top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-17

Grok

https://github.com/xai-org/grok

2 years ago

The return of the frame pointers

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-17/the-return-of-the-frame-pointers.html

2 years ago

When Armor Met Lips

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips

2 years ago

LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with LLM

https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile

2 years ago

Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)

https://github.com/Michaelangel007/nanofont3x4

2 years ago

Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119282/

2 years ago

Debloat non-rooted Android devices

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

2 years ago

2600.network Dialup Service

https://2600.network/

2 years ago

How Microchips Work

https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-IC-00-table-of-contents.html

2 years ago

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

2 years ago

Why are there suddenly so many car washes?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-21/car-washes-are-taking-over-the-us-here-s-why

2 years ago

Heinlein's Fan Mail Solution

https://kk.org/ct2/heinleins-fan-mail-solution/

2 years ago

Gravitational Collapse of Spongebob

https://twitter.com/PeRossello/status/1769035370031694214

2 years ago

We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl (1993)

https://jwgoerlich.com/we-were-wizards-learning-perl/

2 years ago

Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/15/certainly-here-is-google-scholar/

2 years ago

Losing faith in testing

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/a-few-words-on-testing

2 years ago

Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to $60B market cap

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/super-micro-computer-company-profile-d93a41da

2 years ago

Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mars-has-an-unexpected-influence-on-earths-oceans-and-climate-repeating-every-24-million-years-study-finds-180983952/

2 years ago

Compressing Images with Neural Networks

https://mlumiste.com/technical/compression-deep-learning/

2 years ago

Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline

https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector

2 years ago

Optimize CSS with SAT Solving

https://github.com/matthewhague/sat-css-tool

2 years ago

Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB for Weeks

https://www.twz.com/air/mysterious-drones-swarmed-langley-afb-for-weeks

2 years ago

Superiority (1951)

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/superiority-by-arthur-c-clarke-full-text/

2 years ago

Django REST framework 3.15.0

https://www.django-rest-framework.org/community/release-notes/#315x-series

2 years ago

6.2 GHz Intel Core I9-14900KS Review

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-core-i9-14900ks-cpu-review

2 years ago

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/16/reddit_promoted_posts/

2 years ago

How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems-ultrasound-history

2 years ago

HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cloud-software-company-hashicorp-exploring-potential-sale-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-03-15/

2 years ago

htmx 2.0.0-beta1

https://v2-0v2-0.htmx.org/posts/2024-03-15-htmx-2-0-0-beta1-is-released/

2 years ago

Sul Ross Desk

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sul-ross-desk-alpine-texas

2 years ago

How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater

https://e360.yale.edu/features/solar-water-pumps-groundwater-crops

2 years ago

How to mess with your roommate (2018)

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/how-to-mess-with-your-roommate/

2 years ago

Pine64 March update: making waves

https://pine64.org/2024/03/17/march-update-making-waves/

2 years ago

Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.php

2 years ago

In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-fungi-can-be-used-to-clean-pollution-and-combat-climate-change

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to get started with local language models?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39731843

2 years ago

Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735108

2 years ago

Got my ultimate retro KVM setup working

https://rubenerd.com/finally-got-my-ultimate-retro-kvm-setup-working/

2 years ago

DIY Macro PCB Photography

https://niemczuk.tech/2024/02/11/detailed-macrophotography-of-PCBs

2 years ago

Eclipse Tracks

https://eclipsetracks.org/

2 years ago

What I wish I knew about ESPP and RSUs sooner

https://blog.demofox.org/2024/03/17/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-espp-and-rsus-sooner-company-stock-benefits-2024-usa-california/

2 years ago

IP Geolocation Is Twenty-Five Years Old

https://www.sanjayparekh.com/ip-geolocation-is-25-years-old/

2 years ago

Uber to pay $272M to Australian taxi operators

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/uber-to-pay-272-million-to-australian-taxi-operators-20240318-p5fd4p.html

2 years ago

Imitation Learning (2023)

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/11/18/imitation-learning.html

2 years ago

Retrowin32: Minesweeper and the Four Month Bug

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2024/03/retrowin32-minesweeper-bug.html

2 years ago

C++ Exit-Time Destructors

https://maskray.me/blog/2024-03-17-c++-exit-time-destructors

2 years ago

Microsoft is giving Copilot users access to GPT-4-Turbo for free

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/copilot/microsoft-is-giving-copilot-users-access-to-gpt-4-turbo-for-free

2 years ago

F-35 Cleared for Full-Rate Production 17 Years After Its First Flight

https://www.twz.com/air/f-35-cleared-for-full-rate-production-17-years-after-its-first-flight

2 years ago

Show HN: Interactive Smartlog VSCode Extension – An Interactive Git GUI

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=interactive-smartlog.interactive-smartlog

2 years ago

Engima Breaker in Rust

https://github.com/iKevinY/ultra

2 years ago

Seeding steel frames brings destroyed coral reefs back to life

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/some-coral-reef-damage-can-be-fixed/

2 years ago

The High-Risk Refactoring

https://webup.org/blog/the-high-risk-refactoring/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the best way to exit tech?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39736142

2 years ago

Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away in NASA Test

https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-received-a-message-laser-beamed-from-10-million-miles-away-in-nasa-test

2 years ago

Targeting of IT Experts in Gaza

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6228

2 years ago

CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox (2023)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs168/index.html

2 years ago