Hacker News on Monday, 25 December 2023

Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?

601 points by divan 2 years ago | 184 comments

Ask HN thread asking for the best current approach (as of Dec 2023) to make an LLM answer questions over a custom document set, including RAG.

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

598 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 212 comments

A Tell HN discussion thread wishing the Hacker News community a Merry Christmas, with users replying with holiday greetings.

Ruby 3.3(ruby-lang.org)

539 points by dduugg 2 years ago | 175 comments

Official ruby-lang.org announcement of the Ruby 3.3.0 release, introducing the Prism parser, Lrama parser generator, the RJIT compiler, and YJIT performance improvements.

Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs(github.com)

465 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 198 comments

GitHub repository for Stirling-PDF, a locally hosted web application for performing various operations on PDF files such as merging, converting, and OCR.

Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom(tuvsud.com)

341 points by tckr 2 years ago | 407 comments

TÜV SÜD press release on the TÜV-Report 2024 vehicle inspection results, covering defect rates by car brand and the value of regular servicing.

Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi(roylongbottom.org.uk)

319 points by stare_spb 2 years ago | 164 comments

Roy Longbottom's page comparing Cray-1 supercomputer benchmark performance with home computers, phones, tablets and Raspberry Pi, plus his background in benchmarking.

The Star – Arthur C. Clarke (1967) [pdf](sites.uni.edu)

290 points by Yhippa 2 years ago | 72 comments

Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

275 points by devta 2 years ago | 58 comments

Nintendo Network shutdown – The beginning of the end(pretendo.network)

270 points by haunter 2 years ago | 169 comments

Constellations are younger than continents(lesswrong.com)

264 points by dash2 2 years ago | 91 comments

Non-interactive SSH password authentication(vincent.bernat.ch)

251 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 102 comments

Zotero for Android available for beta tests(forums.zotero.org)

248 points by pivic 2 years ago | 73 comments

GTA 5 source code leaks online(sportskeeda.com)

224 points by rand0mx1 2 years ago | 125 comments

Reproducible Git Bundles(baecher.dev)

174 points by pbhn 2 years ago | 27 comments

TKey is a RISC-V computer in a USB-C case, that can run security applications(dev.tillitis.se)

174 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 76 comments

DIY Night Clock Projector (2018)(microengineer.eu)

158 points by GeoAtreides 2 years ago | 45 comments

A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven(twitter.com)

156 points by lopkeny12ko 2 years ago | 91 comments

I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"(x.com)

154 points by jonathanzufi 2 years ago | 88 comments

Post-apocalyptic life in American health care(metarationality.com)

152 points by exp1orer 2 years ago | 79 comments

Fake It 'Til You Fake It(pxlnv.com)

152 points by firloop 2 years ago | 72 comments

Stupid Patent of the Month: Selfie Contests(eff.org)

148 points by glitcher 2 years ago | 30 comments

War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape(theregister.com)

140 points by lproven 2 years ago | 75 comments

Reforming Unix(github.com)

137 points by Ericson2314 2 years ago | 73 comments

Ptext: A Nano-like text editor built with pure C(github.com)

132 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 58 comments

Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers(fsfe.org)

127 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 71 comments

A closer look at the Tabula Peutingeriana(blog.datawrapper.de)

122 points by gmays 2 years ago | 62 comments

How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless?(bard.google.com)

110 points by tedsanders 2 years ago | 72 comments

Emulating an iPod Touch 2G using QEMU(devos50.github.io)

110 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 10 comments

Matter, set to fix smart home standards in 2023, stumbled in the real market(arstechnica.com)

104 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 118 comments

The C++20 Naughty and Nice List for Game Devs(jeremyong.com)

99 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 86 comments

2023: The Year of AI(journal.everypixel.com)

96 points by talboren 2 years ago | 54 comments

Sid Meier's Memoir: A Life in Computer Games(wwnorton.com)

88 points by diggan 2 years ago | 30 comments

Using Qt for Mobile in 2023(camg.me)

86 points by susam 2 years ago | 57 comments

The Neat Programming Language(neat-lang.github.io)

85 points by FeepingCreature 2 years ago | 60 comments

Breakdown of AV1 Video Codec(github.com)

80 points by dreampeppers99 2 years ago | 18 comments

Datsun 240Z L24 Engine Full Rebuild [video](youtube.com)

78 points by dschofie 2 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: CuteVim – Portable Vim with a cute vimrc(github.com)

78 points by csdvrx 2 years ago | 39 comments

Building a decentralized name system on top of IRC(roberts.pm)

77 points by Uptrenda 2 years ago | 44 comments

Towards Oberon+ Concurrency(oberon-lang.github.io)

74 points by Rochus 2 years ago | 21 comments

Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island(rcsri.org)

74 points by notpachet 2 years ago | 17 comments

The dark side of social media on youth mental health(psypost.org)

72 points by elorant 2 years ago | 31 comments

TLA+ in Isabelle/HOL(davecturner.github.io)

71 points by kalaracey 2 years ago | 2 comments

Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)(ukiahdailyjournal.com)

69 points by nose 2 years ago | 53 comments

Some Useful Bash Aliases (2022)(chuck.is)

68 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 44 comments

B&H Photo Published an AI-Generated Guide Written by a Fake Person(petapixel.com)

66 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 38 comments

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has been found in Arctic Prison after ~3 weeks(old.reddit.com)

66 points by wslh 2 years ago | 13 comments

When a postdoc in my lab committed fraud, I had to face my own culpability(science.org)

65 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 47 comments

Japan's SLIM 'moon sniper' lander arrives in lunar orbit for Christmas(space.com)

63 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 4 comments

Lagrange points could become battlegrounds in a new space race(sciencealert.com)

62 points by elorant 2 years ago | 33 comments

T-Mobile introduce fines from Jan 1 for "Code of Conduct" violations(support.bandwidth.com)

60 points by Baldbvrhunter 2 years ago | 52 comments

Researchers are scaling up solar-powered kelp farms(spectrum.ieee.org)

59 points by geox 2 years ago | 17 comments

GTA 5 source code reportedly leaked online a year after RockStar hack(bleepingcomputer.com)

58 points by 882542F3884314B 2 years ago | 27 comments

The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know(craigmod.com)

52 points by andyjohnson0 2 years ago | 7 comments

SQL as API(valentin.willscher.de)

51 points by valenterry 2 years ago | 51 comments

Evolving Reservoirs for Meta Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)

50 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 4 comments

CrayZee Eighty(rc2014.co.uk)

50 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 2 comments

Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights: A Scholarly Treatise(merrillmarkoe.substack.com)

49 points by NaOH 2 years ago | 9 comments

Data scientists need to learn about significant digits(lemire.me)

48 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 39 comments

Woman pregnant in each of her two uteruses gives birth to twins(cnn.com)

46 points by dirtyhippiefree 2 years ago | 24 comments

The Chevy Blazer EV Launch Has Gone from Rough to Worse as GM Issues Stop-Sale(thedrive.com)

43 points by bastard_op 2 years ago | 19 comments