top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-02-28

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764

2 years ago

How video games use lookup tables

https://blog.frost.kiwi/WebGL-LUTS-made-simple/

2 years ago

Look, ma, no matrices

https://enkimute.github.io/LookMaNoMatrices/

2 years ago

Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4DseiPu7E

2 years ago

Why I use Firefox

https://xn--ime-zza.eu/3

2 years ago

'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech

https://www.space.com/alien-technosignatures-exoplanet-mathematically-perfect-orbits

2 years ago

Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-children-need-risk-fear-and-excitement

2 years ago

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

2 years ago

Antarctic English

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

2 years ago

Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015)

http://book.mixu.net/css/

2 years ago

SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python

https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html

2 years ago

Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL

https://pql.dev/

2 years ago

How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/

2 years ago

MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers

https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig

2 years ago

Pingora: build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems

https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora

2 years ago

Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-puts-1nm-process-10a-on-the-roadmap-for-2027-aiming-for-fully-ai-automated-factories-with-cobots

2 years ago

New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency

https://broadbandbreakfast.com/untitled-12/

2 years ago

"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/dune-and-the-delicate-art-of-making-fictional-languages

2 years ago

Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

2 years ago

Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/28/blood-cancer-hiv-treatment

2 years ago