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Archives for 05 May 2024

1. Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
   (254 points | Comments)

2. X.org on NetBSD – The State of Things
   (166 points | Comments)

3. Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct
   (251 points | Comments)

4. Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero
   (535 points | Comments)

5. “Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today's dollars”
   (318 points | Comments)

6. Bollards: Why and What
   (504 points | Comments)

7. Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
   (822 points | Comments)

8. Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
   (783 points | Comments)

9. TheDesk desktop environment
   (131 points | Comments)

10. Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)
    (169 points | Comments)

11. Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)
    (284 points | Comments)

12. Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
    (354 points | Comments)

13. Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
    (260 points | Comments)

14. Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens
    (142 points | Comments)

15. Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019)
    (323 points | Comments)

16. Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
    (376 points | Comments)

17. ESP32-S3 has a few SIMD instructions
    (189 points | Comments)

18. I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021)
    (218 points | Comments)

19. Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair
    (242 points | Comments)

20. Small Things
    (177 points | Comments)

21. First 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024
    (237 points | Comments)

22. Machine Unlearning in 2024
    (328 points | Comments)

23. A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
    (180 points | Comments)

24. A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published
    (162 points | Comments)

25. Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
    (388 points | Comments)

26. Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare
    (117 points | Comments)

27. A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback
    (145 points | Comments)

28. Debian 64-bit-time transition
    (157 points | Comments)

29. Decoding UTF8 with parallel extract
    (111 points | Comments)

30. The Bloody History of 'Deadline'
    (113 points | Comments)

31. Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
    (245 points | Comments)

32. Flags Are Not Languages
    (109 points | Comments)

33. A 100x speedup with unsafe Python
    (318 points | Comments)

34. They Live
    (117 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server
    (132 points | Comments)

36. Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20
    (124 points | Comments)

37. MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
    (962 points | Comments)

38. Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
    (141 points | Comments)

39. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
    (166 points | Comments)

40. Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
    (193 points | Comments)

41. A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption
    (220 points | Comments)

42. With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-Pad Slate, Everyone's a WiiN-Er
    (118 points | Comments)

43. Time-Based CSS Animations
    (241 points | Comments)

44. Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats
    (227 points | Comments)

45. SEQUOIA: Exact Llama2-70B on an RTX4090 with half-second per-token latency
    (131 points | Comments)

46. Automated integer hash function discovery
    (272 points | Comments)

47. Understanding Stein's Paradox (2021)
    (103 points | Comments)

48. Dick Rutan, pilot of the first nonstop around-the-world flight, has died
    (126 points | Comments)