Hacker News on Saturday, 29 July 2023

If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity(streets.mn)

500 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 527 comments

A Strong Towns repost of a streets.mn essay arguing that encouraging walking requires designing streets that give pedestrians dignity.

Functions are vectors(thenumb.at)

328 points by TheNumbat 3 years ago | 96 comments

Blog post by Max Slater explaining how treating functions as infinite-dimensional vectors applies linear algebra to graphics, geometry processing, and machine learning.

Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate(slowboring.com)

315 points by taeric 3 years ago | 405 comments

IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)(koshka.love)

291 points by CHB0403085482 3 years ago | 330 comments

So you want to build your own open source chatbot(hacks.mozilla.org)

290 points by edo-codes 3 years ago | 104 comments

What happened to Vivaldi Social?(thomasp.vivaldi.net)

279 points by zhte415 3 years ago | 73 comments

Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99(science.org)

278 points by carabiner 3 years ago | 143 comments

U.S. Marine Corps Antenna Handbook (1999) [pdf](marines.mil)

275 points by joos3 3 years ago | 63 comments

Snowflake(snowflake.torproject.org)

267 points by bcg361 3 years ago | 46 comments

Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet(uclahealth.org)

230 points by hammock 3 years ago | 234 comments

Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results(kenschutte.com)

225 points by JoeyBananas 3 years ago | 46 comments

LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler(lpython.org)

215 points by fgfm 3 years ago | 73 comments

Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement(facebookuserprivacysettlement.com)

214 points by beatthatflight 3 years ago | 148 comments

US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf](armyoe.files.wordpress.com)

199 points by jtlicardo 3 years ago | 106 comments

Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models(llm-attacks.org)

191 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 149 comments

ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track(spectrum.ieee.org)

190 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 154 comments

The papers were not ready for publication(twitter.com)

188 points by Accujack 3 years ago | 106 comments

Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor(airgradient.com)

184 points by ahaucnx 3 years ago | 88 comments

Cyberdecks (2013)(blog.rfox.eu)

183 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 91 comments

Plans develop for high-speed rail in the PNW(southseattleemerald.com)

160 points by DoreenMichele 3 years ago | 230 comments

Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub(benhoyt.com)

159 points by benhoyt 3 years ago | 69 comments

Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation(venturebeat.com)

151 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 120 comments

Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill

148 points by b800h 3 years ago | 72 comments

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis(philbooth.me)

146 points by philbo 3 years ago | 66 comments

The Hacker's Dictionary(hackersdictionary.com)

144 points by derealized 3 years ago | 49 comments

Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (2021)(quantamagazine.org)

141 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 96 comments

The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on(iflscience.com)

140 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 142 comments

IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? (2014)(os2museum.com)

133 points by WoodenChair 3 years ago | 31 comments

Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on replaced iPad screens(arstechnica.com)

127 points by dataflow 3 years ago | 101 comments

US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’(wired.com)

121 points by jbotdev 3 years ago | 78 comments

How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?(kidswholovemath.substack.com)

119 points by sebg 3 years ago | 205 comments

Using C++ as a scripting language, part 8(fwsgonzo.medium.com)

118 points by fwsgonzo 3 years ago | 39 comments

1953 'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, screening in Tokyo(mainichi.jp)

118 points by pologreen 3 years ago | 85 comments

Button Pushes You (2022)(despens.systems)

116 points by john-doe 3 years ago | 32 comments

Alcohol without the hangover – scientists are finding ways(wsj.com)

113 points by meany 3 years ago | 229 comments

Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth(news.cornell.edu)

109 points by geox 3 years ago | 67 comments

Counterterrorism internet surveillance is being retargeted at sex workers(theintercept.com)

90 points by mathandstuff 3 years ago | 19 comments

St Francis of Assisi(lrb.co.uk)

85 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 14 comments

Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics with Prometheus natively(last9.io)

81 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 23 comments

The Transformer Blueprint(deeprevision.github.io)

81 points by nyandwi 3 years ago | 7 comments

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data(reuters.com)

79 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 48 comments

Blue iceberg(en.wikipedia.org)

74 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 11 comments

Water Temperatures Hit ‘Hot Tub’ Levels in the Florida Keys(smithsonianmag.com)

71 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 13 comments

HuggingFace Text Generation License No Longer Open-Source(github.com)

70 points by bratao 3 years ago | 41 comments

Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force communications – report(theguardian.com)

66 points by penda 3 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs(github.com)

65 points by Foxboron 3 years ago | 22 comments

Google Employee Accuses WEI-Opponents of Being “Criminals”(groups.google.com)

57 points by bhaney 3 years ago | 13 comments

US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks(theguardian.com)

57 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 51 comments

Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic(buttondown.email)

57 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 34 comments

Dino – Modern XMPP Chat Client using GTK+/Vala(github.com)

54 points by neustradamus 3 years ago | 19 comments

Tetris Max 2.9.1 and Macintosh System 6.0.8 Bugs(bigmessowires.com)

51 points by zdw 3 years ago | 13 comments

Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter(androidauthority.com)

49 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 51 comments

Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review (2013)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

49 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 13 comments

Llama 32K Context Released by Together AI(together.ai)

48 points by averylamp 3 years ago | 5 comments

The Problem of Excess Genius (1997)(visakanv.com)

48 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 27 comments

‘Something weird is going on’: Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows(theguardian.com)

45 points by tda 3 years ago | 31 comments

The Psychotherapy Myth(aporiamagazine.com)

44 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 51 comments

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop(vermaden.wordpress.com)

43 points by vermaden 3 years ago | 0 comments

Automatic music playlist generation via simulation-based reinforcement learning(research.atspotify.com)

42 points by saeedesmaili 3 years ago | 31 comments

Bead Patterns(buegelperlenvorlagen.ch)

41 points by portobello 3 years ago | 4 comments