Hacker News on Saturday, 23 December 2023

Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model(github.com)

576 points by weirdcat 2 years ago | 284 comments

GitHub repository for Apple's Ferret, a multimodal large language model, containing code, scripts, and released checkpoints.

Xmas.c (1988)(udel.edu)

532 points by evah 2 years ago | 91 comments

A personal page dissecting xmas.c, Ian Phillipps' 1988 IOCCC-winning obfuscated C program, explaining how the code works.

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims(theguardian.com)

467 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 426 comments

Guardian article on a Human Rights Watch report claiming Meta's Facebook and Instagram systematically censor pro-Palestinian content worldwide.

The Art of Electronics (2015)(artofelectronics.net)

369 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 96 comments

Official website for The Art of Electronics, the electronics textbook by Horowitz and Hill, with book info, reviews, updates, and supplementary chapters.

StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive generation(github.com)

336 points by Flux159 2 years ago | 61 comments

GitHub repository for StreamDiffusion, a pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive image generation with diffusion models.

NY Governor vetoes ban on noncompete clauses, waters down LLC transparency bill(gothamist.com)

323 points by dataflow 2 years ago | 211 comments

Gothamist news article reporting that New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a ban on noncompete clauses and weakened an LLC transparency bill.

Crown shyness(en.wikipedia.org)

304 points by edward 2 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks(smoores.gitlab.io)

288 points by smoores 2 years ago | 62 comments

Suno AI(suno.ai)

245 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 103 comments

Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service(github.com)

240 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 105 comments

They want you to forget what a film looks like(aftermath.site)

236 points by zer00eyz 2 years ago | 127 comments

How does a B-tree make queries fast?(blog.allegro.tech)

194 points by jaycox2931 2 years ago | 55 comments

Bayesians moving from defense to offense(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

185 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 89 comments

In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users(organicmaps.app)

184 points by RicoElectrico 2 years ago | 61 comments

Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)(terrytao.wordpress.com)

177 points by vector_spaces 2 years ago | 55 comments

Understanding every byte in a WASM module(danielmangum.com)

167 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 32 comments

Otter, Fastest Go in-memory cache based on S3-FIFO algorithm(github.com)

162 points by rickette 2 years ago | 50 comments

BBS: The Documentary (2005)(bbsdocumentary.com)

158 points by pelagicAustral 2 years ago | 54 comments

Quantum computing's reality check(spectrum.ieee.org)

156 points by mathgenius 2 years ago | 116 comments

How Pinterest scaled(read.engineerscodex.com)

147 points by stanulilic 2 years ago | 126 comments

Cummins pickup truck engines tricked air quality controls, feds say(usatoday.com)

142 points by rokkitmensch 2 years ago | 91 comments

DIY ventilation heat exchanger (2010)(ecorenovator.org)

137 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 65 comments

Hbomberguy didn't want to make that 4-hour plagiarism video(vulture.com)

121 points by _tk_ 2 years ago | 9 comments

Having a game I'm into makes every day enjoyable(plumshell.com)

118 points by NonUmemoto 2 years ago | 68 comments

Beeper Mini is now open-source(github.com)

110 points by syrusakbary 2 years ago | 98 comments

"King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley(washingtonpost.com)

109 points by huckleberryfinn 2 years ago | 78 comments

2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral found under Rome(cnn.com)

101 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 17 comments

How Many People? Ancient Demography(acoup.blog)

100 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 0 comments

Was BASIC that horrible or better?(retrofun.pl)

99 points by syx 2 years ago | 168 comments

Rumble turns off access in Brazil because of government's censorship demands(reclaimthenet.org)

98 points by bratao 2 years ago | 140 comments

Translation and accelerated solving of differential equations on GPU platforms(arxiv.org)

96 points by UncleOxidant 2 years ago | 31 comments

2TB microSD card is on the way early next year(overkill.wtf)

95 points by brandrick 2 years ago | 115 comments

Let me repeat that back to you(roughlywritten.substack.com)

95 points by rco8786 2 years ago | 52 comments

Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better(nicemice.net)

90 points by ingve 2 years ago | 24 comments

Indexing a billion pages(blog.mwmbl.org)

88 points by daoudc 2 years ago | 15 comments

Researchers discover neuronal biomarkers of schizophrenia in the blood(hmri.org.au)

87 points by geox 2 years ago | 41 comments

GM halts sales of its new Chevy Blazer EV amid reports of software issues(engadget.com)

83 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 63 comments

Termdbms – A TUI for viewing and editing database files(github.com)

83 points by sieste 2 years ago | 11 comments

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (2011)(longform.asmartbear.com)

80 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Talk Paper Scissors(talkpaperscissors.com)

78 points by gregsadetsky 2 years ago | 23 comments

Goodsteins theorem(en.wikipedia.org)

72 points by dedalus 2 years ago | 42 comments

Is Tetr.io Legal?(blog.osk.sh)

71 points by cglong 2 years ago | 39 comments

Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives(arxiv.org)

67 points by SubiculumCode 2 years ago | 37 comments

AI companies required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill(theverge.com)

66 points by rntn 2 years ago | 23 comments

Network Science by Albert-László Barabási(networksciencebook.com)

64 points by j_maffe 2 years ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client(github.com)

63 points by ElasticBottle 2 years ago | 61 comments

What is a parser mismatch vulnerability? (2022)(brainonfire.net)

61 points by subset 2 years ago | 13 comments

Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the data (2011) [pdf](ams.org)

58 points by dedalus 2 years ago | 2 comments

OCaml as the Universal Translator – DkSDK Merry Christmas 2023(gitlab.com)

57 points by beckford 2 years ago | 2 comments

Cummins Fined $1.6B for Diesel Defeat Devices in 630K RAM Trucks(thedrive.com)

56 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 66 comments

Improving our safety with a physical quantities and units library(open-std.org)

56 points by limoce 2 years ago | 48 comments

Bug story: Sorting by timestamp(adam-p.ca)

54 points by adam-p 2 years ago | 32 comments

Sniffing women's tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds(newatlas.com)

54 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 2 years ago | 41 comments

The Johnson Solids (2019)(qfbox.info)

50 points by twoodfin 2 years ago | 20 comments

Filmolino SlideScanner(filmolino.com)

47 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 16 comments

Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules(reuters.com)

46 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 6 comments

Spare a Thought for Julian Assange Spending His Fifth Christmas Behind Bars(sydneycriminallawyers.com.au)

38 points by hackandthink 2 years ago | 2 comments

Department of Justice and FTC Looking into Beeper iMessage Controversy(macrumors.com)

37 points by my12parsecs 2 years ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: What's the coolest non standard application of LLMs you've seen?

36 points by iceman_w 2 years ago | 37 comments

Story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem(store.steampowered.com)

35 points by doener 2 years ago | 5 comments