top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-17

The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place

https://blog.gopenai.com/how-to-speed-up-llms-and-use-100k-context-window-all-tricks-in-one-place-ffd40577b4c

3 years ago

London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface

https://github.com/petykowski/London-Underground-Dot-Matrix-Typeface

3 years ago

Bullshit Jobs (2018)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs

3 years ago

Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr;

https://ionathan.ch/2023/06/06/angarr.html

3 years ago

GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy

https://www.gbstudio.dev/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368990

3 years ago

The Rot Economy

https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-rot-economy

3 years ago

I don't need your query language

https://antonz.org/fancy-ql/

3 years ago

People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-crime-they-dont-remember.html

3 years ago

Review of Hetzner ARM64 servers and experience of WebP cloud services on them

https://blog.webp.se/hetzner-arm64-en/

3 years ago

What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)

https://www.dictionary.com/e/ampersand/

3 years ago

No, GPT4 Can’t Ace MIT

https://flower-nutria-41d.notion.site/No-GPT4-can-t-ace-MIT-b27e6796ab5a48368127a98216c76864

3 years ago

Merging bcachefs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/934692/5046d466490d9220/

3 years ago

Don’t Talk to Police (2012) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

3 years ago

Gitless: A simple VCS built on top of Git

https://gitless.com/

3 years ago

Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/groundwater-depletion-earths-axis

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370684

3 years ago

They just pirated my open source 8088 BIOS

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/brand-new-laptop-recreates-1981%E2%80%99s-ibm-pc-complete-with-8088-cpu-and-640kb-of-ram.1492119/page-3#post-41883267

3 years ago

Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0

3 years ago

Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases/tag/1.5.0

3 years ago

Data-Driven Science and Engineering 2nd Edition [pdf]

https://faculty.washington.edu/sbrunton/DataBookV2.pdf

3 years ago

Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)

https://waivek.github.io/website/tooltip.html

3 years ago

Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synchronize-when-people-interact/

3 years ago

IKEA-Oriented Development

https://taylor.town/ikea-oriented-development

3 years ago

Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370725

3 years ago

Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture

https://moderncss.dev/modern-css-for-dynamic-component-based-architecture/

3 years ago

Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

https://cordcuttersnews.com/google-is-shutting-down-album-archive/

3 years ago

My father may be gone, but ‘our’ radio is still going

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-17/fathers-day-radio-memories

3 years ago

Show HN: Text a photo to send as a postcard

https://postcardbot.com/

3 years ago

The Staggering Frontiers of CSS

https://buttondown.email/robinrendle/archive/the-many-frontiers-of-css/

3 years ago

How to raise a Roman army: The dilectus

https://acoup.blog/2023/06/16/collections-how-to-raise-a-roman-army-the-dilectus/

3 years ago

Show HN: Explore large language models with 512MB of RAM

https://github.com/jncraton/languagemodels

3 years ago

Rewilding the planet: An archipelago constructed of sand is bringing new life

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01370-w/index.html

3 years ago

How many shipwrecks are there in the world's oceans?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230609-how-many-shipwrecks-are-there-in-the-worlds-oceans

3 years ago

It's companies' fault we don't want to return to the office

https://innovationnation.blog/p/its-companies-fault-we-dont-want

3 years ago

Poop: Performance Optimizer Observation Platform

https://github.com/andrewrk/poop

3 years ago

Rust vs Zig Benchmarks

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/rust-vs-zig

3 years ago

Iterating on Testing in Rust

https://epage.github.io/blog/2023/06/iterating-on-test/

3 years ago

Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06657

3 years ago

Can you just move into an abandoned house?

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-okay-to-go-into-abandoned-houses

3 years ago

The Risks of Staying Put

https://buttondown.email/robinrendle/archive/the-risks-of-staying-put/

3 years ago

Daniel Ellsberg: The Pentagon Papers

https://archive.org/details/pentagonpapersde00beac

3 years ago

Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-116-PipeWire-Camera

3 years ago

Google Cloud Domains is to be fully deprecated as part of Google Domains sale

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1669726481130434563

3 years ago

BetaWiki – An open encyclopedia of software history

https://betawiki.net/wiki/Main_Page

3 years ago

Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94PGgYKHQ0

3 years ago

GPT-4 apparently can't recite the litany against fear from Dune

https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1670150729422757888

3 years ago

Show HN: State Trooper – Tiny, no frills state machine for Go

https://github.com/hishamk/statetrooper

3 years ago

HouseWatch: Open-source tool for monitoring and managing ClickHouse clusters

https://github.com/PostHog/HouseWatch

3 years ago

Japanese biomass venture using microorganisms to tackle waste disposal

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230428/p2g/00m/0bu/057000c

3 years ago

Ancient astronaut theorists faked a Hindu nuclear explosion (2013)

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/the-case-of-the-false-quotes.html

3 years ago

Reddit Admins are forcing protesting subreddits to open to the public again

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/14bxad1/admins_force_rsteam_to_reopen/

3 years ago

Westfield’s San Francisco centre mall lost 46% of its stores since 2020

https://sfstandard.com/business/westfield-mall-san-francisco-centre-union-square-stores-closing/

3 years ago

Make microservices look like monoliths

https://github.com/crufters/actio

3 years ago

Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting in Varna, Bulgaria

https://herbsutter.com/2023/06/16/trip-report-summer-iso-c-standards-meeting-varna-bulgaria/

3 years ago

Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/17/world/four-climate-charts-extreme-weather-heat-oceans/index.html

3 years ago

Reddit impacted by Alphv ransomware group

https://d17m4o70dfu80a.cloudfront.net/vUIetTJMYDggpkVMVKlOOZmtlc0=.png

3 years ago

Florida has banned direct-to-consumer auto sales, but Tesla and co get a pass

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/17/23764510/florida-has-banned-direct-to-consumer-auto-sales-but-electric-only-automakers-get-a-pass

3 years ago

How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Ud6mHdhlQ

3 years ago

Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/

3 years ago

Python Dict – An Explorable Explanation

https://just-taking-a-ride.com/inside_python_dict/chapter1.html

3 years ago

James Gosling talks about virtual machines, security, and Java (2004)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1017013

3 years ago

Tech's Reckoning

https://wheresyoured.at/p/techs-reckoning

3 years ago

GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness

https://clarifycapital.com/the-future-of-investment-pitching

3 years ago

Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today

https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110554495980083260

3 years ago

Using Git-annex for Data Archiving

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10516-using-git-annex-for-data-archiving

3 years ago

Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 2.3 released

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/releases/tag/2.3

3 years ago

Are chiplets enough to save Moore’s Law?

https://www.eetimes.com/are-chiplets-enough-to-save-moores-law/

3 years ago

Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36371358

3 years ago

Implementing a Personal Transportation Hierarchy

https://collindonnell.com/implementing-a-personal-transportation-hierarchy

3 years ago