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elektor··on Anonfiles is shutting down
That was quick. Not surprising though, there was plenty of copyrighted and illegal content being uploaded to anonfiles. The name itself didn’t too much to discourage it.
elektor··on 8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free
My usual go-to is to use Sci-Hub but that database hasn't been updated in a long time so I've switched over to Nexus Search. Chrome and Firefox extension here: https://github.com/aokellermann/nexus-now
elektor··on Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
Context: Yesterday a user created a Bluesky account using the N-word as their handle and, unsurprisingly, people were not happy and there was clamor for the Bluesky dev team to add a filter at the account creation level.
elektor··on Predicting hit songs with 97% accuracy
This is the study population: Thirty-three participants (47% female) were recruited from the Claremont Colleges and surrounding community. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 57 (M = 24.25, SD = 10.47).
elektor··on How to Delete Your Reddit Account and All Data Under GDPR/CCPA
The site you linked does not work and the GitHub repository is disabled.
elektor··on Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
Do you have a source for that $2.5 figure?
elektor··on Board Changes at Signal
Does anyone have any insight on the new board members?

Good for privacy?

elektor··on Ask HN: What is your recommended speech to text/audio transcription tool?
Thanks for that! Searching for diarization really helped me narrow down for what I was looking for.
elektor··on Ask HN: What is your recommended speech to text/audio transcription tool?
Using the large model, it works really well, even in low volume settings/speakers mumbling. Some of my transcripts are pharma related and Whisper stumbles on the drug names, but I’m pretty understanding of that.
elektor··on The “smolnet”, build for friends and friends of friends
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. What’s the benefit of your service over a Signal group chat?
elektor··on The “smolnet”, build for friends and friends of friends
Looks like they’re using “smol” servers; it crashed under a few hundred HN visits ;)
elektor··on Addressing the community about changes to our API
There is Lemmy and Tildes
elektor··on Addressing the community about changes to our API
Im backing up as many comments as I can using Wayback Machine
elektor··on Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API
BlueSky is the viable alternative to Twitter. It’s got a vibrant growing community that feels reminiscent of early Twitter
elektor··on Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web
I use a FF extension to do something similar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabwrangler/

I usually do Reddit/HN binges where Ill open up 30+ tabs that are of interest and make my way through the list but if I don't get to them in under 10 minutes, the tabs automatically close and I'll forget them while still getting the dopamine hit of clicking on all the novel headlines :)

elektor··on News Minimalist – Only significant news
The problem with using Wikipedia as a news source is that it focuses on really flashy topics, like murder and armed conflicts. Looking at the headlines of detoxed.news confirms this:

1) Flood in Rwanda kills 109 people 2) Sudan War 3) Australia evacuation from Sudan 4) Seizing of an oil tanker

None of these headlines keep me particularly informed and are actually a more potent version of the 24 hours new cycle

elektor··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
https://kagi.com/
elektor··on Silvergate Bank to begin voluntary liquidation
It's interesting to see how quickly the public interest (and money!) has shifted from cryptocurrency to AI.
elektor··on The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
I'm getting wildly different citation counts for some of the listed AI papers.

For example, the paper "ColabFold: making protein folding accessible to all" is listed as having 1162 citations. I'm seeing that it was cited only by 899 publications on Scite: https://scite.ai/reports/colabfold-making-protein-folding-ac...

I'm wondering if Google Scholar is overestimating or Scite is underestimating.

elektor··on Show HN: Beatbot.fm – Make Songs with AI
For those of you looking to replicate this but without the annoying rap lyrics: https://mubert.com/render
elektor··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
I was able to get on by downloading the Canary version of Edge, which then prompted me to try the "new Bing".
elektor··on Show HN: We've built ChatGPT for your pdf files
I just tried this out on a research abstract and asked it two softball questions (How many patients in trial? What was main study outcome?) and it got both of them right :)
elektor··on Beta Testers required for my book-recommendation website
StoryGraph (https://app.thestorygraph.com/) is the most viable non-Amazon book reading community at the moment.
elektor··on Sharing Your Netflix Account
Oh boy, here we go.

Very curious to see how stringent they are going to be in enforcing this. This is going to disrupt a lot of multi-generational families who share an account but don't all live under the same roof.

elektor··on Show HN: ELI5 Powered by GPT-3
This site is triggering my AdGuard Firefox extension and creates a loop of constant page refreshes.
elektor··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I just tried out your Whisper Windows port and it worked perfectly for what I was looking to do, thank you so much!
elektor··on A script to allow installing unsigned extensions on Firefox
Is there a repository of these Firefox unsigned extensions?
elektor··on Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
Link to full text paper: https://docdro.id/BLOY55z
elektor··on The YC Summer 2022 Batch
Well said. I imagine a group like Lower Carbon Capital (https://lowercarboncapital.com/) would be better suited to provide expertise.
elektor··on The YC Summer 2022 Batch
"2% in Climate, Energy, or Sustainability"

I know YC is not a governmental agency and their main goal is profit, but given all that's going on in the world, would've loved to see a substantially higher number here.

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