Hacker News on Thursday, 7 March 2024

Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)(eloquentjavascript.net)

1159 points by vajdagabor 2 years ago | 208 comments

Website for Eloquent JavaScript, Fourth Edition (2024), a free online book by Marijn Haverbeke teaching JavaScript programming.

Fine tune a 70B language model at home(answer.ai)

821 points by jph00 2 years ago | 197 comments

Answer.AI blog post announcing an open source system combining FSDP and QLoRA to train a 70B language model on two 24GB consumer GPUs.

Nikon to acquire RED(nikon.com)

525 points by gaoryrt 2 years ago | 174 comments

Nikon press release dated March 7, 2024, announcing its acquisition of US cinema camera manufacturer RED.com, LLC.

Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer(theatlantic.com)

394 points by cowboysauce 2 years ago | 139 comments

An Atlantic magazine feature on how the cystic fibrosis treatment Trikafta has extended patients' lives and what living longer means for them.

You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?(vin01.github.io)

365 points by vin10 2 years ago | 195 comments

Blog post showing how URL/malware scanners like urlscan.io, Hybrid Analysis and Cloudflare Radar store and expose private, sensitive links that can be searched publicly.

Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years(v21.io)

356 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 63 comments

Blog post by V Buckenham announcing the release of Downpour, a mobile game-making tool built from photos and drawings.

Sweden Is a NATO Member(government.se)

331 points by belter 2 years ago | 269 comments

Swedish government press release from 7 March 2024 announcing that Sweden has deposited its accession instrument and is now NATO's 32nd member.

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets(apnews.com)

311 points by kiwicopple 2 years ago | 369 comments

Leadership is a hell of a drug(ludic.mataroa.blog)

301 points by l0b0 2 years ago | 196 comments

The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set(pile.eleuther.ai)

299 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 189 comments

Sky lapse in two tone(blog.datadesk.eco)

237 points by ltrg 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language(github.com)

234 points by gabigrin 2 years ago | 101 comments

Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking(worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com)

222 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 112 comments

Fractional scales, fonts and hinting(blog.gtk.org)

205 points by vyskocilm 2 years ago | 97 comments

How to become a pirate archivist (2022)(annas-blog.org)

197 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 53 comments

How do computers calculate sine?(androidcalculator.com)

177 points by vegesm 2 years ago | 139 comments

The Berkeley Software Distribution(abortretry.fail)

174 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 54 comments

Source Code for Area 51 (2005) by Midway Studios Austin Found at Garage Sale(github.com)

164 points by andrew_rfc 2 years ago | 56 comments

PFAS 'forever chemicals' to officially be removed from food packaging, FDA says(livescience.com)

159 points by revscat 2 years ago | 73 comments

Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed(bbc.co.uk)

145 points by divbzero 2 years ago | 239 comments

Show HN: TinyWasm – A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust(github.com)

143 points by explodingcamera 2 years ago | 10 comments

New breakthrough brings matrix multiplication closer to ideal(quantamagazine.org)

142 points by bertman 2 years ago | 26 comments

Sea Kit(sea-kit.com)

138 points by belter 2 years ago | 96 comments

The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock(ironicsans.beehiiv.com)

123 points by arantius 2 years ago | 21 comments

WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability(developers.facebook.com)

121 points by namanaggarwal 2 years ago | 81 comments

ECJ finds IAB Europe responsible for TCF consent spam popups across the Internet(iccl.ie)

117 points by M2Ys4U 2 years ago | 60 comments

Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)(yolken.net)

115 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 61 comments

In Mongolia, a killer winter is ravaging herds and a way of life(e360.yale.edu)

110 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 57 comments

Atlas of internet surveillance maps ownership of network infrastructures worldw(techxplore.com)

109 points by wglb 2 years ago | 30 comments

The Magic of Bird Brains(newyorker.com)

109 points by chapulin 2 years ago | 34 comments

How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert(kottke.org)

108 points by gazsp 2 years ago | 34 comments

Launch HN: SiLogy (YC W24) – Chip design and verification in the cloud

107 points by pkkim 2 years ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube

91 points by insin 2 years ago | 39 comments

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1's iGPU: Adreno Gets Big(chipsandcheese.com)

81 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 38 comments

Dear Linux Kernel CNA, what have you done?(amanitasecurity.com)

81 points by odood 2 years ago | 77 comments

The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly(blog.dtornow.com)

80 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 51 comments

OpenAI's "Own Goal"(garymarcus.substack.com)

80 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 44 comments

Towards zero-downtime upgrades of stateful systems(stevana.github.io)

79 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

79 points by nagstler 2 years ago | 40 comments

FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++(briancallahan.net)

78 points by ingve 2 years ago | 25 comments

HP Tries Desperately to Make 'Printer as a Subscription' a Thing(techdirt.com)

76 points by rntn 2 years ago | 65 comments

Working with Tilt/Shift Lenses (2022)(phillipreeve.net)

73 points by luu 2 years ago | 41 comments

On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)(wolframphysics.org)

72 points by floobertoober 2 years ago | 36 comments

How I Learned to Concentrate(newyorker.com)

69 points by ilya_m 2 years ago | 44 comments

Total Functional Programming (2004) [pdf](ncatlab.org)

68 points by leonidasv 2 years ago | 69 comments

Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models(blog.research.google)

68 points by t3nary 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Dumber Side of Smart People(collabfund.com)

67 points by freediver 2 years ago | 42 comments

Breakthrough in nanostructure technology for real-time color display(phys.org)

66 points by wglb 2 years ago | 19 comments

Mandala: A little plaground for testing pixel logic patterns(github.com)

65 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 14 comments

On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out(arstechnica.com)

64 points by donatzsky 2 years ago | 60 comments

New Bounds for Matrix Multiplication: From Alpha to Omega(epubs.siam.org)

64 points by beefman 2 years ago | 22 comments

EU Probes Apple's Decision to Shut Down Epic's Developer Account(macrumors.com)

64 points by dataking 2 years ago | 57 comments

Optimizing Rabin-Karp Hashing(mattsills.github.io)

64 points by mis1988 2 years ago | 8 comments

Chiplet IP Standards Are Just the Beginning(semiengineering.com)

63 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 2 comments

Wikipedia over DNS (2008)(dgl.cx)

61 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 12 comments

Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers(jordaneldredge.com)

61 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 48 comments

The Race to 2nm: RISC-V Chips in Japan – By Dr. Ian Cutress(morethanmoore.substack.com)

57 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 11 comments

S.3819 – Shrinkflation Prevention Act of 2024(congress.gov)

57 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 39 comments

Inflection-2.5: meet the best personal AI(inflection.ai)

55 points by swyx 2 years ago | 39 comments

What if AGI is not coming?(mindprison.cc)

52 points by 13years 2 years ago | 57 comments