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Trump admin announces plans to shut down the Energy Star program
Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/trump-admin-announces-plans-to-shut-down-the-energy-star-program-184846271.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908941
Points: 2
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Show HN: Kevin-32B – how to do multi-turn RL on writing CUDA kernels
Hey – we just published a blog post about Kevin-32B = K(ernel D)evin.
It's to our knowledge the first open-source model that's RL-trained on CUDA kernels. Our goal was to demonstrate multi-turn RL using GRPO. We used 180 Python->CUDA conversion tasks from the KernelBench dataset.
The results were surprisingly strong! We were able to outperform top reasoning model like o3 & o4-mini.
We're sharing our training setup and learnings in the blogpost. Also the model is on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/cognition-ai/Kevin-32B
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908924
Points: 1
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When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
Article URL: https://leonidasv.com/til-svg-specs-almost-got-raw-socket-support/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908920
Points: 2
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Energy efficiency of heat pumps in residential buildings using operation data
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58014-y
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908913
Points: 4
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Show HN: The AI that helps with everything school related
Can analyze: - Textbooks - Lectures - Videos
Generates: - Flashcards - Practice Exams - Messages
Has built-in: - Whiteboard - Calculator - Graphing Tool
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908911
Points: 1
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iOS 18.5 supports satellite service like T-Mobile Starlink on older iPhones
Ask HN: Jaded with AI – Alternatives?
Hello HN,
Since a young age, I've been interested in machine and deep learning. I’m currently in the second year of my Computer Science BSc (Toronto, Canada) and already have almost 2 years of experience in industry (computer vision + NLP) and over a year in academia doing AI research (both full time). Additionally, I have quite a few open-source projects (all DL-related) that have garnered over 1,000 stars in total, and some are very well-known in their respective niches. Lately though, I'm getting the impression that the field is over-saturated, with new research being published on a daily basis, and I identify as nothing but a cog in the machine as an AI developer. I understand that all domains are affected by this phenomenon to some degree, but in AI in particular, my work doesn’t feel personal at all, and to myself, I ironically seem like a robot that trains a vision transformer to do classification, fine-tunes an LLM for certain types of documents, makes architectural changes for a tiny improvement in performance, etc.
What are alternative branches in CS that you suggest I consider? I have two chief priorities:
* Creativity: I'm not seeking a typical software development job such as full-stack developer. Instead, I'm interested in opportunities that require creativity, almost like puzzle solving, and don’t become “routine” after a while. * Industry: My goal is to work in industry, not academia. This is not because I don’t enjoy research (in fact, I prefer it to applied work), but as reluctant as I am to admit it, salary does play a role in my decision making, and I’m aiming for six figures.
To give you a concrete example: I love work in logic, programming language research, theoretical computer science, and so on because they satisfy my first criterion, but it sadly appears that employment opportunities are mostly confined to academia?
I really appreciate your thoughts and feedback.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908882
Points: 3
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Modern Druids
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1FgRKzAF_Y
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908873
Points: 1
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AI Agents: The Building Blocks of Tomorrow's Software Development Lifecycle
Article URL: https://qckfx.com/blog/ai-coding-agents-the-building-blocks-of-tomorrows-software-development-lifecycle
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908872
Points: 2
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Nvidia to release RTX 5060 at $299 on May 19th
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/661807/nvidia-rtx-5060-cards-laptops-release-date-price
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908868
Points: 2
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JavaScript Obfuscation Through File Stream Side-Channel
Article URL: https://blog.gavide.dev/blog/file-stream-side-channel
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908860
Points: 5
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Mcp-scan: NPM-audit-style security scanner for MCPs
Article URL: https://stytch.com/blog/mcp-scan/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908858
Points: 2
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How Do You Pronounce Elon Musk's Son's Name, 'X Æ A-12'?
India to conduct nationwide security drill today
Deep-Dive of ZGC's Architecture (2022)
Article URL: https://dev.java/learn/jvm/tool/garbage-collection/zgc-deepdive/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908829
Points: 1
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The Reverse Turing Test Game
Article URL: https://reverse-turing.netlify.app/game?model=gemini-1.5-flash
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908825
Points: 1
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An Entire Roman City Is Hidden Beneath London [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_-JnvuAeVI
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43908821
Points: 2
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