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Show HN: Distil-NPC: a family of models for non-playable characters in games

https://github.com/distil-labs/Distil-NPCs
4•party-horse123•3h ago
we finetuned Google's Gemma 270m (and 1b) small language models specialized in having conversations as non-playable characters (NPC) found in various video games. Our goal is to enhance the experience of interacting in NPSs in games by enabling natural language as means of communication (instead of single-choice dialog options).

My AWS Account Got Hacked – Here Is What Happened

https://zviwex.com/posts/aws-account-hacked
1•zviwex•40s ago•1 comments

Expanding Our Use of Google Cloud TPUs and Services

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-cloud-tpus-and-services
3•mfiguiere•1m ago•0 comments

Copilot for Gaming Screenshots Your Games,Uploads Them to MS,Enabled by Default

https://www.techpowerup.com/342179/copilot-for-gaming-screenshots-your-games-uploads-them-to-ms-e...
2•gigel82•3m ago•0 comments

Building Custom Producers with Elixir's Broadway

https://samuelmullen.com/articles/building-custom-producers-with-elixirs-broadway
2•samullen•3m ago•0 comments

Building an LSP for your docs by overcoming Vercel

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/building-an-lsp-for-your-docs-by-overcoming-vercel
1•hahnbee•3m ago•0 comments

Trump Opens Pristine Alaska Wilderness to Drilling

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/climate/trump-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-oil-drilling.html
1•thelastgallon•7m ago•0 comments

Spinational

https://spinational.net
1•bigclashcasinop•7m ago•0 comments

Trump Says Tech Leaders Convinced Him to Call Off San Francisco 'Surge'

https://www.notus.org/california/trump-technology-national-guard-deployment-san-francisco-cancel
5•standardUser•7m ago•0 comments

Coffee beans pooped out by civets are tastier

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coffee-beans-civet-poop-tastier
2•WaitWaitWha•7m ago•0 comments

Ubios: China's Alternative to UEFI

https://pbxscience.com/ubios-chinas-alternative-to-uefi-and-the-new-era-of-firmware-standards/
1•1970-01-01•8m ago•0 comments

I wrote about parallel prompts: from 3D shoe renders to swipe-ready videos

https://www.widgens.com/blog/parallel-prompting
3•j-sp4•9m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek releases 'sparse attention' model that cuts API costs in half

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/deepseek-releases-sparse-attention-model-that-cuts-api-costs-in...
2•PaulHoule•9m ago•0 comments

Wilderness Hut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_hut
1•tosh•10m ago•0 comments

Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/google_multi_arch_x86_arm_port/
1•naves•10m ago•0 comments

Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

https://www.bikeshed.com/
2•program•11m ago•0 comments

Apple Readies New Framework to Let iPhone Users Migrate App Data to Android

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/22/appmigrationkit-framework-migration-betwen-android-and-ios/
2•m463•11m ago•0 comments

The Localhost Podcast CLI Tool

https://www.worthe-it.co.za/blog/2025-10-19-the-localhost-podcast-cli-tool.html
1•ingve•12m ago•0 comments

Trump eyes government control of quantum computing firms with Intel-like deals

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/trumps-industry-meddling-may-give-us-a-stake-in-quant...
1•pseudolus•13m ago•1 comments

Local Golinks

https://www.haranrk.com/posts/golinks/
1•fzliu•13m ago•0 comments

Meet Mico, Microsoft's AI Version of Clippy

https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy
2•naves•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A self-hosted RSS reader

https://github.com/odosui/srssly
1•yanis_t•16m ago•0 comments

How fast is Java? Teaching an old dog new tricks

https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-java-teaching-an-old-dog-new-tricks
1•mands•18m ago•0 comments

Tunnel Away

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/tunnel-away
1•bookofjoe•18m ago•0 comments

Real Mountains in Minecraft [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZyPyAwQ5E
1•xvv•21m ago•0 comments

Experimental Optical Encoder for Qwen3-VLM-2B-Instruct

https://github.com/Volkopat/VLM-Optical-Encoder
1•volkopat2•22m ago•1 comments

Expanding Model Choice in VS Code with Bring Your Own Key

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/10/22/bring-your-own-key
1•feross•23m ago•0 comments

Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI

https://fortune.com/2025/03/27/billionaire-bill-gates-two-day-workweek-ai-replacing-humans/
3•pseudolus•24m ago•4 comments

Jeep recalls nearly 25k Wrangler 4xe PHEVs after vehicles bricked by OTA update

https://electrek.co/2025/10/23/jeep-recalls-24000-wrangler-4xe-phevs-after-owners-left-stranded/
2•gnabgib•24m ago•1 comments

FULU Bounties – Fund bounties that move digital ownership forward

https://bounties.fulu.org
1•ommz•25m ago•0 comments

Workflow Development Kit

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-workflow
2•0xedb•27m ago•0 comments