top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-03

LLM Visualization

https://bbycroft.net/llm

a year ago

1592 upvotes – 131 comments

LLM Visualization

https://bbycroft.net/llm

a year ago

972 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38511280

a year ago

576 upvotes – 519 comments

Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one

https://nolanlawson.com/2023/12/02/lets-learn-how-modern-javascript-frameworks-work-by-building-one/

a year ago

531 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

https://plant.max-richter.dev

a year ago

439 upvotes – 49 comments

Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers

https://reportphonespam.org/

a year ago

407 upvotes – 327 comments

Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/11/30/armv6/

a year ago

375 upvotes – 137 comments

Not a real engineer (2019)

https://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-05-29-not-a-real-engineer.html

a year ago

292 upvotes – 79 comments

Now I can just print that video

https://blog.forret.com/2023/12/01/printthatvideo/

a year ago

276 upvotes – 119 comments

Lobsters

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

a year ago

263 upvotes – 200 comments

The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)

http://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-06-21-life-is-too-short-for-jenkins.html

a year ago

262 upvotes – 266 comments

OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/

a year ago

252 upvotes – 230 comments

Gron: Make JSON greppable

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

a year ago

249 upvotes – 73 comments

Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect

https://github.com/mattwparas/steel

a year ago

245 upvotes – 184 comments

Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds

https://wildergardenaudio.com/maim/

a year ago

229 upvotes – 65 comments

A new approach to domain ranking

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/73-new-approach-to-ranking/

a year ago

219 upvotes – 51 comments

UniFi Express

https://ui.com/cloud-gateways/express

a year ago

213 upvotes – 290 comments

Stuxnet Source Code

https://github.com/research-virus/stuxnet

a year ago

211 upvotes – 120 comments

The Placeholder Girlfriend

https://parhelia.conorbarnes.com/p/the-placeholder-girlfriend

a year ago

204 upvotes – 150 comments

GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18805

a year ago

202 upvotes – 142 comments

The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/11/30/the-fediverse-is-an-opportunity-learned-societies-cant-ignore/

a year ago

199 upvotes – 220 comments

Show HN: Onsites.fyi - Curated Big Tech Interview Experiences

https://www.onsites.fyi/

a year ago

187 upvotes – 117 comments

Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241

a year ago

185 upvotes – 82 comments

Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/02/why-does-sleep-become-more-elusive-as-we-age-it-has-to-do-with-shifts-in-sleep-architecture/

a year ago

164 upvotes – 176 comments

Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019)

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2019/05/17/webassembly-compiler.html

a year ago

161 upvotes – 32 comments

All the hominins made tools

https://johnhawks.net/weblog/all-the-hominins-made-tools/

a year ago

148 upvotes – 39 comments

US Senator: What Do Our Cars Know? and Who Do They Share That Information With?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/us-senator-what-do-our-cars-know-and-who-do-they-share-information

a year ago

144 upvotes – 23 comments

MakeMake: Generate make files from C source code

https://github.com/quelsolaar/makemake

a year ago

140 upvotes – 69 comments

1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-humans-appeared-human-63-of-the-time-in-recent-turing-test-ai-study/

a year ago

136 upvotes – 47 comments

A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-whale-thats-known-only-by-the-sound-of-its-voice/

a year ago

132 upvotes – 24 comments

Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

https://blitiri.com.ar/p/chasquid/

a year ago

131 upvotes – 54 comments

Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-with-watson

a year ago

127 upvotes – 178 comments

GDlog: A GPU-accelerated deductive engine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02206

a year ago

127 upvotes – 13 comments

A Personal History of APL (1982)

https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/APL-hist.html

a year ago

122 upvotes – 47 comments

Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/three-gaming-focused-linux-operating-systems-beat-windows-11-in-gaming-benchmarks

a year ago

122 upvotes – 97 comments

The analog computer for the Nike missile system (2001)

https://www.ed-thelen.org/computer.html

a year ago

112 upvotes – 42 comments

DIY Home EV Charger

https://jamesfotherby.com/index-page/electric-vehicle-charger/

a year ago

112 upvotes – 190 comments

Run 70B LLM Inference on a Single 4GB GPU with This New Technique

https://ai.gopubby.com/unbelievable-run-70b-llm-inference-on-a-single-4gb-gpu-with-this-new-technique-93e2057c7eeb?gi=cbe7920f4cd2

a year ago

111 upvotes – 57 comments

I was scared To say this to NASA (But I said it anyway) – Smarter Every Day

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

a year ago

109 upvotes – 59 comments

Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe's Ports

https://www.occrp.org/en/narcofiles-the-new-criminal-order/inside-job-how-a-hacker-helped-cocaine-traffickers-infiltrate-europes-biggest-ports

a year ago

106 upvotes – 106 comments

History of the PDF

https://www.sensible.so/blog/history-of-the-pdf

a year ago

102 upvotes – 57 comments

Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022)

https://dudemanguy.github.io/blog/posts/2022-06-10-wayland-xorg/wayland-xorg.html

a year ago

99 upvotes – 167 comments

Floating solar power array on hydropower plant

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/03/worlds-largest-floating-solar-power-plant-hydropower-reservoir/

a year ago

96 upvotes – 66 comments

Adding Build Provenance to Homebrew

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/11/06/adding-build-provenance-to-homebrew/

a year ago

93 upvotes – 41 comments

American librarians helped defeat the Nazis

https://daily.jstor.org/how-american-librarians-helped-defeat-the-nazis/

a year ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Lowstorage: JSON-based database for Cloudflare Workers and R2 buckets

https://github.com/good-lly/lowstorage

a year ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

uBlock Origin rules for HN: removing MSM news sources reduces systemic stress

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38510651

a year ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

The first results from the biggest basic income experiment

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/12/1/23981194/givedirectly-basic-income-experiment-abhijit-banerjee-tavneet-suri

a year ago

88 upvotes – 173 comments
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