Hacker News on Monday, 8 April 2024

Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA(github.com)

810 points by tosh 2 years ago | 134 comments

GitHub repository for llm.c, Andrej Karpathy's project for training LLMs like GPT-2 in simple, raw C/CUDA.

How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?(bxt.rs)

494 points by janvdberg 2 years ago | 263 comments

Blog post measuring input latency of GNOME 46 terminal emulators (VTE-based) compared to earlier versions and other terminals.

Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home(every.to)

455 points by adrianhon 2 years ago | 103 comments

An Every article from The Crazy Ones series telling the story of Lore Harp McGovern, who built the microcomputer company Vector Graphic from her suburban home.

Hello World(thecoder08.github.io)

386 points by fbrusch 2 years ago | 65 comments

A blog post taking a deep dive into the layers of abstraction behind a modern Hello World program written in C.

After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative(henrikkarlsson.xyz)

364 points by iNic 2 years ago | 184 comments

Essay by Henrik Karlsson on his Escaping Flatland Substack about how professional Go players improved and became more creative after AI surpassed them.

Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website(notepad-plus-plus.org)

274 points by croes 2 years ago | 79 comments

Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM(blog.allenai.org)

264 points by tosh 2 years ago | 37 comments

Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams(djmag.com)

251 points by buro9 2 years ago | 274 comments

Vala Programming Language(vala.dev)

238 points by gtirloni 2 years ago | 162 comments

1.18k drawings of plant root systems(images.wur.nl)

208 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 53 comments

Find My Device on Android(blog.google)

207 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 274 comments

How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet(spectrum.ieee.org)

206 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 74 comments

Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network(0xerr0r.github.io)

205 points by kaathewise 2 years ago | 88 comments

Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs(github.com)

176 points by serjester 2 years ago | 35 comments

Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC(github.com)

167 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 21 comments

Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested(blog.cloudflare.com)

163 points by gmemstr 2 years ago | 37 comments

GNU Stow needs a co-maintainer(savannah.gnu.org)

149 points by nequo 2 years ago | 76 comments

KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore(security.opensuse.org)

143 points by milliams 2 years ago | 42 comments

High Definition CSS Color Guide(developer.chrome.com)

134 points by sgammon 2 years ago | 43 comments

Reviving an 800-Year-Old Japanese Tea Farm(nippon.com)

133 points by kizunajp 2 years ago | 7 comments

Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”(recurse.social)

126 points by effdee 2 years ago | 33 comments

Japanese American Bird Pins(hcn.org)

126 points by tws 2 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Shorebird 1.0, Flutter Code Push(github.com)

122 points by eseidel 2 years ago | 49 comments

Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming(marginalrevolution.com)

122 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 61 comments

Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis(blog.osm-ai.net)

116 points by sebg 2 years ago | 74 comments

Building a Managed Postgres Service in Rust(tembo.io)

115 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 11 comments

The 6502 instruction set as a database(gitlab.com)

109 points by orgonon 2 years ago | 27 comments

Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders(medicalxpress.com)

106 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 65 comments

Colab notebook to create Magic cards from image with Claude(colab.research.google.com)

99 points by minimaxir 2 years ago | 24 comments

Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video](youtube.com)

94 points by revicon 2 years ago | 76 comments

TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs(bloomberg.com)

84 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 67 comments

It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it(neh.gov)

76 points by pepys 2 years ago | 95 comments

Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would(techcrunch.com)

68 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 56 comments

Swiss satellite antennas make a comeback as solar powerhouses(reuters.com)

65 points by geox 2 years ago | 68 comments

Nightfall: Can Kalgash Exist (2014)(arxiv.org)

65 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 7 comments

Nintendo's online servers for Wii U and 3DS shut down today(en-americas-support.nintendo.com)

64 points by candiodari 2 years ago | 25 comments

ESLint v9.0(eslint.org)

61 points by yeldarb 2 years ago | 11 comments

USPS jumps to first place as most imitated brand in phishing attacks(guard.io)

61 points by kendriklampar 2 years ago | 49 comments

Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust(volllly.github.io)

58 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 35 comments

French company ramps up production to meet demand for its military drone radar(politico.eu)

56 points by dClauzel 2 years ago | 50 comments

A list of AI coding tools(github.com)

55 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 10 comments

A brief history of keyboard encoding (2023)(kbd.news)

52 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 21 comments

Exploring batch caching of trees(blog.julik.nl)

49 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 7 comments

I Tried Tesla FSD(werd.io)

48 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 26 comments

Geoengineering test launched in Alameda(politico.com)

46 points by hammock 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: AutoMQ - A Cost-Effective Kafka Distro That Can Autoscale in Seconds(github.com)

46 points by wanshao 2 years ago | 21 comments

MQL – Client and server to query your db in natural language(github.com)

46 points by akashkahlon 2 years ago | 27 comments

Southwest Boeing 737-800 flight from Denver loses engine cover(cnn.com)

42 points by janpot 2 years ago | 38 comments

Endless Censorship Demands from Brazil(twitter.com)

42 points by sebastianconcpt 2 years ago | 6 comments

Direct Nash Optimization: Teaching language models to self-improve(arxiv.org)

41 points by tosh 2 years ago | 11 comments

Build Systems à La Carte: Theory and Practice [pdf](microsoft.com)

38 points by signa11 2 years ago | 5 comments

Cake shop worker remains dream job for many children starting school(japantimes.co.jp)

34 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 44 comments

Paying Off People's Medical Debt Has Little Impact on Their Lives, Study Finds(nytimes.com)

30 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 31 comments

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions curbed by vendor lock-in(theregister.com)

29 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 8 comments

Shorebird 1.0 – Update your Flutter apps instantly(shorebird.dev)

29 points by vyrotek 2 years ago | 1 comments

Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels(economist.com)

29 points by heshiebee 2 years ago | 39 comments

Framework laptop DongleHider+ Expansion Card for hiding up to three dongles(tomshardware.com)

28 points by transpute 2 years ago | 3 comments

Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix (2019)(netflixtechblog.com)

24 points by Cwizard 2 years ago | 2 comments

The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today(vanityfair.com)

24 points by chaostheory 2 years ago | 12 comments

Begging EuroRust to acknowledge independent workers(fasterthanli.me)

24 points by joeriddles 2 years ago | 2 comments