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

Grok

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

11 months ago

1170 upvotes – 419 comments

The return of the frame pointers

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

11 months ago

684 upvotes – 251 comments

When Armor Met Lips

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

11 months ago

519 upvotes – 58 comments

LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with LLM

https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile

11 months ago

412 upvotes – 129 comments

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

https://github.com/Michaelangel007/nanofont3x4

11 months ago

407 upvotes – 129 comments

Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)

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

11 months ago

369 upvotes – 177 comments

Debloat non-rooted Android devices

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

11 months ago

303 upvotes – 223 comments

2600.network Dialup Service

https://2600.network/

11 months ago

288 upvotes – 112 comments

How Microchips Work

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

11 months ago

270 upvotes – 36 comments

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

11 months ago

249 upvotes – 78 comments

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

11 months ago

234 upvotes – 599 comments

Heinlein's Fan Mail Solution

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

11 months ago

206 upvotes – 40 comments

Gravitational Collapse of Spongebob

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

11 months ago

196 upvotes – 60 comments

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

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

11 months ago

195 upvotes – 126 comments

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

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

11 months ago

194 upvotes – 94 comments

Losing faith in testing

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

11 months ago

192 upvotes – 148 comments

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

11 months ago

181 upvotes – 130 comments

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/

11 months ago

174 upvotes – 104 comments

Compressing Images with Neural Networks

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

11 months ago

171 upvotes – 69 comments

Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline

https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector

11 months ago

171 upvotes – 57 comments

Optimize CSS with SAT Solving

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

11 months ago

163 upvotes – 45 comments

Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB for Weeks

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

11 months ago

159 upvotes – 105 comments

Superiority (1951)

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

11 months ago

159 upvotes – 63 comments

Django REST framework 3.15.0

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

11 months ago

149 upvotes – 67 comments

6.2 GHz Intel Core I9-14900KS Review

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

11 months ago

149 upvotes – 270 comments

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

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

11 months ago

146 upvotes – 159 comments

How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small

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

11 months ago

145 upvotes – 59 comments

HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale

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

11 months ago

141 upvotes – 111 comments

htmx 2.0.0-beta1

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

11 months ago

139 upvotes – 85 comments

Sul Ross Desk

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

11 months ago

131 upvotes – 13 comments

How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater

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

11 months ago

124 upvotes – 129 comments

How to mess with your roommate (2018)

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

11 months ago

122 upvotes – 25 comments

Pine64 March update: making waves

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

11 months ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

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

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

11 months ago

118 upvotes – 87 comments

In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses

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

11 months ago

116 upvotes – 79 comments

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

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

11 months ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

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

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

11 months ago

113 upvotes – 101 comments

Got my ultimate retro KVM setup working

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

11 months ago

105 upvotes – 9 comments

DIY Macro PCB Photography

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

11 months ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

Eclipse Tracks

https://eclipsetracks.org/

11 months ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

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/

11 months ago

88 upvotes – 138 comments

IP Geolocation Is Twenty-Five Years Old

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

11 months ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments

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

11 months ago

87 upvotes – 168 comments

Imitation Learning (2023)

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

11 months ago

86 upvotes – 37 comments

Retrowin32: Minesweeper and the Four Month Bug

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

11 months ago

81 upvotes – 4 comments

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

11 months ago

75 upvotes – 44 comments

C++ Exit-Time Destructors

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

11 months ago

75 upvotes – 58 comments

Engima Breaker in Rust

https://github.com/iKevinY/ultra

11 months ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

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

11 months ago

73 upvotes – 110 comments

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

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

11 months ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Seeding steel frames brings destroyed coral reefs back to life

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

11 months ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments
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