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k5hpon Rarbg Is No More

Let's hope the same doesn't happen to Rutracker.

k5hpon Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password

Try again! We increased the limits :)

k5hpon Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password

That's interesting indeed. Could be that the context window of the model is too small...

k5hpon Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password

We have deployed improvements that should help with throttling :)

k5hpon Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere

https://archive.ph/sMhUt

k5hpon BMW Makes Heated Seats an $18/Month Subscription Service – Again

Clickbait title. Should be renamed.

k5hpon A new hash algorithm for Git

Just in case: http://archive.is/omsjJ

k5hpon Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10434.pdf

The author is Roger Wattenhofer. Currently taking his Computer Systems class at ETH.

k5hpon Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

That moment when you click on the first paper referenced in the article, and the author is the professor of the lecture you currently should actually study for

k5hpon A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design

lol this picture was taken right in front of my house

k5hpon Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing

How can it be that a single group can take down Wikipedia? The internet is broken.

k5hpon The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)

In one of their videos [1] the mast can be seen vibrating at a high intensity. There is for sure lots of tension in the material produced, I wonder how durable the masts are. I have the feeling they would instantly break during a storm.

Wind turbines have pitch control to reduce the speed of the rotor and blades. This allows wind turbines to survive most storms. I don't see an equivalent control mechanism with Vortex Bladeless masts.

[1] https://youtu.be/Mf-gps4r2L0

k5hpon Switzerland Tried Negative Rates in the 1970s

Prior to the downturn, official unemployment figures only acknowledged 81 unemployed people – yes, 81 – in a country of 6.4 million.

Incredible number.

k5hpon Show HN: IOU – Split shared expenses

Another great app for tracking expenses is Splid [1] – IMO much better than Splitwise, no accounts required, clean and beautiful UI. (I'm not affiliated with this app)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=splid.teamturt...

k5hpon How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong

https://outline.com/7RG8ps

k5hpon Switzerland to test ‘hyperloop’ train technologies

I don't think Switzerland is going to use this system above ground. It most certainly will be deployed underground - long train tunnels are very common in Switzerland.

There was a project called Swissmetro [0] in 2005 which had a very similar concept to Hyperloop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro

k5hpon Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]

Was it only in reaction to recent criticism or does Apple release their supplier list yearly?

k5hpon The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font

Quartz is publishing such interesting content.

k5hpon Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub

Interesting that Hacker News allows links to pirate sites... This will probably get removed soon

k5hpon Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts

Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AXKs99g...

k5hpon Aadhaar: India's largest technological breakthrough

Interesting comment.

I must say, the article is written from an economics perspective and does not consider any technical or design flaws whatsoever.

k5hpon Ask HN: Why are more and more websites asking for phone numbers?

Phone numbers are more convenient in contrary to email: every individual has only one phone number, which hardly ever changes. They consider the phone number as unique identifier of a user.

Many websites think that lots of users have multiple emails and thus maybe sign up twice. Again, it's only about convenience.