top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-12

GPUs Go Brrr

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2024-05-12-tk

8 months ago

1104 upvotes – 263 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40331968

9 months ago

588 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

https://Cap.so

8 months ago

351 upvotes – 177 comments

The Alternative Implementation Problem

https://pointersgonewild.com/2024/04/20/the-alternative-implementation-problem/

8 months ago

272 upvotes – 83 comments

Homoiconic Python

https://aljamal.substack.com/p/homoiconic-python

9 months ago

251 upvotes – 102 comments

Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?

https://trace.yshui.dev/2024-05-copilot.html#did-github-copilot-really-increase-my-productivity

8 months ago

244 upvotes – 320 comments

I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

https://www.pdfequips.com/

8 months ago

231 upvotes – 114 comments

A Slower Speed of Light (2012)

http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

9 months ago

223 upvotes – 59 comments

Page Dewarping (2016)

https://mzucker.github.io/2016/08/15/page-dewarping.html

8 months ago

205 upvotes – 27 comments

23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI

https://reason.com/2024/05/10/nearly-half-of-all-masters-degrees-arent-worth-getting/

9 months ago

193 upvotes – 346 comments

Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/04/virtualizing-6502-with-6o6-and.html

9 months ago

189 upvotes – 28 comments

Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm7168

9 months ago

187 upvotes – 155 comments

Automatically Detecting Under-Trained Tokens in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05417

9 months ago

182 upvotes – 26 comments

Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/05/brain-really-uses-quantum-effects-new.html

9 months ago

182 upvotes – 238 comments

16 years of CVE-2008-0166 – Debian OpenSSL Bug

https://16years.secvuln.info/

9 months ago

177 upvotes – 64 comments

Professional Corner-Cutting (2016)

https://blog.ometer.com/2016/05/04/professional-corner-cutting/

8 months ago

175 upvotes – 130 comments

Yi 1.5

https://github.com/01-ai/Yi-1.5

9 months ago

171 upvotes – 67 comments

MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS

https://www.macrelix.org/

8 months ago

163 upvotes – 81 comments

Becoming an Amateur Polyglot

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BPpeBH8brSCRvZajs/how-to-be-an-amateur-polyglot

8 months ago

146 upvotes – 106 comments

Emoji History: The Missing Years

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/

9 months ago

141 upvotes – 62 comments
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