top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-13

Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1845152255944819015

2 years ago

The quiet art of attention

https://billwear.github.io/art-of-attention.html

2 years ago

Inkscape 1.4

https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-new-accessib/

2 years ago

Diffusion for World Modeling

https://diamond-wm.github.io/

2 years ago

Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/9/pgae400/7754871

2 years ago

CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

https://fossil-scm.org/home/ext/crlf-harmful.md

2 years ago

Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning

https://shchegrikovich.substack.com/p/use-prolog-to-improve-llms-reasoning

2 years ago

Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen

2 years ago

Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world

https://www.bdrc.io/blog/2024/10/10/tech-innovations-to-make-the-tibetan-language-a-first-class-citizen-in-the-digital-world/

2 years ago

Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/13/zero-latency-sqlite-storage-in-every-durable-object/

2 years ago

WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/12/24268637/wordpress-org-matt-mullenweg-acf-fork-secure-custom-fields-wp-engine

2 years ago

Why does FM sound better than AM?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/10/13/why-does-fm-sound-better-than-am/

2 years ago

FLUX is fast and it's open source

https://replicate.com/blog/flux-is-fast-and-open-source

2 years ago

Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/highd/

2 years ago

Restic: Backups done right

https://restic.net/

2 years ago

ACF has been hijacked

https://anderegg.ca/2024/10/13/acf-has-been-hijacked

2 years ago

ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-plugin-no-longer-available-on-wordpress-org/

2 years ago

Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03277-6

2 years ago

Introducing Our New Name

https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

2 years ago

The 1/8th Sleep

https://near.blog/the-1-8th-sleep/

2 years ago

America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/plumbers-hvac-skilled-trades-millionaires-2b62bf6c

2 years ago

Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/10/refurb-weekend-symbolics-macivory-lisp.html

2 years ago

Omni SenseVoice: High-Speed Speech Recognition with Words Timestamps

https://github.com/lifeiteng/OmniSenseVoice

2 years ago

Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard

https://github.com/gmpalter/cl-forth

2 years ago

DARPA is funding reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves

https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-against-hurricanes/

2 years ago

Cofounder Mode: My tactical guide to finding a cofounder

https://repromptai.com/blog/cofounder-mode-tactical-guide-finding-cofounder

2 years ago

Lessons learned from profiling an algorithm in Rust

https://blog.mapotofu.org/blogs/rabitq-bench/

2 years ago

Faster convergence for diffusion models

https://sihyun.me/REPA/

2 years ago

Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49689-w

2 years ago

Show HN: Makedown – A Markdown powered Makefile alternative

https://github.com/tzador/makedown

2 years ago

Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/13/christopher-columbus-was-spanish-and-jewish-documentary-reveals

2 years ago

Defining Statistical Models in Jax?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/08/defining-statistical-models-in-jax/#comments

2 years ago

The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269131/tesla-optimus-robots-human-controlled-cybercab-we-robot-event

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor

https://github.com/NyuB/ocli

2 years ago

Interview with Yann LeCun on AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-aa59e2f5

2 years ago

Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-13/australian-coal-plant-in-extraordinary-survival-experiment/104461504

2 years ago

Node.js, Pipes, and Disappearing Bytes

https://sxlijin.github.io/2024-10-09-node-stdout-disappearing-bytes

2 years ago

Even a single bacterial cell can sense the seasons changing

https://www.quantamagazine.org/even-a-single-bacterial-cell-can-sense-the-seasons-changing-20241011/

2 years ago

The military is an impossible place for hackers, and what to do about it (2018)

https://warontherocks.com/2018/07/fish-out-of-water-how-the-military-is-an-impossible-place-for-hackers-and-what-to-do-about-it/

2 years ago

A novel channel contention mechanism for improving wi-fi's reliability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07874

2 years ago