top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-03-15

Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right

https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/

2 years ago

'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024

2 years ago

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

https://ollama.com/blog/amd-preview

2 years ago

Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/nix-docker-build/

2 years ago

TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop

https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher

2 years ago

★ 1.3k Vala GPL-3.0

Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list

2 years ago

Show HN: Matrix Multiplication with Half the Multiplications

https://github.com/trevorpogue/algebraic-nnhw

2 years ago

★ 292 Python

Great ideas in theoretical computer science

https://www.cs251.com

2 years ago

FTC and DOJ want to free McDonald's ice cream machines from DMCA repair rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/ftc-and-doj-want-to-free-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines-from-dmca-repair-rules/

2 years ago

Postgres is eating the database world

https://medium.com/@fengruohang/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-157c204dcfc4

2 years ago

Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629

2 years ago

Harvard concluded that a dishonesty expert committed misconduct

https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-the-unsealed-report-showing-how-harvard-concluded-that-a-dishonesty-expert-committed-misconduct

2 years ago

IAM Is the Worst

https://matduggan.com/iam-is-the-worst/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source, browser-local data exploration using DuckDB-WASM and PRQL

https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai

2 years ago

★ 2.1k TypeScript

Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation

https://letsencrypt.org/2024/03/14/introducing-sunlight.html

2 years ago

Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-whistleblower-warning-not-suicide

2 years ago

The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come

https://apnews.com/article/orsted-offshore-wind-new-york-south-fork-climate-cbb9360388d91be1368dd91ba35aa384

2 years ago

Show HN: Richard – A CNN written in C++ and Vulkan (no ML or math libs)

https://github.com/robjinman/richard

2 years ago

★ 201 C++ GPL-3.0

Compressing chess moves for fun and profit

https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves/

2 years ago

What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 vs. 2015 (2015)

http://danluu.com/butler-lampson-1999/

2 years ago