top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-29

Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

2 years ago

The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/111490485825183949

2 years ago

Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware

https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/

2 years ago

Who makes the most reliable new cars?

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938/

2 years ago

Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity

https://github.com/01mf02/jaq

2 years ago

Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

https://github.com/kmille/freetar

2 years ago

Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphere

https://whenistheweekend.com/theSphere.html

2 years ago

Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Roundcube-Nextcloud

2 years ago

Travle: A daily game – get between countries in as few guesses as possible

https://imois.in/games/travle/

2 years ago

How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracybrower/2023/11/26/5-ways-to-work-effectively-with-someone-you-really-dont-like/

2 years ago

Deno Cron

https://deno.com/blog/cron

2 years ago

Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-29/okta-says-hackers-stole-data-for-all-customer-support-users

2 years ago

Extracting training data from ChatGPT

https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.html

2 years ago

Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-11-17/massachusetts-becomes-fifth-state-in-nation-to-make-prison-calls-free

2 years ago

BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced

https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcsdl/index.html

2 years ago

Graph Networks for Materials Exploration

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/

2 years ago

Show HN: Hacky Meta Glasses GPT4 Vision Integration

https://github.com/dcrebbin/meta-vision-api

2 years ago

Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL

https://twitter.com/ShopifyEng/status/1729500623773573265

2 years ago

Cybertruck Launch

https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

2 years ago

Paperless-Ngx v2.0.0

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/releases/tag/v2.0.0

2 years ago

Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services

https://synergeticlabs.com/email-alchemy/

2 years ago

An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/ex-googler-guide-dev-tools

2 years ago

Unity Software with a 'company reset' walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal

https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unity-software-with-a-company-reset-walks-away-from-film-vfx-and-the-weta-deal/

2 years ago

Amazon Unveils Graviton4: A 96-Core ARM CPU with 536.7 GBps Memory Bandwidth

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21172/amazon-unveils-graviton4-a-96core-cpu-with-5367-gbs-memory-bandwidth

2 years ago

Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest relatives

https://www.aaas.org/news/marine-bacteria-genus-may-hold-mitochondrias-closest-relatives

2 years ago

How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html#memo-08

2 years ago

It's Still Funny That 1k People Gave Tesla $250k for a Roadster Six Years Ago

https://jalopnik.com/its-still-very-funny-that-1-000-people-gave-tesla-250-1851038764

2 years ago

Visualizing Pokémon Red and Blue Connections (2020)

http://peterhajas.com/blog/pokemon_rb_connections.html

2 years ago

Person-in-WiFi: Fine-Grained Person Perception Using WiFi [pdf]

https://www.ri.cmu.edu/app/uploads/2019/09/Person_in_WiFi_ICCV2019.pdf

2 years ago

Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

https://github.com/srbhr/Resume-Matcher

2 years ago

Rolls-Royce calls off bets on electric planes, says low-carbon fuel is future

https://electrek.co/2023/11/29/rolls-royce-calls-off-bets-on-electric-planes-says-low-carbon-fuel-is-the-future/

2 years ago

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

2 years ago

What should I do if I suspect one of the journal reviews I got is AI-generated?

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/204370/what-should-i-do-if-i-suspect-one-of-the-journal-reviews-i-got-is-al-generated

2 years ago

Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/29c3-5088-en-many_tamagotchis_were_harmed_in_the_making_of_this_presentation_h264

2 years ago

Show HN: Error return traces for Go, inspired by Zig

https://github.com/bracesdev/errtrace

2 years ago

Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/metas_eu_privacy_fee_triggers/

2 years ago

Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family

https://nextcloud.com/blog/open-source-email-pioneer-roundcube-comes-aboard-nextcloud/

2 years ago

Stable Diffusion:Real time prompting with SDXL Turbo and ComfyUI running locally

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1869cnk/real_time_prompting_with_sdxl_turbo_and_comfyui/

2 years ago

Okta hackers stole data on all customer support users in major breach

https://sec.okta.com/harfiles/

2 years ago

Why I always hit the crosswalk button (2015)

https://www.klittlepage.com/2015/01/21/why-i-always-hit-the-crosswalk-button/

2 years ago

Loongson releases next-generation CPU

https://www.ecns.cn/news/sci-tech/2023-11-29/detail-ihcvixpi0428703.shtml

2 years ago

Show HN: Python-Type-Challenges, master Python typing with online exercises

https://python-type-challenges.zeabur.app/

2 years ago

Dobb·E: An open-source framework for learning household robotic manipulation

https://dobb-e.com/

2 years ago

Understanding the heap – a beautiful mess

https://jackfromeast.site/2023-01/understand-the-heap-a-beautiful-mess.html

2 years ago

The origins of the steam engine

https://rootsofprogress.org/steam-engine-origins

2 years ago

MusicXML

https://www.musicxml.com/

2 years ago

Apple M1 Pro Beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools

https://www.gearnews.com/apple-m1-pro-beats-m3-pro-with-ableton-logic-and-pro-tools/

2 years ago

Cyberattack – November 2023

https://www.blender.org/news/cyberattack-november-2023/

2 years ago

Beam Me Out of This Death Trap, Scotty (1980)

http://www.iasa-intl.com/folders/shuttle/GoodbyeColumbia.html

2 years ago

Show HN: pgxman – npm for Postgres extensions

https://pgxman.com/

2 years ago

Ban of the printing press led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1729834374080958622

2 years ago

Lidocaine induces apoptosis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01449-3

2 years ago

Schoenberg: Why He Matters

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/11/schoenberg-why-he-matters-review/676112/

2 years ago

ONNX Model Zoo Hosted on GitHub

https://github.com/xetdata/onnx-models

2 years ago

The End Of History: Academic historians are destroying their own discipline

https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-end-of-history

2 years ago

Why Does the DEA Still Have On-Demand Access to Trillions of Phone Records?

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/29/ron-wyden-wants-to-know-why-the-dea-still-has-on-demand-access-to-trillions-of-phone-records/

2 years ago

Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data

https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/amazon-svp-mike-hopkins-office-return/

2 years ago

Italy bans cultivated meat products

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/italy-bans-cultivated-meat-products/4018541.article

2 years ago

Americans Are Pulling Cash from Their Retirement Savings to Pay Bills

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/consumers-pull-cash-from-retirement-accounts-amid-budget-stress

2 years ago

New neurotech eschews electricity for ultrasound

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bci-ultrasound

2 years ago

New Loongson chip matches Intel's 14600K in IPC tests, overclocked to 3 GHz

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-cpu-matches-14600k-ipc

2 years ago

Ballerburg SDL – Play classical castle combat game from 1987 in the browser

https://baller.tuxfamily.org/online/

2 years ago

Reddit Sans

https://github.com/reddit/redditsans

2 years ago

Canadian government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/google-online-news-act-1.7043330

2 years ago

Together AI raises a $102.5M Series A

https://www.together.ai/blog/series-a

2 years ago

In 1903, NY Times predicted airplanes would take 10M years to develop

https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-impossible/

2 years ago

PgAdmin 4 v8.0

https://www.pgadmin.org/news/#92

2 years ago

Strange Loops: journeys in declarative logic programming in genomics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG24QFdVh-0

2 years ago