Hacker News on Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Why is Chile so long?(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

1351 points by trevin 2 years ago | 391 comments

A Substack article by Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories explaining why Chile is so long and thin, and how its geography shapes the country and its people.

Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder(lunduke.locals.com)

944 points by mapper32 2 years ago | 668 comments

Lunduke article reporting that the from-scratch Ladybird web browser is becoming a non-profit backed by $1 million from GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath.

Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs(github.com)

522 points by Olshansky 2 years ago | 74 comments

GitHub repository for diff-pdf, a simple open-source tool for visually comparing two PDF files.

With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits(quantamagazine.org)

496 points by LegionMammal978 2 years ago | 127 comments

Quanta Magazine article on how a collaborative team of amateur programmers proved the value of the fifth busy beaver number, BB(5).

Meta 3D Gen(ai.meta.com)

455 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 128 comments

Meta AI research publication page for Meta 3D Gen, a system for generating 3D assets, dated July 2, 2024, with abstract and author list.

Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser(ladybird.org)

420 points by rapnie 2 years ago | 205 comments

Homepage of Ladybird, an independent web browser being built from scratch and backed by a non-profit.

Booting Linux off of Google Drive(ersei.net)

396 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 160 comments

A blog post describing how the author got Linux to boot with its root filesystem mounted from Google Drive via FUSE.

Should this be a map or 500 maps?(escapethealgorithm.substack.com)

316 points by cromulent 2 years ago | 106 comments

Engine Sound Simulator(markeasting.github.io)

282 points by hyperific 2 years ago | 110 comments

Why Bridges Don't Sink(practical.engineering)

270 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 99 comments

Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows(phys.org)

262 points by speckx 2 years ago | 223 comments

Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died(heraldextra.com)

259 points by razin 2 years ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks(github.com)

250 points by prasoonds 2 years ago | 72 comments

Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust(makojs.dev)

235 points by afc163 2 years ago | 183 comments

GraphRAG is now on GitHub(microsoft.com)

210 points by alexchaomander 2 years ago | 31 comments

Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows(theguardian.com)

198 points by hackernj 2 years ago | 56 comments

Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News(hackernews.demo.vectara.com)

195 points by ofermend 2 years ago | 68 comments

Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that Just Works(github.com)

190 points by numlocked 2 years ago | 39 comments

All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second(qntm.org)

169 points by NKosmatos 2 years ago | 184 comments

GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion(arxiv.org)

163 points by raphlinus 2 years ago | 36 comments

The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016)(smithsonianmag.com)

160 points by squircle 2 years ago | 59 comments

How random are TOTP codes?(shkspr.mobi)

159 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 95 comments

Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop(sdomi.pl)

156 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 41 comments

Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road(bbc.co.uk)

152 points by skruger 2 years ago | 202 comments

8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler(github.com)

146 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 22 comments

The Illustrated Transformer (2018)(jalammar.github.io)

138 points by debdut 2 years ago | 7 comments

Trying Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Practice(cprimozic.net)

126 points by Ameo 2 years ago | 22 comments

The Sphere(mssv.net)

122 points by adrianhon 2 years ago | 54 comments

Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models(apnews.com)

119 points by emersonrsantos 2 years ago | 37 comments

An epigenetic editor to silence genes(science.org)

116 points by Teever 2 years ago | 15 comments

Exploring biphasic programming: a new approach in language design(rybicki.io)

114 points by chriscbr 2 years ago | 64 comments

Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand(cnbc.com)

112 points by melling 2 years ago | 74 comments

Apple poised to get OpenAI board observer role as part of AI pact(bloomberg.com)

109 points by ChrisArchitect 2 years ago | 55 comments

The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania(hallofdreams.org)

107 points by Philpax 2 years ago | 20 comments

Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe (2009)(locksmithledger.com)

104 points by altrus 2 years ago | 46 comments

Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture(github.com)

100 points by ingve 2 years ago | 30 comments

Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reefs(conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

98 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 0 comments

The history of Alt+number sequences(devblogs.microsoft.com)

95 points by ingve 2 years ago | 45 comments

What Happened to Perl 7? (2022)(blogs.perl.org)

93 points by edward 2 years ago | 119 comments

What makes e natural? (2004)(komal.hu)

91 points by pbamotra 2 years ago | 69 comments

The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings(andrewchen.substack.com)

85 points by domysee 2 years ago | 81 comments

Figma disables AI app design tool after it copied Apple's weather app(404media.co)

76 points by pulisse 2 years ago | 83 comments

Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?(arxiv.org)

76 points by vitplister 2 years ago | 81 comments

A British clergyman who predicted black holes in 1783(bbc.com)

73 points by sonabinu 2 years ago | 21 comments

The asymmetry of nudges(lcamtuf.substack.com)

73 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 46 comments

Nuclear spectroscopy breakthrough could rewrite fundamental constants of nature(newsroom.ucla.edu)

72 points by geox 2 years ago | 41 comments

Htmx does not play well with content security policy(sjoerdlangkemper.nl)

71 points by Tangiest 2 years ago | 29 comments

Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair(community.sonarsource.com)

65 points by Crazyontap 2 years ago | 24 comments

DIY RFID Business Card and Badge Holder with Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Tools(mcuoneclipse.com)

61 points by bewuethr 2 years ago | 4 comments

Solving a math problem with planner programming(buttondown.email)

61 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 10 comments

Babies babble with acquired accents(rawstory.com)

59 points by gumby 2 years ago | 27 comments

Creatine improves physical function and body composition in older adults(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

58 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 40 comments

Ant Design – the second most popular React UI framework(github.com)

54 points by afc163 2 years ago | 47 comments

GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome(frguthmann.github.io)

53 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 7 comments

Python Modern Practices(stuartellis.name)

51 points by synergy20 2 years ago | 14 comments

Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine(daoudclarke.net)

51 points by daoudc 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: I Made an Open Source Platform for Structuring Any Unstructured Data(github.com)

51 points by adithya-s-k 2 years ago | 10 comments

HuggingFace releases support for tool-use and RAG models(github.com)

51 points by xkgt 2 years ago | 0 comments

Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel [video](youtube.com)

45 points by msephton 2 years ago | 6 comments

Australia out of natural gas, pays gas companies to export its reserves(smh.com.au)

45 points by andrewstuart 2 years ago | 39 comments