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Nightshade, the tool that ‘poisons’ data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
Intentionally poisoning someone else is never morally right. But if someone in the office keeps swiping your lunch, wouldn’t you resort to petty vengeance? For artists, protecting work from being used to train AI models without consent is an uphill battle. Opt-out requests and do-not-scrape codes rely on AI companies to engage in good faith, …
Introducing Code Llama, an AI Tool for Coding
Today, we’re releasing Code Llama, a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate and discuss code. Code Llama is state-of-the-art for publicly available LLMs on coding tasks. It has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning …
Fan outcry pushes Pathfinder dev to delete new data-sucking tool and all its info one day after introducing it: ‘The scale of the outburst surpassed worst expectations’
Owlcat Games has yanked a controversial new player-tracking tool from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous just a day after introducing it. On Monday, July 24, Owlcat introduced update 2.1.5m, a hefty patch to the game that—amidst all the bugfixes and tweaks you’d expect from this kind of thing—introduced AppsFlyer, described by Owlcat as “an industry …
Show HN: JuxtaCode – native Git diff tool for macOS
I wanted to make a native Git diff tool that works “stand-alone” in the sense that you just need to point it at a repository and then you can select commits to compare and open files in a 3-way-merge tool. I’ve been finding it useful to have one app I can quickly switch to for …
Show HN: A tool to help you write more reliable prompts
Hey HN! While writing prompts for a few projects recently, a couple of friends and I realised that writing prompts today is like writing code in a txt file – it sucks and there is no tooling to help you. So we decided to hack on a tool to help you fix this – https://optimist.varied.ai/ …
Bye tool AIs, say hi to autonomous agent AIs
Hey everyone! In the last issue, I shared my thoughts on being human in the age of ever-smarter AI systems. Every time I meet people in person, there will always be a moment where the discussion evolves into AI, no matter who I talk to. I think this is an interesting development, and with even …
Ask HN: Tech Stack Visualization / Monitoring Tool?
Same as title. As a full stack web developer who sometimes procastinate my full-time job to create my personal projects, I wonder if there are any tools out there to visualize and monitor my tech stacks. I want it to be as lightweight as possible, and quickly see the server status (sometimes simply down or …
Brunswick Tool Library
The tool library has a COVID safe plan in place, limiting the number of people we can have in the library. Reservations are required before collecting tools. Please don’t attend the library if you’re feeling ill, awaiting a test result, or have been asked to isolate. If you have any questions, you can email us …