top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-01

Code is run more than read

https://olano.dev/2023-11-30-code-is-run-more-than-read/

2 years ago

The Seamless Communication models

https://ai.meta.com/research/seamless-communication/

2 years ago

Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy

https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

2 years ago

Accidental database programming

https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-building-databases/

2 years ago

A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/30/a-bride-to-be-discovers-a-reality-bending-mistake-in-apples-computational-photography

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38490811

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492378

2 years ago

Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning

https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth

2 years ago

Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

https://noiselith.com/

2 years ago

HTML hacks that shaped the Internet

https://tedium.co/2023/11/24/weird-html-hacks-history/

2 years ago

Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/return-to-office-is-dead-stanford-economist-says-heres-why.html

2 years ago

Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16989

2 years ago

Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS

https://www.ft.com/content/3944234e-e3b4-46fa-8c2f-cadec780ecb4

2 years ago

Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to support a major stroke trial

https://www.science.org/content/article/misconduct-concerns-possible-drug-risks-should-stop-stroke-trial-whistleblowers-say

2 years ago

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations (2020)

https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/

2 years ago

Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

https://adventofcode.com/2023/

2 years ago

Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times

https://thehftguy.com/2023/11/21/buggy-animation-in-atlassian-bitbucket-is-wasting-half-a-cpu-core-at-all-times/

2 years ago

Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psvideocontent/

2 years ago

The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/the-inside-story-of-microsofts-partnership-with-openai

2 years ago

RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD

https://ravynos.com/

2 years ago

Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/climbing-jannu-north-face.html

2 years ago

Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

https://theconversation.com/salad-fingers-wasnt-just-strange-it-was-art-heres-how-its-still-influencing-the-weird-part-of-youtube-2-decades-on-216911

2 years ago

Skyfield: Elegant Astronomy for Python

https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/

2 years ago

The Onyx Programming Language

https://wasmer.io/posts/onyxlang-powered-by-wasmer

2 years ago

Llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer

http://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/

2 years ago

Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone

https://www.anduril.com/roadrunner/

2 years ago

Music-Map – Find Similar Music

https://www.music-map.com

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38490809

2 years ago

Large Language Model Course

https://github.com/mlabonne/llm-course

2 years ago

A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/13/a-medieval-gothic-monastery-built-using-cad-cam/

2 years ago

My insulin pump controller has a bug

https://twitter.com/morganherlocker/status/1730455721815527429

2 years ago

Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67583486

2 years ago

Unsloth: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% accuracy loss Llama finetuning

https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth

2 years ago

A Nouveau graphics driver update

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953144/b85b695d0c760692/

2 years ago

Should you split that file?

https://www.pathsensitive.com/2023/12/should-you-split-that-file.html

2 years ago

500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

https://github.com/miketromba/highest-paying-software-companies

2 years ago

Seraph Secure: anti-scam software co-founded by Kitboga

https://www.seraphsecure.com/

2 years ago

Endatabas: A SQLite-inspired, SQL document database with full history

https://docs.endatabas.com/tutorial/quickstart.html

2 years ago

Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-harvesting-cocoa-used-by-major-corporations-ghana/

2 years ago

Quantum particles can feel the influence of gravitational fields

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-particles-gravity-spacetime-aharonov-bohm-effect

2 years ago

OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/01/openai-delays-launch-custom-gpt-store-2024

2 years ago

"Useless Ruby sugar": Endless (one-line) methods

https://zverok.space/blog/2023-12-01-syntax-sugar5-endless-methods.html

2 years ago

Astronomers posit that we live in an area with below average density

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-giant-void-puzzle-universe-expansion.html

2 years ago

ASML names Christophe Fouquet as new CEO

https://nltimes.nl/2023/11/30/chip-machine-maker-asml-names-christophe-fouquet-new-ceo

2 years ago

The Neglected Books Page

https://neglectedbooks.com/

2 years ago

Brain waves usually found in sleep can protect against epileptic activity

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-brain-epileptic.html

2 years ago

Cloudflare Gen 12 Server: Bigger, Better, Cooler in a 2U1N Form Factor

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-gen-12-server-bigger-better-cooler-in-a-2u1n-form-factor/

2 years ago

Why are Golang heaps so complicated

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-12-01-why-are-go-heaps-confusing/

2 years ago

I never got a response after Google assured me that they'd do a full retro

https://twitter.com/JustJake/status/1730644510592692627?s=20

2 years ago

The Stroad

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad

2 years ago

Why Did These LEDs Light Up? ESP32-S3 – Which Pins Are Safe to Use? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-DLeI6hjQ

2 years ago

China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country

https://www.economist.com/china/2023/11/30/china-is-building-nuclear-reactors-faster-than-any-other-country

2 years ago

What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation a.k.a. RAG?

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-retrieval-augmented-generation/

2 years ago

300-year-old Tokyo comb company sells 30k-yen ($200) wooden hair combs

https://soranews24.com/2023/10/29/300-year-old-tokyo-comb-company-sells-30000-yen-wooden-hair-combs-are-they-worth-it/

2 years ago

The future of air defense must be smarter, more affordable, and reusable

https://www.anduril.com/article/the-future-of-air-defense/

2 years ago

Segment Anything Model (Sam) Visualized

https://flowforward.simple.ink/

2 years ago

Uber Joins the S&P 500

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-12-01-2023/card/uber-technologies-joins-the-s-p-500-JUPoBf8HFZP8ZeoZRZ6x

2 years ago

Britain's scariest libel firm

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/01/britains-scariest-libel-firm-can-pursue-anyone-anywhere

2 years ago