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Language Models Improve When Pretraining Data Matches Target Tasks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12466
2•neehao•2h ago

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shallowNuralNet•1h ago
Isn’t this just benchmarks? Even if they claim the gains generalize, it still seems like they're only optimizing for benchmarks, which is not all there is. Unless benchmark scores perfectly correlate with real-world performance (which they likely don’t), it's not clear this helps much in practice.

The Coming Wave: Post-Quantum Cryptography and the Future of Cybersecurity

https://blog.publiccomps.com/the-coming-wave-post-quantum-cryptography-and-the-future-of-cybersecurity/
1•toomuchtodo•53s ago•0 comments

Whittier

1•martinlawn•2m ago•0 comments

Electrostatic Motors Are Breaking All the Rules [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44WM5J6AcHo
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/07/08/dst-rust
1•SchwKatze•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is GitHub Support currently inactive?

1•hackish113•12m ago•0 comments

Do You Want to Hear a Thing About "Cookie Consent"? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QxHUB00RzjQ
2•VikingTechGuy•16m ago•1 comments

Cross Language Performance: C, C++, Go and Rust

https://deepwiki.com/mochilang/mochi/8.2-cross-language-performance
2•tamnd•17m ago•0 comments

Anthropic expires your paid credits after a year

3•maytc•17m ago•0 comments

A new future for icanhazip (2021)

https://major.io/p/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/
1•thunderbong•22m ago•0 comments

Bisbee Deportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee_Deportation
2•prawn•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source business management tool for small business

https://github.com/oitcode/samarium
1•zaza12•24m ago•0 comments

Renaming This File Changes what it Does [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7qx-wgl3jo
1•LorenDB•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why is it called "Vibe Coding"?

8•giantg2•28m ago•5 comments

Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee?

https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/chimp
2•b_mc2•30m ago•1 comments

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/science/04hs-science-papers-fraud-research-paper-mills.html
3•jmsflknr•31m ago•1 comments

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5B sea stars

https://apnews.com/article/sea-star-wasting-disease-epidemic-f2ab802ae8787618a5905c566d38e0c5
1•c420•32m ago•1 comments

Google Pixel 8 phone, Android 16 Canary build: Debian Linux, Graphical Interface [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2C7GOmbDxw
1•sipofwater•35m ago•1 comments

Gas stoves are not responsible for increased asthma cases

https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1952477793570464237
3•MrBuddyCasino•37m ago•0 comments

Stockitize, the AI-powered portfolio risk analysis and research tool

https://www.stockitize.com/
1•SanjivPr•40m ago•1 comments

China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies

https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-western-defense-industry-critical-minerals-3971ec51
3•bookofjoe•42m ago•2 comments

Show HN: I wrote a GitHub CLI extension to interactively manage repos

https://github.com/2KAbhishek/gh-repo-man
1•2kabhishek•48m ago•0 comments

Trump administration trashes anti-pollution plan for JD Vance's home town

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/pollution-ohio-trump-administration
6•PaulHoule•49m ago•2 comments

Vibrio pectenicida strain is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02797-2
1•arittr•51m ago•0 comments

How to Clean Your Microwave Filter

https://www.southernliving.com/how-to-clean-microwave-filter-11779655
2•domofutu•51m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Using DSPy to enrich a dataset of the Nobel laureate network

https://blog.kuzudb.com/post/graph-data-enrichment-using-dspy/
3•laminarflow027•51m ago•0 comments

Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/media/amazon-wondery-podcasts-layoffs.html
1•reaperducer•54m ago•0 comments

When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-08-04/when-to-hire-a-computer-performance-engineering-team-2025-part1.html
3•wicket•54m ago•0 comments

VertiTab: The Efficient Vertical Tab Manager (v3.0.0 Release)

https://www.vertitab.win/introduction
1•xiguali•54m ago•0 comments

Open specification for user-respecting ID verifications (whitepaper)

https://github.com/zer0-ID/synthetic-id-spec
1•jignb•57m ago•1 comments

Orcas pretend to drown one of their own in macabre training session

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/watch-a-pod-of-orcas-pretending-to-drown-one-of-their-own-in-macabre-training-session
1•delichon•1h ago•0 comments