# Apr 11, 2024

- Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

- **OpenAI's GPTBot fetched over 3 million pages** from a single content farm, indicating a potential oversight in its web crawling algorithm.

- Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

- **Aider** is a **command line tool** that enables **pair programming with GPT-3.5/GPT-4**, directly editing and committing changes to code in local git repositories, supporting a wide range of programming languages and offering a unique capability to work with large codebases.

- Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

- **Sonauto-platform** appears to be inaccessible without **JavaScript enabled**, suggesting a reliance on dynamic content for user interaction.

- Humane AI Pin review: not even close

- The **Humane AI Pin**, a wearable device designed to replace smartphones by using voice commands and AI, **fails to deliver on its promises** due to numerous functional shortcomings.

- Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby

- **`crystalruby` is a Ruby gem enabling Ruby code to inline and execute Crystal code**, significantly boosting performance for certain operations, as demonstrated by benchmark comparisons between Ruby and Crystal implementations of the Fibonacci sequence.

- Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser

- **Transformers.js** brings the power of Hugging Face's **transformers library** to the web, enabling **state-of-the-art machine learning** directly in the browser without a server, covering tasks in **natural language processing, computer vision, audio, and multimodal**.

- Udio: Generate music in your favorite styles with a text prompt

- **Udio** is an innovative **app for music creation and sharing**, leveraging **text-prompting** to enable users to generate music in their preferred styles effortlessly.

- Implementation of Google's Griffin Architecture – RNN LLM

- **RecurrentGemma**, developed by Google DeepMind, introduces a **novel language model architecture** named Griffin, which enhances long sequence generation through a blend of local attention and linear recurrences, detailed in the [Griffin paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19427).

- McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (2005)

- **John McCarthy's `amb` operator**, introduced in 1961, elegantly solves computational problems by **selecting values that prevent future errors**, a concept that predates but anticipates modern backtracking algorithms.

- Lens sort, a masked pixel sort glitch effect

- **Lenssort** introduces a novel approach to image manipulation by **combining facial recognition with pixelsorting**, creating unique, glitched images reminiscent of Snapchat lenses, utilizing the [pixelsort](https://github.com/satyarth/pixelsort) project.

- Nimble: A new columnar file format by Meta [video]

- **Meta introduces Nimble**, a new columnar file format designed to **optimize machine learning workloads** by making data reading up to **2x faster**, significantly reducing the time spent on reading data before processing.

- Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems

- **Yilei Chen** introduces a **quantum algorithm** for the **Learning With Errors (LWE)** problem, leveraging **Gaussian functions with complex variances** and **windowed quantum Fourier transform** techniques, aiming to solve LWE in polynomial time.

- Show HN: Next-token prediction in JavaScript – build fast LLMs from scratch

- The **next-token-prediction** library enables the creation of **language models** for high-quality predictions such as next word or phrase, offering an alternative to decoder-only models like **GPT** and **Mistral**.

- Building an AI Coach to Tame My Monkey Mind

- The author combats **chronic imposter syndrome and the hedonic treadmill** by using ChatGPT as a therapeutic tool, finding it offers **insightful external perspective** and **emotional clarity**.

- Storm: LLM system that researches a topic and generates full-length wiki article

- **STORM**, a **Large Language Model (LLM) system**, is designed to **automate the creation of Wikipedia-like articles** by conducting Internet-based research to generate outlines and full articles with citations, as detailed in their [NAACL 2024 paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14207).