top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-07-11

We need visual programming. No, not like that

https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/demand-for-visual-programming/

2 years ago

1178 upvotes – 494 comments

The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2018/12/04/walle/

2 years ago

712 upvotes – 87 comments

WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side

https://webvm.io/

2 years ago

632 upvotes – 127 comments

Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)

https://mydiplomaticlife.com/how-to-survive-3-years-in-north-korea-as-a-foreigner/

2 years ago

472 upvotes – 293 comments

Engineering principles for building financial systems

https://substack.wasteman.codes/p/engineering-principles-and-best-practices

2 years ago

403 upvotes – 104 comments

Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/2fa-sms

2 years ago

347 upvotes – 313 comments

Physics-Based Deep Learning Book

https://physicsbaseddeeplearning.org/intro.html

2 years ago

333 upvotes – 24 comments

FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision

https://www.together.ai/blog/flashattention-3

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo

2 years ago

271 upvotes – 185 comments

Shelley Duvall has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy77p22jr5lo

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 78 comments

Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021)

https://mazzo.li/posts/value-speculation.html

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 80 comments

Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit

https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-binance-story

2 years ago

228 upvotes – 195 comments

Korvus: Single-Query RAG with Postgres

https://github.com/postgresml/korvus

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 39 comments

Gene-silencing tool shows promise as a future therapy against prion diseases

https://news.mit.edu/2024/charmed-collaboration-creates-therapy-candidate-fatal-prion-diseases-0627

2 years ago

222 upvotes – 68 comments

Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

https://icpen.org/news/1360

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 235 comments

Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple

https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html

2 years ago

219 upvotes – 145 comments

General Theory of Neural Networks

https://robleclerc.substack.com/p/general-theory-of-neural-networks

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 92 comments

Capturing Linux SSL/TLS plaintext without a CA certificate using eBPF

https://github.com/gojue/ecapture

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 70 comments

The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)

https://ktema.org/articles/the-overengineered-resume/

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 115 comments

Karpathy: Let's reproduce GPT-2 (1.6B): one 8XH100 node 24h $672 in llm.c

https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c/discussions/677

2 years ago

182 upvotes – 58 comments
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