Top 20 Hacker News Stories for 2024-10-04

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PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study

https://ztoz.blog/posts/postscript-code/

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

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5

Solving mazes with neural cellular automata (2021)

https://umu1729.github.io/pages-neural-cellular-maze-solver/

2 years ago

37 upvotes – 5 comments

114

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One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/when-a-she-bear-swims-ashore/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 61 comments

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Fixed-point arithmetic as a replacement for soft floats

https://pigweed.dev/docs/blog/04-fixed-point.html

2 years ago

43 upvotes – 47 comments

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65

The Depopulation Bomb Isn't Ticking, It's Overblown

https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/the-depopulation-bomb-isnt-ticking

2 years ago

22 upvotes – 65 comments

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Α phase-locked auditory stimulation to treat symptoms of sleep onset insomnia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63385-1

2 years ago

22 upvotes – 18 comments

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150

Don't squander public trust on bullshit

https://livboeree.substack.com/p/dont-squander-public-trust-on-bullshit

2 years ago

284 upvotes – 150 comments

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8

Ardour 8.8 Released

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

2 years ago

51 upvotes – 8 comments

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4

Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country's IV fluid supply

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/helene-ravaged-the-nc-plant-that-makes-60-of-the-countrys-iv-fluid-supply/

2 years ago

16 upvotes – 4 comments

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4

We're Entering Uncharted Territory for Math

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/terence-tao-ai-interview/680153/

2 years ago

6 upvotes – 4 comments

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Ask HN: Why is the gray color of TailwindCSS dark blue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41745867

2 years ago

5 upvotes – 9 comments

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4

Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable' (2012)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18561092

2 years ago

23 upvotes – 4 comments

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I made $1M in 67 days during Covid

https://www.marshallhaas.com/post/the-wild-story-of-how-i-made-1-036-175-in-67-days-during-covid

2 years ago

32 upvotes – 31 comments

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Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/teeth-as-time-capsules-soviet-secrets-and-my-dentist-grandmother

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 38 comments

290

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LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/CherylMind.ipynb

2 years ago

290 upvotes – 142 comments

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1

How diffusion models work: the math from scratch (2022)

https://theaisummer.com/diffusion-models/

2 years ago

26 upvotes – 1 comments

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6

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK for Qt6

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-Abandoning-GTK-For-Qt

2 years ago

25 upvotes – 6 comments

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Bureaucrat Mode

https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/bureaucrat-mode

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 49 comments

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If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him

https://nautil.us/if-you-meet-et-in-space-kill-him-917243/

2 years ago

9 upvotes – 23 comments

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9

Wikidata as a Giant Crosswalk File

https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/04/wikidata-is-a-giant-crosswalk-file.html

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments