Hacker News on Saturday, 5 October 2024

It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word(theatlantic.com)

543 points by redwoolf 2 years ago | 428 comments

An Atlantic opinion piece by David Karpf arguing readers should stop taking Sam Altman's claims about AI's future at face value.

Jazz – Apps with Distributed State(jazz.tools)

466 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 162 comments

Homepage of Jazz, an open-source toolkit that replaces APIs, databases, and message queues with synced "Collaborative Values" for building apps with distributed state.

Linux from Scratch(linuxfromscratch.org)

394 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 140 comments

Homepage of Linux From Scratch, a project offering step-by-step instructions for building a custom Linux system from source, with its subprojects listed.

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up(theregister.com)

367 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Register article on Cloudflare defeating patent assertion entity Sable Networks, winning $225K as Sable agrees to stop suing and abandon its patents.

Whence '\n'?(rodarmor.com)

318 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 112 comments

Casey Rodarmor blog post tracing where the 0x0A byte for '\n' comes from in the just command runner's Rust parser, down through the compiler chain.

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin(thetimes.com)

282 points by _tk_ 2 years ago | 108 comments

The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data(datavizcatalogue.com)

260 points by sea-gold 2 years ago | 29 comments

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars(niemanlab.org)

259 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 478 comments

Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)(dfns.dyalog.com)

255 points by secwang 2 years ago | 162 comments

Fuzzing 101(github.com)

246 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 16 comments

Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and took it to the Arctic(github.com)

199 points by ChopSticksPlz 2 years ago | 50 comments

Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git(otterwiki.com)

198 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 56 comments

I Stayed(zeldman.com)

190 points by speckx 2 years ago | 127 comments

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)(righto.com)

188 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 25 comments

Starbase: SQLite on the Edge(starbasedb.com)

150 points by hunvreus 2 years ago | 45 comments

CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)(research.tudelft.nl)

149 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 100 comments

Sailfish Mobile OS(sailfishos.org)

136 points by getwiththeprog 2 years ago | 121 comments

What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)

134 points by squircle 2 years ago | 129 comments

(Re)Using rustc components in gccrs(rust-gcc.github.io)

120 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 19 comments

The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms(vox.com)

120 points by rntn 2 years ago | 98 comments

World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission(nature.com)

110 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 32 comments

Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic(github.com)

109 points by march_happy 2 years ago | 56 comments

Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare(hbr.org)

108 points by RickJWagner 2 years ago | 83 comments

Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision(venturebeat.com)

106 points by bentocorp 2 years ago | 18 comments

A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas(theregister.com)

101 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 23 comments

Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial(arstechnica.com)

97 points by zdw 2 years ago | 126 comments

Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections(medicalxpress.com)

96 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Brisa Framework – Unifying server and client using the Web Platform(brisa.build)

95 points by aralroca 2 years ago | 60 comments

Exploiting DRAM bitflips to get a root shell(bsky.app)

94 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 10 comments

Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements Down to Just Three Years(petapixel.com)

94 points by asimops 2 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $(github.com)

85 points by zq2240 2 years ago | 75 comments

WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)(github.com)

79 points by rob 2 years ago | 29 comments

Quantum Advantage for NP Approximation(scottaaronson.blog)

79 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 31 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

77 points by widenrun 2 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Detect if an audio file was generated by NotebookLM(github.com)

75 points by wenbin 2 years ago | 29 comments

Router Security(routersecurity.org)

72 points by blueridge 2 years ago | 37 comments

Diode Matrix(cca.org)

71 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 24 comments

Arpeggiator Cube(codepen.io)

70 points by memalign 2 years ago | 21 comments

Weird Nonfiction(lareviewofbooks.org)

65 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 19 comments

CERN trains AI models to revolutionize cancer treatment(english.elpais.com)

62 points by geox 2 years ago | 25 comments

Buildroot(buildroot.org)

60 points by jakogut 2 years ago | 25 comments

Making the Web Boring Again(washbear.neocities.org)

60 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 21 comments

Compiling and running sqlite3-rsync from a branch(til.simonwillison.net)

59 points by tosh 2 years ago | 15 comments

Lost 1983 programming language resurrected by retro computing YouTube channel(thenewstack.io)

52 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 23 comments

The First Transistor Radio(spectrum.ieee.org)

52 points by samizdis 2 years ago | 6 comments

Wikidata Is a Giant Crosswalk File(dbreunig.com)

50 points by janvdberg 2 years ago | 2 comments

Unicode shenanigans: Martine écrit en UTF-8(blog.poisson.chat)

46 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 7 comments

The brain has its own microbiome(newscientist.com)

42 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 37 comments

Task-Switching Experiment (2015)(psytoolkit.org)

42 points by dang 2 years ago | 12 comments

King vs. Kubrick: The Origins of Evil (2020)(sensesofcinema.com)

39 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 45 comments

The Brutalist Programming Manifesto(call-with-current-continuation.org)

36 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 33 comments

Forage conservation is a neglected nitrous oxide source(academic.oup.com)

35 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 33 comments

New HBO Documentary Claims Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Len Sassaman(blockhead.co)

34 points by dist-epoch 2 years ago | 12 comments

Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers(arxiv.org)

34 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 31 comments

The deconstructed Standard Model equation(symmetrymagazine.org)

32 points by thorum 2 years ago | 21 comments

Joseph Jastrow and his duck – or is it a rabbit? (2004–2020)(ocf.berkeley.edu)

32 points by dang 2 years ago | 12 comments

Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank(reuters.com)

30 points by arromatic 2 years ago | 35 comments

Show HN: CodeAir – Control VS Code from Your Phone(codeair.app)

27 points by pk97 2 years ago | 3 comments

A quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector(theregister.com)

24 points by rntn 2 years ago | 4 comments

The racist AI deepfake that fooled and divided a community(bbc.co.uk)

23 points by cmsefton 2 years ago | 12 comments