Hacker News on Tuesday, 16 July 2024

I am starting an AI+Education company(twitter.com)

848 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 506 comments

Andrej Karpathy's post on X announcing Eureka Labs, his new AI-native education company building a new kind of school.

For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default(heise.de)

460 points by firebaze 2 years ago | 379 comments

Heise online news article reporting that Firefox now enables a privacy-preserving ad attribution feature that collects user data by default.

Codestral Mamba(mistral.ai)

451 points by tosh 2 years ago | 133 comments

Mistral AI announcement of Codestral Mamba, a Mamba2-based language model specialized in code generation, released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices(github.com)

396 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 137 comments

GitHub repository for exo, an open-source tool for running a distributed AI inference cluster at home across everyday devices like phones and laptops.

Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header(neilzone.co.uk)

383 points by wasmitnetzen 2 years ago | 310 comments

A blog post describing how the author added a Postfix header to outgoing mail to try to stop Microsoft Outlook users from sending 'reaction' emails.

10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video](youtube.com)

255 points by 8bitsrule 2 years ago | 78 comments

Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications(automerge.org)

240 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 50 comments

The Engineer’s Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the Transformer Model(interdb.jp)

227 points by shxx 2 years ago | 27 comments

XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM(arxiv.org)

215 points by beefman 2 years ago | 49 comments

Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, has died(theguardian.com)

212 points by racional 2 years ago | 74 comments

A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4(binwang.me)

183 points by chazeon 2 years ago | 171 comments

Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency(arxiv.org)

179 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 129 comments

Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission(science.org)

167 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 102 comments

The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing(mailgun.com)

166 points by pwmtr 2 years ago | 119 comments

Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools(thenewstack.io)

158 points by argoeris 2 years ago | 67 comments

We created a fake delivery company to get a job(blog.kashevko.com)

157 points by 1ikigai 2 years ago | 80 comments

Darwin Machines(vedgie.net)

151 points by calepayson 2 years ago | 75 comments

Mangrove trees are on the move, taking the tropics with them(scientificamerican.com)

149 points by alexahn 2 years ago | 21 comments

DevRel at HuggingFace(dx.tips)

141 points by swyx 2 years ago | 81 comments

Show HN: Magic-cli – A copilot for your command line(github.com)

137 points by guywald 2 years ago | 85 comments

Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game(olano.dev)

136 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Private Browsing 2.0(webkit.org)

135 points by frizlab 2 years ago | 71 comments

Optimizing a bignum library for fun(austinhenley.com)

134 points by azhenley 2 years ago | 53 comments

OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say(washingtonpost.com)

124 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 88 comments

Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981(righto.com)

119 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 79 comments

NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing(wadetregaskis.com)

118 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: I quit my job and made an automatic time tracker(taimapp.io)

114 points by rocksalad 2 years ago | 70 comments

Decoding DME aircraft radio navigation system with the LimeSDR(destevez.net)

114 points by wolframio 2 years ago | 33 comments

Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022)(inkandswitch.com)

111 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 18 comments

Godotcaml for Godot 4.2(fizzixnerd.com)

107 points by p4bl0 2 years ago | 26 comments

New Gaussian Splatting viewer that allows code modification during runtime(github.com)

105 points by fubei 2 years ago | 12 comments

After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table(nytimes.com)

103 points by necubi 2 years ago | 123 comments

Building a Galaksija(blog.vladovince.com)

102 points by bane 2 years ago | 17 comments

Xwax Is an Open-Source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux(xwax.org)

92 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 22 comments

Ly: Display Manager with Console UI(github.com)

89 points by klaussilveira 2 years ago | 32 comments

The Resilience of Internet Infrastructures in Pacific Northwest to Earthquakes [pdf](pages.uoregon.edu)

87 points by luu 2 years ago | 5 comments

Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum(bbc.com)

80 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 80 comments

I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything(gavinhoward.com)

77 points by gavinhoward 2 years ago | 109 comments

Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read(elizabethandrama.org)

77 points by lordleft 2 years ago | 123 comments

Convex Architecture Handbook 1984 [pdf](bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)

60 points by camel-cdr 2 years ago | 7 comments

He secretly changed this freeway sign, helped millions of drivers [video](youtube.com)

54 points by guiambros 2 years ago | 22 comments

Is Mars Habitable? (1907)(people.wku.edu)

54 points by kimmk 2 years ago | 15 comments

People person: the greatness of Andrey Platonov(prospectmagazine.co.uk)

53 points by conanxin 2 years ago | 5 comments

PS-HTTPD: A web server written in PostScript (2010)(pugo.org)

53 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 12 comments

A hard look at AWS GuardDuty shortcomings(tracebit.com)

53 points by tracebit 2 years ago | 14 comments

Parametric Matrix Models(arxiv.org)

50 points by evanb 2 years ago | 5 comments

The science behind an iPhone dumb phone(dumbph.com)

49 points by hbroadbent 2 years ago | 55 comments

Hacking the Mac OS X Kernel for Unsupported Machines (2005) [pdf](papers.put.as)

48 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 4 comments

The struggle to understand why earthquakes happen in America's heartland(undark.org)

47 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 38 comments

UK has almost 1M EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes(theguardian.com)

46 points by Capstanlqc 2 years ago | 19 comments

Schrödinger's cat among biology's pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?(nature.com)

41 points by merename 2 years ago | 4 comments

Startups building balloons to hoist tourists(cnbc.com)

38 points by amichail 2 years ago | 51 comments

Electric Clouds This Summer(nautil.us)

37 points by yimby 2 years ago | 12 comments

Craig Wright's claim of inventing Bitcoin may get him arrested for perjury(arstechnica.com)

33 points by edent 2 years ago | 3 comments

Math is running out of problems(medium.com)

33 points by vouaobrasil 2 years ago | 48 comments

Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?

27 points by yungporko 2 years ago | 28 comments

Data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security(netzpolitik.org)

27 points by Sami_Lehtinen 2 years ago | 2 comments

What spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft(theregister.com)

24 points by galaxyLogic 2 years ago | 12 comments

NHRA's Alan Reinhart Explains Why John Force's Parachutes Failed to Deploy(bangshift.com)

24 points by RickJWagner 2 years ago | 7 comments

The Neurodivergent Engineer's Strategy for Success(spectrum.ieee.org)

24 points by jnord 2 years ago | 5 comments