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March 27, 2024

Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 28, 2024)

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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 28, 2024 :</p>

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Writing Gnome Apps with Swift

https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

Summary: Swift.org introduces Adwaita for Swift, an intuitive interface for developing GNOME applications using Swift. GNOME is a popular open-source desktop environment for Linux, known for simplicity and accessibility. Adwaita for Swift leverages Swift's clean syntax, static typing, and special features, enhancing code readability and enabling cross-platform app development. The package aims to simplify app creation and improve code readability while offering a declarative coding style for user interfaces.

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DBRX: A new open LLM

https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm

Summary: Databricks introduces DBRX, a new open, general-purpose Large Language Model (LLM) that sets a new state-of-the-art for established open LLMs. DBRX surpasses GPT-3.5 and is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. It features a fine-grained mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, offering 2x faster inference than LLaMA2-70B and 40% smaller size than Grok-1. DBRX excels in programming and general-purpose tasks and is available for Databricks customers via APIs.

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