Hacker News on Saturday, 9 November 2024

IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine(ironcalc.com)

658 points by kaathewise 1 year ago | 203 comments

Landing page for IronCalc, an open-source spreadsheet engine and application with links to try it and read the docs.

OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models(opencoder-llm.github.io)

573 points by pil0u 1 year ago | 71 comments

arXiv paper introducing OpenCoder, an open code LLM released with its training data, data pipeline, and protocols as an open cookbook for research.

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab(nature.com)

570 points by dataminer 1 year ago | 198 comments

Nature news article about virologist Beata Halassy, who treated her own breast cancer with lab-grown oncolytic viruses, and researchers' warnings against copying her.

Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git(mergiraf.org)

394 points by p4bl0 1 year ago | 81 comments

Documentation homepage for Mergiraf, a syntax-aware Git merge driver that resolves merge conflicts using knowledge of language syntax trees.

Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI(github.com)

325 points by JohannesKauf 1 year ago | 47 comments

GitHub repository for html-to-markdown v2, a Go library and CLI that converts HTML, including entire websites, into Markdown with extensible rules.

NYC Subway Station Layouts(projectsubwaynyc.com)

310 points by gregsadetsky 1 year ago | 102 comments

Grim Fandango(filfre.net)

280 points by cybersoyuz 1 year ago | 96 comments

Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler(github.com)

264 points by drogus 1 year ago | 98 comments

When machine learning tells the wrong story(jackcook.com)

248 points by jackcook 1 year ago | 25 comments

Texture-Less Text Rendering(poniesandlight.co.uk)

207 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 51 comments

Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds(medicalxpress.com)

205 points by vivekd 1 year ago | 95 comments

Show HN: Visprex – Open-source, in-browser data visualisation tool for CSV files(docs.visprex.com)

176 points by kengoa 1 year ago | 24 comments

SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup(hanlab.mit.edu)

167 points by lmxyy 1 year ago | 56 comments

You too can write a book(parentheticallyspeaking.org)

161 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 58 comments

FrontierMath: A benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI(epochai.org)

158 points by sshroot 1 year ago | 86 comments

Somebody moved the UK's oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who(bbc.co.uk)

153 points by mindracer 1 year ago | 83 comments

Argentinian Farmer Finds Family of 20k-Year-Old Car-Sized Armadillos(allthatsinteresting.com)

147 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 67 comments

The number given as % CPU in Activity Monitor(eclecticlight.co)

140 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 30 comments

Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them(cell.com)

138 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 69 comments

How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe(shopify.engineering)

138 points by dcas 1 year ago | 16 comments

Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks(brooksblog.bearblog.dev)

122 points by lukastyrychtr 1 year ago | 76 comments

Early Cascade Injection: From Windows process creation to stealthy injection(outflank.nl)

113 points by wsintra2022 1 year ago | 12 comments

Diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms(gonzoml.substack.com)

106 points by che_shr_cat 1 year ago | 20 comments

My simple knowledge management and time tracking system(henrikwarne.com)

100 points by henrik_w 1 year ago | 25 comments

Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator(twitter.com)

98 points by greatgib 1 year ago | 28 comments

SQLite does not do checksums(avi.im)

96 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 68 comments

Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you?

84 points by rupi 1 year ago | 72 comments

Following up "Mother of all Htmx demos"(david.guillot.me)

69 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 9 comments

Moore Curve Voronoi Animation(bleuje.com)

64 points by diginova 1 year ago | 8 comments

NASA Remains Silent on Why Crew Went to Hospital After Dragon Splashdown(gizmodo.com)

60 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 45 comments

SQLite is not a single connection database(igorstechnoclub.com)

57 points by Igor_Wiwi 1 year ago | 20 comments

The Taming of the Screw (2000)(americanhistory.si.edu)

50 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 8 comments

Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere (2012) [pdf](lss.fnal.gov)

50 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 8 comments

Drone Relative Positioning(matthew-bird.com)

49 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 12 comments

Maxun: Open-Source No-Code Web Data Extraction Platform(github.com)

48 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 6 comments

There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring(owlposting.com)

48 points by abhishaike 1 year ago | 39 comments

Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor(blog.torproject.org)

42 points by 0xggus 1 year ago | 5 comments

Cornish monument is 4k years older than was thought and 'without parallel'(theguardian.com)

41 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 8 comments

When you ask ChatGPT "Tell me a story" it's always is about a girl named Elara(old.reddit.com)

40 points by throwaway89201 1 year ago | 33 comments

Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space(theguardian.com)

38 points by mindracer 1 year ago | 36 comments

A Random Walk Through Ada (2014)(cowlark.com)

35 points by okl 1 year ago | 4 comments

Ticker Tape Synesthesia(thesynesthesiatree.com)

29 points by daverol 1 year ago | 13 comments

The Median Researcher Problem(lesswrong.com)

27 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 17 comments

20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft'(news.slashdot.org)

24 points by MilnerRoute 1 year ago | 8 comments

With AI, the future of augmented reality is in your ears(crazystupidtech.com)

23 points by rmason 1 year ago | 17 comments

Maritime Signal Flags in HTML/CSS(icsincss.tomerlichtash.com)

18 points by cassiepaper 1 year ago | 2 comments

SCIM: System for Cross-Domain Identity Management(scim.cloud)

17 points by stefankuehnel 1 year ago | 1 comments

Cache Directory Tagging Specification (2004)(bford.info)

16 points by networked 1 year ago | 6 comments

Following Wyoming Example, Feds Limit Foreign Crypto Mines Near Military Bases(cowboystatedaily.com)

14 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 3 comments

The History of PC Audio(thejpster.org.uk)

14 points by lapnect 1 year ago | 6 comments

Among unmarried adults, women without children have as much wealth as single men(pewresearch.org)

12 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 2 comments

A brief history of privacy protection on Macs(eclecticlight.co)

12 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 0 comments

Australia to ban under-16s from social media – but can't say how TikTok(theguardian.com)

11 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 4 comments

Branching Beyond Leonardo: The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory(worldsensorium.com)

10 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 0 comments

How a neuron learns(qtnx.ai)

8 points by KeyurRamoliya 1 year ago | 0 comments

Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson's View of Reality Came to Be(lithub.com)

7 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 0 comments

Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896)(publicdomainreview.org)

4 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 0 comments

Study reveals superbug MRSA's double defense against antibiotics(phys.org)

4 points by gmays 1 year ago | 0 comments