Hacker News on Wednesday, 28 February 2024

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing(arxiv.org)

962 points by fgfm 2 years ago | 419 comments

arXiv paper introducing BitNet b1.58, a ternary-weight (-1, 0, 1) LLM matching full-precision Transformers while being far cheaper in latency, memory, and energy.

How video games use lookup tables(blog.frost.kiwi)

602 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 102 comments

A blog post explaining how video games use color lookup tables (LUTs) for tinting and color grading, with WebGL examples showing how to implement them.

Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver(recurse.chat)

496 points by xyc 2 years ago | 210 comments

Landing page for RecurseChat, a macOS app for chatting with local LLMs offline, with full-text search and ChatGPT history import.

Look, ma, no matrices(enkimute.github.io)

489 points by grgrdvrt 2 years ago | 85 comments

Write-up by Steven De Keninck on 'Look, Ma, No Matrices!', a glTF-compliant forward 3D renderer built entirely on projective geometric algebra instead of matrices.

Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video](youtube.com)

471 points by enderfusion 2 years ago | 261 comments

Unlisted YouTube video from Varda Space Industries showing its capsule's five-minute reentry from low Earth orbit to Earth.

'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech(space.com)

383 points by pixelesque 2 years ago | 313 comments

Space.com news article about a star system with mathematically resonant exoplanet orbits being searched for signs of alien technology.

Antarctic English(en.wikipedia.org)

332 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 139 comments

Wikipedia article on Antarctic English, the variety of English spoken by scientists and workers in Antarctica and the subantarctic islands.

Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play(afterbabel.com)

331 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 308 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Mariana Brussoni, with a preface by Jon Haidt, arguing that children need risk, fear, and excitement in play and that adult fears harm them.

Why I use Firefox(xn--ime-zza.eu)

320 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 186 comments

A personal blog post explaining the author's reasons for using Firefox, starting with the configurability offered by the about:config page.

Learn CSS layout the pedantic way (2015)(book.mixu.net)

258 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 83 comments

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD(phoronix.com)

246 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 128 comments

SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python(sympy.org)

237 points by tosh 2 years ago | 114 comments

MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers(github.com)

234 points by homarp 2 years ago | 55 comments

GoboLinux(gobolinux.org)

229 points by haunter 2 years ago | 163 comments

Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL(pql.dev)

224 points by ejcx 2 years ago | 120 comments

Serverless Horrors(serverlesshorrors.com)

212 points by franciscop 2 years ago | 111 comments

Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027(tomshardware.com)

211 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 221 comments

New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency(broadbandbreakfast.com)

200 points by dtaht 2 years ago | 94 comments

How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets(wired.com)

187 points by nova22033 2 years ago | 80 comments

Pingora: build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems(github.com)

182 points by KajMagnus 2 years ago | 30 comments

Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment(theguardian.com)

162 points by Teever 2 years ago | 45 comments

Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust(lore.kernel.org)

162 points by marcodiego 2 years ago | 71 comments

"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages(newyorker.com)

162 points by drdee 2 years ago | 199 comments

VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network(vatsim.net)

152 points by skibz 2 years ago | 53 comments

Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution(blog.opencollective.com)

152 points by chenrui 2 years ago | 37 comments

Scheduling Internals(tontinton.com)

152 points by signa11 2 years ago | 14 comments

Scientists find genetic signature of Down syndrome in ancient bones(nytimes.com)

122 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 73 comments

YouTube video embedding harm reduction(dustri.org)

121 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 26 comments

The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February(brazil.postsen.com)

118 points by andrenth 2 years ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers(pgs.sh)

114 points by qudat 2 years ago | 32 comments

Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion(bbc.com)

109 points by rntn 2 years ago | 91 comments

Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral(theregister.com)

109 points by neverrroot 2 years ago | 101 comments

Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes(ryanestrada.com)

106 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 38 comments

Let Everybody Sing (2016)(bittersoutherner.com)

104 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 44 comments

Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone(outdoorlife.com)

100 points by peterleiser 2 years ago | 248 comments

European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies(wcd.copernicus.org)

98 points by geox 2 years ago | 82 comments

Blind, Alone, and Confused for 24 Hours Challenge (2020)(mattlakeman.org)

92 points by quuxplusone 2 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: SQL workbench in the browser(sql-workbench.com)

90 points by tobilg 2 years ago | 16 comments

TrenchBroom: A cross platform level editor for Quake-engine based games(trenchbroom.github.io)

87 points by raytopia 2 years ago | 13 comments

The floppy disk music scene(theverge.com)

87 points by marban 2 years ago | 32 comments

More than 80 AI models from Qualcomm(huggingface.co)

86 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 35 comments

2024 MIT Integration Bee – Finals [video](youtube.com)

85 points by bschne 2 years ago | 22 comments

EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030(journals.plos.org)

85 points by geox 2 years ago | 87 comments

Calendar meeting links used to spread Mac malware(krebsonsecurity.com)

79 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

Common Mistakes in Modularisation(two-wrongs.com)

74 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 21 comments

The Emmy Computer Algebra System(github.com)

73 points by tosh 2 years ago | 9 comments

Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)(benhoyt.com)

73 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 49 comments

Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform(medium.com)

72 points by camel-cdr 2 years ago | 32 comments

Globe Explorer(explorer.globe.engineer)

72 points by dapearce 2 years ago | 11 comments

X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet(abc.net.au)

67 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 30 comments

Building Unorthodox Deep Learning GPU Machines(kyleboddy.com)

66 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 15 comments

Vyxal: A code-golfing language experience(github.com)

66 points by tosh 2 years ago | 27 comments

Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama sign UAW authorization cards(detroitnews.com)

64 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 52 comments

Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects(web3isgoinggreat.com)

64 points by healsdata 2 years ago | 12 comments

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics(nicf.net)

63 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 21 comments

Why do we need for an Undefined Behavior Annex to C++(community.intel.com)

61 points by luu 2 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: CriticalPath – Advanced Profiler for Android(crpath.app)

61 points by igorglad 2 years ago | 9 comments

How to make your GNU Emacs commands 'relevant' for M-X(utcc.utoronto.ca)

58 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 1 comments

Mistral: The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley's Giants(wsj.com)

57 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 20 comments

Google pays publishers to test AI tool that scrapes sites to craft new content(adweek.com)

56 points by vincent_s 2 years ago | 44 comments