Hacker News on Thursday, 16 May 2024

Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count(quantamagazine.org)

924 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 258 comments

Quanta Magazine article on a simple randomized algorithm for estimating the number of distinct objects in a data stream.

A forged Apple employee badge(cabel.com)

869 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 315 comments

Blog post by Cabel Sasser about an early Apple Computer employee badge for Sherry Livingston, dated 1977, that turned out to be forged.

Slack AI Training with Customer Data(slack.com)

692 points by mlhpdx 2 years ago | 346 comments

Slack's privacy principles page describing how it uses customer data for search, machine learning, and AI features.

VCs aren’t your friends(openvc.app)

441 points by taubek 2 years ago | 286 comments

OpenVC blog post by Stéphane Nasser arguing that founders should not treat venture capitalists as friends when fundraising.

Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy(docs.likejazz.com)

404 points by orixilus 2 years ago | 48 comments

GitHub repository llama3.np, a pure NumPy implementation of the Llama 3 language model for inference.

D3 in Depth(d3indepth.com)

350 points by lobo_tuerto 2 years ago | 78 comments

D3 in Depth is a free online guide teaching D3.js versions 6 and 7, covering selections, data joins, scales, shapes, axes, hierarchies and more.

Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)(blogs.sciencemag.org)

349 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 91 comments

Derek Lowe's 'Things I Won't Work With' blog post on hazardous high-oxidation-state bromine compounds; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

323 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 119 comments

A Dreamwidth blog post by Graydon Hoare with notes on Rust, mutable aliasing, and formal verification; the capture shows only a captcha check page.

Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile(nature.com)

310 points by gumby 2 years ago | 362 comments

Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting(smudge.ai)

303 points by seabass 2 years ago | 40 comments

Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"(railtarget.eu)

288 points by metters 2 years ago | 404 comments

Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely(github.com)

265 points by nequo 2 years ago | 65 comments

Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code(about.winamp.com)

254 points by captbaritone 2 years ago | 123 comments

ChatGPT-4o vs. Math(sabrina.dev)

242 points by sabrina_ramonov 2 years ago | 142 comments

The Downfall of DeviantArt(slate.com)

239 points by jfryusef 2 years ago | 174 comments

Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.(techdirt.com)

238 points by rntn 2 years ago | 196 comments

Students invent quieter leaf blower(hub.jhu.edu)

218 points by namanyayg 2 years ago | 302 comments

F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language(fstar-lang.org)

210 points by montyanderson 2 years ago | 79 comments

Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem (2017)(dolphin-emu.org)

204 points by Grognak 2 years ago | 65 comments

What's New in Neovim 0.10(gpanders.com)

201 points by gpanders 2 years ago | 72 comments

Growing sodium chloride crystals at home(crystalverse.com)

186 points by behnamoh 2 years ago | 56 comments

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg(phoronix.com)

169 points by vmbrasseur 2 years ago | 30 comments

I Don't Want to Spend My One Precious Life Dealing with Google's AI Search(aftermath.site)

169 points by awkwardpotato 2 years ago | 150 comments

Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT(openai.com)

162 points by tosh 2 years ago | 110 comments

A transport protocol's view of Starlink(potaroo.net)

160 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 34 comments

Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia(domluna.com)

155 points by lunaticd 2 years ago | 21 comments

Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene(restofworld.org)

155 points by palingvel 2 years ago | 123 comments

Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas(blog.playcanvas.com)

141 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 42 comments

Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows(newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com)

133 points by geox 2 years ago | 129 comments

Swift sucks at web serving or does it?(wadetregaskis.com)

128 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 69 comments

Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)(thecentercolumn.com)

127 points by pwnna 2 years ago | 87 comments

A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations(github.com)

126 points by redbell 2 years ago | 31 comments

Port 666 is officially registered to Doom(ibiblio.org)

123 points by ughitsaaron 2 years ago | 44 comments

Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress(architecturalrecord.com)

119 points by ayanai 2 years ago | 76 comments

Using Llamafiles for Embeddings in Local RAG Applications(future.mozilla.org)

116 points by tosh 2 years ago | 22 comments

History of the Italian electrical system(samuele963.github.io)

115 points by wannacboatmovie 2 years ago | 39 comments

The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story(nature.com)

105 points by drdee 2 years ago | 74 comments

Smart Pointers in (GNU) C(snai.pe)

104 points by indigoabstract 2 years ago | 19 comments

EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design(techcrunch.com)

104 points by amalinovic 2 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language(easel.hackclub.com)

103 points by jianmin-chen 2 years ago | 44 comments

Ask HN: SaaS Subscription or Usage-Based Pricing?

100 points by JanSchu 2 years ago | 44 comments

Pacific squid flashes its attack 'headlights'(bbc.com)

98 points by onemoresoop 2 years ago | 43 comments

Elicit – AI Research Assistant(elicit.com)

95 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 65 comments

Third Time: a better way to work (2022)(lesswrong.com)

93 points by FigurativeVoid 2 years ago | 42 comments

Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners(bloomberg.com)

89 points by feross 2 years ago | 63 comments

Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009(arstechnica.com)

89 points by yau8edq12i 2 years ago | 3 comments

You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019)(openstreetmap.org)

88 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 10 comments

JEP Draft: Support HTTP/3 in the HttpClient(openjdk.org)

86 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 20 comments

Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)(scottberkun.com)

85 points by kakakiki 2 years ago | 51 comments

Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton(arstechnica.com)

84 points by nobody9999 2 years ago | 24 comments

D-Expressions: Lisp power, Dylan style [pdf](people.csail.mit.edu)

79 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: Drivr – VR with real vehicles [video](youtube.com)

79 points by greghgradwell 2 years ago | 26 comments

America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries(theprogressplaybook.com)

77 points by epistasis 2 years ago | 52 comments

Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news(english.elpais.com)

77 points by belter 2 years ago | 63 comments

State of the Terminal(gpanders.com)

76 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 76 comments

On hoot, on boot(wingolog.org)

75 points by davexunit 2 years ago | 12 comments

NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code(mastodon.sdf.org)

68 points by LeoPanthera 2 years ago | 41 comments

My Sony HB-F1XV(thefoggiest.dev)

68 points by ingve 2 years ago | 25 comments

Forgotten APL Influences (2016) [pdf](pok.acm.org)

65 points by secwang 2 years ago | 5 comments

Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it(the-express.com)

64 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 59 comments