104

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Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016) ezali.substack.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 60

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Police have undermined the promise of body cameras propublica.org \| points: 201 \| comments: 201

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FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs deepmind.google \| points: 196 \| comments: 44

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Windows AI Studio Preview github.com \| points: 188 \| comments: 64

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Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law michaelgeist.ca \| points: 186 \| comments: 188

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Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU deno.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 55

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