Hacker News on Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU(macrumors.com)

698 points by Hamuko 2 years ago | 1265 comments

MacRumors article reporting Apple's announcement that EU developers can distribute iOS apps directly from websites, plus other DMA-related changes.

Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation(trangram.com)

667 points by trangram 2 years ago | 211 comments

Landing page for Trangram, a free web-based platform and editor for creating, animating, and sharing motion graphics and SVG animations.

Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure(engineering.fb.com)

636 points by mootpt 2 years ago | 291 comments

Meta engineering blog post describing its large GPU training clusters for generative AI, including RDMA and InfiniBand networking, Grand Teton hardware, and storage.

The NYPD sent a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's Twitter account(hellgatenyc.com)

436 points by praisewhitey 2 years ago | 257 comments

Hell Gate article reporting that the NYPD sent a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's social media account data but won't defend it in court.

Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP(copyninja.in)

420 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 157 comments

A blog post describing how to clone an old laptop's encrypted disk to a new laptop by exporting it over NVMe/TCP, then resizing the partition, LUKS, and BTRFS.

Devin: AI Software Engineer(cognition-labs.com)

342 points by neural_thing 2 years ago | 322 comments

Cognition's blog post introducing Devin, which the company bills as the first AI software engineer, with an embedded intro video featuring CEO Scott Wu.

Weather forecasts have become more accurate(ourworldindata.org)

332 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 178 comments

Our World in Data article by Hannah Ritchie on how weather forecasts have grown more accurate and the need to make them available globally.

OpenAI – transformer debugger release(github.com)

318 points by nmca 2 years ago | 91 comments

GitHub repository for OpenAI's Transformer Debugger, a tool for investigating internal behaviors of small language models, including neuron explainer and viewer.

More options for apps distributed in the European Union(developer.apple.com)

298 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 347 comments

Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation(bsky.social)

295 points by steveklabnik 2 years ago | 153 comments

Breaking down tasks(jacobian.org)

282 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 99 comments

How Mandelbrot set images are affected by floating point precision(github.com)

258 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 89 comments

The Bevy Foundation(bevyengine.org)

214 points by _han 2 years ago | 58 comments

40 Years of Programming(liw.fi)

203 points by janvdberg 2 years ago | 77 comments

Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure(cnn.com)

198 points by breadwinner 2 years ago | 210 comments

A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events(vox.com)

194 points by thyrsus 2 years ago | 96 comments

Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate(swift.org)

190 points by rauhul 2 years ago | 29 comments

Stealing Part of a Production Language Model(arxiv.org)

190 points by alphabetting 2 years ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)(crates.io)

185 points by jph 2 years ago | 244 comments

Deterministic simulation testing for our entire SaaS(warpstream.com)

185 points by wwilson 2 years ago | 23 comments

Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study(news.uci.edu)

182 points by geox 2 years ago | 244 comments

Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?(arxiv.org)

176 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 108 comments

On the new Dutch intelligence and security law(berthub.eu)

172 points by ahubert 2 years ago | 68 comments

Launch HN: Glide (YC W24) – AI-assisted technical design docs

162 points by robmck 2 years ago | 57 comments

Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

161 points by habeanf 2 years ago | 92 comments

Vulkan Foliage rendering using GPU Instancing(thegeeko.me)

154 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 15 comments

Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable(arstechnica.com)

152 points by ben_w 2 years ago | 109 comments

A formula for responsive font-size(jameshfisher.com)

146 points by jamesfisher 2 years ago | 92 comments

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead(npr.org)

138 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 6 comments

Create More, Consume Less (2021)(omaritani.com)

132 points by artomweb 2 years ago | 37 comments

Astro DB(astro.build)

131 points by MatthewPhillips 2 years ago | 34 comments

I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut(protesilaos.com)

128 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 106 comments

Fig is sunsetting(fig.io)

119 points by patrikcsak 2 years ago | 49 comments

Chyrp Lite – An Ultra-Lightweight Tumblelogging Engine Using PHP and SQLite(chyrplite.net)

108 points by mikae1 2 years ago | 13 comments

C++ Safety, in Context(herbsutter.com)

108 points by ingve 2 years ago | 212 comments

Identifying Software(guix.gnu.org)

104 points by ementally 2 years ago | 20 comments

Performance-Aware Programming Series(computerenhance.com)

102 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 11 comments

Open Policy Agent(openpolicyagent.org)

95 points by julien040 2 years ago | 28 comments

Large Language Models Are Neurosymbolic Reasoners(arxiv.org)

94 points by optimalsolver 2 years ago | 86 comments

Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model(twitter.com)

91 points by ludovicianul 2 years ago | 8 comments

YX Problem(sicpers.info)

86 points by rkta 2 years ago | 57 comments

I'm excited about Darklang(stachu.net)

84 points by ingve 2 years ago | 72 comments

Estimating Software Projects: So you messed up. Now what? (2021)(jacobian.org)

84 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 68 comments

The internet is slipping out of our reach(injuly.in)

81 points by injuly 2 years ago | 67 comments

Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action(blog.frankel.ch)

78 points by nfrankel 2 years ago | 28 comments

The new science on what ultra-processed food does to the brain(wsj.com)

78 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 42 comments

Screen Space Reflection(zznewclear13.github.io)

77 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 7 comments

Differential storage: A key building block for a DuckDB-based data warehouse(motherduck.com)

76 points by vgt 2 years ago | 10 comments

LOCS: Language developed at age 9 in Z80 machine code (1988)(nanochess.org)

73 points by nanochess 2 years ago | 14 comments

Howard Hughes modified a 1925 Doble steam car to reach 133 MPH (2022)(hemmings.com)

73 points by palmfacehn 2 years ago | 43 comments

For polyglots, there's something special about their native tongue(news.mit.edu)

71 points by netfortius 2 years ago | 51 comments

Multi-Threading and Mutation(rfleury.com)

70 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 27 comments

Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide(thehill.com)

68 points by s3r3nity 2 years ago | 6 comments

Crypto 'mixer' convicted of money laundering on Bitcoin Fog(bloomberg.com)

67 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 48 comments

Quantum Soccer (2009)(gregegan.net)

67 points by nsilvestri 2 years ago | 4 comments

DMCA Notices Took Down 20,517 GitHub Projects Last Year(torrentfreak.com)

65 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 41 comments

Apple's hysterics over new EU antitrust law have led to two climbdowns already(finance.yahoo.com)

63 points by mdhb 2 years ago | 39 comments

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)(cs.princeton.edu)

62 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 21 comments

Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language(github.com)

62 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 40 comments

No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing(nature.com)

62 points by kasperset 2 years ago | 15 comments