top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-08

Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA

https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c

2 years ago

Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home

https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot

2 years ago

How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?

https://bxt.rs/blog/just-how-much-faster-are-the-gnome-46-terminals/

2 years ago

Hello World

https://thecoder08.github.io/hello-world.html

2 years ago

After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/go

2 years ago

Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM

https://blog.allenai.org/hello-olmo-a-truly-open-llm-43f7e7359222?gi=760105621962

2 years ago

Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/help-to-take-down-parasite-site/

2 years ago

Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams

2 years ago

1.18k drawings of plant root systems

https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search

2 years ago

The Vala Programming Language

https://vala.dev/

2 years ago

How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-dec-engineers-saved-ethernet

2 years ago

Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/

2 years ago

Find My Device on Android

https://blog.google/products/android/android-find-my-device/

2 years ago

Chronon, Airbnb's ML feature platform, is now open source

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/chronon-airbnbs-ml-feature-platform-is-now-open-source-d9c4dba859e8

2 years ago

The UX of UUIDs

https://unkey.dev/blog/uuid-ux

2 years ago

Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested

https://blog.cloudflare.com/major-data-center-power-failure-again-cloudflare-code-orange-tested

2 years ago

Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby

https://github.com/wouterken/crystalruby

2 years ago

Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs

https://github.com/Filimoa/open-parse

2 years ago

I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck

https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2024/04/07/how-i-discovered-a-9-point-8-critical-security-vulnerability-in-zeromq-with-mostly-pure-luck/

2 years ago

How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240408-00/?p=109627

2 years ago

Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC

https://github.com/flipt-io/reverst

2 years ago

Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”

https://recurse.social/@dylnuge/112224580867240812

2 years ago

KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore

https://security.opensuse.org/2024/04/02/kde6-dbus-polkit.html

2 years ago

Show HN: QWANJI

https://byronicalpatrick.github.io/qwanji/

2 years ago

GNU Stow needs a co-maintainer

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?65569

2 years ago

Reviving an 800-Year-Old Japanese Tea Farm

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c11602/

2 years ago

High Definition CSS Color Guide

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/high-definition-css-color-guide

2 years ago

Japanese American Bird Pins

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-4/the-untold-history-of-japanese-american-bird-pins/

2 years ago

How deep does life go?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-deep-does-life-go/

2 years ago

Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push

https://github.com/shorebirdtech/shorebird

2 years ago

Transformer as a general purpose computer

https://www.jvoderho.com/blog.html?blogid=Transformer%20as%20a%20general%20purpose%20computer

2 years ago

Show HN: Neco – Coroutine Library for C

https://github.com/tidwall/neco

2 years ago

Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/04/cultivating-minds-the-psychological-consequences-of-rice-versus-wheat-farming.html

2 years ago

Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis

https://blog.osm-ai.net/2024/04/01/hn-part-1.html

2 years ago

Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust

https://tembo.io/blog/managed-postgres-rust

2 years ago

Stanley Kubrick did it his way

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/stanley-kubrick-biography-abrams-kolker-review/

2 years ago

The 6502 instruction set as a database

https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/isa65xx

2 years ago

Phytomining – Extracting Minerals via Plants

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/press-releases/us-department-energy-announces-10-million-explore-using-plants

2 years ago

Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-autism-adhd-linked-disturbed-gut.html

2 years ago

Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5j95RUSLd8

2 years ago

Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/07/working-from-home-isnt-going-away-even-if-some-ceos-wish-it-would/

2 years ago

TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-08/tsmc-gets-11-6-billion-in-us-grants-loans-for-three-chip-fabs

2 years ago

Stolen masterpieces that are still missing

https://www.thecollector.com/stolen-masterpieces-famous-artworks-missing/

2 years ago

British Placename Mapper

https://placenames.rtwilson.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel

https://github.com/larryboyko/dimityjones

2 years ago

Colab notebook to create Magic cards from image with Claude

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1h5WIzhvT-GJCL3LHxMCLnc9qyOIqHubY?usp=sharing

2 years ago

It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it

https://www.neh.gov/article/its-dantes-hell-were-just-living-it

2 years ago

Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust

https://volllly.github.io/rotz/

2 years ago

ESLint v9.0

https://eslint.org/blog/2024/04/eslint-v9.0.0-released/

2 years ago

A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/a-2-axis-multihead-light-positioner/

2 years ago

Endless Censorship Demands from Brazil

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1777392222851240334

2 years ago

French company ramps up production to meet demand for its military drone radar

https://www.politico.eu/article/soar-demand-france-military-radars-ground-master-air-surveillance-thales-war-ukraine/

2 years ago

A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/08/ms_dos_easter_egg/

2 years ago

Nintendo's online servers for Wii U and 3DS shut down today

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63227/~/announcement-of-discontinuation-of-online-services-for-nintendo-3ds-and-wii-u

2 years ago

I Tried Tesla FSD

https://werd.io/2024/i-tried-tesla-fsd

2 years ago

Fixing all the bugs won't solve all the problems – Deming's path of frustration

https://shermanonsoftware.com/2024/04/08/fixing-all-the-bugs-wont-solve-all-the-problems-demings-path-of-frustration/

2 years ago

Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix (2019)

https://netflixtechblog.com/predictive-cpu-isolation-of-containers-at-netflix-91f014d856c7?gi=c53c45dcda8b

2 years ago

Swiss satellite antennas make a comeback as solar powerhouses

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/swiss-satellite-antennas-make-comeback-solar-powerhouses-2023-10-19/

2 years ago

Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist (2014)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4895

2 years ago

USPS jumps to first place as most imitated brand in phishing attacks

https://guard.io/blog/most-imitated-brand-in-phishing-attacks-for-q1-2024

2 years ago

Orange Meets: a demo application built using Cloudflare Calls

https://github.com/cloudflare/orange

2 years ago

Let's Kerberos

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2024/04/07/letskerberos.html

2 years ago

A list of AI coding tools

https://github.com/sourcegraph/awesome-code-ai

2 years ago

New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto

https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1bxqnpq/new_theory_on_satoshi_nakamoto/

2 years ago

Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc

2 years ago