Hacker News on Sunday, 30 July 2023

Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups(sfcompute.org)

672 points by flaque 3 years ago | 161 comments

Landing page for The San Francisco Compute Group, a shared GPU cluster that startups and labs co-buy and schedule for bursty large-model training runs.

Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2(github.com)

501 points by 110 3 years ago | 109 comments

GitHub repository for Khoj, an open-source AI personal assistant that searches and chats with your notes and documents, offline via Llama 2 or online via GPT.

Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator(askmisterwizard.com)

407 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 126 comments

Project homepage for Linux Air Combat, a free open-source WWII combat flight simulator for Linux derived from GL-117, offered as source and AppImage.

I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden – One week of empathy training (2019)(shkspr.mobi)

387 points by willm 3 years ago | 238 comments

Terence Eden's 2019 blog post recounting a week spent pretending to use a wheelchair to experience accessibility barriers at venues and events.

Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix(conduit.rs)

375 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 169 comments

Landing page for Conduit, a simple, fast, self-hostable chat server implementing the Matrix protocol.

What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated(bitecode.dev)

364 points by BiteCode_dev 3 years ago | 255 comments

Bite code! newsletter roundup of July 2023 Python news: GIL removal, the LPython compiler, Pydantic 2, and soft deprecation of getopt and optparse.

Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier(amiaopensource.github.io)

353 points by nice__two 3 years ago | 86 comments

ffmprovisr is an AMIA open-source reference of FFmpeg command recipes with explanations for common audio and video processing tasks.

Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux(github.com)

326 points by acqbu 3 years ago | 203 comments

GitHub repository for Chicago95, a Windows 95-style desktop theme for Linux with GTK3, Xfce, KDE, icons, cursors, and fonts.

Free Public WiFi(computer.rip)

314 points by EamonnMR 3 years ago | 145 comments

Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging(news.cuanschutz.edu)

306 points by mdp2021 3 years ago | 261 comments

Emacs 29.1(emacsredux.com)

299 points by pimeys 3 years ago | 187 comments

The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server(pboyd.io)

293 points by WallyFunk 3 years ago | 90 comments

Welcome to Wikifunctions(wikifunctions.org)

273 points by edward 3 years ago | 136 comments

Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)(feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)

260 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 71 comments

The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore(mstdn.ca)

252 points by latexr 3 years ago | 348 comments

How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits(propublica.org)

246 points by mavelikara 3 years ago | 200 comments

GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot(libreboot.org)

241 points by codingcoyote 3 years ago | 159 comments

Banished to a remote Idaho valley, beavers created a lush wetland(e360.yale.edu)

231 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 89 comments

The Screwed-O-Meter (2013)(rachelbythebay.com)

226 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 106 comments

Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback(openwall.com)

223 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 112 comments

An Introduction to APIs(zapier.com)

211 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 98 comments

New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages(mpg.de)

210 points by Archelaos 3 years ago | 117 comments

The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)(explained.ai)

205 points by cpp_frog 3 years ago | 35 comments

Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)(charity.wtf)

199 points by lornajane 3 years ago | 149 comments

Mac Mouse Fix(mousefix.org)

175 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 109 comments

Fighting for the open web [image](davidrevoy.com)

159 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 76 comments

You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky(youareatlas.com)

158 points by retrocryptid 3 years ago | 74 comments

CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago(cloudflare.com)

157 points by JHorse 3 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: Pyflo – a free, interactive guide to learning Python(pyflo.net)

154 points by bddicken 3 years ago | 28 comments

The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”(rants.org)

151 points by boramalper 3 years ago | 123 comments

Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem(newsletter.mollywhite.net)

149 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 68 comments

Microbially produced protein that is much sweeter than sugar(nature.com)

132 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 99 comments

A dive into the AMD driver workflow(geohot.github.io)

131 points by tikkun 3 years ago | 68 comments

A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022(security.googleblog.com)

120 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 36 comments

The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace(blog.plover.com)

108 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 118 comments

Trying to become a better developer by learning more about aviation(medium.com)

104 points by fcmam5 3 years ago | 63 comments

American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open positions ever recorded(cnbc.com)

103 points by rntn 3 years ago | 76 comments

X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (2014)(medium.com)

102 points by bj-rn 3 years ago | 56 comments

Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

101 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 65 comments

Repeating Yourself Thrice Doesn’t Turn You into a 3x Developer(yrashk.medium.com)

99 points by vira28 3 years ago | 82 comments

Secret identities in Dwarf Fortress (2017)(ojs.aaai.org)

98 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 24 comments

Korea Superconductor Papers Published ‘Without Consent’(asiafinancial.com)

94 points by mhb 3 years ago | 38 comments

Nvidia DGX GH200 Whitepaper(resources.nvidia.com)

89 points by volta87 3 years ago | 42 comments

What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (2014)(kalzumeus.com)

87 points by reubano 3 years ago | 76 comments

Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML(blog.dornea.nu)

86 points by cyneox 3 years ago | 34 comments

Comma 3X(comma.ai)

84 points by Yenrabbit 3 years ago | 61 comments

Show HN: Single-Instruction (Subleq) Programming Game(jaredkrinke.itch.io)

77 points by schemescape 3 years ago | 18 comments

Microbial Odor Profile of Polyester and Cotton Clothes After a Fitness Session(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

77 points by Eisenstein 3 years ago | 125 comments

The Parts-Bin Approach: Konami’s Contra(nicole.express)

76 points by zdw 3 years ago | 21 comments

AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics(nature.com)

67 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 43 comments

Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021)(opensource.com)

66 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 33 comments

Why transformative artificial intelligence is hard to achieve(thegradient.pub)

66 points by hunglee2 3 years ago | 40 comments

HFS Origins: The Turbo File System (2017)(macgui.com)

62 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 17 comments

One can scarcely help clarifying him: on the Brothers Karamazov(laphamsquarterly.org)

61 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 71 comments

The Power of Weeds to End Hunger in an Uncertain Climate(worldsensorium.com)

59 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 37 comments

“We are not cheating” (YH Kwon superconductor comments)(twitter.com)

59 points by electricships 3 years ago | 45 comments

Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss(newstatesman.com)

58 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 13 comments

The death of privacy front ends?(tux.pizza)

58 points by throwoutway 3 years ago | 38 comments

Workarounds for C11 _Generic()(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

58 points by fanf2 3 years ago | 23 comments

US offices are sitting empty – business owners will have to adapt(theguardian.com)

56 points by rntn 3 years ago | 39 comments