Hacker News on Tuesday, 15 August 2023

We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x(blog.redplanetlabs.com)

856 points by tekacs 3 years ago | 317 comments

Red Planet Labs blog post by Nathan Marz describing how they built a Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation at 100x lower cost using their Rama platform.

Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider(phoronix.com)

735 points by marcodiego 3 years ago | 351 comments

Phoronix news article reporting that Firefox Nightly now beats Google Chrome on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.

How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?(finbarr.ca)

648 points by birriel 3 years ago | 210 comments

Blog post by Finbarr Timbers explaining the math of why llama.cpp can run LLaMA models locally on consumer hardware, focusing on memory bandwidth and compute limits.

The OpenTF Manifesto(opentf.org)

570 points by CathalMullan 3 years ago | 214 comments

The OpenTF Manifesto protests HashiCorp's switch of Terraform from the MPL to the Business Source License and calls for keeping Terraform open source.

Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React(joshcollinsworth.com)

461 points by inner_square 3 years ago | 503 comments

Blog post by Josh Collinsworth arguing that React has fallen behind other frontend frameworks and that developers miss modern features by sticking with it.

Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion(github.com)

426 points by varunshenoy 3 years ago | 113 comments

GitHub repository for Opendream, an extensible, MIT-licensed, layer-based web UI for Stable Diffusion image generation.

ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule(arstechnica.com)

422 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 314 comments

Ars Technica article on broadband ISPs urging the FCC to scrap a new rule requiring them to list all recurring monthly fees on broadband labels.

Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration(tristam.ie)

362 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 152 comments

A blog post about building a privacy-friendly ESP32 smart doorbell integrated locally with Home Assistant; the page returned a Cloudflare 502 error.

Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

325 points by xslowzone 3 years ago | 172 comments

Tell HN post reporting that Twitter's t.co link shortener adds a consistent ~5 second redirect delay to domains like NYTimes.com and threads.net.

How should I read type system notation?(langdev.stackexchange.com)

302 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 70 comments

Modern CSV version 2(moderncsv.com)

291 points by evanem 3 years ago | 124 comments

The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm(mindmatters.ai)

262 points by momirlan 3 years ago | 351 comments

Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields(news.mongabay.com)

244 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 89 comments

CSS Selectors: A Visual Guide(fffuel.co)

234 points by CosmosSeb 3 years ago | 47 comments

Why host your own LLM?(marble.onl)

230 points by andy99 3 years ago | 113 comments

A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in CFS/ME(science.org)

224 points by kens 3 years ago | 166 comments

Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21(jdk.java.net)

211 points by philonoist 3 years ago | 103 comments

GPU-Accelerated LLM on an Orange Pi(blog.mlc.ai)

188 points by tosh 3 years ago | 65 comments

Code Is Not Literature (2014)(gigamonkeys.com)

188 points by fanf2 3 years ago | 129 comments

Asteroid ZTm0038 with a >3% impact probability(newton.spacedys.com)

182 points by isbn 3 years ago | 173 comments

How the iMac Saved Apple(theverge.com)

180 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 261 comments

Selling open-source software(thenewstack.io)

174 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 67 comments

Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics(probml.github.io)

161 points by abhi9u 3 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Llama2 Embeddings FastAPI Server(github.com)

158 points by eigenvalue 3 years ago | 28 comments

Lynn Conway's Story (2000)(ai.eecs.umich.edu)

156 points by panic 3 years ago | 36 comments

My deep learning rig (2022)(nonint.com)

143 points by jacquesm 3 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Servicer, pm2 alternative built on Rust and systemd(servicer.dev)

137 points by shardulaeer 3 years ago | 36 comments

Nintendo DS cameras are the best lo-fi photo trend(polygon.com)

135 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 87 comments

Show HN: Lottielab – Create product animations in the browser easily(lottielab.com)

133 points by thegeomaster 3 years ago | 53 comments

New responsibilities(hadess.net)

128 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 69 comments

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components(pluralistic.net)

120 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 27 comments

Peter Pan copyright(gosh.org)

119 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 85 comments

Schizophrenia drugs may have been off target for decades, study finds(msn.com)

119 points by thedday 3 years ago | 83 comments

Be sceptical of your own work (2009)(terrytao.wordpress.com)

118 points by creer 3 years ago | 35 comments

Shazam for singing(blog.toasterthoughts.eu)

116 points by przadka 3 years ago | 32 comments

The Future of Terraform Must Be Open(blog.gruntwork.io)

116 points by lantry 3 years ago | 49 comments

Requiring ink to scan a document–yet another insult from the printer industry(arstechnica.com)

111 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 42 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail(arstechnica.com)

110 points by elorant 3 years ago | 93 comments

Bayesian Flow Networks(arxiv.org)

106 points by albertzeyer 3 years ago | 18 comments

Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil(phys.org)

105 points by roseway4 3 years ago | 42 comments

Show HN: Layerform – Open-source development environments using Terraform files(github.com)

104 points by lucas_vieira 3 years ago | 16 comments

Continuous batching to increase LLM inference throughput and reduce p50 latency(anyscale.com)

98 points by michellezzz 3 years ago | 19 comments

Safer: A better alternative to SAFEs for startup financing?(nextwave.partners)

93 points by dollar 3 years ago | 21 comments

How to be successful as a research mathematician? Follow your gut(nature.com)

90 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 49 comments

Exploring the design space of binary search trees(rtheunissen.github.io)

88 points by rtheunissen 3 years ago | 12 comments

Ted's Notes on Pawpaws (2016)(toyrus.ngrok.io)

84 points by pubby 3 years ago | 50 comments

Why Darwin admired the earthworm(nautil.us)

82 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 29 comments

Ruins of Emperor Nero’s Theater Discovered Near Vatican(scientificamerican.com)

78 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 36 comments

The Bitter Lesson (2019) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)

76 points by jdkee 3 years ago | 49 comments

You're a cyclist who was just struck by a car driver. Why it was your fault(mcsweeneys.net)

74 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 56 comments

What learning APL taught me about Python(mathspp.com)

71 points by RojerGS 3 years ago | 79 comments

"About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret(news.ycombinator.com)

71 points by mnbvcq 3 years ago | 50 comments

The Open Sanctuary Project(opensanctuary.org)

69 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 8 comments

China Stops Publishing Youth Unemployment Numbers Amid Faltering Economy(taiwanplus.com)

66 points by mensetmanusman 3 years ago | 49 comments

WhoFundsWho: Instantly see who funds the organizations you are reading about(whofundswho.com)

63 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 26 comments

What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data(hex.tech)

62 points by erehweb 3 years ago | 51 comments

A Metaobject Protocol for C++ (1995) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

60 points by signa11 3 years ago | 28 comments

Federal Agency Tells SF Workers to Work from Home Due to Unsafe Conditions(sfist.com)

60 points by freedude 3 years ago | 20 comments

We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”(sfconservancy.org)

60 points by thedeepself 3 years ago | 27 comments

Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office(fortune.com)

60 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 34 comments