Inside the War Against Headlight Brightness
Link: theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?www.theringer.com
Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS
Link: sailor.li/aocnds.html
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch
Link: adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/leanprove…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps
Link: github.com/langfuse/langfuse
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
🪢 Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with LlamaIndex, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. 🍊YC W23 - ...GitHub
3D-Printed Dune Chess Set
Link: parametric-architecture.com/3d…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team
Link: brightonruby.com/2024/getting-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The story of the The StoryGraph with graphsBrighton Ruby Conference
Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
Link: forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Your password is going to be deleted—here’s what you need to know.Zak Doffman (Forbes)
Tricia Tuttle berichtet in einem Interview von Filmschaffenden, die Sorge haben, auf dem Festival nicht mehr frei ihre Meinung sagen zu könnenDER STANDARD
Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe
Link: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a bank vault owned by the French statesman's sonElla Feldman (Smithsonian Magazine)
Moon
Link: ciechanow.ski/moon/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Make your QEMU faster (2022)
Link: linus.schreibt.jetzt/posts/qem…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
Link: news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-ex…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor
Link: medium.com/@ivan.ishubin/how-i…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ah, matrices. One of those core linear algebra concepts we all encountered in school. Despite their significance, I never had the chance to work with them during my career, which led me to forget…Ivan Shubin (ITNEXT)
Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime
Link: more-magic.net/posts/crunch.ht…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Droste’s Lair
Link: vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A swords-and-sorcery programming environment for building and counting mathematical structuresvezwork.github.io
Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions
Link: chords.yottanami.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020)
Link: hapax.github.io/physics/teachi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
February 24, 2020. The computational power of a humble napkin is awesome. I discuss three napkin algorithms — dimensional analysis, Fermi estimates, and random walks — and use them to figure out why rain falls, the length of the E.hapax.github.io
Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust
Link: github.com/ellenhp/farebox
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Multimodal routing in Rust. Contribute to ellenhp/farebox development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app
Link: washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
Link: waymo.com/blog/2024/12/partner…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip.Waymo
SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer
Link: github.com/JanNeuendorf/SVC16
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Simplest Virtual Computer. Contribute to JanNeuendorf/SVC16 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Investigators first thought Mangione had taken a bus out of the city because he was seen on surveillance video at the George Washington Bridge bus station.Fox News (New York Post)
Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk
[video]Link: youtube.com/watch?v=YD-9NG1Ke5…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Source: libsoftiktok
Remember when we said the FBI was in the crowd on January 6th and the media and Democrats called us liars and conspiracy theorists for 4 years and then it turned out the FBI did in fact have informants in the crowd?
Original tweet : nitter.privacydev.net/libsofti…
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
Link: ai.meta.com/research/publicati…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at...ai.meta.com
Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
Link: irrationalanalysis.substack.co…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Semi-custom silicon is a bigger problem than Nvidia.Irrational Analysis
New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs up to 75%
Link: venturebeat.com/ai/new-llm-opt…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Universal Transformer Memory uses neural networks to determine which tokens in the LLM's context window are useful or redundant.Ben Dickson (VentureBeat)
Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
Link: solmaz.io/our-muscles-will-atr…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
This post has made it to the Hacker News front page, see the discussion there. If you like this, you might also like my Instagram channel Nerd on Bars @nerdonbars where I calculate the power output of various athletes and myself.Onur Solmaz (Onur Solmaz blog)
The United States, Russia, Türkiye and Iran are among the key global players with a foothold in Syria. This is what they potentially stand to gain, or lose, from Assad's downfall.Annika Burgess (ABC News)
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know
Link: quantamagazine.org/what-is-ent…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance.Zack Savitsky (Quanta Magazine)
In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape
Link: jpcamara.com/2024/12/14/my-rub…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I was honored to present a talk on Ruby concurrency at RubyConf 2024. It represents a high-level distillation of much of my writing and research over the past year. The conference itself was great, and presenting was such a fun experience.jpcamara.com
I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping
Link: veryfront.com/figma-kit
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Rapid web app build and deploy for professional developers.veryfront.com
Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components
Link: github.com/sockmaster27/svader
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Create GPU-rendered Svelte components. Contribute to sockmaster27/svader development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Always go to the funeral (2005)
Link: npr.org/2005/08/08/4785079/alw…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Making a watch from scratch
Link: old.reddit.com/r/watchmaking/c…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Posted in r/watchmaking by u/tinker_man • 1,769 points and 194 commentsreddit
Antimatter Production, Storage, Control, Annihilation Applications in Propulsion
Link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich
Link: elmwealth.com/crystal-ball/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Elm: making sense of your wealth. Take the guesswork out of wealth management with our sensible-yet-sophisticated approach to investing.Elm Admin (Elm Partners)
Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War
