top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-11

Working from home is powering productivity

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/working-from-home-is-powering-productivity-bloom

2 months ago

623 upvotes – 455 comments

"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline

2 months ago

552 upvotes – 472 comments

How long til we're all on Ozempic?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/how-long-til-were-all-on-ozempic

2 months ago

461 upvotes – 1584 comments

$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

https://www.latent.space/p/gpu-bubble

2 months ago

403 upvotes – 279 comments

Lm.rs: Minimal CPU LLM inference in Rust with no dependency

https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/lm.rs

2 months ago

310 upvotes – 76 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

https://www.nobelprize.org/press-release-peace-2024/

2 months ago

290 upvotes – 357 comments

Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229

2 months ago

282 upvotes – 266 comments

Tesla Robotaxi

https://www.tesla.com/we-robot

2 months ago

265 upvotes – 742 comments

Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python

https://gwolf.org/2024/10/started-a-guide-to-writing-fuse-filesystems-in-python.html

2 months ago

263 upvotes – 64 comments

A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp

http://www.ulisp.com/show?4Y20

2 months ago

248 upvotes – 72 comments

Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably

https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/every-rc-exe-bug-quirk-probably/

2 months ago

228 upvotes – 23 comments

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/08/exoskeleton-paralyzed-repairs-michael-straight/

2 months ago

214 upvotes – 148 comments

Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-reminds-steam-users-they-dont-actually-own-a-darn-thing-they-buy-gog-pounces-and-says-its-games-cannot-be-taken-away-from-you-thanks-to-offline-installers/

2 months ago

208 upvotes – 137 comments

Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/wu-haomiao/publication/curlyCue.html

2 months ago

184 upvotes – 29 comments

Kagi Snaps

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/snaps.html

2 months ago

180 upvotes – 75 comments

Initial CUDA Performance Lessons

https://probablydance.com/2024/10/07/initial-cuda-performance-lessons/

2 months ago

164 upvotes – 43 comments

Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better

https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace

2 months ago

157 upvotes – 129 comments

Fundamental physics is dying? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIvSGLkwJY

2 months ago

154 upvotes – 237 comments

WordPress Alternatives

https://darn.es/wordpress-alternatives/

2 months ago

149 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

https://about.noteshub.app

2 months ago

147 upvotes – 111 comments

LLMs don't do formal reasoning

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

2 months ago

144 upvotes – 121 comments

In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/brain-zaps-go-from-overlooked-symptom-to-center-stage-in-ssri-withdrawal/

2 months ago

142 upvotes – 157 comments

Gleam: A Basic Introduction

https://peq42.com/blog/gleam-a-basic-introduction/

2 months ago

139 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Dead man's switch without reliance on your infra

https://github.com/adamdecaf/deadcheck

2 months ago

139 upvotes – 116 comments

Nurdle Patrol

https://www.nurdlepatrol.org/app/

2 months ago

138 upvotes – 41 comments

Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why

https://antiidlereborn.com/news/

2 months ago

136 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: I made an Ollama summarizer for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spacellama/

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810889

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 94 comments

Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/why-do-systems-fail-tandem-nonstop-system-and-fault-tolerance/

2 months ago

119 upvotes – 44 comments

New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/images-remarkable-preservation-ernest-shackleton-ship-endurance

2 months ago

112 upvotes – 44 comments

INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-1

2 months ago

111 upvotes – 36 comments

Remains of an ancient Greek structure found in Croatia

https://arkeonews.net/remains-of-a-3500-year-old-settlement-and-massive-ancient-greek-structure-found-in-croatia/

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/MNThomson/dominos/latest/docs

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 32 comments

ARIA: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05993

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Pocache, preemptive optimistic caching for Go

https://github.com/naughtygopher/pocache

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

Transforming Colors with Matrices

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/transforming-colors-with-matrices.html

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 12 comments

Spotify Will Keep Remote Working

https://www.edmtunes.com/2024/10/spotify-keep-remote-work/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 25 comments

Grokking at the edge of linear separability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04489

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Elle's Homepage

https://ellesho.me/page/

2 months ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

Pepsi’s Soviet Navy (2021)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/27/pepsi-navy-soviet-ussr/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 31 comments

Trying Out a Far Infrared Heated Poster

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/using-graphene-infrared-heater-art-in-the-sitting-room.html

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 60 comments

Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/11/teslas-value-drops-60bn-after-self-driving-cybercab-fails-to-excite-investors

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 81 comments

Skip Hash: A fast ordered map via software transactional memory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07466

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

AI Winter Is Coming

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2024/09/20/ai-winter/

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 56 comments

Review: ReMarkable Paper Pro

https://amandariu.com/review-remarkable-paper-pro/

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 43 comments

Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix

https://the-dam.org/docs/explanations/Plan9ListenOnLinux.html

2 months ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments

AP5 - Declarative Programming Library For Common Lisp (1995)

https://oceanpark.com/ap5.html

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 6 comments
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