Hacker News on Saturday, 17 June 2023

London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface(github.com)

419 points by nickswalker 3 years ago | 60 comments

GitHub repository with a set of dot matrix fonts styled after TfL's London Underground arrivals boards.

The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place(blog.gopenai.com)

406 points by T-A 3 years ago | 92 comments

A Medium blog post explaining techniques for speeding up large language models and enabling context windows of 100K tokens.

Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr;(ionathan.ch)

380 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 75 comments

A blog post continuing an investigation into the origin of the Unicode character U+237C RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW (⍼).

Bullshit Jobs (2018)(theanarchistlibrary.org)

378 points by TotalCrackpot 3 years ago | 314 comments

The Anarchist Library's full-text edition of David Graeber's 2018 book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory," with download options in several formats.

GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy(gbstudio.dev)

326 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 36 comments

Homepage of GB Studio, a drag-and-drop retro game creator for the Game Boy, available on Windows, Mac and Linux via itch.io.

I don't need your query language(antonz.org)

290 points by polyrand 3 years ago | 260 comments

The Rot Economy(wheresyoured.at)

289 points by hodgesrm 3 years ago | 144 comments

Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation(arxiv.org)

267 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 65 comments

Review of Hetzner ARM64 servers and experience of WebP cloud services on them(blog.webp.se)

257 points by novakwok 3 years ago | 80 comments

People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)(psychologicalscience.org)

249 points by Quinzel 3 years ago | 156 comments

Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

245 points by retskrad 3 years ago | 372 comments

What character was removed from the alphabet? (2020)(dictionary.com)

237 points by paulkrush 3 years ago | 177 comments

Gitless: A simple VCS built on top of Git(gitless.com)

211 points by hosteur 3 years ago | 259 comments

GPT4 Can’t Ace MIT(flower-nutria-41d.notion.site)

208 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 101 comments

Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released(github.com)

190 points by michalg82 3 years ago | 79 comments

Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth(e360.yale.edu)

188 points by sethammons 3 years ago | 98 comments

Don’t Talk to Police (2012) [video](youtube.com)

185 points by Aerbil313 3 years ago | 133 comments

They just pirated my open source 8088 BIOS(arstechnica.com)

184 points by justsomehnguy 3 years ago | 99 comments

Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp(github.com)

182 points by newsoul 3 years ago | 122 comments

Data-Driven Science and Engineering 2nd Edition [pdf](faculty.washington.edu)

179 points by mindcrime 3 years ago | 21 comments

Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)(waivek.github.io)

163 points by cvwright 3 years ago | 97 comments

Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact(scientificamerican.com)

156 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 68 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?

155 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 115 comments

Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture(moderncss.dev)

155 points by Twixes 3 years ago | 23 comments

IKEA-Oriented Development(taylor.town)

154 points by soopurman 3 years ago | 126 comments

Falcon LLM – A 40B Model(falconllm.tii.ae)

151 points by Risyandi94 3 years ago | 74 comments

My father may be gone, but ‘our’ radio is still going(latimes.com)

147 points by mirthlessend 3 years ago | 82 comments

Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

138 points by KomoD 3 years ago | 132 comments

The Staggering Frontiers of CSS(buttondown.email)

130 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 38 comments

How to raise a Roman army: The dilectus(acoup.blog)

125 points by civilitty 3 years ago | 36 comments

How many shipwrecks are there in the world's oceans?(bbc.com)

120 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 46 comments

Poop: Performance Optimizer Observation Platform(github.com)

120 points by davikr 3 years ago | 36 comments

Rewilding the planet: An archipelago constructed of sand is bringing new life(nature.com)

119 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Text a photo to send as a postcard(postcardbot.com)

112 points by traviswingo 3 years ago | 86 comments

Rust vs Zig Benchmarks(programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app)

111 points by alonp99 3 years ago | 66 comments

Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers(arxiv.org)

110 points by bilsbie 3 years ago | 47 comments

Show HN: Explore large language models with 512MB of RAM(github.com)

109 points by jncraton 3 years ago | 24 comments

Can you just move into an abandoned house?(quora.com)

108 points by RyanShook 3 years ago | 161 comments

Iterating on Testing in Rust(epage.github.io)

107 points by lukastyrychtr 3 years ago | 33 comments

Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive(cordcuttersnews.com)

106 points by oidar 3 years ago | 34 comments

Daniel Ellsberg: The Pentagon Papers(archive.org)

100 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 8 comments

BetaWiki – An open encyclopedia of software history(betawiki.net)

99 points by skilled 3 years ago | 10 comments

The Risks of Staying Put(buttondown.email)

93 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 24 comments

Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists [video](youtube.com)

90 points by dsego 3 years ago | 78 comments

Japanese biomass venture using microorganisms to tackle waste disposal(mainichi.jp)

89 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 33 comments

HouseWatch: Open-source tool for monitoring and managing ClickHouse clusters(github.com)

89 points by yakkomajuri 3 years ago | 24 comments

Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support(phoronix.com)

88 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: State Trooper – Tiny, no frills state machine for Go(github.com)

82 points by hishamk 3 years ago | 34 comments

GPT-4 apparently can't recite the litany against fear from Dune(twitter.com)

72 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 35 comments

Make microservices look like monoliths(github.com)

71 points by friendly_chap 3 years ago | 77 comments

It's companies' fault we don't want to return to the office(innovationnation.blog)

71 points by gsibble 3 years ago | 62 comments

James Gosling talks about virtual machines, security, and Java (2004)(queue.acm.org)

70 points by evacchi 3 years ago | 2 comments

Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting in Varna, Bulgaria(herbsutter.com)

66 points by agluszak 3 years ago | 97 comments

How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen [video](youtube.com)

63 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 39 comments

GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness(clarifycapital.com)

62 points by moglito 3 years ago | 75 comments

Westfield’s San Francisco centre mall lost 46% of its stores since 2020(sfstandard.com)

61 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 59 comments

Are chiplets enough to save Moore’s Law?(eetimes.com)

56 points by transpute 3 years ago | 44 comments

Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage

53 points by Doches 3 years ago | 37 comments

Implementing a Personal Transportation Hierarchy(collindonnell.com)

53 points by ingve 3 years ago | 49 comments

Book of Proof (2018)(people.vcu.edu)

51 points by kaladin-jasnah 3 years ago | 8 comments