Link: crookedtimber.org/2024/11/11/o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
There’s been a a certain amount of negativity floating around lately. So, let’s talk about a toxic, venomous freak of nature and the parasite that afflicts it.Biology warning, this gets…Crooked Timber
Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
Link: keacher.com/xmas24/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio
Link: leancrew.com/all-this/2024/12/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Array Languages for Clojurians (2020)
Link: appliedscience.studio/articles…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Applied Science Studio is a thoughtful software design consultancy.www.appliedscience.studio
Plato: An educational computer system from the '60s shaped the future - arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…
Forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer video games all started here.Ars Staff (Ars Technica)
Using Guile for Emacs
Link: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1001645…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
📰 Ukrainians already submitted almost 7.5M applications for aid under Winter eSupport
🔗 ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3…
#News #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Ukraine
Ukrainians have already submitted almost 7.5 million applications for a one-time state aid of UAH 1,000 under the Winter eSupport program. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning
Link: techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The singer was one of multiple women to launch legal action against former American Idol judge Nigel Lythgoe, alleging sexual assault.Velvet Winter (ABC News)
Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
Link: go.dev/blog/protobuf-opaque
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We are adding a new generated code API to Go Protobuf.go.dev
Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease
Link: cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
They See Your Photos
Link: theyseeyourphotos.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?
Link: milescole.dev/data-engineering…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
There’s been a lot of excitement lately about single-machine compute engines like DuckDB and Polars. With the recent release of pure Python Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, the excitement about these lightweight native engines has risen to a new high.Miles Cole
Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn
Link: the-scientist.com/mirror-bacte…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Synthetic biologists make artificial cells, but one particular kind isn’t worth the risk.John Glass, PhD (The Scientist Magazine)
Using Libc for GPUs
Link: libc.llvm.org/gpu/using.html
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
Link: rubyvideo.dev/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
On a mission to index all Ruby conferences. Your go-to place for talks and events about Ruby.www.rubyvideo.dev
An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)
Link: vice.com/en/article/viganella-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Surrounded by mountains and left in the dark for three months a year, a town in northern Italy has found a creative solution to its sunlight problem.Giacomo Raffaelli (VICE)
Uv, a fast Python package and project manager
Link: docs.astral.sh/uv/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway
Link: apnews.com/article/public-doma…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Popeye the Sailor and the Belgian boy reporter Tintin lead the class of characters and works of art becoming public domain in 2025. On Jan. 1, 2025 the U.S. copyright expires on creations from 1929.ANDREW DALTON (AP News)
Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Konwinski Prize
Link: andykonwinski.com/2024/12/12/k…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Why I launched the K Prize, aka, why want to give $1M to the first open source AI that gets 90% on contamination-free SWE-bench.Andy Konwinski
Map of GitHub
Link: github.com/anvaka/map-of-githu…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Inspirational Mapping. Contribute to anvaka/map-of-github development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood
Link: york.ac.uk/news-and-events/new…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Psychologists at the University of York, who tested the impact that smartphones have on children’s behaviour for a new two-part documentary series for Channel 4, found that a ban in school impacted positively on sleep and mood.University of York
Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans
Link: uaf.edu/news/study-reveals-mam…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that ancient Americans relied primarily on mammoth and other large animals for food.www.uaf.edu
Fractional Jobs – Job Board for Fractional Work
Link: fractionaljobs.io/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Find fractional work in your job function - Engineering | Marketing | Design | Sales | Finance | and more. We help senior talent become successful fractional operators, and we help companies reach and recruit that senior talent directly.www.fractionaljobs.io
"Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"
Link: twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/sta…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Luon programming language
Link: github.com/rochus-keller/Luon/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A compiler and IDE for the Luon programming language - a liaison beween Lua and Oberon+ - targeting LuaJIT - rochus-keller/LuonGitHub
Htmx 2.0.4 Released
Link: github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
> htmx - high power tools for HTML. Contribute to bigskysoftware/htmx development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts
Link: irata.online/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
OpenERV
Link: openerv.ca
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
UK's Online Safety Act comes into force
Link: ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/ill…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
People in the UK will be better protected from illegal harms online, as tech firms are now legally required to start taking action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms, and make them safer by design.www.ofcom.org.uk
Freedom News: **Blockade in Staffordshire as Elbit loses £2.1bn British arms contract**
"UK drops ‘outdated’ drone program, relentlessly targeted by activists since 2021 ~ Scott Harris ~ Palestine Action this morning locked on inside vehicles at the gates of Elbit’s UAV Engines site in Shenstone, Staffordshire. The company manufactures engines for Elbit’s drones, currently being used for genocidal attacks in Gaza. Drones have been linked to documented …"
US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
Link: reuters.com/legal/us-lawmakers…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Source: libsoftiktok
West Fargo, ND Police Chief Pete Nielsen told NYP that he begged the Federal Government for help after Tren de Aragua members came to his city, and they basically ignored him.
