top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-04-28

A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)

http://www.lathes.co.uk/bradley-pow-lathe/

2 years ago

Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone

https://github.com/rejunity/z80-open-silicon

2 years ago

★ 735 Verilog Apache-2.0

Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres

https://postgres.ai/blog/20220525-common-db-schema-change-mistakes

2 years ago

The Myth of the Second Chance

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282557318242321

2 years ago

Did we lose our way in making efficient software?

https://rufatmammadli.medium.com/did-we-lose-our-way-in-making-efficient-software-30-mb-doc-file-vs-browser-fed12dd866a4

2 years ago

Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility

https://github.com/gyf304/dotenv

2 years ago

★ 325 C

The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

https://nhigham.com/the-princeton-companion-to-applied-mathematics/

2 years ago

TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-tfls-simple-pop-up-message-led-to-a-significant-drop-in-paper-ticket-sales-71920/

2 years ago

Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA'

https://www.scrippsnews.com/business/company-news/williams-sonoma-fined-3-18-million-dollars-for-falsely-labeling-products-as-made-in-usa

2 years ago

Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-sumtree

2 years ago

Personal computing paves the way for personal library science

https://www.bramadams.dev/issue-55/

2 years ago

Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.33-rc5

2 years ago

★ 170k Go MIT

Google Quantum AI

https://quantumai.google/

2 years ago

LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12354

2 years ago

The unstallable plane that stalled

https://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/the-unstallable-plane-that-stalled/

2 years ago

Pdf.tocgen

https://krasjet.com/voice/pdf.tocgen/

2 years ago

Flow Field Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-04-27-flow-field-pathfinding/

2 years ago

Mise: a polyglot tool version manager

https://mise.jdx.dev/

2 years ago

How to improve the RISC-V specification

https://alastairreid.github.io/riscv-spec-issues/

2 years ago

Reentry – An Orbital Simulator

https://reentrygame.com/

2 years ago