Hacker News on Thursday, 12 September 2024

Learning to Reason with LLMs(openai.com)

1573 points by fofoz 2 years ago | 1186 comments

OpenAI research post introducing o1, a large language model trained with reinforcement learning to reason using a long internal chain of thought before answering.

Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system(hackaday.com)

869 points by kwiens 2 years ago | 376 comments

Hackaday review of iFixit's FixHub, a repairable 100W USB-C soldering iron paired with a smart battery power station.

Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models(simonwillison.net)

641 points by loganfrederick 2 years ago | 566 comments

Simon Willison's blog post with notes on OpenAI's o1-preview and o1-mini models, covering chain-of-thought training, API details, hidden reasoning tokens and examples.

Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation(arstechnica.com)

523 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 99 comments

Ars Technica article reporting a court dismissed defamation claims against researchers who identified manipulated data, while Harvard still faces trial over its investigation.

FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software(fda.gov)

403 points by mgerdts 2 years ago | 226 comments

FDA press release announcing authorization of Apple's Hearing Aid Feature, the first over-the-counter hearing aid software, for use with compatible AirPods Pro.

Why Haskell?(gtf.io)

387 points by mesaoptimizer 2 years ago | 533 comments

A long personal essay arguing why Haskell is a practical, productive language for building real software like web servers, covering fewer mistakes and easier reasoning.

Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps(konty.app)

338 points by niklauslee 2 years ago | 124 comments

Landing page for Konty, a desktop app for quickly making hand-drawn style lo-fi wireframes of app ideas, positioned as a Balsamiq alternative.

USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers(apnews.com)

280 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 325 comments

DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine(diypresso.com)

275 points by ragebol 2 years ago | 258 comments

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable(quantamagazine.org)

263 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 77 comments

Hi-Tech Bifocals Improved My Eyesight but Made Me Look Like a Dork(gizmodo.com)

228 points by amichail 2 years ago | 97 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

212 points by jack_riminton 2 years ago | 298 comments

I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (2021)(mango.pdf.zone)

210 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 78 comments

1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place(bbc.com)

182 points by samdung 2 years ago | 127 comments

NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive(gizmodo.com)

179 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 51 comments

We're not going to run out of new anatomy anytime soon(svpow.com)

176 points by jfil 2 years ago | 87 comments

GAZEploit: Remote keystroke inference attack by gaze estimation in VR/MR devices(wired.com)

174 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 96 comments

SpaceX Astronauts Begin Spacewalk, Putting New Spacesuits to Test(wsj.com)

173 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 161 comments

USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut(apnews.com)

163 points by hbcondo714 2 years ago | 132 comments

Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys(cell.com)

152 points by tortilla 2 years ago | 171 comments

Notepat – Aesthetic Computer(aesthetic.computer)

150 points by justanothersys 2 years ago | 35 comments

Ergo: Erlang-inspired event driven actor framework in Go(github.com)

149 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 95 comments

If I could dissect a sauropod(svpow.com)

132 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 17 comments

Linear, symmetric, self-selecting 14-bit molecular memristors (2023)(researchgate.net)

101 points by weirdcat 2 years ago | 54 comments

The Strange Case of the Rogue HP-12c Calculator(dm319.github.io)

97 points by dm319 2 years ago | 23 comments

Officer who ignored NYPD's 'courtesy cards' receives $175K settlement(apnews.com)

97 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 72 comments

The Art Of Niwaki (2017)(blog.fantasticgardenersmelbourne.com.au)

95 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 19 comments

Old Easter Island genomes show no sign of a population collapse(arstechnica.com)

87 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 48 comments

Defusedxml – defusing XML bombs and other exploits(github.com)

83 points by gudzpoz 2 years ago | 18 comments

Microsoft hosts a security summit but no press, public allowed(theregister.com)

80 points by socket-4772 2 years ago | 36 comments

Unity is cancelling the runtime fee(unity.com)

79 points by dagmx 2 years ago | 29 comments

Bionicle – my actual part in its origins (2015)(alastairswinnerton.com)

77 points by speckx 2 years ago | 20 comments

Where are programming languages created? A zoomable map(pldb.io)

74 points by marinesebastian 2 years ago | 44 comments

Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days(newscientist.com)

70 points by DougN7 2 years ago | 11 comments

Remix's concurrent submissions are fundamentally flawed(dashbit.co)

69 points by bo0tzz 2 years ago | 7 comments

Writing a Lisp compiler (Lisp to assembly) from scratch in JavaScript (2018)(notes.eatonphil.com)

67 points by selvan 2 years ago | 5 comments

Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1 (2021)(icemoonprison.com)

66 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 6 comments

Qubit Transistors Reach Error Correction Benchmark(spectrum.ieee.org)

63 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 18 comments

Master Hexagonal Architecture in Rust(howtocodeit.com)

60 points by milliams 2 years ago | 80 comments

Show HN: Galaxy Visualization(github.com)

58 points by avicted 2 years ago | 11 comments

Interview Learnings from Former CIA Intelligence Officer(lopespm.com)

56 points by lopespm 2 years ago | 24 comments

GitHub taught me to micromanage(matthewrocklin.com)

55 points by Tycho87 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard for LLM coding workflows(github.com)

53 points by grbsh 2 years ago | 26 comments

Ask HN: Is a Masters in CS/Engineering worth it for a mid-career PM?

53 points by deeptechdreamer 2 years ago | 77 comments

Java – Integrity by Default (JVMLS 2024)(youtube.com)

52 points by cempaka 2 years ago | 28 comments

Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?(economist.com)

52 points by jspann 2 years ago | 65 comments

The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious(theverge.com)

51 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 37 comments

Adapter lets you use cheap eSIM plans on any Android phone(androidauthority.com)

50 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 27 comments

Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated(cam.ac.uk)

48 points by geox 2 years ago | 18 comments

Making things people want vs. making things that alter thinking(rohan.ga)

44 points by ocean_moist 2 years ago | 37 comments

Giant sloth bone pendants suggest humans were in Americas earlier than thought(cnn.com)

44 points by Qem 2 years ago | 5 comments

AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human(bbc.com)

41 points by gortok 2 years ago | 30 comments

Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas?(arxiv.org)

40 points by kmdupree 2 years ago | 47 comments

Why is language documentation still so terrible?(walnut356.github.io)

38 points by commandersaki 2 years ago | 32 comments

Steve Ballmer: facts on the US federal budget [video](youtube.com)

34 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 36 comments

Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions(understandingai.org)

34 points by 2bluesc 2 years ago | 48 comments

Ribbit: A portable, compact and extensible R4RS Scheme implementation(github.com)

33 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 9 comments

House passes $1.6B to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas(responsiblestatecraft.org)

33 points by hunglee2 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Simple Alternative to Complex Project Management for Freelancers

32 points by booper 2 years ago | 15 comments

Steam Families Is Here(store.steampowered.com)

32 points by diggan 2 years ago | 10 comments