How big is YouTube? — Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model — and Xmas.c, winner of the 1988 International Obfuscated C Code Contest

Issue #1355 — December 24, 2023

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How big is YouTube? ethanzuckerman.com \| points: 720 \| comments: 239

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Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model github.com \| points: 403 \| comments: 226

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Xmas.c, winner of the 1988 International Obfuscated C Code Contest udel.edu \| points: 354 \| comments: 51

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Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack searchenginejournal.com \| points: 311 \| comments: 210

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Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login bsky.app \| points: 276 \| comments: 315

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They want you to forget what a film looks like aftermath.site \| points: 274 \| comments: 178

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Suno AI suno.ai \| points: 243 \| comments: 103

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Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service github.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 103

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In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users organicmaps.app \| points: 188 \| comments: 65

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How Pinterest scaled read.engineerscodex.com \| points: 164 \| comments: 138

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Groqchat chat.groq.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 118

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Understanding every byte in a WASM module danielmangum.com \| points: 141 \| comments: 30

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Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees marketplacepulse.com \| points: 133 \| comments: 127

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DIY ventilation heat exchanger (2010) ecorenovator.org \| points: 132 \| comments: 63

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Bayesians moving from defense to offense statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu \| points: 130 \| comments: 57

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Otter, Fastest Go in-memory cache based on S3-FIFO algorithm github.com \| points: 121 \| comments: 40

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"King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley washingtonpost.com \| points: 120 \| comments: 143

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Researchers discover neuronal biomarkers of schizophrenia in the blood hmri.org.au \| points: 111 \| comments: 53

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Let me repeat that back to you roughlywritten.substack.com \| points: 106 \| comments: 55

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2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral found under Rome cnn.com \| points: 106 \| comments: 19

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