North Dakota is now the 17th state with a Tren de Aragua presence.
January 20th can’t come soon enough!
Original tweet : nitter.privacydev.net/libsofti…
Ideal for applications where cooling fans or heatsinks aren't practical.Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)
This Week in Plasma: Better fractional scaling
blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-…
@kde
#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource
This week's headliner change is something that I think will make a lot of people happy: better fractional scaling! Vlad and Xaver have been hard at work to snap everything to the screen's pixel grid, with the effect that using a fractional scale fact…This Week in Plasma: Better fractional scaling
What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018)
Link: twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
In 1843, Ada Lovelace published the first nontrivial program. How did it work?twobithistory.org
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR
Link: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fair-upd…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Meta FAIR is releasing new research artifacts that highlight our recent innovations in developing agents, robustness and safety, and architectures that facilitate machine learning.ai.meta.com
The SA government has proposed to use a site in Gillman to store and process spoil from a major transport project, but an environmental group says those plans may have major adverse effects on crucial wetlands nearby.Daniel Litjens (ABC News)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The European Union is forging ahead with plans for a constellation of internet satellites to rival Elon Musk-owned Starlink, after signing a $11.tech.slashdot.org
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Australia is a leading wool producer globally, but a new report predicts production will reach its lowest level in more than a century by mid-2025.Angus Verley (ABC News)
In Search of a Faster SQLite
Link: avi.im/blag/2024/faster-sqlite…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using modern programming paradigms like io_uring and disaggregated storage. They demonstrate up to a 100x reduction in tail latency. These are my notes.avi.im
Researchers discover new third class of magnetism
Link: nottingham.ac.uk/news/research…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to the development of new magnetic memory devices with the potential to increase operation speeds of up to a thousand times.www.nottingham.ac.uk
Bitcoin spiked to yet another new record on Monday, nearing the $108,000 mark, while Ethereum rose to a price not seen since 2021.Andrew Hayward (Decrypt)
A team at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex is tasked with making "first contact" with NASA's largest and most expensive spacecraft, the Europa Clipper, on its journey to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon.Emmy Groves (ABC News)
Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
Link: theregister.com/2024/12/16/who…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Working for a startup is supposed to end with getting rich overnight, but not like thisMatthew JC Powell (The Register)
Garbage collected smart pointers in Rust via concurrent cycle collection
Link: maplant.com/2024-12-13-Scheme-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Source: libsoftiktok
Jacqueline Mills stole millions of dollars from a taxpayer funded USDA program to feed poor children in Arkansas. Joe Biden just granted her clemency.
Original tweet : nitter.privacydev.net/libsofti…
Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
Link: lfgss.com/conversations/401475…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Why Reading https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/ and we're done... we fall firmly into scope, and I have no way to dodge it.www.lfgss.com
Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
Link: andrewkchan.dev/posts/yalm.htm…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
Link: makeuseof.com/reasons-why-dumb…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Smart TVs are great, but dumb TVs have even more going for them.John Awa-abuon (MakeUseOf)
25 Years of Dillo
Link: dillo-browser.github.io/25-yea…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Veo 2: Our video generation model
Link: deepmind.google/technologies/v…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Veo is our state-of-the-art video generation model. It creates high quality video clips that match the style and content of a user's prompts, in resolutions up to 4K resolution.Google DeepMind
Republicans Serious About Protecting Life Should Follow Texas In Prosecuting Abortion Pill Outlaws
The next step in the fight to shield women and babies from abortion comes with enforcing the pro-life laws that outlaw it.
Chris ABRAHAM
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