Hacker News on Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year(younganimator.uk)

1500 points by countrymile 2 years ago | 217 comments

Young Animator of the Year UK 2023 winner page for Best Animation, age 15-18, featuring an embedded video of the winning animation.

Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer(ledger.com)

613 points by vberg 2 years ago | 571 comments

A Ledger blog post offering strategies for software developers with ADHD to manage focus and productivity.

Push ifs up and fors down(matklad.github.io)

606 points by celeritascelery 2 years ago | 274 comments

A blog post by matklad giving two rules of thumb: move if conditions up to callers and push for loops down into batch-processing functions, with Rust examples.

The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)(marginalia.nu)

512 points by ggpsv 2 years ago | 224 comments

A 2021 Marginalia blog post arguing that small independent websites are hard to find via Google or Reddit, leaving them with little traffic.

Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?(simonwillison.net)

455 points by simonw 2 years ago | 196 comments

Simon Willison's blog post exploring OpenAI's custom GPTs feature, how to configure them, and examples of GPTs he built.

Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?(newyorker.com)

352 points by zwieback 2 years ago | 270 comments

A New Yorker illustrated sketchbook essay by Angie Wang comparing her toddler's language learning to large language models.

U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game(spectrum.ieee.org)

338 points by beefman 2 years ago | 369 comments

IEEE Spectrum news article on Centrus Energy delivering the first U.S.-produced batch of HALEU uranium fuel needed for advanced nuclear reactors.

WASM by example(wasmbyexample.dev)

310 points by night-rider 2 years ago | 94 comments

B-trees in Factorio(razberry.substack.com)

304 points by hellorashid 2 years ago | 58 comments

David Attenborough is now narrating my life(twitter.com)

299 points by andygcook 2 years ago | 124 comments

Curl on 100 Operating Systems(daniel.haxx.se)

262 points by LaSombra 2 years ago | 84 comments

The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud(theverge.com)

226 points by buildbot 2 years ago | 254 comments

US surgeons perform first whole eye transplant(medicalxpress.com)

205 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 67 comments

ARRL hails FCC action to remove symbol rate restrictions(arrl.org)

205 points by 7402 2 years ago | 122 comments

AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study(arstechnica.com)

203 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 92 comments

Use Timestamps(jankremer.eu)

201 points by jankremer 2 years ago | 132 comments

Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections(theguardian.com)

196 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 134 comments

The Decline of Usability: Revisited(datagubbe.se)

187 points by myth2018 2 years ago | 135 comments

Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default(phoronix.com)

184 points by AdmiralAsshat 2 years ago | 125 comments

The truth is always made of details(raptitude.com)

176 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 61 comments

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'(theregister.com)

170 points by rntn 2 years ago | 124 comments

Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids(sciencedirect.com)

166 points by flipchart 2 years ago | 100 comments

Operating on a minimal two-core Postgres instance: Query optimization insights(robertrode.com)

161 points by rob742 2 years ago | 144 comments

Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones(thehill.com)

156 points by my12parsecs 2 years ago | 180 comments

Don't Spy EU(dontspy.eu)

147 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 44 comments

ML for Beginners GitHub(github.com)

138 points by dunwaldo 2 years ago | 26 comments

Diskomator – NVMe-TCP at your fingertips(github.com)

125 points by simjue 2 years ago | 67 comments

Canonical Launches MicroCloud to Deploy Your Own "Fully Functional Cloud"(phoronix.com)

125 points by laktak 2 years ago | 72 comments

The Architecture of Serverless Data Systems(jack-vanlightly.com)

123 points by orangechairs 2 years ago | 34 comments

Frutiger Aero(aesthetics.fandom.com)

122 points by carlos-menezes 2 years ago | 70 comments

She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years, but her life was a mystery(npr.org)

120 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 105 comments

Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64(accentual.com)

117 points by bane 2 years ago | 43 comments

Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research(theguardian.com)

116 points by c420 2 years ago | 95 comments

Is Delaware the cheapest place to incorporate?

115 points by ddxv 2 years ago | 102 comments

What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model(venturebeat.com)

110 points by swyx 2 years ago | 51 comments

My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's(blog.jgc.org)

109 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 24 comments

Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away(washingtonpost.com)

109 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 144 comments

Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types(numbat.dev)

107 points by sharkdp 2 years ago | 79 comments

Second Reality for Apple II(deater.net)

106 points by EvanAnderson 2 years ago | 42 comments

The Great Sphinx of Giza may have have started out as a natural formation(arstechnica.com)

105 points by Archelaos 2 years ago | 67 comments

Beyond Memorization: Violating privacy via inference with LLMs(arxiv.org)

102 points by vissidarte_choi 2 years ago | 56 comments

Orthodox Privilege (2020)(paulgraham.com)

95 points by omarious 2 years ago | 164 comments

M1076 Analog Matrix Processor(mythic.ai)

93 points by tosh 2 years ago | 23 comments

Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop(phoronix.com)

87 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 56 comments

Show HN: Watermelon – open-source copilot for code review(github.com)

87 points by estebandalelr 2 years ago | 43 comments

Grand Ball Given by the Whales (1861)(energyhistory.yale.edu)

84 points by sirobg 2 years ago | 24 comments

James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen(space.com)

84 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 33 comments

Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost(reuters.com)

83 points by testrun 2 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: MonkeyPatch – Cheap, fast and predictable LLM functions in Python(github.com)

82 points by JackHopkins 2 years ago | 49 comments

I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken(msn.com)

78 points by monero-xmr 2 years ago | 157 comments

Escaping the Edge sandbox: A bug that speaks for itself(microsoftedge.github.io)

78 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 11 comments

Hello World on the GPU (2019)(acko.net)

78 points by thdespou 2 years ago | 26 comments

In illinois, a warden tried to fix an abusive prison(themarshallproject.org)

77 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 53 comments

The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'(404media.co)

77 points by danso 2 years ago | 47 comments

Demoscene (2004)(demoscene.info)

76 points by vvoruganti 2 years ago | 33 comments

Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD's flagship MI300X GPU(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

71 points by latchkey 2 years ago | 52 comments

Canned food went from military rations to fancy appetizers(atlasobscura.com)

67 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 53 comments

COBOL for GCC Development(cobolworx.com)

64 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 19 comments

Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder(crookedtimber.org)

60 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: Which co-location providers would you recommend in the US?

60 points by devneelpatel 2 years ago | 39 comments