Hacker News on Tuesday, 28 May 2024

TTE: Terminal Text Effects(chrisbuilds.github.io)

1673 points by makapuf 2 years ago | 258 comments

Documentation showroom page for TerminalTextEffects, showcasing its built-in library of terminal text animation effects like Beams, Blackhole, and Fireworks.

API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS(jviide.iki.fi)

584 points by oherrala 2 years ago | 252 comments

Blog post arguing that APIs should fail visibly on plain HTTP requests instead of redirecting to HTTPS, noting many major API providers don't.

Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c(github.com)

578 points by tosh 2 years ago | 109 comments

A GitHub discussion in Andrej Karpathy's llm.c repository about reproducing GPT-2 training from scratch in C/CUDA.

Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting(businessinsider.com)

518 points by blackmanta 2 years ago | 380 comments

Business Insider article on a former OpenAI board member explaining the reasons behind Sam Altman's brief ouster as CEO in 2023.

Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song(grooved.okat.best)

433 points by okatbest 2 years ago | 216 comments

Landing page for Grooved, a free ad-free iOS app that measures turntable platter speed using the phone's microphone while playing any record.

Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars(aksh-garg.medium.com)

426 points by minimaxir 2 years ago | 67 comments

Medium post by Aksh Garg describing Llama 3-V, an open-source multimodal model claimed to match GPT-4V while being 100x smaller and trained for under $500.

WP21(ma.tt)

391 points by joshbetz 2 years ago | 145 comments

Matt Mullenweg's blog post marking WordPress's 21st anniversary since he and Mike Little forked b2/cafélog for the first release.

Show HN: Openkoda – Open–source, private, Salesforce alternative(github.com)

291 points by mgl 2 years ago | 100 comments

Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem(f-droid.org)

281 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 157 comments

AdFlush(dl.acm.org)

259 points by grac3 2 years ago | 98 comments

The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City(americanaffairsjournal.org)

223 points by lalaland1125 2 years ago | 161 comments

Tinygrad 0.9.0(github.com)

217 points by wozeparrot 2 years ago | 40 comments

Writing an NVMe Driver in Rust [pdf](db.in.tum.de)

217 points by foooo4 2 years ago | 39 comments

Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal(hiandrewquinn.github.io)

196 points by hiAndrewQuinn 2 years ago | 58 comments

Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps(file0.dev)

190 points by davidkarolyi 2 years ago | 141 comments

Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings(arxiv.org)

186 points by byt3h3ad 2 years ago | 191 comments

Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet(wired.com)

177 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 106 comments

Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device(docs.blink.sh)

164 points by ericciarla 2 years ago | 122 comments

Fractal Geometry(users.math.yale.edu)

160 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 26 comments

ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model(github.com)

148 points by informal007 2 years ago | 54 comments

Runtime code generation and execution in Go(mathetake.github.io)

141 points by ingve 2 years ago | 38 comments

20 Years of Blogging on my own website(jeena.net)

139 points by jeena 2 years ago | 60 comments

Researchers accurately dating a 7k-year-old settlement using cosmic rays(phys.org)

138 points by wglb 2 years ago | 20 comments

An air quality model that is evolving with the times(eos.org)

138 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 43 comments

Shadama: A particle simulation programming environment for everyone(tinlizzie.org)

134 points by lloydatkinson 2 years ago | 19 comments

Steve Jurvetson's personal collection of Apollo Lunar Module parts(flickr.com)

131 points by gessha 2 years ago | 28 comments

Simple Speech-to-Text on the '10 Cents' CH32V003 Microcontroller(github.com)

125 points by victor82 2 years ago | 23 comments

Wasmi v0.32: WebAssembly interpreter is now faster than ever(wasmi-labs.github.io)

123 points by herobird 2 years ago | 34 comments

Refurb Weekend: Canon Cat(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

121 points by zdw 2 years ago | 29 comments

Gleam 1.2.0 release – Fault tolerant Gleam(gleam.run)

116 points by crowdhailer 2 years ago | 22 comments

Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison(justice.gov)

113 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 67 comments

A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Fukushima reactor(apnews.com)

111 points by geox 2 years ago | 90 comments

So many feed readers, so many behaviors(rachelbythebay.com)

110 points by zoidb 2 years ago | 65 comments

What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers(arxiv.org)

108 points by mathgenius 2 years ago | 63 comments

California is about to side with PG&E – again – to kill community solar projects(sfchronicle.com)

105 points by billybob69 2 years ago | 57 comments

Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R(blog.r-project.org)

104 points by samch93 2 years ago | 44 comments

Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents(sparktoro.com)

101 points by andrewfong 2 years ago | 38 comments

Google won’t comment on a leak of its search algorithm documentation(theverge.com)

99 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 21 comments

Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017)(atlasobscura.com)

92 points by jihadjihad 2 years ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a Windows Systems programming book?

89 points by Alekhine 2 years ago | 44 comments

Turbo9 – A Compact and Efficient Pipelined 6809 Microprocessor IP(github.com)

81 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 41 comments

Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas (2016)(ece.rutgers.edu)

77 points by exar0815 2 years ago | 8 comments

Gone 10 years, World’s Biggest Bookstore still grips readers(thestar.com)

77 points by daveoc64 2 years ago | 59 comments

Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange(npr.org)

77 points by frob 2 years ago | 115 comments

Productivity Versus Alignment(zaxis.page)

77 points by halababalaba 2 years ago | 48 comments

Proposal to change default annotation processing policy in JDK 23(mail.openjdk.org)

76 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 76 comments

Civil society to YouTube: stop helping Russia suppress free speech(accessnow.org)

72 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 59 comments

Free time, curiosity and playfulness has led to young orcas bumping boats(newatlas.com)

70 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 47 comments

Show HN: Savvy – Create, Share and Run Runbooks from your Terminal(github.com)

68 points by joshi4 2 years ago | 24 comments

Jan Leike joins Anthropic on their superalignment team(twitter.com)

66 points by icpmacdo 2 years ago | 27 comments

The Way We Are Building Event-Driven Applications Is Misguided(gillesbarbier.medium.com)

66 points by geomagilles 2 years ago | 60 comments

Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial(ttnews.com)

64 points by TheAlchemist 2 years ago | 51 comments

Human Life(complicated.world)

64 points by w_complicated 2 years ago | 43 comments

Ping Ff02:1(astrid.tech)

63 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 33 comments

Facebook will soon use your photos, posts and other info to train its AI(thejournal.ie)

62 points by instagib 2 years ago | 23 comments

Nalanda: The university that changed the world (2023)(bbc.com)

59 points by priyankanath 2 years ago | 12 comments

Root your Docker host in 10 seconds for fun and profit (2017)(electricmonk.nl)

56 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 24 comments

Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces(neilmadden.blog)

56 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 22 comments

Hate Chatbots? You Aren't the Only One(wsj.com)

55 points by lxm 2 years ago | 39 comments

DBus and Systemd(uyha.github.io)

55 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 36 comments