Hacker News on Thursday, 4 April 2024

Mario meets Pareto(mayerowitz.io)

1443 points by superMayo 2 years ago | 159 comments

A blog post applying Pareto front analysis to Mario Kart character and kart stats to find optimal build combinations.

Anatomy of a credit card rewards program(bitsaboutmoney.com)

1220 points by disgruntledphd2 2 years ago | 705 comments

A Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) explaining how credit card rewards programs work and are funded.

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License(twitter.com)

483 points by amichail 2 years ago | 180 comments

An X post by Riley Goodside sharing a video of an AI-generated song in which a sad girl with piano sings the text of the MIT License.

The design philosophy of Great Tables(posit-dev.github.io)

476 points by randyzwitch 2 years ago | 87 comments

Blog post by Rich Iannone and Michael Chow on the history of data tables and the design philosophy behind the Great Tables Python package.

German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice(blog.documentfoundation.org)

421 points by buovjaga 2 years ago | 261 comments

Document Foundation blog post announcing that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is migrating 30,000 government PCs to LibreOffice.

Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar(hforsten.com)

402 points by henrikf 2 years ago | 106 comments

Blog post describing the design and construction of a homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar, comparing FMCW and pulse radar architectures.

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice(zdnet.com)

353 points by CrankyBear 2 years ago | 246 comments

ZDNet article reporting that a German state is replacing Microsoft Windows and Office with Linux and LibreOffice across its government systems.

Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)(vincit.com)

296 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 78 comments

Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk(lutrasecurity.com)

282 points by chillax 2 years ago | 117 comments

HTTP/2 Continuation Flood: Technical Details(nowotarski.info)

277 points by campuscodi 2 years ago | 32 comments

JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 performance with 0.1M dollars(research.myshell.ai)

263 points by gyre007 2 years ago | 86 comments

The Great American Rail-Trail(railstotrails.org)

258 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 96 comments

Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP(github.com)

257 points by lyu07282 2 years ago | 51 comments

The V8 Sandbox(v8.dev)

249 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 87 comments

Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected(aalto.fi)

222 points by late 2 years ago | 190 comments

Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains(arstechnica.com)

212 points by rntn 2 years ago | 105 comments

Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences(oeis.org)

205 points by hyperific 2 years ago | 47 comments

US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage(pv-magazine.com)

195 points by Capstanlqc 2 years ago | 109 comments

Tool Use (function calling)(docs.anthropic.com)

191 points by akadeb 2 years ago | 80 comments

Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever(bbc.com)

188 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 103 comments

Saving cloud costs by writing our own database(hivekit.io)

183 points by wolframhempel 2 years ago | 136 comments

Runtipi: Docker-based home server management(runtipi.io)

181 points by ensocode 2 years ago | 88 comments

How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways(bloomberg.com)

173 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 466 comments

Washington's Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user(mynorthwest.com)

170 points by docdeek 2 years ago | 169 comments

Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on(sfgate.com)

162 points by nradov 2 years ago | 224 comments

Language models as compilers: Simulating pseudocode execution(arxiv.org)

159 points by milliondreams 2 years ago | 49 comments

Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)(theoutline.com)

155 points by Munksgaard 2 years ago | 144 comments

Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?

147 points by donohoe 2 years ago | 133 comments

Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023)(zilliz.com)

141 points by fzliu 2 years ago | 16 comments

ChrysaLisp GUI Demo [video](youtube.com)

141 points by Koshkin 2 years ago | 7 comments

US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers(thenewlede.org)

134 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 67 comments

How to send progress updates(spakhm.com)

132 points by noch 2 years ago | 27 comments

Understanding and managing the impact of machine learning models on the web(w3.org)

127 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 31 comments

Xr0: C but Safe(xr0.dev)

124 points by synergy20 2 years ago | 95 comments

Big Tech Is Trying to Prevent Debate About Its Social Harms(foreignpolicy.com)

119 points by goles 2 years ago | 20 comments

PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025(anandtech.com)

118 points by ksec 2 years ago | 130 comments

A podcast about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it(risky.biz)

114 points by throwaway4good 2 years ago | 22 comments

Browse Self-Hosted Software(selfh.st)

112 points by 8organicbits 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS

101 points by jacobwg 2 years ago | 51 comments

Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

99 points by Erazal 2 years ago | 42 comments

SableDb – Fast, persistent database supporting Redis API(github.com)

98 points by SableDb 2 years ago | 30 comments

Containers and Unikernels: Similar, different, and intertwined(unikraft.io)

94 points by transpute 2 years ago | 9 comments

DataStax just bought our startup Langflow(medium.com)

93 points by rodrigonader 2 years ago | 16 comments

65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts(theregister.com)

93 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 74 comments

Slowroads(slowroads.io)

91 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 23 comments

XDP for game programmers(mas-bandwidth.com)

85 points by gafferongames 2 years ago | 74 comments

Bringing back the Somali shilling (2017)(jpkoning.blogspot.com)

81 points by lawrencechen 2 years ago | 38 comments

Rule-based NLP system beats LLM for analysis of psychiatric clinical notes(arxiv.org)

79 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 11 comments

Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI(patents.google.com)

73 points by yololol 2 years ago | 61 comments

Rejuvenating the blood cell population(science.org)

73 points by etiam 2 years ago | 21 comments

LSST Camera: largest camera for astronomy(www6.slac.stanford.edu)

71 points by defrost 2 years ago | 22 comments

Washington State judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence(nbcnews.com)

65 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 31 comments

PFAS Used in Grease-Proofing Agents for Food Packaging No Longer Sold(fda.gov)

62 points by adomasm3 2 years ago | 29 comments

Improvements to the fine-tuning API and expanding our custom models program(openai.com)

61 points by Josely 2 years ago | 36 comments

Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?

61 points by holomorphiclabs 2 years ago | 33 comments

Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself(jxnl.co)

61 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 12 comments

Polars DataFrame Processing on GPU's(pola.rs)

60 points by orwellg1984 2 years ago | 12 comments

AMD Unveils Their Embedded+ Architecture, Ryzen Embedded with Versal Together(anandtech.com)

57 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 13 comments

Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website(browse.cloudtabs.net)

57 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 38 comments

Generative UI and outcome-oriented design(nngroup.com)

54 points by marban 2 years ago | 39 comments