Hacker News on Monday, 15 July 2024

Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs(docs.scale-lang.com)

1251 points by Straw 2 years ago | 382 comments

Documentation for SCALE by Spectral Compute, a GPGPU toolkit that compiles unmodified CUDA applications natively for AMD GPUs.

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut(github.com)

727 points by OuterVale 2 years ago | 154 comments

GitHub repository with shell scripts that let you type Morse code by opening and closing a laptop lid, using ACPI lid events on Linux.

Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur(horizon.pics)

324 points by sweca 2 years ago | 189 comments

Landing page for Horizon, an ad-free, privacy-focused file and image hosting service with a Mac desktop companion app for sharing screenshots and clipboards.

Story points are pointless, measure queues(brightball.com)

278 points by brightball 2 years ago | 232 comments

Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever(nymag.com)

266 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 122 comments

The Delusion of the Polygraph(lithub.com)

257 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 245 comments

Rust for Filesystems(lwn.net)

235 points by drakerossman 2 years ago | 163 comments

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission(tomshardware.com)

224 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 83 comments

The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy(smithsonianmag.com)

210 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 142 comments

The Mafia of Pharma Pricing(thebignewsletter.com)

201 points by foolswisdom 2 years ago | 74 comments

Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default(mstdn.social)

191 points by 3by7 2 years ago | 133 comments

I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3)(nrk.neocities.org)

175 points by signa11 2 years ago | 298 comments

Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks(krebsonsecurity.com)

171 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 90 comments

Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking(english.hani.co.kr)

161 points by eric__cartman 2 years ago | 146 comments

The Open Collaboration Tools(typefox.io)

160 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 14 comments

The oldest known recording of a human voice [video](bbc.com)

158 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 years ago | 31 comments

The fascinating and complicated sex lives of white-throated sparrows(audubon.org)

157 points by laurex 2 years ago | 24 comments

How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)(ft.com)

157 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 119 comments

KUtrace: Low-overhead Linux kernel tracing facility(github.com)

156 points by luu 2 years ago | 30 comments

Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago(theatlantic.com)

145 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 126 comments

Guide to Machine Learning with Geometric, Topological, and Algebraic Structures(arxiv.org)

142 points by johmathe 2 years ago | 22 comments

Win your fantasy league using operations research(alexmolas.com)

136 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 47 comments

Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984(namokimods.com)

132 points by segasaturn 2 years ago | 36 comments

HTML Tags Memory Test(codepen.io)

130 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 116 comments

The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011)(franklambert.net)

130 points by luu 2 years ago | 39 comments

Creature that washed up on New Zealand beach may be rarest whale(cbsnews.com)

124 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 15 comments

Visual programming should start in the debugger(interjectedfuture.com)

121 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 47 comments

Radar evidence of accessible Moon cave conduit below Mare Tranquillitatis pit(nature.com)

121 points by rntn 2 years ago | 50 comments

Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go(coder.com)

118 points by ammario 2 years ago | 35 comments

Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract (2021)(retrohax.net)

105 points by z303 2 years ago | 19 comments

Shapeshift: Semantically map JSON objects using key-level vector embeddings(github.com)

102 points by marvinkennis 2 years ago | 28 comments

Tech, Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way(keepgoingpod.com)

100 points by jdbiggs 2 years ago | 49 comments

Automated Test-Case Reduction(cs.cornell.edu)

92 points by ingve 2 years ago | 22 comments

ZeroMQ: High-Performance Concurrency Framework(zeromq.org)

72 points by klaussilveira 2 years ago | 27 comments

IQM achieves 99.9% 2-qubit gate fidelity and 1 millisecond coherence time(meetiqm.com)

71 points by doener 2 years ago | 22 comments

What Happened to Ancient Megafauna?(nautil.us)

68 points by jnord 2 years ago | 78 comments

Virginia Woolf's list-making(ft.com)

68 points by vinnyvichy 2 years ago | 19 comments

Transformer Layers as Painters(arxiv.org)

67 points by fzliu 2 years ago | 9 comments

Tlsd: Generate (message) sequence diagrams from TLA+ state traces(github.com)

62 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 2 comments

Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators (2020)(arxiv.org)

59 points by luu 2 years ago | 8 comments

Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve(caltech.edu)

58 points by gmays 2 years ago | 39 comments

Human history in the long run: It was mostly pretty bad(slowboring.com)

57 points by Lisdexamfeta 2 years ago | 50 comments

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content(vincentschmalbach.com)

51 points by vincent_s 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: TargetJ – New JavaScript framework that can animate anything(github.com)

49 points by ahmadwasfi 2 years ago | 38 comments

Lagrange: LAser GRavitational-wave ANtenna at GEo-lunar Lagrange points (2011)(arxiv.org)

46 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 16 comments

Leap – Chemistry Through a Computational Lens(ambermd.org)

44 points by oumua_don17 2 years ago | 4 comments

L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure(l402.org)

41 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 37 comments

Google and Microsoft now each consume more power than some fairly big countries(techradar.com)

38 points by mikece 2 years ago | 31 comments

A word about private attribution in Firefox(old.reddit.com)

38 points by ghostwords 2 years ago | 39 comments

Releasing an Album on Floppy Disk(michaelgale.dev)

36 points by edent 2 years ago | 21 comments

Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser(spectrum.ieee.org)

36 points by jnord 2 years ago | 4 comments

WhatWeb: Next Generation Web Scanner (2021)(github.com)

34 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?

33 points by regainmemory 2 years ago | 35 comments

Artificial neural network approach to finding the key length of Vigenère cipher(tandfonline.com)

31 points by histories 2 years ago | 5 comments

Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales(wyofile.com)

29 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Mutable.ai Codebase chat that uses a Wiki for RAG(wiki.mutable.ai)

28 points by oshams 2 years ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Do you have home solar?

26 points by mmayberry 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Blitzping – A far faster nping/hping3 SYN-flood alternative with CIDR(github.com)

25 points by VioletVillain 2 years ago | 10 comments

Mercurial is simply too good (2020)(baez.link)

24 points by interroboink 2 years ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Learn a new language by speaking with AI(fluent.im)

23 points by achempion 2 years ago | 13 comments