Remembering Bob Lee
1986 points by aEJ04Izw5HYm | 135 comments
Hacker News discussion thread inviting users to share memories of Bob Lee, former Square CTO and technologist, after his death.
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Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco(sfgate.com)
1018 points by rdl | 1310 comments
SFGATE news article reporting that a 43-year-old Mill Valley man, identified as former Square CTO Bob Lee, died after being stabbed in San Francisco.
The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS(waxy.org)
768 points by waxpancake | 357 comments
Andy Baio's Waxy.org post reporting that a PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper ships with every copy of macOS since Catalina.
Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any object in an image(segment-anything.com)
651 points by crakenzak | 130 comments
Project homepage for Meta AI's Segment Anything Model (SAM), a promptable image segmentation system that can cut out any object with a single click.
Grid World(alex.miller.garden)
580 points by tobr | 86 comments
A personal web page titled "Grid World" with a hand-drawn pixel-style title over a black grid, apparently an essay about grids.
Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
574 points by mconley | 201 comments
A Mozilla Bugzilla bug report comment about Windows Defender causing high CPU usage when running Firefox.
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero(karpathy.ai)
546 points by whereistimbo | 64 comments
Course page for Andrej Karpathy's Neural Networks: Zero to Hero, a video series building neural networks from scratch in code up to GPT-style language models.
CAN Injection: Keyless car theft(kentindell.github.io)
540 points by kotaKat | 282 comments
Blog post by Canis Automotive Labs CTO Ken Tindell investigating how thieves use CAN bus injection via headlight wiring to steal keyless cars.
Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion(course.fast.ai)
538 points by noob_eng | 101 comments
Overview page for fast.ai's Practical Deep Learning Part 2 course, a 30+ hour video course implementing Stable Diffusion from scratch.
Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon(news.ycombinator.com)
512 points by codetrotter | 305 comments
Hacker News user profile page for moderator dang, showing account creation date, karma of 63,419, and an about section quoting Marion Milner on conflict.
A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken(census.dev)
493 points by nate | 173 comments
A Census engineering blog post by Bradley Buda suggesting leaving work in a broken state at the end of a session to ease getting back into flow.
Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)(contextkeeper.io)
468 points by jeron | 220 comments
A ContextKeeper blog post from July 2022 on the cost of interruptions and context switching for programmers.
I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music(coryd.dev)
463 points by cdme | 353 comments
Blog post by Cory Dransfeldt arguing he wants to stream his own collected music library rather than use catalogue-based streaming services.
OpenAI Tokenizer(platform.openai.com)
289 points by tosh | 152 comments
Master Plan Part 3(tesla.com)
268 points by mfiguiere | 304 comments
Indie Hackers is indie again(indiehackers.com)
176 points by TimLeland | 62 comments
PWAs in App Stores(web.dev)
152 points by twapi | 119 comments
Purkinje Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
101 points by hypertexthero | 27 comments
BRL-CAD(brlcad.org)
94 points by pabs3 | 30 comments
Galaxy Simulation(galaxym.ovh)
87 points by thunderbong | 39 comments
Epicurus for Our Time(lareviewofbooks.org)
76 points by diodorus | 41 comments
The Rise of the Chiplet(semiwiki.com)
68 points by 11thEarlOfMar | 11 comments