The hottest Technology Substack posts right now

And their main takeaways
Category
Top Technology Topics

Deep-Tech Newsletter #02 | June 2021

Deep-Tech Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 14 Jun 21
🕹 Technology AI Cloud Computing Startups Deep Tech
  1. Homology.ai is a new platform by Zaiku Group backed by InnovateUK, aiming to help organizations train and deploy privacy-preserving AI models to the cloud.
  2. Zaiku Group plans to launch a deep-tech accelerator in Q1 2022 for technical founders who have completed their advanced mathematical courses, focusing on AI/Geometric Deep Learning solutions.
  3. Zaiku Group is evolving into a deep-tech private equity firm, aiming to invest in and acquire early-stage deep-tech companies aligned with their mission & values.

We Might As Well Get Good At It

Cybernetic Forests • 19 implied HN points • 21 Mar 21
🕹 Technology Documentary Ethics Design Futurism
  1. The documentary 'We are as Gods' explores technologist Stewart Brand's controversial optimism about technology and the need for us to solve problems with it.
  2. The film raises questions about the role of technology in environmentalism and challenges the ideas of pessimism and hopelessness around its use.
  3. It emphasizes the importance of balancing tech optimism with skepticism to drive the design of safe, autonomous, environment-restoring technology.

New Week #120

New World Same Humans • 17 implied HN points • 28 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Ethics AI Alignment Virtual reality
  1. Text-to-world models are advancing rapidly, changing how we create immersive virtual environments.
  2. DeepMind researchers explore using a philosophical approach to guide AI alignment with human values.
  3. Artists like Grimes are embracing AI to extend their creative influence even beyond their lifetimes.

Destination-Adjacent Source Address Spoofing

Dataplane.org Newsletter • 1 HN point • 05 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Data Analysis Internet Research Networks
  1. A new technique called Destination-Adjacent Source Address Spoofing (DASA) was observed where source IP addresses were faked to a neighbor address of the target, potentially for unique Internet surveying or experimental purposes.
  2. The DASA spoofed addresses were noticed in DNS queries, showing unusual patterns like using IPv4 addresses in hex format and inconsistent query domains over time.
  3. Through Source Address Spoofing Triangulation, attempts were made to pinpoint the true origin of the spoofed packets, suspecting an academic institution in China, showing the potential to uncover interesting insights using network intelligence.
Get a weekly roundup of the best Substack posts, by hacker news affinity:

Data Science Weekly - Issue 404

Data Science Weekly Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 19 Aug 21
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Data science Software Development Programming
  1. Foundation models in AI are powerful tools that can be used for various tasks like language and vision, but they come with risks like misuse and ethical concerns.
  2. Causal inference helps us understand the effects of actions in data and can be applied in tech industries to personalize services and improve decision making.
  3. MLOps focuses on effectively implementing machine learning in real-world applications, bridging the gap between traditional computing and machine learning challenges.

#87

The Nibble • 4 implied HN points • 01 Dec 24
🕹 Technology AI Cybersecurity Software Development Blockchain Internet
  1. Zoom is changing its focus from video to AI communications, indicating a shift in how they want to position themselves in the market.
  2. D-Link has announced that many of its old routers are now vulnerable and outdated, suggesting users should replace them to ensure safety.
  3. There are new regulations impacting crypto rewards in Europe, affecting how companies like Coinbase can offer benefits to users in that region.

Hello world

Metal Machine Music by Ben Tarnoff • 39 implied HN points • 25 Oct 19
🕹 Technology
  1. The newsletter offers left-wing perspectives on tech inspired by Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album.
  2. The author is a tech worker, writer, and co-founder of Logic magazine.
  3. Themes guiding the author's reading and thinking about tech include labor, automation, capitalism, climate, race, gender, machine learning, the carceral state, and the cloud.

Connecting AI to APIs in a Standard Way

The API Changelog • 1 implied HN point • 13 Aug 25
🕹 Technology AI APIs Integration Development Software
  1. Building custom connectors for APIs is complicated and costly for developers. It's hard to integrate different APIs, especially when creating from scratch.
  2. Using a unified API helps developers connect to multiple APIs without needing to write separate code for each. This makes switching vendors easier and speeds up the integration process.
  3. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI to interact with different APIs smoothly, saving time and effort for developers and AI systems alike. This combination offers a more efficient way to manage API connections.

December Newsletter

RSS DS+AI Section • 11 implied HN points • 03 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Data science AI Ethics Research
  1. The December newsletter covers a wide range of activities and achievements in the field of Data Science and AI.
  2. There is a focus on topics like ethics, regulations, and bias in the AI industry.
  3. The newsletter also delves into the latest developments in Generative AI and provides practical tips for driving analytics and ML into production.

