Hacker News on Wednesday, 3 July 2024

I Received an AI Email(timharek.no)

576 points by imadj 2 years ago | 442 comments

Blog post by Tim Hårek describing a personalized, apparently AI-generated cold email pitching a CMS called Wisp after referencing his blog posts.

The Origins of DS_store (2006)(arno.org)

512 points by edavis 2 years ago | 251 comments

A blog post by the former Mac OS X Finder technical lead explaining where the name and purpose of .DS_Store files came from.

Show HN: Xcapture-BPF – like Linux top, but with Xray vision(0x.tools)

421 points by tanelpoder 2 years ago | 38 comments

Homepage for 0x.tools by Tanel Poder, open-source Linux utilities for always-on thread-level profiling, featuring the xcapture-bpf eBPF tool.

The joy of reading books you don't understand(reactormag.com)

395 points by speckx 2 years ago | 230 comments

A Reactor magazine column by Molly Templeton arguing it should be normal to love books you don't entirely understand.

Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C(salykova.github.io)

372 points by p1esk 2 years ago | 69 comments

Blog tutorial implementing high-performance CPU matrix multiplication in about 150 lines of C, following the BLIS design and outperforming NumPy/OpenBLAS on a Ryzen 7700.

The Cheapest NAS(sigwait.org)

297 points by henry_flower 2 years ago | 270 comments

AI's $600B Question(sequoiacap.com)

296 points by fh973 2 years ago | 420 comments

Proton launches its own version of Google Docs(engadget.com)

283 points by prng2021 2 years ago | 193 comments

Analyzing my electricity consumption(zdimension.fr)

271 points by skadamat 2 years ago | 255 comments

Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)(mattkeeter.com)

264 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 123 comments

Making a Linux-managed network switch(blog.brixit.nl)

231 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 65 comments

A practical introduction to constraint programming using CP-SAT and Python(pganalyze.com)

229 points by lfittl 2 years ago | 35 comments

Python with Braces(github.com)

188 points by punnerud 2 years ago | 253 comments

Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)(avikdas.com)

187 points by raytopia 2 years ago | 39 comments

Oldest cave art found(bbc.com)

185 points by rntn 2 years ago | 80 comments

Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite(jtarchie.com)

181 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 35 comments

Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build(nextword.substack.com)

166 points by nextworddev 2 years ago | 143 comments

Luakit: A fast, extensible, and customizable web browser(luakit.github.io)

164 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 16 comments

Artificial LIfe ENvironment (ALIEN) is an artificial life simulation tool(alien-project.gitbook.io)

160 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON(github.com)

148 points by h4l 2 years ago | 48 comments

Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production(elevenlabs.io)

141 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 103 comments

Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)(groups.csail.mit.edu)

139 points by davedx 2 years ago | 51 comments

Living in a Lucid Dream(noemamag.com)

100 points by holdit 2 years ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Improve LLM Performance by Maximizing Iterative Development(github.com)

86 points by asif_ 2 years ago | 17 comments

The Math of Card Shuffling(fredhohman.com)

82 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 21 comments

Dear Julia, Dear Yuri: A mathematical correspondence (2022)(celebratio.org)

82 points by georgecmu 2 years ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to AI/ML development?

78 points by ent_superpos 2 years ago | 50 comments

Wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files(samueloph.dev)

74 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

The 18th-century French media stoked a werewolf panic(openculture.com)

74 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 21 comments

A blast from the past: Disassembling DOS (2020)(softwarelitigationconsulting.com)

70 points by userbinator 2 years ago | 12 comments

Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf](github.com)

66 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 11 comments

How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom(jdh.hamkins.org)

66 points by FillMaths 2 years ago | 38 comments

Chinese AI stirs panic at European geoscience society(science.org)

65 points by rguiscard 2 years ago | 44 comments

Dolphin Emulator changes to a rolling release model(dolphin-emu.org)

64 points by stevefan1999 2 years ago | 4 comments

Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

64 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 18 comments

Don't use booleans (2019)(luu.io)

64 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 84 comments

The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

62 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 150 comments

Sublime Merge(sublimemerge.com)

61 points by rococode 2 years ago | 47 comments

Developing Inside a Container(code.visualstudio.com)

60 points by tosh 2 years ago | 28 comments

Introduction to Program Synthesis(people.csail.mit.edu)

55 points by squircle 2 years ago | 19 comments

Multimodal Canvas: An experiment of Pictionary powered by Gemini 1.5 Flash(labs.google)

47 points by meetpateltech 2 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Open Sourcing Our No-Code WebXR Editor After 5 Years of Development(github.com)

46 points by keenanTT 2 years ago | 5 comments

Reproducibility in Disguise(fzakaria.com)

45 points by setheron 2 years ago | 19 comments

The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron(physicsworld.com)

45 points by sxcurry 2 years ago | 8 comments

Ernest Hemingway's brother established a floating republic in the Caribbean(smithsonianmag.com)

45 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 14 comments

Ask HN: Programmable Lasers?

42 points by andoando 2 years ago | 39 comments

A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans(bbc.co.uk)

40 points by philbo 2 years ago | 38 comments

Study reveals why AI models that analyze medical images can be biased(medicalxpress.com)

39 points by wglb 2 years ago | 34 comments

Google's greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years(arstechnica.com)

38 points by g15jv2dp 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: I built a full-text search for your browsing history(chromewebstore.google.com)

34 points by peterpelles 2 years ago | 19 comments

EV Motors Without Rare Earth Permanent Magnets(spectrum.ieee.org)

33 points by jnord 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host(michael.stapelberg.ch)

32 points by signa11 2 years ago | 14 comments

Meta Sees ~5% Performance Gains to Optimizing the Linux Kernel with Bolt(phoronix.com)

31 points by newman314 2 years ago | 4 comments

USB and the Myth of 500 Milliamps(hackaday.com)

29 points by jnord 2 years ago | 3 comments

Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)(utcc.utoronto.ca)

28 points by cloudripper 2 years ago | 9 comments

The Origin of the Species: NEC PC-8001 FDD Adapter(leadedsolder.com)

27 points by zdw 2 years ago | 0 comments

Hurricane Beryl Isn't a Freak Storm–It's the Nightmare Meteorologists Predicted(wired.com)

26 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Biggest Problem in Mathematics Is Finally a Step Closer to Being Solved(scientificamerican.com)

24 points by gballan 2 years ago | 13 comments

AI Agents That Matter(aisnakeoil.com)

23 points by randomwalker 2 years ago | 6 comments

Your Company's Problem is Hiding in Plain Sight - High Work-In-Progress (WIP)(mdalmijn.com)

22 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 13 comments