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Hacker News (Apr 2024)
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WizardLM 2
156 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice
156 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
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Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
156 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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Green's Dictionary of Slang
156 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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Mise: a polyglot tool version manager
155 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
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Brutalist Churches
155 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
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End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity
155 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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A place I've never been to. A place I'll never go
155 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
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Doctor at Cigna said bosses pressured her to review patients' cases too quickly
155 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down
154 points • comment • apr 07, 2024
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Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms
154 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
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I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD
154 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
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iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
154 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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"Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge
154 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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Client libraries are better when they have no API?
154 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
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I Used Netscape Composer in 2024
154 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
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'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue
153 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
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Reentry – An Orbital Simulator
153 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
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Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth
153 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
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Ceefax Simulator
153 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers
153 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
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GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is a step backwards for coding
152 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
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Church's λ-Calculus (2023) [pdf]
152 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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How Antithesis finds bugs
152 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
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Planes in 3D Space
152 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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Show HN: A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvas
152 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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Hitting every branch on the way down
152 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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It's Been a Year and Georgia.gov Continues to Be Hacked
152 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
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The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City
152 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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ChrysaLisp GUI Demo [video]
151 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
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How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
151 points • comment • apr 27, 2024
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Self-reasoning tokens: teaching models to think ahead
151 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab
151 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
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A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021)
150 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Llama 3 8B is almost as good as Wizard 2 8x22B
150 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
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ESA satellites to test razor-sharp formation flying
150 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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Fast and secure translation on your local machine with a GUI
150 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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Roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cells under ambient room conditions
150 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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Japanese American Bird Pins
150 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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How deep does life go?
149 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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The purge of German science in 1933
149 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and Walmart
149 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again
149 points • comment • apr 24, 2024
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Espressif Acquires Majority Stake in M5Stack
149 points • comment • apr 22, 2024
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Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
149 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
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Show HN: Render audio waveforms to HTML canvas using WebGPU
149 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB
148 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
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Pylyzer – A fast static code analyzer and language server for Python
148 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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Google Common Lisp Style Guide
148 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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My 25-year engineering career retrospective
148 points • comment • apr 19, 2024
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Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)
147 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
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Distributed Authorization
146 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types
146 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
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Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
146 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
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NIST researchers use cellphone compass to measure glucose
146 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
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China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made
146 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
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Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
146 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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Minister defends arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future
146 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
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An open-source implementation of Apple code signing and notarization (2022)
145 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency
145 points • comment • apr 02, 2024
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Pydantic Logfire
145 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo
145 points • comment • apr 15, 2024
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Transformer as a general purpose computer
145 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
144 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
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Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood
144 points • comment • apr 30, 2024
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Xr0: C but Safe
144 points • comment • apr 04, 2024
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
143 points • comment • apr 17, 2024
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MapSCII – A Braille and ASCII world map renderer for the console
143 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
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Palm OS and the devices that ran it
143 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
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Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW
143 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune
143 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017)
143 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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Insatiable: A life without eating
143 points • comment • apr 18, 2024
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Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push
142 points • comment • apr 08, 2024
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Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git
142 points • comment • apr 26, 2024
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Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media and driving some to suicide
142 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016)
142 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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Lambda Screen: Fractals in pure lambda calculus
142 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
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Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline)
142 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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AltStore. The first Apple approved alternative App Store
141 points • comment • apr 20, 2024
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A hacker's guide to Language Models
141 points • comment • apr 21, 2024
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iOS404
141 points • comment • apr 16, 2024
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Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
141 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
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Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event
141 points • comment • apr 23, 2024
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The Guide to Stock Options Conversations
141 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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Intel's ambitious Meteor Lake iGPU
141 points • comment • apr 09, 2024
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Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?
141 points • comment • apr 13, 2024
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Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
141 points • comment • apr 28, 2024
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A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS
141 points • comment • apr 06, 2024
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Ford's battery flagship socked by mold sickness, workers say
140 points • comment • apr 12, 2024
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Digital Wood Joints
140 points • comment • apr 25, 2024
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Adobe is buying videos for $3 per minute to build AI model
140 points • comment • apr 11, 2024
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ETag and HTTP Caching
140 points • comment • apr 10, 2024
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Henry Darger
140 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
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Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect? (2020)
140 points • comment • apr 01, 2024
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Phishing Campaigns Targeting USPS See as Much Web Traffic as the USPS Itself
140 points • comment • apr 29, 2024
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A day in the life of a Walmart manager
140 points • comment • apr 14, 2024
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She slept with a violin on her pillow
139 points • comment • apr 05, 2024
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Every Dunder Method in Python
139 points • comment • apr 03, 2024
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Letting go of the idea of keeping up
139 points • comment • apr 02, 2024