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I was wrong about robots.txt (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xUg7
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My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education (🔥 Score: 158+ in 2 hours)
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The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (1996) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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The annotations are at https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node2.....
Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
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“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
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What's happening to reading? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Young graduates are facing an employment crisis (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction (Score: 156+ in 8 hours)
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Company announcement: https://bedrockrobotics.com/news/introducing-bedrock-robotic...
LLM Daydreaming (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
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AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication extension (Score: 154+ in 7 hours)
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Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Six Years of Gemini (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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Lorem Gibson (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
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Hand: open-source Robot Hand (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
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Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
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Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xSqY
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Hello HN,
I'm Ghita, co-founder of ZeroEntropy (YC W25). We build high accuracy search infrastructure for RAG and AI Agents.
We just released two new state-of-the-art rerankers zerank-1, and zerank-1-small. One of them is fully open-source under Apache 2.0.
We trained those models using a novel Elo score inspired pipeline which we describe in detail in the blog attached. In a nutshell, here is an outline of the training steps:
* Collect soft preferences between pairs of documents using an ensemble of LLMs.
* Fit an ELO-style rating system (Bradley-Terry) to turn pairwise comparisons into absolute per-document scores.
* Normalize relevance scores across queries using a bias correction step, modeled using cross-query comparisons and solved with MLE.
You can try the models either through our API (https://docs.zeroentropy.dev/models), or via HuggingFace (https://huggingface.co/zeroentropy/zerank-1-small).
We would love this community's feedback on the models, and the training approach. A full technical report is also going to be released soon.
Thank you!
Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
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MARS.EXE → COM (2021) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds (❄️ Score: 154+ in 3 days)
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Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
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Related: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-altermagnetism-magnetism-broad..., https://www.ictp.it/news/2025/1/altermagnets-new-magnetic-ph...
I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
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Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design (❄️ Score: 155+ in 3 days)
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Claude for Financial Services (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer (🔥 Score: 163+ in 3 hours)
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