Hacker News on Friday, 11 October 2024

Working from home is powering productivity(imf.org)

513 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 366 comments

IMF Finance & Development magazine article by Nicholas Bloom (September 2024) arguing that working from home is boosting productivity.

"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"(developer.chrome.com)

462 points by freedomben 2 years ago | 406 comments

Chrome for Developers documentation page outlining the Manifest V2 extension support and phase-out timeline in Chrome.

How long til we're all on Ozempic?(asteriskmag.com)

377 points by thehoff 2 years ago | 1281 comments

An Asterisk Magazine forecast essay by Greg Justice on how long until the 100+ million Americans who could benefit from GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can access them.

$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst(latent.space)

325 points by swyx 2 years ago | 210 comments

Latent Space guest essay by Eugene Cheah on how H100 GPU rental prices fell from about $8/hr to under $2/hr and what caused the bubble to burst.

Lm.rs: Minimal CPU LLM inference in Rust with no dependency(github.com)

301 points by littlestymaar 2 years ago | 75 comments

AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched(chipsandcheese.com)

300 points by zdw 2 years ago | 149 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo(nobelprize.org)

253 points by danielskogly 2 years ago | 324 comments

Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python(gwolf.org)

242 points by levlaz 2 years ago | 61 comments

Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI(github.com)

230 points by mnk47 2 years ago | 88 comments

A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp(ulisp.com)

230 points by chrisjj 2 years ago | 46 comments

Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs(arxiv.org)

219 points by hnhn34 2 years ago | 236 comments

Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably(ryanliptak.com)

205 points by nektro 2 years ago | 19 comments

Tesla Robotaxi(tesla.com)

177 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 394 comments

Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair(cs.yale.edu)

175 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 23 comments

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs(washingtonpost.com)

172 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 125 comments

Initial CUDA Performance Lessons(probablydance.com)

152 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 36 comments

WordPress Alternatives(darn.es)

128 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 82 comments

Fundamental physics is dying? [video](youtube.com)

127 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 173 comments

Nurdle Patrol(nurdlepatrol.org)

125 points by amar-laksh 2 years ago | 38 comments

Gleam: A Basic Introduction(peq42.com)

115 points by Alupis 2 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: I made an Ollama summarizer for Firefox(addons.mozilla.org)

113 points by tcsenpai 2 years ago | 27 comments

Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away(gamesradar.com)

111 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 51 comments

In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)(psychiatrist.com)

110 points by RicoElectrico 2 years ago | 114 comments

Show HN: Dead man's switch without reliance on your infra(github.com)

109 points by adamdecaf 2 years ago | 97 comments

Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app(about.noteshub.app)

102 points by alex-titarenko 2 years ago | 84 comments

New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship(theguardian.com)

102 points by rmason 2 years ago | 39 comments

Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance(erlang-solutions.com)

99 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 34 comments

Remains of an ancient Greek structure found in Croatia(arkeonews.net)

97 points by taubek 2 years ago | 27 comments

Kagi Snaps(help.kagi.com)

95 points by aleksi 2 years ago | 34 comments

INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model(primeintellect.ai)

86 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 32 comments

Transforming Colors with Matrices(lisyarus.github.io)

85 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 10 comments

Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better(darioamodei.com)

84 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: Pocache, preemptive optimistic caching for Go(github.com)

83 points by bnkamalesh 2 years ago | 24 comments

Grokking at the edge of linear separability(arxiv.org)

81 points by marojejian 2 years ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships?

78 points by beadey 2 years ago | 62 comments

LLMs don't do formal reasoning – and that is a HUGE problem(garymarcus.substack.com)

76 points by LgLasagnaModel 2 years ago | 44 comments

Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza(registry.terraform.io)

73 points by freeqaz 2 years ago | 18 comments

Are retrocomputers best left on or off?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

59 points by azeemba 2 years ago | 55 comments

Pepsi’s Soviet Navy (2021)(foreignpolicy.com)

59 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 17 comments

Trying Out a Far Infrared Heated Poster(bentasker.co.uk)

53 points by speckx 2 years ago | 39 comments

Elle's Homepage(ellesho.me)

52 points by martialg 2 years ago | 35 comments

Review: ReMarkable Paper Pro(amandariu.com)

49 points by luu 2 years ago | 28 comments

AP5 - Declarative Programming Library For Common Lisp (1995)(oceanpark.com)

49 points by contrapunctus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Skip Hash: A fast ordered map via software transactional memory(arxiv.org)

47 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 2 comments

Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix(the-dam.org)

46 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 7 comments

A team paid to break into top-secret bases(bbc.com)

45 points by tellarin 2 years ago | 45 comments

Spotify Will Keep Remote Working(edmtunes.com)

43 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 18 comments

AI Winter Is Coming(leehanchung.github.io)

40 points by fzliu 2 years ago | 24 comments

Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why(antiidlereborn.com)

40 points by xy2_ 2 years ago | 3 comments

An Update on Gccrs Development(lwn.net)

38 points by signa11 2 years ago | 12 comments

In a rare disclosure, The Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane(arstechnica.com)

38 points by belter 2 years ago | 37 comments

Shipping Threads in 5 months(infoq.com)

37 points by hn1986 2 years ago | 38 comments

The Surprising Predictability of Long Runs (2012) [pdf](csun.edu)

36 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 10 comments

Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'(theguardian.com)

36 points by ceejayoz 2 years ago | 23 comments

'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem(phys.org)

35 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 16 comments

Making FreeDOS Smaller [video](youtube.com)

33 points by zdw 2 years ago | 9 comments

Optimize the Data Layout(cedardb.com)

32 points by napsterbr 2 years ago | 6 comments

Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only(sciencealert.com)

32 points by mavci 2 years ago | 2 comments

AMD Instinct MI325X to Feature 256GB HBM3E Memory, CDNA4-Based MI355X with 288GB(videocardz.com)

31 points by kristianp 2 years ago | 9 comments

Startup Success: How Founder Personalities Shape Venture Outcomes(business.columbia.edu)

27 points by SamGyamfi 2 years ago | 15 comments