Hacker News on Sunday, 14 January 2024

Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database(github.com)

507 points by ignoramous 2 years ago | 215 comments

GitHub repository for Vanna, an MIT-licensed tool for chatting with SQL databases using LLM-based text-to-SQL generation with retrieval-augmented generation.

Dynamic programming is not black magic(qsantos.fr)

433 points by qsantos 2 years ago | 192 comments

A blog post by Quentin Santos explaining dynamic programming as an approachable algorithmic technique rather than black magic.

Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run(gist.github.com)

427 points by adtac 2 years ago | 139 comments

A GitHub Gist showing a Dockerfile with a shebang line that lets it be executed directly to build and run the container.

SQLite: Wal2 Mode(sqlite.org)

407 points by finallyy 2 years ago | 87 comments

SQLite branch documentation describing wal2 journal mode, how to enable it, and its advantage over legacy WAL mode for checkpointing.

When Random Isn't(orlp.net)

338 points by orlp 2 years ago | 124 comments

Blog post recounting a teenage anecdote about exploiting predictable randomness in World of Warcraft Lua add-ons, framed as a computer security story.

Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum(posthog.com)

307 points by vmatsiiako 2 years ago | 156 comments

Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app(github.com)

299 points by phildenhoff 2 years ago | 142 comments

Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?

255 points by zikduruqe 2 years ago | 109 comments

Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed(theregister.com)

209 points by curiousObject 2 years ago | 190 comments

ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails(ico.org.uk)

206 points by aa_is_op 2 years ago | 112 comments

Some memories of Niklaus Wirth(odersky.github.io)

197 points by gautamcgoel 2 years ago | 48 comments

OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions(dpldocs.info)

196 points by mepian 2 years ago | 220 comments

Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux(ypsidanger.com)

190 points by Santosh83 2 years ago | 72 comments

How to delete your data from data brokers(cybercollective.org)

147 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 68 comments

Fast RISC-V-based scripting back end for game engines(github.com)

142 points by fwsgonzo 2 years ago | 72 comments

Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications (2023)(dl.acm.org)

142 points by signa11 2 years ago | 58 comments

Show HN: Material Files – Open Source Material Design File Manager for Android(github.com)

135 points by dreamingincode 2 years ago | 61 comments

What Happened to GE? (2021)(gatesnotes.com)

133 points by signa11 2 years ago | 121 comments

The origins of the Guinness stout yeast(nature.com)

129 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 58 comments

Cars suck, man(petargyurov.com)

129 points by petargyurov 2 years ago | 139 comments

Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads(samkriss.substack.com)

128 points by gHeadphone 2 years ago | 35 comments

Nitter.net has disappeared(github.com)

127 points by rrherr 2 years ago | 44 comments

The Ultimate Docker Cheat Sheet(devopscycle.com)

122 points by jpeer264 2 years ago | 19 comments

How to build a submarine and survive [video](media.ccc.de)

119 points by pelim 2 years ago | 33 comments

Building a Faraday cage with data passthrough for ESP32 reverse engineering(esp32-open-mac.be)

115 points by signa11 2 years ago | 24 comments

Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track(theguardian.com)

115 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 114 comments

Researchers trace a form of lupus back to a single mutation(mpg.de)

113 points by belter 2 years ago | 24 comments

Inside Boeing’s manufacturing mess(wsj.com)

113 points by qsi 2 years ago | 55 comments

Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502(thechipletter.substack.com)

110 points by zdw 2 years ago | 30 comments

Rethinking Diabetes – interview with Gary Taubes(theguardian.com)

102 points by prmph 2 years ago | 100 comments

Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

102 points by rasbt 2 years ago | 7 comments

What's the story on the "toxic lady"? (1996)(straightdope.com)

97 points by fidotron 2 years ago | 21 comments

The hovercraft's time might have arrived(bbc.com)

96 points by cannibalXxx 2 years ago | 130 comments

Ruffle: 2023 in Review(ruffle.rs)

95 points by hexmiles 2 years ago | 16 comments

Introduction to GPU Programming in Chapel(chapel-lang.org)

93 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 10 comments

Type information for faster Python C extensions(bernsteinbear.com)

93 points by ingve 2 years ago | 7 comments

Ancestry to paywall formerly free features included with DNA kit(easygenie.org)

88 points by ilamont 2 years ago | 65 comments

Much of the Web Is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism(arxiv.org)

86 points by yorwba 2 years ago | 68 comments

NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments(nixos.org)

80 points by thatxliner 2 years ago | 46 comments

Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video](calgary.citynews.ca)

76 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 144 comments

A collector of math and physics surprises (2018)(quantamagazine.org)

75 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 7 comments

COSMIC SETI(science.nrao.edu)

75 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 8 comments

Free unexpected MIT courses to kick start the new year(medium.com)

74 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 23 comments

Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal(japantimes.co.jp)

74 points by wglb 2 years ago | 73 comments

The $500M Dollar Typo(cockroachlabs.com)

73 points by makaimc 2 years ago | 12 comments

He spent his life building a $1M stereo(washingtonpost.com)

71 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 41 comments

All PyCon 2023 talks sorted by the view count(techtalksweekly.substack.com)

70 points by techtalksweekly 2 years ago | 10 comments

Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released(crystal-lang.org)

69 points by ksec 2 years ago | 37 comments

How to write a logline producers won't pass on(studiobinder.com)

65 points by lovestaco 2 years ago | 27 comments

Modern misconceptions about medieval warfare(warfantasy.wordpress.com)

56 points by aldarion 2 years ago | 47 comments

An eruption has begun north of Grindavík(ruv.is)

56 points by svl 2 years ago | 21 comments

Estimating your memory bandwidth(lemire.me)

52 points by ingve 2 years ago | 11 comments

Kind of annoyed at React(blog.cassidoo.co)

51 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 42 comments

Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software(ext.store)

51 points by Overhear_Diem 2 years ago | 27 comments

YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled(old.reddit.com)

51 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 28 comments

Skiff: Various Privacy Failures(grepular.com)

50 points by uselpa 2 years ago | 20 comments

Field trip: inside America's first magic mushroom school(theguardian.com)

49 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 17 comments

AMD Unveils Ryzen 8000G Series Processors: Zen 4 APUs for Desktop with Ryzen AI(anandtech.com)

47 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 6 comments

Dutch designer drives his car on the plastic waste he collects(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

46 points by akeck 2 years ago | 58 comments

Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge(independent.co.uk)

41 points by prakhar897 2 years ago | 36 comments