HackerNoon

Clean Architecture in Python: Building Maintainable APIs Without the Overkill

Learn how to apply Clean Architecture in Python without overengineering, using domain entities, use cases, Protocols, and ...
KDnuggets

7 Advanced Python Tricks to Level Up Your Coding Skills

Slicing bytes copies. On a small payload nobody notices, but slice a large packet or image buffer in a loop and the copies ...
Opinion

Eric Idle on the Monty Python rift: ‘Excuse me, I made you a million dollars’

Eric Idle looks out over the gentle, wooded hills of Provence from the terrace of his house. This summer, he stood in the same spot and watched as fire raced across the ridge opposite, incinerating ...

Crushing 8B-class models at just 1.5GB? I tried out 'MiniCPM5-2B', which is so amazing it shatters the common sense of local LLMs

I'm really loving this so far.It uses a training method called on-policy distillation, where it uses a smarter model as a teacher to learn how to think—essentially asking, 'How should I do this?' and ...
techtimes

Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 Specialist Explained: Mix Every Class to Dominate the Horde

Cold Iron Studios' Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 arrives on August 25 with six playable classes — but the most powerful one cannot be touched until you've already earned your way through the other five.
Electrek

Base Power raises $1B to roll out its giant new home battery

Base Power has just unveiled Core, a supersized 39.2-kWh home battery that it says can keep a house running for up to 36 hours and be installed in under an hour. The Austin energy company designed ...
TechCrunch

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Where most energy storage companies look for big tracts of land near large connections to the grid, Base Power is betting that it can beat them all by putting batteries in people’s backyards instead.
Salon

Trump’s “white working class” base may finally have had enough

Donald Trump threw himself a great big birthday party over the weekend, targeted to appeal to the famous white working-class voters who have formed the core of his base since the moment he came down ...
Stars and Stripes

Navy plans to homeport Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines at Naval Base Kitsap in Washington

The Navy plans to homeport up to eight Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor by early in the next decade, the service said Wednesday. The submarines would replace up ...
Rolling Stone

Rob Base, ‘It Takes Two’ Rapper, Dead at 59

Rob Base, the rapper who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” died on Friday, May 22, after a battle with cancer. He was 59. News of his death was shared via his official Instagram account. “Rob ...
USA Today

'It Takes Two' rapper Rob Base dies at 59 following cancer battle

Rapper Rob Base, who was part of the hip-hop duo known for the 1988 hit "It Takes Two," died May 22 at age 59, according to a post on his official Instagram page. Base, born Robert Ginyard, died ...