Hacker News on Saturday, 14 September 2024

Terence Tao on O1(mathstodon.xyz)

626 points by dselsam 2 years ago | 404 comments

Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao describing his experiments with OpenAI's o1 model on research-level mathematical tasks.

Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

592 points by sirobg 2 years ago | 276 comments

Show HN post introducing Meet.hn, an open-source map for finding and meeting Hacker News users in your city via HN profile verification.

Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video](youtube.com)

545 points by zdw 2 years ago | 105 comments

YouTube video by Robert Feranec showing extreme close-up footage of soldering electronic components.

OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller(openscad.org)

430 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 162 comments

Homepage of OpenSCAD, a free script-based solid 3D CAD modelling program for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

How America's universities became debt factories(anandsanwal.me)

388 points by car 2 years ago | 433 comments

Blog post by Anand Sanwal arguing that American universities have become debt factories that saddle students with heavy loans.

Writing an OS in Rust(github.com)

383 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 40 comments

GitHub repository for phil-opp's blog_os, the source code and posts of the "Writing an OS in Rust" tutorial blog series.

One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)(science.org)

362 points by redbell 2 years ago | 235 comments

Science magazine news article (2016) reporting that about one in five genetics papers contain gene name errors caused by Microsoft Excel autoformatting.

Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech(ianbetteridge.com)

319 points by rpgbr 2 years ago | 173 comments

Blog post by Ian Betteridge on Silicon Valley's founder cult, contrasting Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman, and growing boredom with tech.

Why Scrum is stressing you out(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)

307 points by aard 2 years ago | 313 comments

Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?

292 points by askHN2024 2 years ago | 229 comments

Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP(lwn.net)

261 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 186 comments

LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This(arxiv.org)

245 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 207 comments

The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)(bofh.bjash.com)

238 points by newswasboring 2 years ago | 79 comments

Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly(github.com)

199 points by ngaut 2 years ago | 36 comments

Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker(10maurycy10.github.io)

179 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 49 comments

The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out(theconversation.com)

175 points by enopod_ 2 years ago | 113 comments

Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome(github.com)

173 points by thomastsch 2 years ago | 64 comments

MicroPython on Flipper Zero(lab.flipper.net)

164 points by psvisualdesign 2 years ago | 104 comments

Void captures over a million Android TV boxes(news.drweb.com)

129 points by Katana_zero 2 years ago | 86 comments

Factor 0.100 Now Available(re.factorcode.org)

124 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases(victoriametrics.com)

123 points by valyala 2 years ago | 51 comments

A overview of binaries, ELF, and NoMMU on Linux(lists.landley.net)

117 points by oliverkwebb 2 years ago | 4 comments

Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency(justice.gov)

110 points by aa_is_op 2 years ago | 67 comments

To forget is an ethical act(emilygorcenski.com)

104 points by thanatosmin 2 years ago | 44 comments

How Raw sockets behave differently in macOS and Linux(swagnik.netlify.app)

99 points by adityaathalye 2 years ago | 37 comments

They don't make readers like they used to(antipope.org)

93 points by andyjohnson0 2 years ago | 95 comments

Nesting Allocators (2023)(blog.yoshuawuyts.com)

87 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 7 comments

Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis(valkey.io)

86 points by reconditerose 2 years ago | 21 comments

Show HN: I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game(github.com)

84 points by rafinha 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Department of Everything – Dispatches from the telephone reference desk(hedgehogreview.com)

78 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 22 comments

Warewoolf: A minimalist novel-writing system/rich text editor(github.com)

75 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 36 comments

Billiards is a good game (1975)(mag.uchicago.edu)

72 points by chucksmash 2 years ago | 46 comments

Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop(giacomo.coletto.io)

70 points by AlphaJack 2 years ago | 108 comments

OpenAI's $150B valuation hinges on upending corporate structure, sources(reuters.com)

66 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 70 comments

Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test(birchtree.me)

66 points by havaloc 2 years ago | 68 comments

Why use metaphors in conflicts? Because understanding is remembering in disguise (2009)(westallen.typepad.com)

65 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 52 comments

Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong(ft.com)

65 points by guiambros 2 years ago | 44 comments

Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs(qz.com)

59 points by jayantbhawal 2 years ago | 49 comments

How a scientist is pushing to supersize research into ultra-processed foods(statnews.com)

57 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 60 comments

Testing the Firefox Alternatives(tommorris.org)

56 points by MaxBarraclough 2 years ago | 39 comments

iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip(9to5mac.com)

53 points by retskrad 2 years ago | 58 comments

Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online(the42.life)

50 points by Marius_Manola 2 years ago | 9 comments

Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power(economist.com)

44 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 39 comments

Electric DeLorean DMC-12 Conversion Kit(electrogenic.co.uk)

44 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 35 comments

Brazil Supreme Court unfreezes X, Starlink's bank accounts after taking $3.3M(thehill.com)

40 points by ivewonyoung 2 years ago | 39 comments

Rust error handling(bitfieldconsulting.com)

38 points by bitfield 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: I removed politics from Twitter with AI(mindfw.com)

38 points by Navkun 2 years ago | 79 comments

A Case Study of Reflex Epilepsy Induced by Playing Chess(lichess.org)

31 points by Akcium 2 years ago | 7 comments

Zen and the Art of Writer Decks (Using the Pomera DM250)(antipope.org)

29 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 8 comments

Who is responsible for the greatest change to our language? Teenage girls(abc.net.au)

29 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 26 comments

Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation(lieffcabraser.com)

28 points by EvgeniyZh 2 years ago | 4 comments

iPhone 16 Pro lets users capture ProRAW photos in JPEG-XL format(9to5mac.com)

28 points by ksec 2 years ago | 17 comments

1.3M Android-Based TV Boxes Backdoored; Researchers Still Don't Know How(arstechnica.com)

27 points by m463 2 years ago | 4 comments

A cartoon butt clenching a bar of soap has invaded my online ads(arstechnica.com)

24 points by stalfosknight 2 years ago | 37 comments

Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space(ilkha.com)

22 points by lordwiz 2 years ago | 31 comments

Ask HN: If LLMs are so useful, why haven't we seen any spike in productivity?

22 points by pera 2 years ago | 23 comments

Losses widen at Stripe Europe to $1.1B after employee 'liquidity event'(irishtimes.com)

21 points by nemoniac 2 years ago | 5 comments

An effective and rapidly degradable disinfectant from disinfection byproducts(nature.com)

19 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 1 comments

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google employees support California AI bill(axios.com)

18 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 18 comments

The Symbolics Ivory Design and Verification Strategy (1987)(archive.org)

17 points by mepian 2 years ago | 1 comments