Hacker News on Monday, 29 January 2024

—-libcurl(everything.curl.dev)

604 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 114 comments

A page from the Everything curl book explaining the --libcurl option, which generates a C program using libcurl that replicates a curl command-line transfer.

Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games(boardzilla.io)

504 points by joshbuddy 2 years ago | 90 comments

Landing page for Boardzilla, a beta framework and platform for building and playing web-based digital board games with TypeScript.

Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure(statnews.com)

474 points by leeny 2 years ago | 204 comments

STAT News article reporting scientists documenting the first transmitted Alzheimer's cases, linked to past treatment with cadaver-derived human growth hormone.

Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B(twitter.com)

448 points by albert_e 2 years ago | 233 comments

A post from Meta AI on X announcing the release of Code Llama 70B, a larger version of its code-generation language model.

Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack(github.com)

402 points by eduction 2 years ago | 225 comments

GitHub repository for Helios, Oxide Computer's illumos-based operating system distribution that powers the Oxide Rack.

Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16(abcnews.go.com)

383 points by vinnyglennon 2 years ago | 578 comments

ABC News article reporting that the Florida House passed a bill banning social media accounts for children under 16, sending it to the state Senate.

Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated(nytimes.com)

346 points by ChrisArchitect 2 years ago | 288 comments

New York Times article reporting that a Hong Kong court ordered Chinese property developer Evergrande to be liquidated after years of debt troubles.

Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers(blog.rwkv.com)

341 points by guybedo 2 years ago | 73 comments

RWKV blog post announcing Eagle 7B, an RWKV-v5 linear transformer model trained on 1 trillion tokens across 100+ languages.

New Renderers for GTK(blog.gtk.org)

316 points by Decabytes 2 years ago | 179 comments

A Tour of the Lisps(fosskers.ca)

311 points by medo-bear 2 years ago | 223 comments

Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition(cnbc.com)

284 points by bitsage 2 years ago | 424 comments

Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission(bbc.co.uk)

272 points by neversaydie 2 years ago | 129 comments

Harmonics Explorer(teropa.info)

266 points by udit99 2 years ago | 42 comments

How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent(adaobi.substack.com)

255 points by mhb 2 years ago | 135 comments

Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot(github.com)

248 points by mfilion 2 years ago | 92 comments

Why you've never been in a plane crash(asteriskmag.com)

246 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 212 comments

Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf](damtp.cam.ac.uk)

213 points by badprobe 2 years ago | 204 comments

Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades(moderncss.dev)

210 points by marban 2 years ago | 23 comments

Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech(lcamtuf.substack.com)

206 points by zdw 2 years ago | 74 comments

How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history(glennf.medium.com)

203 points by ingve 2 years ago | 60 comments

A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura(thewalrus.ca)

190 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 118 comments

Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures(freightwaves.com)

185 points by Gigamouse 2 years ago | 296 comments

What I talk about when I talk about query optimizer (part 1): IR design(xuanwo.io)

180 points by xuanwo 2 years ago | 38 comments

An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it(businessinsider.com)

172 points by rntn 2 years ago | 137 comments

An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)(archive-it.org)

161 points by dsego 2 years ago | 58 comments

Svelte Native(svelte-native.technology)

153 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 71 comments

The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps(stratechery.com)

151 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 361 comments

The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (2020)(sudhir.io)

151 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 31 comments

Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs(answer.ai)

135 points by jph00 2 years ago | 46 comments

Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale(slack.engineering)

133 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 81 comments

41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective(uxtigers.com)

121 points by ravirajx7 2 years ago | 51 comments

Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript(kravchyk.com)

120 points by mckravchyk 2 years ago | 41 comments

Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician(scientificamerican.com)

120 points by hilux 2 years ago | 59 comments

Evergrande, once China's biggest property developer, ordered to liquidate(wsj.com)

116 points by samspenc 2 years ago | 76 comments

Prediction markets have an elections problem(asteriskmag.com)

116 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 160 comments

Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely

106 points by ashug 2 years ago | 42 comments

The Broadway Windowing System(docs.gtk.org)

103 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

Ubuntu Looking at Applying Low-Latency Optimizations to Its Generic Kernel(phoronix.com)

100 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 27 comments

Dr Strangelove at 60(bbc.com)

94 points by wyclif 2 years ago | 43 comments

Global Room-Temperature Superconductivity in Graphite(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

93 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 18 comments

Ingenuity had more computing power than all NASA deep space missions combined(arstechnica.com)

93 points by rntn 2 years ago | 51 comments

On the Costs of Syscalls (2021)(gms.tf)

92 points by K0nserv 2 years ago | 55 comments

Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police(torrentfreak.com)

90 points by CTOSian 2 years ago | 68 comments

Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level(phrasing.app)

89 points by barrell 2 years ago | 85 comments

The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday(twitter.com)

88 points by wilg 2 years ago | 84 comments

Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming(github.com)

87 points by millsteed 2 years ago | 72 comments

Higher Order Derivatives of Transforms(nosferalatu.com)

78 points by nosferalatu123 2 years ago | 20 comments

Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market(darkdot.com)

77 points by edward 2 years ago | 54 comments

There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)(etiennefd.substack.com)

76 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 111 comments

Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

73 points by spike021 2 years ago | 62 comments

Tindallgrams(nasa.gov)

72 points by hubraumhugo 2 years ago | 9 comments

A new Debian package helper: debputy(people.debian.org)

71 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 43 comments

Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages(forbes.com)

70 points by furkansahin 2 years ago | 24 comments

How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too(kiphakes.com)

68 points by edent 2 years ago | 90 comments

Pitch Drop Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)

68 points by luu 2 years ago | 26 comments

Coding on Copilot: Data suggests downward pressure on code quality(gitclear.com)

68 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 34 comments

A confusing probability question: Red and green balls in an urn(colab.research.google.com)

58 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 105 comments

Kirei is a work-in-progress keyboard library written in Zig(github.com)

56 points by zdw 2 years ago | 12 comments

HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers(techdirt.com)

56 points by artninja1988 2 years ago | 11 comments

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too(theverge.com)

53 points by manuelabeledo 2 years ago | 30 comments