top 50% 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

Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes

https://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/

2 years ago

Scheduling Internals

https://tontinton.com/posts/scheduling-internals/

2 years ago

YouTube video embedding harm reduction

https://dustri.org/b/youtube-video-embedding-harm-reduction.html

2 years ago

VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network

https://vatsim.net/

2 years ago

Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution

https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/

2 years ago

Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers

https://pgs.sh

2 years ago

The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

https://brazil.postsen.com/local/532131/The-Amazon-has-a-286--increase-in-fires-in-February.html

2 years ago

Scientists find genetic signature of Down syndrome in ancient bones

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/science/down-syndrome-dna-bones.html

2 years ago

Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-calls-ai-tools-responses-completely-unacceptable

2 years ago

Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/28/eu_microsoft_mistral/

2 years ago

The Tech Industry Doesn't Understand Consent – Opt-Out Is Not Consent

https://soatok.blog/2024/02/27/the-tech-industry-doesnt-understand-consent/

2 years ago

TrenchBroom: A cross platform level editor for Quake-engine based games

https://trenchbroom.github.io/

2 years ago

Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone

https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/pennsylvania-drone-sting-conviction/

2 years ago

Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240227-how-julius-caesar-made-the-longest-year-in-history-and-brought-us-leap-years

2 years ago

X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-floods-the-internet/103498070

2 years ago

EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297856

2 years ago

KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/

2 years ago

Show HN: SQL workbench in the browser

https://sql-workbench.com

2 years ago

The floppy disk music scene

https://www.theverge.com/24034551/floppy-disk-music-scene-underground-diy

2 years ago

European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies

https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/5/109/2024/

2 years ago

Let Everybody Sing (2016)

https://bittersoutherner.com/sacred-harp-let-everybody-sing

2 years ago

Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam

2 years ago

Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)

https://benhoyt.com/writings/learning-elm/

2 years ago

Blind, Alone, and Confused for 24 Hours Challenge (2020)

https://mattlakeman.org/2020/11/08/the-blind-alone-and-confused-for-24-hours-challenge/

2 years ago

The Emmy Computer Algebra System

https://github.com/mentat-collective/emmy

2 years ago

Common Mistakes in Modularisation

https://two-wrongs.com/software-design-tree-and-program-families.html

2 years ago

2024 MIT Integration Bee – Finals [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyfLMHGnPR0

2 years ago

More than 80 AI models from Qualcomm

https://huggingface.co/qualcomm

2 years ago

Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video

https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/

2 years ago

Globe Explorer

https://explorer.globe.engineer/

2 years ago

Calendar meeting links used to spread Mac malware

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/calendar-meeting-links-used-to-spread-mac-malware/

2 years ago

Apple Orders 'Neuromancer' Series

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/apple-neurmancer-series-william-gibson-1235925640/

2 years ago

Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama sign UAW authorization cards

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2024/02/27/mercedes-benz-uaw-organizing-autoworkers-alabama/72750019007/

2 years ago

Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform

https://medium.com/@zhaodongyu/optimize-sgemm-on-risc-v-platform-b0098630b444

2 years ago

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

https://nicf.net/articles/thermodynamics-statistical-mechanics/

2 years ago

Amazon lobbyists banned from EU Parliament

https://euobserver.com/digital/158150

2 years ago

Don't mock machine learning models in unit tests

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/unit-testing-ml/

2 years ago

Coinbase Shows Balance as 0

https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/qlpwww1zsm2y

2 years ago

Google pays publishers to test AI tool that scrapes sites to craft new content

https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unreleased-gen-ai/

2 years ago

Vyxal: A code-golfing language experience

https://github.com/Vyxal/Vyxal

2 years ago

Mistral: The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley's Giants

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-9-month-old-ai-startup-challenging-silicon-valleys-giants-ee2e4c48

2 years ago

United States White House Report on Memory Safe Programming [pdf]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf

2 years ago

An HTML Switch Control

https://webkit.org/blog/15054/an-html-switch-control/

2 years ago

Why Is Panera Exempted from California's New Minimum Wage Law?

https://reason.com/2024/02/28/why-is-panera-exempted-from-californias-new-minimum-wage-law/

2 years ago

I am the OP of that $104K bill post and I have some follow-up questions

https://answers.netlify.com/t/i-am-the-op-of-that-104k-bill-post-and-i-have-some-follow-up-questions/113472

2 years ago

Why do we need for an Undefined Behavior Annex to C++

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Tools/Why-do-we-need-a-Undefined-Behavior-Annex-for-the-C-standard/post/1574397

2 years ago

Show HN: CriticalPath – Advanced Profiler for Android

https://crpath.app

2 years ago

Show HN: Kalosm an embeddable framework for pre-trained models in Rust

https://floneum.com/blog/kalosm_0_2/

2 years ago

How to make your GNU Emacs commands 'relevant' for M-X

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsMetaXRelevantCommands

2 years ago

90% of tattoo ink contains chemicals that can cause organ damage

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05687#

2 years ago

US Military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/27/us_military_maven_ai_used/

2 years ago