2025-07-09
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Pixels, Paperbacks, and Power (7/9/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 9, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Donkey Kong Releases...
References on Responsible AI, Long-Context, and Data-Optimal LLMs
A compilation of cited works supporting our phi-3 research, including studies on responsible AI alignment, long-context models, data-optimal training strategies, and new multimodal datasets.
Bringing joy to wallets and wrists alike, two of my favorite ergonomic keyboards are both discounted in the Prime Day sales
The only painful bit is choosing which one to buy.
Lies of P isn't my favourite soulslike, but Overture is one of the best DLCs in the whole genre
Round 8 has a bright, glorious future if it keeps this up.
After repeatedly falling victim to scalpers, I've scraped together all the best Pokémon TCG deals I can find this Prime Day
I'm coming for you, Prismatic Evolutions.
Vintage recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien reading (and singing, in Elvish) selections from...
Vintage recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien reading (and singing, in Elvish) selections from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Confronting Multimodal LLM Challenges: Reasoning Gaps and Safety Trade-offs in Phi-3-Vision
Explore the inherent challenges in Phi-3-Vision, from limitations in high-level reasoning and occasional ungrounded outputs to the complex trade-offs between helpfulness and harmlessness, particularly in safety-critical domains.
CEO of Twitter Suddenly Departing After Grok's "MechaHitler" Crisis
After spending just over two years justifying Elon Musk's disastrous ownership over X-formerly-Twitter, CEO Linda Yaccarino has finally had enough. The former media exec announced her resignation on Wednesday, less...
Dune: Awakening studio says sorry for accidentally wiping a bunch of stuff in the last patch, promises to replace everything by the end of the week
The Deep Desert continues to vex Funcom.
Benchmarking Multimodal Safety: Phi-3-Vision's Robust RAI Performance
Explore Phi-3-Vision's robust safety evaluation on internal and public Multi-Modal RAI benchmarks (RTVLM, VLGuard), demonstrating notable enhancements from safety post-training compared to other open-source models.
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No, Grok, No
Published on July 9, 2025 3:10 PM GMTIt was the July 4 weekend. Grok on Twitter got some sort of upgrade. Elon Musk: We have improved @Grok significantly. You should...
Get 34% off the Star Wars Shatterpoint core set this Prime Day and start playing my favourite miniature wargame ever
Not only can you make Anakin Skywalker fight Darth Maul, you can even make swooshy lightsaber noises with your mouth while you roll the dice.
I tried vibe coding for 30 days. Here's what I learnt...
and it's definitely changed my opinion on using A.I. Links:- Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code Agent Half Life: https://cognaptus.com/blog/2025-05-11-halflife-crisis-why-ai-agents-fade-with-time-and-what-it-means-for-automation/ Trivy: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy Clair: github.com/quay/clair Check out my course on building cli apps: https://dreamsofcode.io/courses/cli-apps-go/learn...
The Asteroid Setup That Demands an Explanation
Published on July 9, 2025 2:55 PM GMTIntroductionI recently made a post named Planet X, Lord Kelvin, and the use of Structure as Fuel. I got some very insightful engagement...
I'm an absolute gaming monitor geek and I reckon these UK deals are better than all the other Amazon Prime Day offers, anywhere for anything
But will it be 1440p, ultrawide or 4K?
I've tested a ton of USB SSDs over the last few months and can tell you, you probably don't need any faster than this Adata drive that's over $20 off for Prime Day
I still reckon this is the best external SSD on the market today.
Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to...
Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to how it’s designed. “Platforms routinely claim they merely reflect user behavior, yet […] toxic content often gets a...
This 21-year-old Kid Was Given a C for His Paper, So He Built a $92 Billion Empire Instead
The genius idea everyone said would fail.Continue reading on ILLUMINATION »
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