Hacker News on Monday, 1 April 2024

LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs(justine.lol)

1286 points by lawrencechen 2 years ago | 413 comments

Justine Tunney's blog post describing 84 new matrix multiplication kernels that make llamafile prompt evaluation 30-500% faster on CPUs than llama.cpp.

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining(predr.ag)

1060 points by bonyt 2 years ago | 308 comments

A personal blog post recounting the true story of debugging a home Wi-Fi connection that only worked when it was raining, written for April Cools Club.

Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor(github.com)

816 points by q3k 2 years ago | 425 comments

GitHub repository with notes, a honeypot, and an exploit demo for the xz backdoor (CVE-2024-3094), including Go code and an OpenSSH patch.

But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers [video](youtube.com)

387 points by huhhuh 2 years ago | 46 comments

A 3Blue1Brown YouTube video giving a visual introduction to GPT and the transformer architecture, chapter 5 of its deep learning series.

Bun 1.1(bun.sh)

370 points by ksec 2 years ago | 205 comments

Bun blog post announcing version 1.1 of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and toolkit, highlighted by Windows support ("Bundows").

Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced(github.com)

336 points by dearroy 2 years ago | 97 comments

GitHub repository for HeyForm, an open-source conversational form builder for surveys, quizzes, and polls, licensed under GPL-3.0.

10 > 64, in QR Codes(huonw.github.io)

318 points by yvan 2 years ago | 70 comments

Blog post by Huon Wilson explaining why decimal-encoded data stores more efficiently than base64 in QR codes thanks to the QR Numeric mode.

OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund(reuters.com)

316 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 44 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)

316 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 304 comments

Wireproxy: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy(github.com)

293 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver(github.com)

246 points by nablags 2 years ago | 46 comments

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world(arstechnica.com)

232 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 215 comments

First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)(florey.edu.au)

214 points by deluxeroyale 2 years ago | 95 comments

Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding(chromestatus.com)

188 points by croes 2 years ago | 93 comments

Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)(fsturmat.net)

188 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 44 comments

The Hearts of the Super Nintendo(fabiensanglard.net)

188 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 48 comments

Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally that got caught by chance(doublepulsar.com)

186 points by transpute 2 years ago | 116 comments

Headline Driven Development(spakhm.com)

179 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 years ago | 63 comments

RAGFlow is an open-source RAG engine based on OCR and document parsing(github.com)

172 points by marban 2 years ago | 43 comments

The Tale of Daniel(hillelwayne.com)

170 points by hwayne 2 years ago | 49 comments

Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy(momo5502.com)

155 points by Epskampie 2 years ago | 70 comments

Century-old stone "tsunami stones" dot Japan's coastline (2015)(smithsonianmag.com)

154 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 105 comments

Error Handling in Baby Toys(brainbaking.com)

153 points by dave-x 2 years ago | 66 comments

What even is a JSON number?(blog.trl.sn)

144 points by bterlson 2 years ago | 123 comments

I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD(boredzo.org)

136 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 63 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

134 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 306 comments

Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect? (2020)(pubs.acs.org)

134 points by stereoabuse 2 years ago | 53 comments

Ask HN: What is the current (Apr. 2024) gold standard of running an LLM locally?

123 points by js98 2 years ago | 58 comments

OWASP Data Breach Notification(owasp.org)

121 points by Newklol 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Celest – Flutter Cloud Platform(celest.dev)

107 points by dillonnys 2 years ago | 42 comments

Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany(theguardian.com)

104 points by gebt 2 years ago | 153 comments

Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute(theguardian.com)

100 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 55 comments

An Awk Implementation in C99(raygard.net)

100 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 14 comments

Does America suddenly have a record number of bees?(washingtonpost.com)

99 points by softwaredoug 2 years ago | 102 comments

Not so fast, Mr. Fourier(lcamtuf.substack.com)

97 points by dvfjsdhgfv 2 years ago | 13 comments

OpenAI: Start using ChatGPT instantly(openai.com)

92 points by Josely 2 years ago | 116 comments

Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves mental illness(med.stanford.edu)

86 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice(parallel-arabic.com)

81 points by selmetwa 2 years ago | 30 comments

OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights(openai.com)

80 points by rando_person_1 2 years ago | 44 comments

Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

78 points by petecooper 2 years ago | 44 comments

Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck(pathsensitive.com)

73 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 49 comments

Climate Pulse(pulse.climate.copernicus.eu)

72 points by gscott 2 years ago | 32 comments

Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)(karwansaraypublishers.com)

71 points by georgecmu 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control

70 points by jsunderland323 2 years ago | 38 comments

Get a person at the IRS(gist.github.com)

68 points by aaronbrager 2 years ago | 23 comments

10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends(customizedresumes.com)

66 points by fasteddie31003 2 years ago | 21 comments

Google to delete records from Incognito tracking(bbc.com)

66 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 39 comments

Anarchy in the US (The Revolution That Almost Happened)(albertcory50.substack.com)

65 points by AlbertCory 2 years ago | 45 comments

Your database skills are not 'good to have'(renegadeotter.com)

64 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 44 comments

Vision Transformers Are Overrated(frankzliu.com)

62 points by fzliu 2 years ago | 16 comments

Demographics professor warns that by 2531, everyone in Japan will be named Sato(spoon-tamago.com)

62 points by zdw 2 years ago | 44 comments

U.S. dairy cows have tested positive for bird flu(text.npr.org)

60 points by NegativeLatency 2 years ago | 15 comments

First human case of avian flu in Texas(politico.com)

59 points by puttycat 2 years ago | 47 comments

The Great Oxygenation Event(bigthink.com)

59 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 20 comments

Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model(arxiv.org)

58 points by eitanturok 2 years ago | 6 comments

Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?(heraldscotland.com)

57 points by kull 2 years ago | 119 comments

AI used well can restore middle class jobs [pdf](nber.org)

56 points by mnode 2 years ago | 68 comments

Ketogenic Diet Intervention on Metabolic and Psychiatric Health(sciencedirect.com)

55 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 45 comments

Killing the Messenger: My Final Days Working at a Disaster(nymag.com)

53 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 18 comments

Control Data Corporation's CDC 6600(chipsandcheese.com)

51 points by brian_herman 2 years ago | 34 comments