Hacker News on Wednesday, 20 December 2023

Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms(varun.ch)

585 points by varun_ch 2 years ago | 540 comments

A personal blog post by a 16-year-old describing the rack-mounted server he set up and runs in his bedroom.

Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch(github.com)

391 points by johnma2006 2 years ago | 107 comments

GitHub repository with a simple, minimal single-file PyTorch implementation of the Mamba state-space model architecture.

High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs(github.com)

377 points by dataminer 2 years ago | 78 comments

GitHub repository for PowerInfer, an SJTU-IPADS engine for high-speed large language model inference on PCs with consumer-grade GPUs.

Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug(theverge.com)

377 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 541 comments

The Verge news article reporting that Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi will adopt Tesla's NACS EV charging plug, leaving Stellantis as the main holdout.

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays(buttondown.email)

325 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 271 comments

A Computer Things newsletter post by Hillel Wayne offering career advice to early-career software developers beyond typical advice essays.

Wireflow – free, online, open source tool for creating user-flow prototypes(wireflow.co)

311 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 37 comments

Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cancer metastasis in mice(news.stanford.edu)

291 points by geox 2 years ago | 73 comments

Show HN: I'm open-sourcing my game engine(github.com)

281 points by m0dE 2 years ago | 80 comments

Six Degrees of Wikipedia(sixdegreesofwikipedia.com)

261 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 61 comments

LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory(huggingface.co)

223 points by ghshephard 2 years ago | 39 comments

iMessage Key Verification(support.apple.com)

221 points by simpleintheory 2 years ago | 104 comments

Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized(openpipe.ai)

203 points by tosh 2 years ago | 97 comments

Build a search engine, not a vector DB(blog.elicit.com)

195 points by stuhlmueller 2 years ago | 62 comments

Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles(waymo.com)

193 points by ra7 2 years ago | 606 comments

Rite Aid banned from using AI facial recognition for five years(ftc.gov)

178 points by commoner 2 years ago | 60 comments

How to Escape a Container(panoptica.app)

174 points by chuckhend 2 years ago | 107 comments

Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online(usa.watchpro.com)

173 points by sparkling 2 years ago | 166 comments

The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive(righto.com)

169 points by picture 2 years ago | 35 comments

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective(reuters.com)

158 points by musiciangames 2 years ago | 98 comments

Making synthesized sounds more acoustic(nathan.ho.name)

155 points by beardicus 2 years ago | 58 comments

100 Lines of C, in a Closet (2020)(blog.notryan.com)

147 points by rrampage 2 years ago | 11 comments

Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI(vgmusic.com)

145 points by BramLovesYams 2 years ago | 45 comments

Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights(jalopnik.com)

138 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 131 comments

What's next for Tor and privacy online?(blog.torproject.org)

137 points by fsflover 2 years ago | 50 comments

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective(reuters.com)

133 points by gridder 2 years ago | 23 comments

Trying chDB, an embeddable ClickHouse engine(antonz.org)

125 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 11 comments

Hacker News Activity Analysis with GPT-4 Agent(eu.getdot.ai)

124 points by zurfer 2 years ago | 48 comments

There's a Concorde Engine Complete with Afterburner for Sale on eBay(simpleflying.com)

123 points by iLoveOncall 2 years ago | 83 comments

A KDE Plasma theme that aims to replicate the look and feel of Windows 7(gitgud.io)

123 points by unleaded 2 years ago | 53 comments

VanJS – A no-JSX framework based on vanilla JavaScript(vanjs.org)

122 points by ms7892 2 years ago | 112 comments

DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (2010)(secretgeek.net)

121 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 39 comments

AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case(reuters.com)

120 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 70 comments

Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features(podman-desktop.io)

119 points by twelvenmonkeys 2 years ago | 53 comments

Math Team(benexdict.io)

115 points by carabiner 2 years ago | 60 comments

California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open 5 more years(powermag.com)

113 points by philipkglass 2 years ago | 105 comments

Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++(github.com)

112 points by _benj 2 years ago | 87 comments

IBM demonstrates 133-qubit Heron(tomshardware.com)

112 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 56 comments

Show HN: I built an open source AI video search engine to learn more about AI(avse.vercel.app)

110 points by yoeven 2 years ago | 36 comments

An AI that learns about chemical reactions and designs a procedure to make them(new.nsf.gov)

108 points by geox 2 years ago | 44 comments

Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app(notesnook.com)

105 points by burgerrito 2 years ago | 100 comments

SSH protects the most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker(arstechnica.com)

101 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 35 comments

Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video](youtube.com)

101 points by PotatoNinja 2 years ago | 45 comments

String pinsetters are upending bowling(latimes.com)

101 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 120 comments

Rite Aid banned from using face recognition software after false ID shoplifters(techcrunch.com)

93 points by ashitlerferad 2 years ago | 34 comments

Uniting the Linux random-number devices (2022)(lwn.net)

88 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 37 comments

SOGo: Open-source groupware solution to Share calendars, address books and mails(sogo.nu)

86 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 32 comments

How I Work(blar.do)

82 points by ajackfox 2 years ago | 11 comments

Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968(arstechnica.com)

80 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 18 comments

An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs(bloomberg.com)

74 points by contingencies 2 years ago | 131 comments

A Record Number of Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Hit the U.S. in 2023(e360.yale.edu)

74 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 83 comments

An update on HDR and color management in KWin(zamundaaa.github.io)

74 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 26 comments

Building a faster hash table for high performance SQL joins(questdb.io)

71 points by nhourcard 2 years ago | 28 comments

Text-to-CAD(zoo.dev)

71 points by gok 2 years ago | 48 comments

Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition(jeffquast.com)

71 points by GalaxySnail 2 years ago | 17 comments

Lessons on building business value(lockedinspace.com)

71 points by lockedinspace 2 years ago | 34 comments

C Object Oriented Programming (2014)(nullprogram.com)

69 points by sergiogdr 2 years ago | 38 comments

NRF retracts its assertion that organized retail crime led to 50% of losses(stateline.org)

67 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 53 comments

Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy(techcrunch.com)

66 points by marban 2 years ago | 49 comments

Wayland vs. X – Overview(wayland.freedesktop.org)

66 points by hannofcart 2 years ago | 57 comments

End of an era for electronics giant Toshiba(bbc.com)

65 points by ZeljkoS 2 years ago | 40 comments