Introduction to Mad Prompts: Copilot for Security is a blank

Rod’s Blog • 1 HN point • 04 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Security Generative AI Prompting Microsoft
  1. Mad Libs game can be a fun and educational tool to practice parts of speech and create hilarious stories with friends.
  2. Proper prompting is crucial for AI systems to generate accurate and relevant responses, understand user intent, and enhance user experience.
  3. Learning how to prompt effectively, especially for security purposes, requires education and can be made fun using games like Mad Libs.

What do we want from AI?

Causal Deference • 12 implied HN points • 30 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Information Overload Meditation Tools
  1. The future with AI will massively change, and it's crucial to think about how we want to shape it.
  2. To combat information overload, there might be a need for tools and a cultural shift towards healthy information consumption.
  3. Exploring meditation and cognitive science concepts like Predictive Processing can help us understand ourselves and AI better.

The Iceberg that sank the Snowflake?

Brick by Brick • 9 implied HN points • 01 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Data Warehousing Open Source Computing
  1. Snowflake's stock dropped significantly after the announcement of CEO Frank Slootman's retirement, with a key concern being the impact of Apache Iceberg on moving data out of Snowflake.
  2. Apache Iceberg is a powerful technology that allows for the efficient migration of data out of Snowflake to other systems for processing, causing revenue loss in both storage and compute for Snowflake.
  3. The paradigm shift towards technologies like Iceberg takes time in enterprise settings but can have a significant impact, highlighting the importance of capturing the compute dollars in data processing.

A Recipe for Authentication Cookies in the Decoupled Frontend & Backend Architecture

Ilia’s Newsletter • 1 HN point • 04 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Web Development
  1. To make authentication cookies work beyond the 7-day expiry on Safari, classify them as first-party cookies by ensuring the subdomain and domain resolve to the same IP addresses, which can be complex in a Decoupled Frontend & Backend Architecture.
  2. A solution is to add a dynamic endpoint to the frontend that sets the authentication cookie on the frontend domain then use that cookie on the backend subdomain, ensuring cookies are shared across subdomains to maintain authentication.
  3. Consider various security measures like using `SameSite=Strict` to protect against CSRF and being cautious about running only trusted code on subdomains when implementing this method.

The Carbon Impact of Large Language Models: AI's Growing Environmental Cost

ScaleDown • 11 implied HN points • 10 Dec 23
🕹 Technology AI Sustainability Data Centers Machine Learning Environmental Impact
  1. Large language models like GPT-4 and LLaMA 2 have a significant carbon footprint due to massive energy consumption during training.
  2. Factors affecting the carbon footprint of ML models include hardware, training data size, model architecture, training duration, and data center location.
  3. It is essential to balance the benefits of AI models with minimizing their environmental impact, considering their vast energy requirements.

Apple Secrets: A Glimpse Into Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive Roadmap

The New Internet by Jeff Morris Jr. • 4 implied HN points • 02 Dec 24
🕹 Technology Consumer Tech Wearable Tech Smart Devices Artificial Intelligence Patents
  1. Apple is looking to upgrade the Apple Watch with smart fabric bands that can track health metrics like blood pressure and ECG readings. This could change how we monitor our health with wearable tech.
  2. A new patent suggests Apple is considering a modular iPhone design, allowing users to swap out components like batteries or cameras. This would make phones more customizable and easier to repair.
  3. Apple is working on enhancing Siri with advanced AI to have more natural conversations. This could improve how people interact with their devices and compete with other smart assistants.

Why Sorry Dave?

Sorry Dave • 1 HN point • 03 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Software Development Bug Fixing Data science
  1. According to MIT, over 100 errors exist in every thousand lines of code, which can have serious consequences like known human deaths.
  2. Software defects cost more than $2 trillion annually, emphasizing the need for better software development methods.
  3. While AI can assist in creating safer code, it's essential to explore new approaches beyond just relying on machine learning models.

Data Science Weekly - Issue 403

Data Science Weekly Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 12 Aug 21
🕹 Technology Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Data science Big Data Software Development
  1. Be careful with machine learning! There are common mistakes that researchers make. It's important to build models carefully and evaluate them properly.
  2. A court in Australia has decided that AI can be considered an inventor. This is a big change in how we think about inventions and who gets credit for them.
  3. Natural Language Understanding (NLU) with just big data might not work as well as we think. It's time to rethink how we approach this challenge.

Deep Learning vs XGBoost, MXNet, Hugging Face & more...

Sector 6 | The Newsletter of AIM • 19 implied HN points • 20 Jun 21
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Data science Analytics Software Development
  1. Deep learning is powerful for tasks like image and speech recognition due to its complex layers. It's great for understanding patterns in large datasets.
  2. XGBoost and MXNet are tools that can be very efficient for structured data and competitions, often requiring less data than deep learning.
  3. Hugging Face is popular for natural language processing, making it easy to use advanced models without needing deep expertise in AI.

ChatGPT for finance.Text-to-3D cinematic-quality digital humans. ChatGPT-like Language Model from Stability AI.

