top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-04-18

Meta Llama 3

https://llama.meta.com/llama3/

2 years ago

Calculus Made Easy

https://calculusmadeeasy.org/prologue.html

2 years ago

Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

https://github.com/loopj/short-stack

2 years ago

I keep a WTF notebook (2021)

https://www.simplermachines.com/why-you-need-a-wtf-notebook/

2 years ago

Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

https://icode4.coffee/?p=738

2 years ago

Our biggest ever river catch?

https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/the-ocean-cleanup-makes-biggest-ever-river-catch-in-guatemala/

2 years ago

VASA-1: Lifelike audio-driven talking faces generated in real time

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

2 years ago

My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/my-mother-declared-my-bedroom-a-disaster

2 years ago

The Rust calling convention we deserve

https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/04/17/calling-convention/

2 years ago

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

2 years ago

Multi-tenant queues in Postgres

https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/multi-tenant-queues

2 years ago

50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

https://spectrum.ieee.org/apollo-era-antenna-voyager-2

2 years ago

Goldene: A single atom layer of gold

https://liu.se/en/news-item/ett-atomlager-guld-liu-forskare-skapar-gulden

2 years ago

Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features

https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features

2 years ago

Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-secret-operation-intel-rivals-eb82ea3c

2 years ago

A former slave who became a cowboy, a rancher, and a Texas legend

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-former-slave-who-became-a-cowboy-a-rancher-and-a-texas-legend/

2 years ago

Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir

https://seanmoriarity.com/2024/02/25/implementing-natural-conversational-agents-with-elixir/

2 years ago

I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/car-accident-brain-injury/619227/

2 years ago

Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit

2 years ago

The Illustrated Word2Vec (2019)

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/

2 years ago