Hacker News on Tuesday, 18 July 2023

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Llama 2 (ai.meta.com)

2177 points by friggeri 3 years ago | 781 comments

Meta AI's launch page introducing Llama 2, its open large language model available free for research and commercial use, with a model download link.

llama-2 meta large-language-models open-source-ai

Screenshot of treeherder.mozilla.org: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer (treeherder.mozilla.org)

1077 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 462 comments

Mozilla Perfherder graph comparing Firefox and Chrome Speedometer benchmark scores on Windows 10 over the past year, showing Firefox catching up to Chrome.

firefox chrome speedometer browser-performance

Screenshot of noahpinion.blog: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity (noahpinion.blog)

526 points by bankershill 3 years ago | 485 comments

Noah Smith's Noahpinion essay arguing that eliminating or delaying advanced math instruction in public schools will not improve educational equity.

math-education educational-equity public-schools k-12

Screenshot of blog.adafruit.com: When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies

When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies (blog.adafruit.com)

433 points by Santosh83 3 years ago | 239 comments

An Adafruit blog post examining how some open-source hardware companies have become less open over time.

open-source-hardware adafruit hardware-companies licensing

Screenshot of islamov.ai: Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo

Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo (islamov.ai)

427 points by aislamov 3 years ago | 98 comments

An in-browser demo that runs Stable Diffusion image generation locally using WebGPU, with prompt inputs and a model loader.

stable-diffusion webgpu image-generation in-browser-ml

Screenshot of github.com: Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker

Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker (github.com)

422 points by mottiden 3 years ago | 65 comments

GitHub repository for lazydocker, a terminal UI tool by Jesse Duffield for managing Docker containers, images, and services.

lazydocker docker terminal-ui go

Screenshot of identity.sweden.se: Sweden Sans

Sweden Sans (identity.sweden.se)

421 points by 2143 3 years ago | 167 comments

Sweden's official brand guidelines page on typography, featuring the national typeface Sweden Sans.

typography sweden-sans fonts brand-identity

Screenshot of val-lang.dev: Val, a high-level systems programming language

Val, a high-level systems programming language (val-lang.dev)

384 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 232 comments

Homepage of Val, a high-level systems programming language; the captured view shows only the title and logo.

val-lang programming-languages systems-programming mutable-value-semantics

Screenshot of humanshader.com: Human Shader

Human Shader (humanshader.com)

373 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 74 comments

Human Shader is a crowdsourced project where people compute shader pixels by hand with arithmetic to collectively render an image without a computer.

shaders crowdsourcing computer-graphics pixel-art

Screenshot of github.com: A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft (github.com)

352 points by sijmen 3 years ago | 59 comments

GitHub repository for minegrub-theme, a GRUB2 bootloader theme styled after Minecraft's menu, released under the MIT license.

grub minecraft bootloader-theme linux

Screenshot of hagerty.com: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)(hagerty.com)

338 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 252 comments

A Hagerty Media advice column by Norman Garrett humorously warning would-be thieves about the quirks of his Porsche 914.

porsche-914 classic-cars car-theft hagerty

Screenshot of tomcritchlow.com: The office is a theatre for work (2019)