top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-22

Cognitive load is what matters

https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive

2 years ago

1769 upvotes – 721 comments

Why we use our own hardware

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

2 years ago

933 upvotes – 529 comments

GPT-5 is behind schedule

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

2 years ago

582 upvotes – 1097 comments

How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster

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

2 years ago

504 upvotes – 121 comments

Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

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

2 years 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 years 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 years 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 years ago

350 upvotes – 271 comments

Long Term Software Development

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

2 years ago

312 upvotes – 152 comments

Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

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

2 years ago

310 upvotes – 115 comments

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

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

2 years ago

297 upvotes – 91 comments

Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

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

2 years ago

293 upvotes – 33 comments

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam [video]

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

2 years ago

253 upvotes – 86 comments

Reads Causing Writes in Postgres

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

2 years 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 years 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 years ago

202 upvotes – 82 comments

I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24

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

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 133 comments

The essays of Michel de Montaigne online

https://hyperessays.net/

2 years 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 years ago

191 upvotes – 184 comments

CodeMic: A new way to talk about code

https://codemic.io/

2 years ago

189 upvotes – 58 comments

Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/slow-deployment-causes-meetings

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 93 comments

The risk of cancer fades past the age of 80

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-risk-of-cancer-fades-as-we-get-older-and-we-may-finally-know-why

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 48 comments

One surprising psychosis treatment that works: Learning to live with the voices

https://www.wsj.com/health/schizophrenia-treatment-psychosis-cure-957b02f7

2 years ago

173 upvotes – 189 comments

Murder Mystery: GCC builds failing after sbuild refactoring

https://www.linux.it/~ema/posts/murder-mystery-gcc-builds-failing-after-sbuild-refactoring/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 66 comments

The Jujutsu version control system

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2024/12/jujutsu.html

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 50 comments

German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/12/19/german-watchdog-orders-sam-altmans-biometric-id-project-world-to-delete-data

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 65 comments

The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack

https://buildingslack.com/the-death-of-glitch-the-birth-of-slack/

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

Tokenisation Is NP-Complete

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15210

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 24 comments

When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ServerWhenPowerCycleNotEnough

2 years ago

115 upvotes – 57 comments

Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly

https://blog.smidt.dev/posts/0004/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 43 comments

Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite

https://gist.github.com/vedantroy/df6b18fa89bc24acfe89fc8493743378

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

RAG Logger: An Open-Source Alternative to LangSmith

https://github.com/Brandon-c-tech/RAG-logger

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 22 comments

Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)

https://engineering.fb.com/2015/06/26/security/fighting-spam-with-haskell/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 82 comments

AI Decodes the Calls of the Wild

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-04050-5/index.html

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement

https://openai.com/12-days/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 42 comments

Apple must ensure interoperability of iPhone with rivals, says EU

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/12/19/apple-must-ensure-interoperability-of-iphone-with-rivals-says-european-commission

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 163 comments

MacKenzie Scott donates over $2B in 2024 to 199 organizations

https://yieldgiving.com/essays/investing/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 91 comments
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