AI Brews • 17 implied HN points • 21 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Generative AI Language Models Virtual reality Artificial Intelligence
  1. Stability AI released an open-source language model called StableLM trained on a large dataset.
  2. Synthesis AI developed text-to-3D technology to create cinematic-quality digital humans.
  3. Nvidia introduced Video Latent Diffusion Models for high-resolution text-to-video generation.

Microsoft Ire, Ripple + Rail, Wallarm API Revenue Protection

The API Changelog • 1 implied HN point • 11 Aug 25
🕹 Technology APIs AI Fintech Cybersecurity Software
  1. OpenAI launched GPT-5, which is said to improve coding abilities and comes with a new tiered pricing strategy to attract developers.
  2. Wallarm introduced a new API Revenue Protection feature that helps secure revenue-generating APIs by providing real-time financial insights.
  3. Microsoft's new Project Ire is an AI tool for classifying malware, showing promise in improving cybersecurity measures.

Sort Product Update – June 2024

Database Engineering by Sort • 7 implied HN points • 03 Jun 24
🕹 Technology Software Databases Cryptocurrency Web Development
  1. Sort is offering $5,000 in bounties to help encourage community members to improve database contributions.
  2. They have launched a new public database for Ethereum, which includes a variety of data related to NFTs and transactions.
  3. New features like Change Requests are on the way, along with bug fixes and a refreshed landing page for better user experience.

I’m not supposed to like Microsoft, right?

My Home Office Hacks • 17 implied HN points • 17 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Hardware Product Review Home Office Cleaning Newsletter
  1. Feeling guilty for liking Microsoft is common, but their ergonomic keyboard can be a game-changer for typing comfort.
  2. Regularly cleaning your coffee machine, with a simple vinegar-water solution, can greatly improve the taste of your coffee.
  3. Consider subscribing to the My First Million Newsletter for insightful articles and a recap of The MFM Podcast.

Will PostgreSQL switch to a Thread-based model ?

Engineering At Scale • 15 implied HN points • 24 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Database Architecture Modeling Software Development Performance
  1. PostgreSQL currently uses a process-based model for handling client connections and managing data.
  2. The process-based model offers advantages like fault isolation, security guarantees, and efficient resource management.
  3. Although there are advantages to the process-based model, the community is considering a switch to a thread-based model for PostgreSQL in the future.

Data Science Weekly - Issue 402

Data Science Weekly Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 05 Aug 21
🕹 Technology Data science Machine Learning Open Source Data Visualization AI Ethics
  1. Visualizing your code can help you understand its structure easily. It's a useful way to see what's happening in a GitHub repository at a glance.
  2. AI ethics should be understood by everyone in an organization, not just data scientists. This awareness can help prevent risks and guide better decisions.
  3. If you want to build a successful AI project, learn from those who have done it. They often share important lessons that can help others achieve similar success.

Polyadic QML : A Fireside Chat With Joaquín Keller

Quantum Formalism • 19 implied HN points • 05 Feb 21
🕹 Technology Quantum Computing Machine Learning Open Source
  1. Polyadic QML is an open source quantum machine learning algorithm designed by Joaquín Keller.
  2. The algorithm is capable of running on NISQ devices and has shown accuracy levels similar to classical ML algorithms.
  3. There is an upcoming fireside chat with Joaquín Keller to discuss training a quantum model on the Iris flower dataset.

Episode 20: Burkhard on Qt Embedded Systems

burkhardstubert • 19 implied HN points • 02 Aug 21
🕹 Technology Embedded Systems Consulting Software Development Project management
  1. Value pricing focuses on what customers are willing to pay and guarantees results. This approach helps both the client and consultant by reducing uncertainties about costs and outcomes.
  2. Offering multiple pricing options increases the chances of acceptance. When customers can choose between different payment plans or benefits, they feel more in control and are more likely to say yes.
  3. Switching to pre-payment and reducing work hours allows more time for business operations and future planning. This means less stress and better business health for consultants.

The End of the Internet?

Political Currents by Ross Barkan • 9 implied HN points • 29 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Internet Tech Platforms Regulation Industry Disruption
  1. The internet is deeply ingrained in our daily lives and will likely continue until our lifetimes.
  2. Artificial Intelligence is transforming the internet experience, with concerns about fake content and the impact on various professions.
  3. AI may bring about significant changes in human history, but there are uncertainties regarding its effects on industries and the economic sustainability of AI companies.

The Irresistible Charm of Flip-Discs

Kathy PM • 2 implied HN points • 02 May 25
🕹 Technology Displays Programming Hardware Software Interactive
  1. Flip-disc displays have a nostalgic charm that brings back memories of train stations and travel with their satisfying clicking sounds. They feel magical and make experiences feel more real.
  2. This project combines old-school flip-boards with modern technology, offering interactive displays that you can control with your code. It’s a fun mix of art and tech.
  3. Building something physical that reacts to your commands is very rewarding. The joy comes from creating a display that flips and moves, making programming feel more alive.