Hacker News on Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Zed on Linux Is Here(zed.dev)

821 points by 0xedb 2 years ago | 628 comments

Zed Industries' page announcing the Zed code editor's availability on Linux, with a curl install script and links to docs and the blog post.

Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it(news.feinberg.northwestern.edu)

775 points by adamredwoods 2 years ago | 172 comments

Northwestern Medicine news article reporting that researchers identified cellular defects driving lupus and a possible way to reverse them.

AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M(ft.com)

463 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 257 comments

Financial Times article on AMD agreeing to buy Finnish AI start-up Silo AI for $665mn to compete with Nvidia, shown behind a subscription paywall.

Vision language models are blind(vlmsareblind.github.io)

425 points by taesiri 2 years ago | 172 comments

Project page for the research paper "Vision language models are blind" from Auburn University and University of Alberta, with links to the arXiv paper, code, and dataset.

Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video](youtube.com)

365 points by zdw 2 years ago | 84 comments

YouTube video from the Book Overflow channel in which Brian Kernighan reflects on his book "The Practice of Programming."

Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator(codeberg.org)

350 points by 201984 2 years ago | 139 comments

Codeberg repository for dut, a multi-threaded disk usage calculator for Linux written in C as a single source file.

Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)(timdbg.com)

329 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 114 comments

Blog post by a former WinDbg developer describing odd x86/amd64 trivia learned while writing the CPU emulator for Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging.

Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool(crocotile3d.com)

312 points by bananaboy 2 years ago | 43 comments

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space(esa.int)

290 points by gostsamo 2 years ago | 285 comments

An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming(arxiv.org)

243 points by cipcoder 2 years ago | 136 comments

SimSig: Railway Signalling Simulations(simsig.co.uk)

217 points by untilted 2 years ago | 87 comments

ML Code Exercises(deep-ml.com)

179 points by mchab 2 years ago | 51 comments

Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick(op-co.de)

172 points by ge0rg 2 years ago | 165 comments

Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves(strflow.app)

164 points by eguchi1904 2 years ago | 148 comments

Big Ball of Mud (1999)(laputan.org)

151 points by thesuperbigfrog 2 years ago | 128 comments

Ed Stone, scientist and salesman for the Voyager mission, has died(cbc.ca)

149 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 38 comments

Physicists have created the most fiendishly difficult maze(sciencealert.com)

147 points by jhncls 2 years ago | 87 comments

Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years(venturebeat.com)

142 points by ushakov 2 years ago | 242 comments

Training of Physical Neural Networks(arxiv.org)

130 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 43 comments

At the Mountains of Madness(antithesis.com)

129 points by wwilson 2 years ago | 69 comments

The Seal Failure in the SRB That Doomed Challenger (2021)(exrocketman.blogspot.com)

126 points by phendrenad2 2 years ago | 68 comments

Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal(github.com)

124 points by nsdarren 2 years ago | 43 comments

Plausible Community Edition(plausible.io)

110 points by saeedesmaili 2 years ago | 76 comments

Researchers discover a new form of scientific fraud: 'sneaked references'(phys.org)

107 points by toss1 2 years ago | 38 comments

A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything from Smartphones to Missiles(wsj.com)

97 points by andrewtbham 2 years ago | 80 comments

Well, it's just an AWS Account ID(mail.cloudsecurity.club)

93 points by bnchandrapal 2 years ago | 23 comments

The NYT book review is everything book criticism shouldn't be(currentaffairs.org)

90 points by XzetaU8 2 years ago | 54 comments

Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv(jetify.com)

89 points by jljljl 2 years ago | 44 comments

Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort(hackaday.com)

88 points by rolph 2 years ago | 22 comments

Senators strike bipartisan deal for ban on stock trading by members of Congress(cnbc.com)

87 points by donsupreme 2 years ago | 31 comments

Children's daily sugar consumption halved just a year after tax, study finds(theguardian.com)

82 points by doener 2 years ago | 88 comments

3D Gaussian Ray Tracing: Fast Tracing of Particle Scenes(gaussiantracer.github.io)

77 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 7 comments

What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)(minimumcomp.com)

70 points by tldrthelaw 2 years ago | 71 comments

The President Ordered Board to Probe Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did(propublica.org)

65 points by AftHurrahWinch 2 years ago | 19 comments

Fly.io deleted all my apps without notifying me

60 points by lukas_b 2 years ago | 9 comments

Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020)(benhoyt.com)

57 points by benhoyt 2 years ago | 56 comments

Dola Decoding by Contrasting Layers Improves Factuality in Large Language Models(arxiv.org)

53 points by johnsutor 2 years ago | 14 comments

Towards Idempotent Rebuilds?(blog.josefsson.org)

50 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 53 comments

Show HN: Tailwind Template Directory(tailkits.com)

48 points by yucelfaruksahan 2 years ago | 57 comments

Intuit to Cut 10% of Employees in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs(bloomberg.com)

48 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 27 comments

Changes to Stripe Billing(support.stripe.com)

48 points by mik3y 2 years ago | 34 comments

Copying collectors with block-structured heaps are unreliable(wingolog.org)

47 points by ingve 2 years ago | 15 comments

How to organize large Rust codebases(kerkour.com)

45 points by speckx 2 years ago | 23 comments

New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception(prospect.org)

42 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 31 comments

A Deal with the Devil(lithub.com)

39 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 23 comments

RADIUS protocol susceptible to forgery attacks(blastradius.fail)

37 points by byproxy 2 years ago | 5 comments

I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative(skool.com)

35 points by contctlink 2 years ago | 9 comments

Lacking official sources, some Texans use Whataburger app to track power outages(twitter.com)

34 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 6 comments

AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release(livescience.com)

34 points by insamniac 2 years ago | 39 comments

Website Themes with uBlock Origin(darekkay.com)

33 points by 8organicbits 2 years ago | 6 comments

Autism linked to specific gut bugs, promising quick, accurate diagnosis(newatlas.com)

33 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 12 comments

Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB(newsdemon.com)

33 points by xhrpost 2 years ago | 34 comments

Co-Dfns v5.7.0(github.com)

33 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 7 comments

The electrifying rise and litigious fall of energy beer(snackstack.net)

30 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 39 comments

Tech giant Samsung workers to strike indefinitely(bbc.com)

29 points by raybb 2 years ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone been fired for ignoring in-office mandates?

28 points by pards 2 years ago | 32 comments

Archipelago: Multiworld Multi-Game Randomizer(archipelago.gg)

27 points by jeffchien 2 years ago | 5 comments

Cryptocurrency mining harms human health as much as traditional mining – study(anthropocenemagazine.org)

24 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Why does no one seem to care that AI gives wrong answers?

23 points by arduinomancer 2 years ago | 37 comments

Estimated Childhood Lead Exposure from Drinking Water in Chicago(jamanetwork.com)

22 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 2 comments