Hacker News on Saturday, 27 January 2024

Disney unveils the HoloTile floor(ign.com)

758 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 282 comments

IGN article on Disney's HoloTile floor, an omnidirectional tile floor by Imagineer Lanny Smoot that keeps users centered, likened to a holodeck.

Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step(github.com)

600 points by rasbt 2 years ago | 83 comments

GitHub repository by Sebastian Raschka with code for building a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch in PyTorch, accompanying a Manning book.

Show HN: Pong Wars(pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl)

427 points by vnglst 2 years ago | 107 comments

Pong Wars is a browser animation in which two balls, day and night, bounce across a grid and capture squares from each other's territory.

Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage(rclone.org)

386 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 143 comments

Homepage of Rclone, an open-source command-line program for syncing and managing files across 70+ cloud storage providers.

Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?(law.stackexchange.com)

377 points by wazbug 2 years ago | 169 comments

A Law Stack Exchange question asking whether buying Boeing put options while aboard a damaged Boeing airplane would count as insider trading.

Sxmo: Linux tiling window manager for phones(sxmo.org)

332 points by okasaki 2 years ago | 45 comments

Homepage of Sxmo (Simple X Mobile), a minimal, hackable tiling window manager-based user interface for Linux phones, featuring a LibrePlanet 2022 talk video.

I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video](youtube.com)

269 points by onnnon 2 years ago | 611 comments

Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"(icann.org)

261 points by zacwest 2 years ago | 178 comments

Gitlab password reset bug leaves more than 5.3K servers up for grabs(scmagazine.com)

229 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 106 comments

A hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges(arstechnica.com)

210 points by taimurkazmi 2 years ago | 45 comments

Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default(brave.com)

200 points by b_mc2 2 years ago | 117 comments

Why good content gets posted on the wrong platform?(danluu.com)

193 points by firstSpeaker 2 years ago | 131 comments

The invention of a new pasta shape (2021)(kottke.org)

180 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 117 comments

Philadelphia Jury Hits Monsanto with $2.25B Roundup Verdict(law.com)

170 points by sva_ 2 years ago | 66 comments

The 100MHz 6502 (2022)(e-basteln.de)

146 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 47 comments

Fossil is quitting smartwatches(theverge.com)

142 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 216 comments

The FCC Is Taking Steps to Wind Down the Affordable Connectivity Program(fcc.gov)

126 points by _delirium 2 years ago | 96 comments

Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal(news.mit.edu)

117 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 33 comments

Topaz Unicode(gitlab.com)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 28 comments

Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe(m.twitter.com)

103 points by notRobot 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: WAYF – A Simple Scheduling App(wayf.social)

101 points by runandrew 2 years ago | 30 comments

ExifTool CVE-2021-22204 – Arbitrary Code Execution (2021)(devcraft.io)

99 points by ekiauhce 2 years ago | 24 comments

The Ur Programming Language Family(impredicative.com)

99 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 34 comments

Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending(theguardian.com)

97 points by trocado 2 years ago | 104 comments

Stem, a stack-based language with metaprogramming and a C FLI(ret2pop.nullring.xyz)

94 points by GalaxyNova 2 years ago | 39 comments

Using AI to teach how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself(theregister.com)

93 points by rntn 2 years ago | 58 comments

Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones(androidpolice.com)

90 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 121 comments

Scale of methane leaks from fossil fuel production and landfills exposed(news.sky.com)

90 points by Leary 2 years ago | 46 comments

LoMA: Lossless Compressed Memory Attention(arxiv.org)

90 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered(van-magazine.com)

89 points by laurex 2 years ago | 13 comments

Nesizm: NES emulator for Casio Prizm calculators(github.com)

84 points by 27theo 2 years ago | 20 comments

I am the cheapest bastard in indie games (2019)(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

84 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 49 comments

Easy-to-Use Apple Vision wrapper for text extraction and clustering(pypi.org)

83 points by brulenaudet 2 years ago | 32 comments

All 7 planets could fit between Earth and the Moon(old.reddit.com)

82 points by dkpk 2 years ago | 51 comments

Solar is a market for (financial) lemons(pluralistic.net)

79 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 49 comments

On knowing who he was(aeon.co)

77 points by Towaway69 2 years ago | 65 comments

Vectorizing Unicode conversions on real RISC-V hardware(camel-cdr.github.io)

68 points by camel-cdr 2 years ago | 4 comments

Confirmation of ancient lake on Mars(phys.org)

67 points by wglb 2 years ago | 49 comments

NMAP-formatter: convert NMAP results to HTML, CSV, JSON, graphviz (dot), SQLite(github.com)

67 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

66 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 65 comments

Flent: The FLExible Network Tester(flent.org)

63 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 6 comments

Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot)(algorithmsoup.wordpress.com)

62 points by williamkuszmaul 2 years ago | 59 comments

Building a Password Cracker in 2024(sevnx.com)

60 points by notmine1337 2 years ago | 46 comments

Spotify calls Apple's DMA compliance plan 'extortion''complete and total farce'(techcrunch.com)

60 points by soheil 2 years ago | 75 comments

Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours(theverge.com)

58 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 42 comments

Sane C++ Libraries(github.com)

57 points by cozis 2 years ago | 104 comments

Apple's punitive compliance will burn its political and developer goodwill(techcrunch.com)

55 points by hexage1814 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Psychology of Apple Packaging(readtrung.com)

54 points by spking 2 years ago | 39 comments

Accuracy of Commercial Sleep-Trackers Compared to Research-Grade Tools(mdpi.com)

53 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 29 comments

Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise(hottakes.space)

51 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Source of Europe's Mild Climate(americanscientist.org)

51 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 41 comments

Zig Roadmap 2024 [video](youtube.com)

50 points by YuukiRey 2 years ago | 25 comments

Studying species in the deepest parts of the ocean: A new method of analysis(nautil.us)

49 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest (2015)(newyorker.com)

46 points by keiferski 2 years ago | 37 comments

Syphilis microbe's family has plagued humans for millennia(nature.com)

44 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Needless Bullshit of Having a 'Mission'(shubhamjain.co)

44 points by shubhamjain 2 years ago | 30 comments

Apple's plan to allow browser competition dubbed unworkable(open-web-advocacy.org)

44 points by milen 2 years ago | 17 comments

Cruise wasn't hiding accident video from regulators – it had bad internet(theverge.com)

40 points by doctorpangloss 2 years ago | 27 comments

Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair(theregister.com)

40 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 27 comments

The things nobody wants to pay for in open source(lwn.net)

39 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 2 comments