Hacker News on Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses(about.fb.com)

1168 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 996 comments

Meta Newsroom post from September 25, 2024 announcing Orion, the company's first true augmented reality glasses prototype.

Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models(ai.meta.com)

861 points by nmwnmw 2 years ago | 298 comments

Meta AI blog post announcing Llama 3.2, including vision-capable models and lightweight models for edge and mobile devices.

Being Raised by the Internet(jimmyhmiller.github.io)

792 points by DamonHD 2 years ago | 265 comments

Personal essay by Jimmy Miller about growing up poor with an absent mother and a father with schizophrenia, and how the internet helped raise him.

Mira Murati leaves OpenAI(twitter.com)

722 points by brianjking 2 years ago | 502 comments

A post on X by Mira Murati announcing her departure from OpenAI; the post content did not load in the capture.

Why I still blog after 15 years(jonashietala.se)

447 points by lawn 2 years ago | 215 comments

Jonas Hietala's personal blog post reflecting on why he has kept blogging for 15 years and how the blog started.

Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic(github.com)

416 points by striking 2 years ago | 243 comments

GitHub repository for git-absorb, a tool that automatically creates fixup commits for staged changes, like git commit --fixup but automatic.

Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite(wafris.org)

328 points by thecodemonkey 2 years ago | 111 comments

Wafris blog post explaining why its open-source Rails web application firewall client moved from a Redis datastore to SQLite, with benchmark charts.

Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source(security.googleblog.com)

302 points by coffeeaddict1 2 years ago | 152 comments

Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas(github.com)

302 points by akshaysg 2 years ago | 165 comments

I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)

295 points by keybits 2 years ago | 278 comments

The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler (2023)(duriansoftware.com)

290 points by PaulDavisThe1st 2 years ago | 97 comments

SQL Tips and Tricks(github.com)

283 points by regexman1 2 years ago | 141 comments

Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence(innocenceproject.org)

283 points by bjourne 2 years ago | 336 comments

Timeshare owner? The Mexican drug cartels want you(krebsonsecurity.com)

232 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 274 comments

Insights after 11 years with Datomic [video](youtube.com)

189 points by eduction 2 years ago | 93 comments

NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition(mastodon.social)

185 points by riffraff 2 years ago | 95 comments

Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent by your Python code(github.com)

183 points by cle-b 2 years ago | 51 comments

How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft(clarkwakeland.com)

171 points by linebeck 2 years ago | 128 comments

Reading texts on paper versus computer screen: Effects on reading comprehension [pdf](clikmedia.ca)

170 points by sturza 2 years ago | 91 comments

Global EV Charging Points with Open Charge Map(tech.marksblogg.com)

131 points by marklit 2 years ago | 102 comments

Audio Masking(cryptomuseum.com)

130 points by goles 2 years ago | 18 comments

Cat memes went viral 100 years ago(bbc.com)

123 points by zdw 2 years ago | 32 comments

Meta Quest 3S(meta.com)

122 points by gslin 2 years ago | 67 comments

I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)(reaktor.com)

117 points by gaws 2 years ago | 161 comments

Show HN: Coros – A Modern C++ Library for Task Parallelism(github.com)

112 points by singledigits 2 years ago | 49 comments

Doom on a modified rotary phone(tamulaitis.lt)

111 points by stankot 2 years ago | 34 comments

Google Cloud files complaint due to Microsoft's anti-competitive licensing(cloud.google.com)

108 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 56 comments

No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)(blog.aktsbot.in)

107 points by Flex247A 2 years ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Fast and Exact Algorithm for Image Merging(github.com)

106 points by C-Naoki 2 years ago | 30 comments

System Intiative is generally available(systeminit.com)

102 points by jen20 2 years ago | 65 comments

Awala: The computer network on which humankind can rely(awala.network)

100 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 41 comments

New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations(thedesk.net)

97 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 32 comments

FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records(fred.org.nz)

96 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 8 comments

Capstone Disassembler Framework(github.com)

84 points by xvilka 2 years ago | 27 comments

Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game "Carmageddon" (2023)(github.com)

83 points by skibz 2 years ago | 31 comments

Go and my realization about what I'll call the 'Promises' pattern(utcc.utoronto.ca)

79 points by ingve 2 years ago | 55 comments

XBill for PalmOS receives an update after 25 years(ctrl-c.club)

76 points by zdw 2 years ago | 5 comments

X11-Basic (1991-2020)(x11-basic.sourceforge.net)

75 points by akkartik 2 years ago | 19 comments

Operator algebras and the substructure of space and time(quantamagazine.org)

74 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 18 comments

Scheduling threads like Thomas Jefferson(stevana.github.io)

74 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 24 comments

My Experience Getting Licensed in Ham Radio (2020)(beckystern.com)

73 points by nativeit 2 years ago | 34 comments

Firefox tracks you with "privacy preserving" feature(noyb.eu)

71 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 51 comments

Hunting for Gems: How Ruby's package management system evolved(railsexplained.com)

67 points by greytape 2 years ago | 15 comments

Unplanned exposure during diving in the spent nuclear fuel pool (2011)(isoe-network.net)

63 points by marcodiego 2 years ago | 48 comments

Paramotorists soar across remote Peru desert to collect threatened plants(phys.org)

62 points by wglb 2 years ago | 24 comments

A Brief History of Microprogramming (2022)(people.computing.clemson.edu)

58 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 6 comments

Overbooking – how providers divide up the bandwidth(blog.init7.net)

55 points by sschueller 2 years ago | 39 comments

OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look(techcrunch.com)

49 points by XavierShaw 2 years ago | 36 comments

Scientific rigor proponents retract paper on benefits of scientific rigor(science.org)

49 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 39 comments

Science-based games and explorable explanations(p.migdal.pl)

49 points by stared 2 years ago | 6 comments

JabRef – Literature Management(jabref.org)

49 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 24 comments

Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training(hetzner.com)

48 points by rene_d 2 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: Test your website on 180+ device viewports (with multi-device mode)(viewport-tester.com)

47 points by onassar 2 years ago | 39 comments

How I Built My Blog(joshwcomeau.com)

47 points by soheilpro 2 years ago | 24 comments

Social Web Foundation launches, supported by Vivaldi(vivaldi.com)

47 points by ZacnyLos 2 years ago | 36 comments

As IBM pushes for automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff(theregister.com)

47 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 38 comments

Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915(loc.gov)

46 points by NaOH 2 years ago | 8 comments

A new semantic chunking approach for RAG(gpt3experiments.substack.com)

46 points by nutanc 2 years ago | 17 comments

MIMO: Controllable Character Video Synthesis with Spatial Decomposed Modeling(menyifang.github.io)

46 points by CrypticShift 2 years ago | 8 comments

Reconductoring: Boosting U.S. Grid Capacity Efficiently(spectrum.ieee.org)

45 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 26 comments