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Archives for 16 May 2024
  1. Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
    (390 points | Comments)

  2. A forged Apple employee badge
    (952 points | Comments)

  3. Slack AI Training with Customer Data
    (784 points | Comments)

  4. Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
    (203 points | Comments)

  5. Edit PDFs for Free with Firefox PDF Editor
    (112 points | Comments)

  6. Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"
    (334 points | Comments)

  7. Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
    (344 points | Comments)

  8. Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it
    (118 points | Comments)

  9. Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg
    (198 points | Comments)

  10. A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations
    (148 points | Comments)

  11. Online censorship's institutional power
    (139 points | Comments)

  12. History of the Italian electrical system
    (135 points | Comments)

  13. Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
    (140 points | Comments)

  14. Smart Pointers in (GNU) C
    (147 points | Comments)

  15. Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows
    (173 points | Comments)

  16. Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners
    (112 points | Comments)

  17. The Downfall of DeviantArt
    (286 points | Comments)

  18. I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search
    (212 points | Comments)

  19. Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications
    (141 points | Comments)

  20. Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas
    (147 points | Comments)

  21. Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)
    (222 points | Comments)

  22. ChatGPT-4o vs. Math
    (302 points | Comments)

  23. Growing sodium chloride crystals at home
    (198 points | Comments)

  24. Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
    (354 points | Comments)

  25. Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia
    (180 points | Comments)

  26. Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
    (993 points | Comments)

  27. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.
    (299 points | Comments)

  28. Third Time: a better way to work (2022)
    (123 points | Comments)

  29. Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language
    (149 points | Comments)

  30. The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
    (139 points | Comments)

  31. D3 in Depth
    (380 points | Comments)

  32. Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene
    (164 points | Comments)

  33. Port 666 is officially registered to Doom
    (142 points | Comments)

  34. Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'
    (119 points | Comments)

  35. Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
    (476 points | Comments)

  36. Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
    (279 points | Comments)

  37. State of the Terminal
    (104 points | Comments)

  38. What's New in Neovim 0.10
    (291 points | Comments)

  39. You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019)
    (109 points | Comments)

  40. F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language
    (236 points | Comments)

  41. Elicit – AI Research Assistant
    (111 points | Comments)

  42. Students invent quieter leaf blower
    (280 points | Comments)

  43. Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
    (116 points | Comments)

  44. EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design
    (145 points | Comments)

  45. Ask HN: SaaS Subscription or Usage-Based Pricing?
    (119 points | Comments)

  46. VCs aren’t your friends
    (553 points | Comments)

  47. Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009
    (139 points | Comments)

  48. Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification
    (357 points | Comments)

  49. Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
    (385 points | Comments)

  50. NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code
    (122 points | Comments)

  51. Swift sucks at web serving or does it?
    (146 points | Comments)

  52. Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)
    (166 points | Comments)

  53. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments
    (365 points | Comments)