Hacker News on Sunday, 3 December 2023

LLM Visualization(bbycroft.net)

1512 points by plibither8 2 years ago | 129 comments

An interactive 3D walkthrough visualizing how a GPT large language model works, starting with a tiny nano-gpt model that sorts letters.

LLM Visualization(bbycroft.net)

910 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 1 comments

An interactive 3D walkthrough visualizing how a GPT-style large language model works, step by step, using nano-gpt, GPT-2, and GPT-3 examples.

Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one(nolanlawson.com)

477 points by kristianp 2 years ago | 87 comments

Nolan Lawson blog post walking through how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building a minimal one from scratch.

Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

443 points by jessehorne 2 years ago | 422 comments

Ask HN thread where users share side projects that helped them get hired and how the projects factored into interviews.

Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser(plant.max-richter.dev)

404 points by jimfx 2 years ago | 40 comments

A browser-based tool for procedurally generating and rendering 3D plants using a node-graph editor with adjustable parameters.

Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers(reportphonespam.org)

353 points by troydavis 2 years ago | 265 comments

A free public service site explaining how to identify the telecom carrier behind a robocall or text spam number and report abuse so service is terminated.

Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run(rachelbythebay.com)

318 points by FPGAhacker 2 years ago | 113 comments

Blog post describing how clang on Raspberry Pi OS bookworm produces C++ binaries that crash with illegal instruction on original Pi B+ and Pi Zero ARMv6 hardware.

Not a real engineer (2019)(twitchard.github.io)

266 points by lakesare 2 years ago | 51 comments

Now I can just print that video(blog.forret.com)

244 points by pforret 2 years ago | 106 comments

Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect(github.com)

235 points by MaximilianEmel 2 years ago | 154 comments

Gron: Make JSON greppable(github.com)

223 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 54 comments

The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)(twitchard.github.io)

214 points by prabhatsharma 2 years ago | 201 comments

Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds(wildergardenaudio.com)

213 points by wildergarden 2 years ago | 60 comments

OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman(wired.com)

206 points by gslin 2 years ago | 164 comments

UniFi Express(ui.com)

195 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 244 comments

Lobsters(github.com)

190 points by tosh 2 years ago | 130 comments

A new approach to domain ranking(marginalia.nu)

179 points by luu 2 years ago | 36 comments

The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore(blogs.lse.ac.uk)

179 points by jbotz 2 years ago | 170 comments

GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text(arxiv.org)

165 points by saliagato 2 years ago | 113 comments

Show HN: Onsites.fyi - Curated Big Tech Interview Experiences(onsites.fyi)

149 points by nisowa 2 years ago | 93 comments

The Placeholder Girlfriend(parhelia.conorbarnes.com)

144 points by dynm 2 years ago | 72 comments

Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019)(blog.scottlogic.com)

141 points by davikr 2 years ago | 28 comments

All the hominins made tools(johnhawks.net)

133 points by anticorporate 2 years ago | 39 comments

Stuxnet Source Code(github.com)

131 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 88 comments

Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity(blitiri.com.ar)

119 points by mvolfik 2 years ago | 45 comments

MakeMake: Generate make files from C source code(github.com)

116 points by quelsolaar 2 years ago | 61 comments

A whale that's known only by the sound of its voice(hakaimagazine.com)

113 points by grzm 2 years ago | 20 comments

Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java(pcmag.com)

109 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 160 comments

GDlog: A GPU-accelerated deductive engine(arxiv.org)

109 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 7 comments

A Personal History of APL (1982)(ed-thelen.org)

107 points by lupin_sansei 2 years ago | 39 comments

Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?(salon.com)

102 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 90 comments

The analog computer for the Nike missile system (2001)(ed-thelen.org)

101 points by greesil 2 years ago | 37 comments

1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study(arstechnica.com)

95 points by layer8 2 years ago | 34 comments

Floating solar power array on hydropower plant(cleantechnica.com)

86 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 56 comments

History of the PDF [pdf](sensible.so)

85 points by dwynings 2 years ago | 49 comments

Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company(github.com)

84 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 11 comments

DIY Home EV Charger(jamesfotherby.com)

84 points by nickt 2 years ago | 129 comments

Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark(tomshardware.com)

81 points by Ardms78 2 years ago | 48 comments

Run 70B LLM Inference on a Single 4GB GPU with This New Technique(ai.gopubby.com)

80 points by gardenfelder 2 years ago | 39 comments

Lowstorage: JSON-based database for Cloudflare Workers and R2 buckets(github.com)

79 points by neon_me 2 years ago | 17 comments

Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe's Ports(occrp.org)

76 points by jruohonen 2 years ago | 42 comments

American librarians helped defeat the Nazis(daily.jstor.org)

74 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 4 comments

Adding Build Provenance to Homebrew(blog.trailofbits.com)

74 points by ingve 2 years ago | 31 comments

A Vacuum Tube Single Board 1-Bit Computer [video](youtube.com)

67 points by zdw 2 years ago | 21 comments

Learning Jai via Advent of Code(forrestthewoods.com)

64 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Origin of Death (1970)(elijahwald.com)

61 points by neovialogistics 2 years ago | 11 comments

S2n-TLS – A C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol(github.com)

60 points by belter 2 years ago | 8 comments

A guide to home row mods(precondition.github.io)

56 points by wtrm 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Rqbit – bittorent CLI and desktop app written in Rust(github.com)

56 points by ikatson 2 years ago | 9 comments

WikiReader(en.wikipedia.org)

53 points by wildergarden 2 years ago | 13 comments

Tesla: Security Vulnerabilities(cvedetails.com)

52 points by nixass 2 years ago | 45 comments

Concurrent Pascal and SuperPascal programming languages(brinch-hansen.net)

49 points by Rochus 2 years ago | 5 comments

The first results from the biggest basic income experiment(vox.com)

47 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 47 comments

US Visual Approaches: Lessons from the LH458 Incident(ops.group)

46 points by cocacola1 2 years ago | 37 comments

Medicare Advantage Popular with Seniors – But Not Hospitals and Doctors(kffhealthnews.org)

46 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 66 comments

Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit(nytimes.com)

46 points by ezequiel-garzon 2 years ago | 36 comments

uBlock Origin rules for HN: removing MSM news sources reduces systemic stress

45 points by h_o_o_t 2 years ago | 18 comments

Decoding the gun-wielding angels of Bolivia(atlasobscura.com)

44 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Fluvio – Distributed stream processing system written in Rust and WASM(github.com)

42 points by debadyutirc 2 years ago | 2 comments

Wheel-Hand-Leg-Arms Open Doors Playfully(spectrum.ieee.org)

40 points by pingou 2 years ago | 12 comments