Hacker News on Thursday, 18 July 2024

My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website(naya.lol)

1336 points by fintler 2 years ago | 488 comments

A simple handmade HTML website by a 7-year-old with links to pages about cats, dogs, cheetahs, tablets, and computers over a cartoon animal background.

Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features(github.com)

406 points by humanperhaps 2 years ago | 101 comments

GitHub repository for Devzat, an open-source chat server that developers connect to over SSH, with plugins and an API.

Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?

383 points by overclock351 2 years ago | 234 comments

An Ask HN thread where a computer science student asks what the state of Prolog and logic programming is in 2024 and what people use it for.

USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap(techcrunch.com)

379 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 194 comments

TechCrunch investigation reporting that the US Postal Service shared customers' postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap via tracking code, and later remediated it.

Mistral NeMo(mistral.ai)

373 points by bcatanzaro 2 years ago | 150 comments

Mistral AI announcement of Mistral NeMo, a 12B-parameter model with 128k context built with NVIDIA and released under Apache 2.0.

What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?(construction-physics.com)

306 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 238 comments

The Objects of Our Life (1983)(stevejobsarchive.com)

273 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 135 comments

Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes(ras.ac.uk)

262 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 130 comments

Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes(research.swtch.com)

233 points by rsc 2 years ago | 39 comments

Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing is a dystopian nightmare

221 points by suzzer99 2 years ago | 71 comments

Polychromatic Pixels(compoundsemiconductor.net)

192 points by bluehat974 2 years ago | 125 comments

Premature Abstraction(arendjr.nl)

165 points by arendjr 2 years ago | 106 comments

Ask HN: Fast data structures for disjoint intervals?

160 points by grovesNL 2 years ago | 108 comments

Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems(redthreatsec.com)

155 points by danso 2 years ago | 77 comments

Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text(github.com)

149 points by thebiblelover7 2 years ago | 54 comments

Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm(esa.int)

141 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 16 comments

Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?(kb6nu.com)

138 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 82 comments

Sparrows may be 'canary in the coal mine' for lead poisoning in children: study(abc.net.au)

133 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 75 comments

Show HN: How we leapfrogged traditional vector based RAG with a 'language map'(twitter.com)

127 points by oshams 2 years ago | 46 comments

Elephants use namelike calls(theatlantic.com)

125 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 92 comments

60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV(rfi.fr)

118 points by belter 2 years ago | 19 comments

Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design(hallofshame.design)

115 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 41 comments

GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence(openai.com)

95 points by bryanh 2 years ago | 28 comments

Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive(lithub.com)

87 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 114 comments

SpreadsheetLLM – Microsoft's new AI system(theregister.com)

76 points by amai 2 years ago | 30 comments

The Erie Canal: The man-made waterway that transformed the US(bbc.com)

72 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 26 comments

Money and Happiness: Extended Evidence Against Satiation(happiness-science.org)

71 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 82 comments

Who Killed the World?(pudding.cool)

67 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 51 comments

Forewarn gives realtors access to buyers' histories with a phone number(therecord.media)

64 points by compootr 2 years ago | 39 comments

Evolving the ASF Brand(news.apache.org)

62 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 76 comments

OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model(wired.com)

60 points by tosh 2 years ago | 30 comments

OpenCV and the Wild Kingdom(scottsexton.co)

58 points by zdw 2 years ago | 14 comments

What Materials Are Magnetic?(sciencenotes.org)

57 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 39 comments

A Journey into Rebel-Held Myanmar(noemamag.com)

56 points by jprohov 2 years ago | 7 comments

How far should a programming language aware diff go?(semanticdiff.com)

55 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 39 comments

GMC made a motorhome that pumped sewage through its exhaust on purpose(thedrive.com)

50 points by cebert 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Llm2sh – Translate plain-language requests into shell commands(github.com)

49 points by RandomBK 2 years ago | 20 comments

Proton Mail Adds an Open-Source AI Writing Assistant to Take on Gmail(news.itsfoss.com)

48 points by elashri 2 years ago | 10 comments

Azure DevOps is down globally

48 points by vimwizard 2 years ago | 25 comments

SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol(utcc.utoronto.ca)

46 points by speckx 2 years ago | 37 comments

He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine(npr.org)

45 points by tosh 2 years ago | 46 comments

What to do if you don't want a default constructor?(sandordargo.com)

44 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 12 comments

Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World(afterbabel.com)

43 points by trevin 2 years ago | 36 comments

NASA cancels $450M mission to drill for ice on the Moon(nature.com)

41 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio and video converter(fileconverter.tommyjepsen.com)

40 points by tommyjepsen 2 years ago | 13 comments

Why don't they compose music like Bach any more?(marginalrevolution.com)

39 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 38 comments

Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self After All(sciencealert.com)

38 points by indigoabstract 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: I made an AI image enhancer that boosts images 10x to 12k pixels(mejorarimagen.org)

38 points by yangxiaobo 2 years ago | 37 comments

TSMC rides AI demand to raise revenue forecast, says no to US joint venture(reuters.com)

37 points by belter 2 years ago | 16 comments

Bananas Don't Taste Like They Used To. Here's Why(epicurious.com)

37 points by speckx 2 years ago | 39 comments

NASA Spent $450M on a Moon Rover. Now It's Canceling the Mission(nytimes.com)

35 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 36 comments

Bob Newhart, Comedy Icon, Dies at 94(variety.com)

34 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 5 comments

Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants(esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

31 points by rntn 2 years ago | 5 comments

SKI Combinator Calculus(en.wikipedia.org)

28 points by barrister 2 years ago | 0 comments

So you want to compete with or replace open source(drewdevault.com)

25 points by LaSombra 2 years ago | 5 comments

I gave myself a month to make one new friend(esquire.com)

24 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 24 comments

Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections(lwn.net)

23 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 4 comments

Intel's CPUs Are Failing, Ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs [video](youtube.com)

23 points by rjzzleep 2 years ago | 0 comments

A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system(ruudvanasseldonk.com)

23 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 5 comments

Meta puts a halt to training its generative AI tools in Brazil(techcrunch.com)

22 points by belter 2 years ago | 14 comments