Hacker News on Friday, 2 August 2024

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W(github.com)

550 points by felixr 2 years ago | 145 comments

GitHub repository for Hackberry-Pi_Zero, an open-source handheld Linux terminal built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with a 4-inch 720x720 TFT display.

The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning(srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

482 points by superposeur 2 years ago | 366 comments

A Child Development journal article reporting that Marshmallow Test performance in childhood does not reliably predict adult functioning; the page showed a Cloudflare check.

Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere(github.com)

281 points by brylie 2 years ago | 41 comments

Peerfetch – Peer-to-Peer HTTP over WebRTC(github.com)

258 points by Vt71fcAqt7 2 years ago | 65 comments

Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer(forbes.com)

238 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 232 comments

What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images(quantamagazine.org)

223 points by VHRanger 2 years ago | 397 comments

ArchiveTeam Warrior(warrior.archiveteam.org)

215 points by xnx 2 years ago | 58 comments

The future of kdb+?(timestored.com)

207 points by geph2021 2 years ago | 55 comments

Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, has died(washingtonpost.com)

196 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 94 comments

Show HN: Ell – A command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash(github.com)

195 points by simonmysun 2 years ago | 67 comments

YC closes deal with Google for dedicated compute cluster for AI startups(techcrunch.com)

189 points by Astroboy007 2 years ago | 88 comments

Null-Restricted and Nullable Types(bugs.openjdk.org)

185 points by lichtenberger 2 years ago | 198 comments

RustPython: A Python Interpreter Written in Rust(github.com)

168 points by bovem 2 years ago | 51 comments

Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture(go.googlesource.com)

164 points by theptip 2 years ago | 23 comments

Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate(v2.tauri.app)

153 points by martpie 2 years ago | 56 comments

1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation(github.com)

141 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 42 comments

Programming a CH32v003 with light(mitxela.com)

134 points by blutack 2 years ago | 13 comments

Quark Stars(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

131 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 51 comments

Discovering algorithms by enumerating terms in Haskell(twitter.com)

127 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 37 comments

Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes(justine.lol)

123 points by behnamoh 2 years ago | 21 comments

Magnetically levitated space elevator to low-earth orbit (2001) [pdf](publications.anl.gov)

119 points by fosk 2 years ago | 93 comments

Judges suspends FCC net neutrality restoration rule(inc.com)

110 points by nickt 2 years ago | 153 comments

Towards userspaceification of POSIX – part I: signal handling and IO(redox-os.org)

109 points by akyuu 2 years ago | 50 comments

Common I/O Tasks in Modern Java(dev.java)

109 points by infodaemon 2 years ago | 12 comments

PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

95 points by reaperducer 2 years ago | 22 comments

A year of Meta's news ban in Canada(mediaecosystemobservatory.com)

87 points by ikesau 2 years ago | 95 comments

Japan cracks down on use of rideable electric suitcases amid tourist boom(theguardian.com)

83 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 70 comments

Additive manufacturing of an ultrastrong, deformable aluminum alloy(nature.com)

82 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 57 comments

Fast Lua Serialization (2023)(artemis.sh)

81 points by synergy20 2 years ago | 47 comments

The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning(cell.com)

77 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 51 comments

EWritable – e-ink tablet news and reviews(ewritable.com)

76 points by SushiHippie 2 years ago | 40 comments

Character.ai CEO Noam Shazeer Returns to Google(techcrunch.com)

69 points by treesciencebot 2 years ago | 48 comments

Considerations when building embedded databases(interrupt.memfault.com)

60 points by tzmlab 2 years ago | 17 comments

ROM hacking site shutting down after almost 20 years(arstechnica.com)

50 points by samizdis 2 years ago | 3 comments

ClickHouse acquires PeerDB to expand its Postgres support(techcrunch.com)

47 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 3 comments

Tennessee Awards $5.5M to Strengthen Food Supply Chain Infrastructure(ams.usda.gov)

47 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 31 comments

Unmanned submarine discovers ice shelf mysteries, then disappears(scitechdaily.com)

44 points by geox 2 years ago | 5 comments

Pineboards AI HAT enables Hailo-8L and NVMe boot storage on a Pi 5(pineboards.io)

41 points by sthlmb 2 years ago | 12 comments

Supercharged Labels – Gleam v1.4.0(gleam.run)

40 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 12 comments

Intel stock dropping toward 50 year low amid restructuring news(marketwatch.com)

39 points by highwaylights 2 years ago | 18 comments

We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford(old.reddit.com)

38 points by andrewfromx 2 years ago | 39 comments

Michael Phelps is 14 feet tall(google.com)

38 points by jeffbee 2 years ago | 29 comments

This repo is for the DSC v3 project(github.com)

36 points by bsnnkv 2 years ago | 27 comments

Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries [video](youtube.com)

34 points by Rinzler89 2 years ago | 16 comments

Elliott says Nvidia is in a 'bubble' and AI is 'overhyped'(ft.com)

33 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 33 comments

Rails Is Good Enough(onurozer.me)

31 points by onurozer 2 years ago | 7 comments

C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore(faultlore.com)

30 points by olalonde 2 years ago | 6 comments

Hexsheets: Hexagonal Spreadsheets(github.com)

29 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 9 comments

Improving cat food flavors with the help of feline taste-testers(phys.org)

28 points by politelemon 2 years ago | 36 comments

Does the success of LLM support Wittgenstein's position that "meaning is use"?(philosophy.stackexchange.com)

25 points by IdealeZahlen 2 years ago | 3 comments

It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed(futurism.com)

24 points by jaynate 2 years ago | 16 comments

Intel's Day of Reckoning Arrives: 15,000 Jobs Will Be Eliminated(extremetech.com)

24 points by cheptsov 2 years ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Three.js mirror cube that stays in sync(mirror-cube.martinpiala.com)

17 points by mackopes 2 years ago | 5 comments

Self-hosting workshop in Portland tomorrow(2024.fossy.us)

17 points by meonkeys 2 years ago | 3 comments

Extended Warranty – Update on 13th/14th Stability Issue(old.reddit.com)

14 points by rntn 2 years ago | 0 comments

Fear of US recession rattles global markets as tech shares fall(theguardian.com)

13 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 2 comments

How Diaries Evolved from Lists to Personal Histories(slate.com)

13 points by pepys 2 years ago | 5 comments

ChatGPT Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill(futurism.com)

11 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 6 comments

A test for life versus non-life?(nytimes.com)

11 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 10 comments