Hacker News on Friday, 1 December 2023

Code is run more than read(olano.dev)

733 points by signa11 2 years ago | 297 comments

Blog post on olano.dev arguing that, beyond being read more than written, code is run more than read, extending the maxim about software priorities.

The Seamless Communication models(ai.meta.com)

678 points by skadamat 2 years ago | 329 comments

Meta AI research page for Seamless Communication, a family of AI translation models for expressive, fast speech and text translation, with model downloads.

Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy(github.com)

533 points by sebg 2 years ago | 84 comments

GitHub repository for Marker, a GPL-licensed tool by Vik Paruchuri that converts PDF documents to Markdown quickly and accurately.

Accidental database programming(sqlsync.dev)

523 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 265 comments

Blog post by Carl Sverre arguing that frontend apps end up reimplementing database features like caches and indexes, and proposing a frontend-optimized database stack.

A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography(appleinsider.com)

461 points by indrora 2 years ago | 328 comments

AppleInsider article explaining how an iPhone photo of a bride-to-be in a mirror showed different poses in each reflection due to Apple's computational photography stitching.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)

443 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 339 comments

The monthly Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread for December 2023, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.

Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning(github.com)

336 points by danielhanchen 2 years ago | 107 comments

GitHub repository for Unsloth, an open-source library for faster, lower-memory QLoRA/LoRA finetuning of Llama models using Triton kernels.

HTML hacks that shaped the Internet(tedium.co)

314 points by marban 2 years ago | 206 comments

Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline(noiselith.com)

311 points by haebom 2 years ago | 135 comments

Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?(arxiv.org)

307 points by rkwz 2 years ago | 187 comments

Star neuroscientist may have manipulated data to support a major stroke trial(science.org)

270 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 304 comments

Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says(cnbc.com)

256 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 302 comments

Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

255 points by atdrummond 2 years ago | 80 comments

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations (2020)(blog.datawrapper.de)

254 points by williamwoodhq 2 years ago | 40 comments

Advent of Code 2023 is nigh(adventofcode.com)

251 points by i13e 2 years ago | 215 comments

Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS(ft.com)

223 points by gumby 2 years ago | 199 comments

RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD(ravynos.com)

208 points by cable2600 2 years ago | 157 comments

Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times(thehftguy.com)

206 points by user5994461 2 years ago | 85 comments

Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'(nytimes.com)

178 points by carabiner 2 years ago | 158 comments

Skyfield: Elegant Astronomy for Python(rhodesmill.org)

170 points by stefankuehnel 2 years ago | 28 comments

The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI(newyorker.com)

168 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 73 comments

Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’(theconversation.com)

167 points by BobbyVsTheDevil 2 years ago | 179 comments

Onyx, a new programming language powered by WebAssembly(wasmer.io)

157 points by bkolobara 2 years ago | 61 comments

Music-Map – Find Similar Music(music-map.com)

155 points by explaininjs 2 years ago | 97 comments

A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM(hackaday.com)

152 points by magda_wang 2 years ago | 56 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)

150 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 255 comments

Large Language Model Course(github.com)

147 points by T-A 2 years ago | 9 comments

Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone(anduril.com)

144 points by drak0n1c 2 years ago | 155 comments

Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers(bbc.co.uk)

137 points by edward 2 years ago | 113 comments

Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content(playstation.com)

122 points by intunderflow 2 years ago | 68 comments

Unsloth: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% accuracy loss Llama finetuning(github.com)

121 points by bratao 2 years ago | 7 comments

My insulin pump controller has a bug(twitter.com)

109 points by mtmail 2 years ago | 94 comments

Llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer(simonwillison.net)

108 points by djha-skin 2 years ago | 22 comments

Should you split that file?(pathsensitive.com)

102 points by vinipolicena 2 years ago | 73 comments

500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)(github.com)

101 points by miketromba 2 years ago | 70 comments

ASML names Christophe Fouquet as new CEO(nltimes.nl)

97 points by newswasboring 2 years ago | 69 comments

Seraph Secure: anti-scam software co-founded by Kitboga(seraphsecure.com)

97 points by MontagFTB 2 years ago | 52 comments

Quantum particles can feel the influence of gravitational fields(sciencenews.org)

96 points by galaxyLogic 2 years ago | 36 comments

Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation(cbsnews.com)

95 points by hammock 2 years ago | 94 comments

Endatabas: A SQLite-inspired, SQL document database with full history(docs.endatabas.com)

94 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 15 comments

Brain waves usually found in sleep can protect against epileptic activity(medicalxpress.com)

94 points by wglb 2 years ago | 24 comments

A Nouveau graphics driver update(lwn.net)

94 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 90 comments

"Useless Ruby sugar": Endless (one-line) methods(zverok.space)

89 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 78 comments

Astronomers posit that we live in an area with below average density(phys.org)

88 points by samizdis 2 years ago | 81 comments

Why are Golang heaps so complicated(dolthub.com)

83 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 8 comments

OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024(axios.com)

82 points by cloudking 2 years ago | 49 comments

The Neglected Books Page(neglectedbooks.com)

79 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 7 comments

Why Did These LEDs Light Up? ESP32-S3 – Which Pins Are Safe to Use? [video](youtube.com)

69 points by iamflimflam1 2 years ago | 23 comments

The future of air defense must be smarter, more affordable, and reusable(anduril.com)

69 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 75 comments

The Stroad(strongtowns.org)

68 points by upwardbound 2 years ago | 46 comments

Using Turbo Frames and Streams Without Rails(radanskoric.com)

65 points by tortilla 2 years ago | 13 comments

Segment Anything Model (Sam) Visualized(flowforward.simple.ink)

63 points by nimsy 2 years ago | 16 comments

What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation a.k.a. RAG?(blogs.nvidia.com)

62 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 21 comments

Britain's scariest libel firm(economist.com)

60 points by livueta 2 years ago | 28 comments

300-year-old Tokyo comb company sells 30k-yen ($200) wooden hair combs(soranews24.com)

57 points by kizunajp 2 years ago | 39 comments

Cloudflare Gen 12 Server: Bigger, Better, Cooler in a 2U1N Form Factor(blog.cloudflare.com)

55 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 35 comments

99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 44 Minutes [video](youtube.com)

54 points by mustafabisic1 2 years ago | 20 comments

Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Cells(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

54 points by birriel 2 years ago | 9 comments

Uber Joins the S&P 500(wsj.com)

52 points by granzymes 2 years ago | 33 comments

Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day(nature.com)

50 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 21 comments