Hacker News on Sunday, 19 May 2024

Llama3 implemented from scratch(github.com)

987 points by Hadi7546 2 years ago | 246 comments

GitHub repository with a Jupyter notebook implementing Meta's Llama 3 model from scratch, one matrix multiplication at a time.

Coding My Handwriting(amygoodchild.com)

768 points by tobr 2 years ago | 64 comments

Blog post by artist Amy Goodchild describing how she coded a generative cursive version of her handwriting in JavaScript.

The Lunacy of Artemis(idlewords.com)

649 points by feross 2 years ago | 452 comments

Maciej Cegłowski's long Idle Words essay critiquing NASA's Artemis lunar program, covering the rocket, capsule, orbit, Gateway, lander, and refueling plans.

Riven(filfre.net)

514 points by doppp 2 years ago | 169 comments

A Digital Antiquarian essay by Jimmy Maher on the history of Riven, Cyan's sequel to the adventure game Myst.

Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

335 points by pinakinathc 2 years ago | 312 comments

An Ask HN thread asking how YouTube covers the storage, encoding, and bandwidth costs of free video streaming, and whether ad revenue is enough.

Meteor seen in Portugal(old.reddit.com)

263 points by gehwartzen 2 years ago | 50 comments

Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances(astrobiology.com)

256 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 132 comments

Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg

240 points by indiantinker 2 years ago | 66 comments

Classic Usenet posts on computer architecture, operating systems and languages(yarchive.net)

233 points by caned 2 years ago | 45 comments

Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD(theoverclockingpage.com)

231 points by userbinator 2 years ago | 134 comments

Operation CHARM: Car repair manuals for everyone(charm.li)

223 points by sergiotapia 2 years ago | 61 comments

Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5(jonatron.github.io)

220 points by jonatron 2 years ago | 57 comments

AI doppelgänger experiment – Part 1: The training(julienposture.substack.com)

207 points by julienposture 2 years ago | 119 comments

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"(eff.org)

203 points by doener 2 years ago | 189 comments

Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident(thedrive.com)

201 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 149 comments

C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)(github.com)

200 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 122 comments

Compilers for free with weval(bernsteinbear.com)

191 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 38 comments

Katy – 68000 Linux on a Solderless Breadboard (2014)(bigmessowires.com)

182 points by caned 2 years ago | 30 comments

An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)(datagubbe.se)

181 points by arexxbifs 2 years ago | 50 comments

Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain(arxiv.org)

179 points by wonderlandcal 2 years ago | 395 comments

Michelle's List: A free, anonymous landlord review site(michelleslist.com)

177 points by mattstrick 2 years ago | 83 comments

Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features(github.com)

160 points by WanjohiRyan 2 years ago | 68 comments

Swift Tooling: Windows Edition(speakinginswift.substack.com)

154 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 91 comments

Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources(pcmag.com)

144 points by alwillis 2 years ago | 84 comments

Unprojecting text with ellipses (2016)(mzucker.github.io)

142 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 19 comments

What Is Generative Art? (2022)(amygoodchild.com)

139 points by nivethan 2 years ago | 67 comments

Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure(antennapod.org)

133 points by moasda 2 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files"(github.com)

129 points by dheera 2 years ago | 87 comments

A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10(nicole.express)

118 points by zdw 2 years ago | 28 comments

The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that(kilianvalkhof.com)

108 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 142 comments

The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years(english.elpais.com)

100 points by geox 2 years ago | 29 comments

Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember(cnbc.com)

99 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 73 comments

Waxolotl – A small language that compiles to WebAssembly text format(github.com)

96 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)(ianvisits.co.uk)

95 points by _vk_ 2 years ago | 77 comments

Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder(thomwolf.io)

80 points by triyambakam 2 years ago | 17 comments

Will better superconductors transform the world?(quantamagazine.org)

74 points by debadipb 2 years ago | 56 comments

Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma Silently Enables iCloud Keychain(lapcatsoftware.com)

71 points by frizlab 2 years ago | 34 comments

Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review(arxiv.org)

71 points by belter 2 years ago | 5 comments

Overflow in consistent hashing (2018)(rmarcus.info)

70 points by g0xA52A2A 2 years ago | 15 comments

Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users(omgubuntu.co.uk)

65 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 60 comments

New blood test for stroke combines blood-based biomarkers with a clinical score(medicalxpress.com)

64 points by wglb 2 years ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Digital player board for Terraforming Mars(terraforming-mars-player-board.netlify.app)

64 points by sakerbos 2 years ago | 39 comments

Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap(bbc.com)

63 points by rntn 2 years ago | 49 comments

RISC vs. CISC by John R. Mashey (1995)(yarchive.net)

57 points by caned 2 years ago | 21 comments

Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition(cs231n.github.io)

57 points by yu3zhou4 2 years ago | 4 comments

Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas(washingtonpost.com)

55 points by pge 2 years ago | 38 comments

You could have invented fractional cascading(blog.ezyang.com)

51 points by mananaysiempre 2 years ago | 7 comments

Scrabble and the Nature of Expertise (2015)(scientificamerican.com)

51 points by sergeant3 2 years ago | 18 comments

AI regulations are crony capitalism(reason.com)

51 points by WaitWaitWha 2 years ago | 21 comments

iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that's total overkill for most(theguardian.com)

46 points by wslh 2 years ago | 65 comments

The Bel Language (2019)(sep.turbifycdn.com)

46 points by montyanderson 2 years ago | 25 comments

North Korea's post-modern cityscapes(reuters.com)

42 points by z7 2 years ago | 38 comments

How GM Made the $35,000 Chevrolet Equinox EV into a 319-Mile Range Champ(insideevs.com)

42 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 38 comments

Mathematicians and the Selection Task (2004)(eric.ed.gov)

40 points by tzs 2 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)(columns.ai)

40 points by caoxhua 2 years ago | 34 comments

I'm a Former Surgeon General and I Couldn't Believe My $10k Medical Bill(scheerpost.com)

39 points by howard941 2 years ago | 33 comments

AI Books4 Dataset for training LLMs further(old.reddit.com)

37 points by ImperiumOfMan 2 years ago | 20 comments

I Might've Been a Rocket Scientist (Like My Dad), but I Was a Girl(exponentii.org)

35 points by luu 2 years ago | 33 comments

Italy's $12.7B Bridge to Sicily [video](youtube.com)

34 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 20 comments

Shadow Robot’s three-fingered hand is robust enough for reinforcement learning(spectrum.ieee.org)

34 points by T-A 2 years ago | 10 comments