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Hacker News (Aug 2023)
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Sargablock: Bricks from Seaweed
168 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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YKK: Japan’s Zipper King [video]
168 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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British Gas starts to turn off Hive smart home devices forever
168 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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You probably don’t need to fine-tune an LLM
168 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Testing on production
167 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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AI-generated art lacks copyright protection, D.C. court says
167 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks
167 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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“Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web
167 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
167 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1
167 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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λ Calculus (2013) [pdf]
166 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework
166 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Vicuna v1.5 series, featuring 4K and 16K context, based on Llama 2
166 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs
166 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Lynn Conway's Story (2000)
166 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law
166 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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VkFFT: Vulkan/CUDA/Hip/OpenCL/Level Zero/Metal Fast Fourier Transform Library
166 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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Cargo Cult AI
165 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Minimum Viable Secure Product
165 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Ravenchord – A Radical Redesign of the Piano
164 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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I fixed a bug the other day
164 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf]
164 points • comment • aug 05, 2023
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Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell
164 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
164 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious
164 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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Ham radio enthusiasts vs. High-frequency traders: A battle for the airwaves
164 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Why Open Source?
164 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source
164 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Show HN: ChainForge, a visual tool for prompt engineering and LLM evaluation
163 points • comment • aug 07, 2023
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Stolen from Apple (2004)
163 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Inside the JVM: Arrays and how they differ from other objects
163 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs
163 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion
163 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness
163 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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A cheap radio hack disrupted Poland's railway system
163 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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I don't want to host services but I do
163 points • comment • aug 09, 2023
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AI isn’t good enough
163 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Lfortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler
163 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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DOJ sues SpaceX for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring
162 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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The History of Windows 2.0
162 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions
162 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Fred Fish
162 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife
162 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Astro: All-in-one web framework designed for speed
162 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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A forum engine written in Assembly
162 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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SQLite 3.43
162 points • comment • aug 24, 2023
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A collection of quant riddles with answers
161 points • comment • aug 02, 2023
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How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg
161 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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A look into the finances of SpaceX
161 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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My deep learning rig (2022)
161 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis
161 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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How pencils are made in a Japanese factory [video]
161 points • comment • aug 01, 2023
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Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
161 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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I drew these corals with mathematical equations
161 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting
161 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time
161 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Casio G-Shock time sync radio
161 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Incumbents are fighting back against disrupters
160 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)
160 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
160 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Railway Safety Posters (2022)
160 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6
160 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014
160 points • comment • aug 20, 2023
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The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021)
159 points • comment • aug 11, 2023
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SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation
159 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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Scientists are only beginning to understand how PFAS impacting our health
159 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes
159 points • comment • aug 15, 2023
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Zaum
159 points • comment • aug 18, 2023
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Managing difficult software engineers
159 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI
158 points • comment • aug 17, 2023
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Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler
158 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies
158 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
158 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org
158 points • comment • aug 08, 2023
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Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper
158 points • comment • aug 21, 2023
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Japan's abandoned villages
158 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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A place where no humans will tread for 100k years
158 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Raise less, build more
158 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Running WASI binaries from your HTML using Web Components
158 points • comment • aug 27, 2023
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Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset
157 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)
157 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92
157 points • comment • aug 13, 2023
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Why do shared hospital rooms not violate HIPAA?
157 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Record low sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins
156 points • comment • aug 25, 2023
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Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server
156 points • comment • aug 12, 2023
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Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)
156 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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How to find time to learn after work (2017)
156 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally
156 points • comment • aug 06, 2023
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The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself
156 points • comment • aug 30, 2023
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Compuserve
156 points • comment • aug 22, 2023
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CIQ, Oracle, SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
156 points • comment • aug 10, 2023
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Zero-Downtime Hetzner Deploys with Ansible
156 points • comment • aug 28, 2023
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Chrultrabook – Modify a Chromebook to Run Windows/Linux/macOS
156 points • comment • aug 03, 2023
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Peter Shor's MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing
155 points • comment • aug 14, 2023
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Show HN: A simple, open-source Notion-like avatar generator
155 points • comment • aug 19, 2023
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Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022)
155 points • comment • aug 23, 2023
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What happens to all the stuff we return?
155 points • comment • aug 16, 2023
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Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll
155 points • comment • aug 26, 2023
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C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)
155 points • comment • aug 29, 2023
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Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
155 points • comment • aug 18, 2023