Hacker News on Sunday, 17 September 2023

Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model(jackcook.com)

442 points by nojito 3 years ago | 218 comments

Blog post by Jack Cook investigating the Transformer language model Apple ships for inline predictive text in iOS and macOS.

CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification(github.com)

420 points by gorenb 3 years ago | 251 comments

GitHub repository for Catala, a programming language for literate programming of law specifications, such as tax and benefits legislation.

Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent‑style(petals.dev)

404 points by udev4096 3 years ago | 96 comments

Homepage of Petals, a system for running large language models like Llama 2 and BLOOM collaboratively across volunteer machines, BitTorrent-style.

Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (2014)(linearbookscanner.org)

365 points by gorenb 3 years ago | 76 comments

Project site for the Linear Book Scanner, a low-cost open-source automatic page-turning book scanner with video, how-to, and designs.

A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials(maxread.substack.com)

292 points by lysozyme 3 years ago | 105 comments

Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot(twitter.com)

265 points by agluszak 3 years ago | 42 comments

Chili Oil Notes(uptointerpretation.com)

229 points by hardwaregeek 3 years ago | 99 comments

Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade(e360.yale.edu)

226 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 172 comments

AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B(toonk.io)

214 points by atyvr 3 years ago | 340 comments

Homebrew Website Club(indieweb.org)

206 points by zerojames 3 years ago | 109 comments

Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization(arxiv.org)

199 points by og_kalu 3 years ago | 95 comments

I hacked macOS(asahilina.net)

191 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 94 comments

Chonky Menu Re-Creation(nathanmanousos.com)

186 points by ccorcos 3 years ago | 70 comments

How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people(eclecticlight.co)

171 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 218 comments

Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline(wsj.com)

170 points by lxm 3 years ago | 560 comments

Fireball over Iceland(apod.nasa.gov)

167 points by politelemon 3 years ago | 27 comments

Changing the Rules of Rust(without.boats)

160 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 60 comments

Donut math: how donut.c works(a1k0n.net)

153 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 12 comments

Bounties Damage Open Source Projects(ziglang.org)

153 points by ksec 3 years ago | 81 comments

Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari(oblador.github.io)

142 points by sysadm1n 3 years ago | 60 comments

Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution(journals.plos.org)

135 points by nithinj 3 years ago | 109 comments

Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN(connor.zip)

134 points by blakespot 3 years ago | 42 comments

LaTeX for tabletop(vladar.bearblog.dev)

129 points by gaws 3 years ago | 51 comments

Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform(cloud.google.com)

115 points by jen20 3 years ago | 58 comments

Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition) (2017)(nist.gov)

115 points by nkurz 3 years ago | 56 comments

A High Throughput B+tree for SIMD Architectures (2020) [pdf](ece.lsu.edu)

114 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 7 comments

Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?(thebignewsletter.com)

112 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 28 comments

Wasmer – Run, Publish and Deploy any code, anywhere(wasmer.io)

99 points by gorenb 3 years ago | 35 comments

Tech Independence(sive.rs)

98 points by jjude 3 years ago | 32 comments

Comp.lang.c is now full of spam(groups.google.com)

98 points by gslin 3 years ago | 59 comments

So You Think You Know C? (2020) [pdf](wordsandbuttons.online)

97 points by signa11 3 years ago | 59 comments

Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making(theguardian.com)

95 points by ranit 3 years ago | 49 comments

Making architecture easy(worksinprogress.co)

93 points by dash2 3 years ago | 26 comments

Unity's Trap(pentadact.com)

84 points by Fraterkes 3 years ago | 61 comments

What is RISC-V, and why we're unlocking its potential(qualcomm.com)

76 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Conway's Game of Chess(gist.github.com)

70 points by elesiuta 3 years ago | 19 comments

Grabbing Dinner(gardenandgun.com)

69 points by breathenew 3 years ago | 22 comments

Are the Longevity Benefits of Acarbose Rooted in Its Role on the Gut Microbiota?(gethealthspan.com)

69 points by rpkoven 3 years ago | 23 comments

Modder Turns Framework Laptop PCB into a Handheld Gaming PC(tomshardware.com)

68 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 9 comments

Vintage Apple(vintageapple.org)

65 points by freediver 3 years ago | 23 comments

The Home Assistant Green is here(theverge.com)

65 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 18 comments

The Data Science Manifesto (2020)(datasciencemanifesto.org)

62 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 47 comments

The Fossil Wrist PDA becomes a tiny Gopher client(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

60 points by classichasclass 3 years ago | 12 comments

Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market(paulfuhr.medium.com)

59 points by Michelangelo11 3 years ago | 74 comments

Show HN: A reference implementation of Turing's paper “On Computable Numbers”(github.com)

58 points by jekude 3 years ago | 7 comments

Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths in the U.S.(fau.edu)

58 points by geox 3 years ago | 89 comments

Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts(bbc.co.uk)

57 points by mindracer 3 years ago | 60 comments

A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare(newyorker.com)

54 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 52 comments

New York Times doesn’t want its stories archived(theintercept.com)

48 points by kakokeko 3 years ago | 40 comments

Unity: We Have Heard You(twitter.com)

47 points by mishkovski 3 years ago | 35 comments

DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI(technologyreview.com)

46 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 35 comments

Whistleblower CISO says PennState lied about IT security to win $2B from US gov(centredaily.com)

43 points by jollofricepeas 3 years ago | 26 comments

Running Linux on Xilinx / AMD FPGA Softcore Example Design(hackster.io)

42 points by signalhound 3 years ago | 3 comments

Unity's Just Not into You, Indie Developer(gamedeveloper.com)

39 points by nazgulsenpai 3 years ago | 23 comments

What Silicon Valley “Gets” about Software Engineers(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

39 points by ilyash 3 years ago | 26 comments

The collaborative spirit behind Brian Eno’s record sleeve designs (2022)(eyeondesign.aiga.org)

38 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 6 comments

The Eunuch Admiral (2011)(alumni.berkeley.edu)

38 points by breathnow 3 years ago | 22 comments

Tcherepnin: Basic Elements of My Musical Language(tcherepnin.com)

37 points by brudgers 3 years ago | 5 comments

More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training(reuters.com)

36 points by kurhan 3 years ago | 21 comments

The International SAT Competition Web Page(satcompetition.org)

35 points by kelseyfrog 3 years ago | 12 comments