top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-19

Llama3 implemented from scratch

https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch

2 years ago

Coding My Handwriting

https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript

2 years ago

The Lunacy of Artemis

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

2 years ago

Riven

https://www.filfre.net/2024/05/riven/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408515

2 years ago

Meteor seen in Portugal

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cva6j6/meteor_just_seen_in_portugal_23h45/

2 years ago

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead

2 years ago

Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40407526

2 years ago

Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances

https://astrobiology.com/2024/05/swarming-proxima-centauri-coherent-picospacecraft-swarms-over-interstellar-distances.html

2 years ago

Operation CHARM: Car repair manuals for everyone

https://charm.li/

2 years ago

Classic Usenet posts on computer architecture, operating systems and languages

https://yarchive.net/comp/index.html

2 years ago

Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD

https://theoverclockingpage.com/2024/05/13/tutorial-transforming-a-qlc-ssd-into-an-slc-ssd-dramatically-increasing-the-drives-endurance/?lang=en

2 years ago

Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

https://jonatron.github.io/randomstuff/pivolt/

2 years ago

C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)

https://github.com/mcinglis/c-style

2 years ago

Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hertz-charging-a-tesla-renter-for-gas-was-not-an-isolated-incident

2 years ago

Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04540

2 years ago

AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 1: The training

https://julienposture.substack.com/p/the-ai-doppelganger-experiment-part

2 years ago

Michelle's List: A free, anonymous landlord review site

https://www.michelleslist.com/

2 years ago

Compilers for free with weval

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/weval/

2 years ago

Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard (2014)

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2014/11/17/68-katy-68000-linux-on-a-solderless-breadboard/

2 years ago

An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)

https://www.datagubbe.se/dpaint/

2 years ago

Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsofts-emissions-spike-29-as-ai-gobbles-up-resources

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features

https://github.com/netrisdotme/netris

2 years ago

Swift Tooling: Windows Edition

https://speakinginswift.substack.com/p/swift-tooling-windows-edition

2 years ago

Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

https://antennapod.org/blog/2024/05/modernizing-the-code-structure

2 years ago

Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/18/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-happiness-matters-more-than-accomplishment.html

2 years ago

Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/ffmpeg-english

2 years ago

What Is Generative Art? (2022)

https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/what-is-generative-art

2 years ago

Unprojecting text with ellipses (2016)

https://mzucker.github.io/2016/10/11/unprojecting-text-with-ellipses.html

2 years ago

A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10

https://nicole.express/2024/elementary-midi-watson.html

2 years ago

The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that

https://kilianvalkhof.com/2024/javascript/the-problem-with-new-url-and-how-url-parse-fixes-that/

2 years ago

Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/mortgages-are-a-manufactured-product/

2 years ago

The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-05-17/the-iberian-lynx-doubles-its-population-in-just-three-years-and-reaches-2000-individuals.html

2 years ago

Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder

https://thomwolf.io/data/Thom_wolf_reading_list.txt

2 years ago

The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-myth-of-medieval-small-beer-19763/

2 years ago

Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz5drkr8l1ko

2 years ago

Waxolotl – A small language that compiles to WebAssembly text format

https://github.com/eliot-akira/waxolotl

2 years ago

Will better superconductors transform the world?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-better-superconductors-transform-the-world-20240509/

2 years ago

AI regulations are crony capitalism

https://reason.com/2024/05/19/ais-cozy-crony-capitalism/

2 years ago

Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma Silently Enables iCloud Keychain

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/3.html

2 years ago

Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00832

2 years ago

Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/ubuntu-24-10-wayland-nvidia

2 years ago

Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)

https://rmarcus.info/blog/2018/09/14/consistent-hashing-overflow.html

2 years ago

New blood test for stroke combines blood-based biomarkers with a clinical score

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-blood-combines-based-biomarkers-clinical.html

2 years ago

Iran president helicopter in hard landing – state media

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22311qx21o

2 years ago