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

LLM Visualization

https://bbycroft.net/llm

2 years ago

LLM Visualization

https://bbycroft.net/llm

2 years ago

Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

https://plant.max-richter.dev

2 years ago

Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers

https://reportphonespam.org/

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Not a real engineer (2019)

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

2 years ago

Now I can just print that video

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

2 years ago

Lobsters

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Gron: Make JSON greppable

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

2 years ago

Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect

https://github.com/mattwparas/steel

2 years ago

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

https://wildergardenaudio.com/maim/

2 years ago

A new approach to domain ranking

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

2 years ago

UniFi Express

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

2 years ago

Stuxnet Source Code

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

2 years ago

The Placeholder Girlfriend

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

2 years ago

GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18805

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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

https://www.onsites.fyi/

2 years ago

Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019)

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

2 years ago

All the hominins made tools

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

MakeMake: Generate make files from C source code

https://github.com/quelsolaar/makemake

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

GDlog: A GPU-accelerated deductive engine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02206

2 years ago

A Personal History of APL (1982)

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

The analog computer for the Nike missile system (2001)

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

2 years ago

DIY Home EV Charger

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

History of the PDF

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Floating solar power array on hydropower plant

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

2 years ago

Adding Build Provenance to Homebrew

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

2 years ago

American librarians helped defeat the Nazis

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Tesla: Security Vulnerabilities

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-16203/Tesla.html?page=1&order=1&trc=13&sha=73e27d3898b2b240263e0f443513b5e8f9073841

2 years ago

WikiReader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

2 years ago

Show HN: Rqbit – bittorent CLI and desktop app written in Rust

https://github.com/ikatson/rqbit/releases/tag/v4.0.0

2 years ago

A Vacuum Tube Single Board 1-Bit Computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7nx-pMQ6tM

2 years ago

S2n-TLS – A C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol

https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls

2 years ago

Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk-page-altman.html

2 years ago