top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-12-22

Cognitive load is what matters

https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive

2 months ago

1766 upvotes – 718 comments

Why we use our own hardware

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/

2 months ago

933 upvotes – 529 comments

GPT-5 is behind schedule

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gpt5-orion-delays-639e7693

2 months ago

582 upvotes – 1097 comments

How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster

https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-past-present-future/

2 months ago

504 upvotes – 121 comments

Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder

2 months ago

475 upvotes – 106 comments

Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

https://corelatus.com/blog/Decoding_the_telephony_signals_in_Pink_Floyd_s__The_Wall_.html

2 months ago

417 upvotes – 131 comments

Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leonardo-de-moura-26a27b5_leanlang-leanprover-leanfro-activity-7274523099394400256-0F0x

2 months ago

407 upvotes – 134 comments

One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/22/nx-s1-5233033/holidays-loneliness-cure-stammtisch

2 months ago

350 upvotes – 271 comments

Long Term Software Development

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-development/

2 months ago

312 upvotes – 152 comments

Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

2 months ago

310 upvotes – 115 comments

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

https://poets.org/poem/stopping-woods-snowy-evening

2 months ago

297 upvotes – 90 comments

Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

https://github.com/princeton-vl/infinigen

2 months ago

293 upvotes – 33 comments

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

2 months ago

253 upvotes – 86 comments

Reads Causing Writes in Postgres

https://jesipow.com/blog/postgres-reads-cause-writes/

2 months ago

224 upvotes – 28 comments

CUDA Moat Still Alive

https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/mi300x-vs-h100-vs-h200-benchmark-part-1-training/

2 months ago

221 upvotes – 172 comments

Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-fighter-jet-specs-leaked-on-war-thunder-again/

2 months ago

202 upvotes – 82 comments

I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24

https://kyunghyuncho.me/i-sensed-anxiety-and-frustration-at-neurips24/

2 months ago

201 upvotes – 133 comments

The essays of Michel de Montaigne online

https://hyperessays.net/

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 46 comments

Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/12/21/four-limitations-of-rust-s-borrow-checker.html

2 months ago

191 upvotes – 184 comments

CodeMic: A new way to talk about code

https://codemic.io/

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 58 comments
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