Hacker News on Sunday, 17 March 2024

Grok(github.com)

1034 points by pierre 2 years ago | 375 comments

GitHub repository from xAI containing the open release of the Grok language model code and checkpoint loading scripts under Apache-2.0.

The return of the frame pointers(brendangregg.com)

630 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 230 comments

Brendan Gregg blog post on frame pointers returning as a compiler default in Linux distributions, and how this fixes broken stack traces in profilers and flame graphs.

When Armor Met Lips(crookedtimber.org)

452 points by akkartik 2 years ago | 53 comments

A Crooked Timber essay by Doug Muir on early armored cephalopods like Plectronoceras and the evolutionary arrival of jawed predators with lips.

LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with LLM(github.com)

373 points by Davidbrcz 2 years ago | 120 comments

GitHub repository for LLM4Decompile, a project using large language models to decompile binary code, with evaluation scripts and samples.

Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)(github.com)

373 points by lsferreira42 2 years ago | 120 comments

GitHub repository for nanofont3x4, a tiny readable 3x4 pixel bitmap font with lowercase letters covering all ASCII symbols.

Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

289 points by alecst 2 years ago | 147 comments

2600.network Dialup Service(2600.network)

254 points by classichasclass 2 years ago | 107 comments

Debloat non-rooted Android devices(github.com)

243 points by zikohh 2 years ago | 162 comments

How Microchips Work(exclusivearchitecture.com)

215 points by pbamotra 2 years ago | 28 comments

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

196 points by logtempo 2 years ago | 58 comments

Why are there suddenly so many car washes?(bloomberg.com)

185 points by philip1209 2 years ago | 462 comments

Heinlein's Fan Mail Solution(kk.org)

173 points by blackbrokkoli 2 years ago | 34 comments

Gravitational Collapse of Spongebob(twitter.com)

170 points by raattgift 2 years ago | 52 comments

Losing Faith on Testing(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

167 points by ben_s 2 years ago | 115 comments

We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl (1993)(jwgoerlich.com)

158 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 100 comments

Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years(smithsonianmag.com)

151 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 66 comments

Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to $60B market cap(wsj.com)

147 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 103 comments

Optimize CSS with SAT Solving(github.com)

143 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 36 comments

Compressing Images with Neural Networks(mlumiste.com)

142 points by skandium 2 years ago | 62 comments

Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB for Weeks(twz.com)

141 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 84 comments

Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm(simonwillison.net)

140 points by wanderingmind 2 years ago | 74 comments

Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline(github.com)

136 points by tosh 2 years ago | 47 comments

Superiority (1951)(metallicman.com)

135 points by rgrieselhuber 2 years ago | 56 comments

6.2 GHz Intel Core I9-14900KS Review(tomshardware.com)

119 points by tomcam 2 years ago | 207 comments

How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small(spectrum.ieee.org)

119 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 50 comments

Sul Ross Desk(atlasobscura.com)

117 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 8 comments

Django REST framework 3.15.0(django-rest-framework.org)

110 points by cosmosgenius 2 years ago | 61 comments

How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater(e360.yale.edu)

107 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 106 comments

How to mess with your roommate (2018)(bernsteinbear.com)

105 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 16 comments

Pine64 March update: making waves(pine64.org)

103 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 36 comments

HashiCorp Exploring Potential Sale(reuters.com)

101 points by pranay01 2 years ago | 67 comments

Boinc lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer(boinc.berkeley.edu)

100 points by doener 2 years ago | 78 comments

Got my ultimate retro KVM setup working(rubenerd.com)

98 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 8 comments

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts(theregister.com)

92 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 85 comments

htmx 2.0.0-beta1(v2-0v2-0.htmx.org)

89 points by eatox 2 years ago | 34 comments

DIY Macro PCB Photography(niemczuk.tech)

80 points by dsalzman 2 years ago | 17 comments

Eclipse Tracks(eclipsetracks.org)

79 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 26 comments

In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses(bbc.com)

78 points by geox 2 years ago | 52 comments

IP Geolocation Is Twenty-Five Years Old(sanjayparekh.com)

73 points by sanjayparekh 2 years ago | 50 comments

Imitation Learning (2023)(geohot.github.io)

72 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 33 comments

Retrowin32: Minesweeper and the Four Month Bug(neugierig.org)

66 points by tempodox 2 years ago | 4 comments

Engima Breaker in Rust(github.com)

64 points by wkaisertexas 2 years ago | 14 comments

C++ Exit-Time Destructors(maskray.me)

62 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Interactive Smartlog VSCode Extension – An Interactive Git GUI(marketplace.visualstudio.com)

61 points by tnesbitt210 2 years ago | 16 comments

What I wish I knew about ESPP and RSUs sooner(blog.demofox.org)

61 points by ingve 2 years ago | 98 comments

Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?

59 points by tikkun 2 years ago | 58 comments

The High-Risk Refactoring(webup.org)

55 points by ben_s 2 years ago | 36 comments

F-35 Cleared for Full-Rate Production 17 Years After Its First Flight(twz.com)

53 points by jdmark 2 years ago | 13 comments

Ancient Texts Can Shed Light on Auroras(smithsonianmag.com)

53 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 6 comments

Z85: Format for representing binary data as printable text(rfc.zeromq.org)

53 points by ingve 2 years ago | 40 comments

Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away in NASA Test(sciencealert.com)

51 points by hackernj 2 years ago | 32 comments

Uber to pay $272M to Australian taxi operators(smh.com.au)

51 points by schappim 2 years ago | 106 comments

Seeding steel frames brings destroyed coral reefs back to life(arstechnica.com)

49 points by westurner 2 years ago | 21 comments

History of Uniform Random Number Generation (2017) [pdf](informs-sim.org)

49 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 5 comments

Terminal Latency(beuke.org)

48 points by xrayarx 2 years ago | 28 comments

The many flavors of edible ants(acs.org)

48 points by geox 2 years ago | 35 comments

Bar exam will no longer be required to become attorney in Washington State(spokesman.com)

41 points by us0r 2 years ago | 43 comments

A cheap, generic drug became a darling of longevity enthusiasts(washingtonpost.com)

40 points by dtawfik1 2 years ago | 39 comments

America's affordable house of the future failed(thehustle.co)

39 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: 3DGS.cpp – performant, cross platform Gaussian Splatting with Vulkan(github.com)

39 points by 0x02A 2 years ago | 14 comments