top 10 hacker news stories for 2024-12-14

School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/school-smartphone-ban-better-sleep/

2 months ago

1014 upvotes – 679 comments

Making a watch from scratch

https://old.reddit.com/r/watchmaking/comments/1gvdmyo/i_made_a_watch_from_scratch_link_to_the_build/

2 months ago

516 upvotes – 86 comments

They see your photos

https://theyseeyourphotos.com/

2 months ago

439 upvotes – 225 comments

What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/

2 months ago

384 upvotes – 158 comments

Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens

https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transformer-patches-scale-better-than-tokens/?_fb_noscript=1

2 months ago

378 upvotes – 84 comments

macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/youre_a_mean_one/

2 months ago

359 upvotes – 317 comments

Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)

https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/yalm.html

2 months ago

344 upvotes – 57 comments

Preferring throwaway code over design docs

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/12/14/throwaway-prs-not-design-docs

2 months ago

327 upvotes – 172 comments

Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yvBqasHLZs

2 months ago

309 upvotes – 240 comments

I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping

https://veryfront.com/figma-kit

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 60 comments
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