Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 15, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 15, 2024 :</p>
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Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
Summary: Quiet-STaR, a language model developed by Zelikman et al., learns to generate rationales at each token to explain future text, improving predictions. It addresses computational cost, initial knowledge, and prediction challenges with a parallel sampling algorithm and extended teacher-forcing technique. The model shows zero-shot improvements on GSM8K and CommonsenseQA tasks without fine-tuning, marking a step towards more general and scalable reasoning in language models.
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Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation
Summary: Let's Encrypt introduces Sunlight, a new Certificate Transparency (CT) log implementation designed for scalability, ease of operation, and reduced cost. Developed in partnership with Filippo Valsorda, Sunlight aims to improve the robustness and diversity of the CT ecosystem while enhancing the reliability and performance of Let's Encrypt's logs. The implementation addresses growing challenges in CT log operations due to the increasing volume of certificates and offers a more efficient format for publishing data.