top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-17

Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

https://jackcook.com/2023/09/08/predictive-text.html

3 years ago

Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style

https://petals.dev/

3 years ago

CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification

https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala

3 years ago

Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)

https://linearbookscanner.org/

3 years ago

A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

https://maxread.substack.com/p/a-literary-history-of-fake-texts

3 years ago

Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot

https://twitter.com/unormal/status/1703163364229161236

3 years ago

Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/environmental-defenders-murdered-2022

3 years ago

Chili Oil Notes

https://uptointerpretation.com/posts/chili-oil-notes/

3 years ago

AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B

https://toonk.io/aws-ipv4-estate-now-worth-4-5-billion/index.html

3 years ago

Homebrew Website Club

https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club

3 years ago

I hacked macOS

https://asahilina.net/agx-exploit/

3 years ago

Tech Independence

https://sive.rs/ti

3 years ago

Chonky Menu Re-Creation

https://www.nathanmanousos.com/posts/chonky-menu

3 years ago

Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07062

3 years ago

Fireball over Iceland

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230916.html

3 years ago

Bounties Damage Open Source Projects

https://ziglang.org/news/bounties-damage-open-source-projects/

3 years ago

How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/09/16/how-the-mac-didnt-bring-programming-to-the-people/

3 years ago

Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/cereal-decline-breakfast-trend-6dd591e8

3 years ago

Donut math: how donut.c works

https://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html

3 years ago

Changing the Rules of Rust

https://without.boats/blog/changing-the-rules-of-rust/

3 years ago

Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting-us-back

3 years ago

Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000190

3 years ago

Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari

https://oblador.github.io/hush/

3 years ago

Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making

3 years ago

LaTeX for tabletop

https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-for-tabletop/

3 years ago

Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN

https://connor.zip/posts/2023-08-04-localtalk-ethernet

3 years ago

A High Throughput B+tree for SIMD Architectures (2020) [pdf]

https://www.ece.lsu.edu/lpeng/papers/tpds-20-1.pdf

3 years ago

Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/introducing-infrastructure-manager-powered-by-terraform/

3 years ago

So You Think You Know C? (2020) [pdf]

https://wordsandbuttons.online/SYTYKC.pdf

3 years ago

Wasmer – Run, Publish and Deploy any code, anywhere

https://wasmer.io/

3 years ago

Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition) (2017)

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/pirates-caribbean-metric-edition

3 years ago

Unity's Trap

https://www.pentadact.com/2023-09-16-unitys-trap/

3 years ago

Comp.lang.c is now full of spam

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c

3 years ago

Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37540790

3 years ago

Making architecture easy

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/making-architecture-easy

3 years ago

Hyprland Is a Toxic Community

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

3 years ago

Spellburst: LLM–Powered Interactive Canvas

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03921

3 years ago

Modder Turns Framework Laptop PCB into a Handheld Gaming PC

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/modder-turns-framework-laptop-pcb-into-a-handheld-gaming-pc

3 years ago

What is RISC-V, and why we're unlocking its potential

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2023/09/what-is-risc-v-and-why-were-unlocking-its-potential

3 years ago

Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

https://paulfuhr.medium.com/how-indeed-com-keeps-killing-the-job-market-why-resumes-are-dead-a76ab2f5af

3 years ago

Unity: We Have Heard You

https://twitter.com/unity/status/1703547752205218265?s=46&t=7KCNnmJt82xcCKEkZnoUTQ

3 years ago

Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66724246

3 years ago

Bernie Sanders: workers should reap AI benefits in form of ‘lowering workweek'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/17/bernie-sanders-workers-should-reap-benefits-of-ai

3 years ago

Grabbing Dinner

https://gardenandgun.com/feature/grabbing-dinner/

3 years ago

Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced

https://boingboing.net/2023/09/17/game-developers-flee-unity-after-exorbitan-price-plan-announced-but-not-everyone-can-get-out.html

3 years ago

The Home Assistant Green is here

https://www.theverge.com/23875557/home-assistant-green-announcement-price-specs-ten-year-anniversary

3 years ago

Show HN: Conway's Game of Chess

https://gist.github.com/elesiuta/a17d93feb3d29971c3b5abbde69d53f3

3 years ago

A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ai-and-the-next-generation-of-drone-warfare

3 years ago

Vintage Apple

https://vintageapple.org/

3 years ago

DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/15/1079624/deepmind-inflection-generative-ai-whats-next-mustafa-suleyman/

3 years ago

Are the Longevity Benefits of Acarbose Rooted in Its Role on the Gut Microbiota?

https://gethealthspan.com/blog/articles/acarbose-longevity-benefits-gut-microbiota/n3jokanbseg1f1apq7wt3/

3 years ago

Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths in the U.S.

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/geographic-hot-spots-firearms-smoking.php

3 years ago

Tell HN: Stripe Destroyed Our Business after 7 months of building our product

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546468

3 years ago

What Silicon Valley “gets” about software engineers

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/

3 years ago

Unity's Just Not into You, Indie Developer

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/unity-s-just-not-into-you-indie-developer

3 years ago

The Data Science Manifesto (2020)

http://datasciencemanifesto.org/

3 years ago

New York Times doesn’t want its stories archived

https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/new-york-times-website-internet-archive/

3 years ago

Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66724246

3 years ago

The Fossil Wrist PDA becomes a tiny Gopher client

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-fossil-wrist-pda-becomes-tiny.html

3 years ago

Show HN: A reference implementation of Turing's paper “On Computable Numbers”

https://github.com/planetlambert/turing

3 years ago

Whistleblower CISO says PennState lied about IT security to win $2B from US gov

https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article278868069.html

3 years ago

California sues 5 major oil co's for campaign of deception about climate change

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-16/california-sues-five-major-oil-companies-for-lying-about-climate-change

3 years ago