top 20 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/

5 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/

5 months ago

516 upvotes – 86 comments

They see your photos

https://theyseeyourphotos.com/

5 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/

5 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

5 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/

5 months ago

359 upvotes – 317 comments

Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)

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

5 months ago

344 upvotes – 57 comments

Preferring throwaway code over design docs

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

5 months ago

327 upvotes – 172 comments

Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

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

5 months ago

309 upvotes – 240 comments

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

https://veryfront.com/figma-kit

5 months ago

280 upvotes – 60 comments

Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/13/microsoft-confirms-password-deletion-for-1-billion-users-attacks-up-200/

5 months ago

248 upvotes – 677 comments

Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application

https://github.com/gsidhu/buzee-tauri

5 months ago

229 upvotes – 84 comments

IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts

https://irata.online/

5 months ago

218 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions

https://chords.yottanami.com/

5 months ago

215 upvotes – 56 comments

Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)00897-3

5 months ago

198 upvotes – 87 comments

Htmx 2.0.4 Released

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/v2.0.4/CHANGELOG.md

5 months ago

196 upvotes – 129 comments

Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components

https://github.com/sockmaster27/svader

5 months ago

189 upvotes – 41 comments

Uv, a fast Python package and project manager

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

5 months ago

188 upvotes – 146 comments

Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)

http://marc.merlins.org/linux/teaparty/

5 months ago

175 upvotes – 155 comments

The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport

https://www.essesmag.com/articles/racings-deadliest-day

5 months ago

174 upvotes – 306 comments
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