top 50% 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 years ago

Making a watch from scratch

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

2 years ago

They see your photos

https://theyseeyourphotos.com/

2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)

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

2 years ago

Preferring throwaway code over design docs

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

2 years ago

Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

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

2 years ago

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

https://veryfront.com/figma-kit

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts

https://irata.online/

2 years ago

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

https://chords.yottanami.com/

2 years ago

Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease

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

2 years ago

Htmx 2.0.4 Released

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

2 years ago

Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components

https://github.com/sockmaster27/svader

2 years ago

Uv, a fast Python package and project manager

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport

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

2 years ago

Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms

https://www.voxon.co

2 years ago

Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?

https://milescole.dev/data-engineering/2024/12/12/Should-You-Ditch-Spark-DuckDB-Polars.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust

https://github.com/ellenhp/farebox

2 years ago

Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666202724004518

2 years ago

Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform

https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/bringing-elon-to-a-knife-fight

2 years ago

A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-12-13/0/POSTING-en.html

2 years ago

Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model)

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/10361

2 years ago

Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse

https://github.com/Surfer-Org/Protocol

2 years ago

Konwinski Prize

https://andykonwinski.com/2024/12/12/konwinski-prize.html

2 years ago

What Is Vim?

https://blog.jonas.foo/whats_vim.html

2 years ago

Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020)

https://hapax.github.io/physics/teaching/hacks/napkin-hacks/

2 years ago

Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/11/11/occasional-paper-four-hidden-species-of-portuguese-man-o-war/

2 years ago

Computing Inside an AI

https://willwhitney.com/computing-inside-ai.html

2 years ago

Array Languages for Clojurians (2020)

http://www.appliedscience.studio/articles/array-programming-for-clojurists.html

2 years ago

PLATO: An educational computer system from the '60s shaped the future (2023)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/plato-how-an-educational-computer-system-from-the-60s-shaped-the-future/

2 years ago

Pi modder successfully adds M.2 slot to Pi 500

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi-modder-successfully-adds-m2-slot-pi-500

2 years ago

YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24318124/youtube-player-cant-click-title-sigh

2 years ago

Should programming languages be safe or powerful?

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2024-11-21_powerful_or_safe_languages/

2 years ago

The saga of the color brown in the early years of the PC (2023)

http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-saga-of-color-brown-in-early-years.html

2 years ago

Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag

https://ewpratten.com/blog/iphone-mifare-magic

2 years ago

Isomorphic Web Components

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/isomorphic-web-components/

2 years ago

Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks: what a decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-9NG1Ke5Y

2 years ago

Problems with Python dependency management

https://nielscautaerts.xyz/python-dependency-management-is-a-dumpster-fire.html

2 years ago

South Korea's parliament votes to impeach President over his martial law order

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-martial-law-yoon-impeach-6432768aafc8b55be26215667e3c19d0

2 years ago

Dline: A tool that presents important data in the form of a calendar in terminal

https://github.com/jazz-it/dline

2 years ago

Best-of-N Jailbreaking

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03556

2 years ago