Hacker News on Tuesday, 19 November 2024

OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles(tech.marksblogg.com)

444 points by marklit 1 year ago | 142 comments

Mark Litwintschik's blog post examining OpenStreetMap's new vector tiles, which supplement its long-standing pre-rendered raster PNG tiles.

Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference(cerebras.ai)

404 points by benchmarkist 1 year ago | 130 comments

Cerebras blog post announcing that Llama 3.1 405B runs at 969 tokens per second on its Cerebras Inference service.

Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data(nianticlabs.com)

403 points by bookstore-romeo 1 year ago | 305 comments

Niantic blog post announcing its Large Geospatial Model, built from scans collected via Pokémon Go and other apps for visual positioning and spatial understanding.

Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023)(researchgate.net)

380 points by seanhunter 1 year ago | 179 comments

ResearchGate listing for a 2023 paper reporting evidence from 350,757 coin flips that fair coins tend to land on the same side they started.

Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)(rachit.pl)

364 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 201 comments

A satirical 2022 essay in letter form telling developers that their ad-hoc string-mangling and AST-hacking prototypes have become an unplanned compiler.

Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera(apps.apple.com)

306 points by yunyu 1 year ago | 110 comments

When did estimates turn into deadlines?(domainanalysis.io)

263 points by alexzeitler 1 year ago | 183 comments

SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing(twitter.com)

247 points by alach11 1 year ago | 356 comments

Why I hate the index finger (1980)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

242 points by consumer451 1 year ago | 94 comments

Using Erlang hot code updates(underjord.io)

240 points by lawik 1 year ago | 46 comments

Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible(maslowcnc.com)

221 points by mdaniel 1 year ago | 78 comments

Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023)(chernando.com)

209 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 48 comments

Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork(github.com)

208 points by amarsahinovic 1 year ago | 69 comments

Which power plant does my electricity come from?(practical.engineering)

192 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 99 comments

Using GPS in the Year 1565(verbeeld.be)

191 points by lapnect 1 year ago | 29 comments

Rats learned to drive(theconversation.com)

186 points by uprootdev 1 year ago | 81 comments

The Data Engineering Handbook(github.com)

173 points by matthewhefferon 1 year ago | 15 comments

Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday(arthur-johnston.com)

168 points by RyeCombinator 1 year ago | 164 comments

Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg(semiengineering.com)

163 points by yatrios 1 year ago | 90 comments

Using uv with PyTorch(docs.astral.sh)

156 points by charliermarsh 1 year ago | 44 comments

Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022)(dougallj.wordpress.com)

139 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 56 comments

Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table(github.com)

136 points by frectonz 1 year ago | 92 comments

A Walk with LuaJIT(polarsignals.com)

120 points by damir 1 year ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Rust library for numerical integration of real-valued functions(github.com)

118 points by mtantaoui 1 year ago | 41 comments

Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)(vox.com)

117 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 68 comments

OCaml Syntax Sucks (2016)(xahlee.info)

114 points by Qem 1 year ago | 105 comments

How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail(obrhubr.org)

113 points by xlinux 1 year ago | 31 comments

The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future(the-analog-thing.org)

103 points by cgeier 1 year ago | 27 comments

A silly science prize changed my career(nature.com)

93 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 12 comments

A 132-Year-Old Message in a Bottle in a Scottish Lighthouse(nytimes.com)

93 points by pepys 1 year ago | 49 comments

Three hundred words you can spell on a calculator [pdf](mathsquad.com)

92 points by eightturn 1 year ago | 34 comments

Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail(tomshardware.com)

88 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 34 comments

Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences(github.com)

79 points by linsomniac 1 year ago | 27 comments

FLTK 1.4 Released(fltk.org)

77 points by mappu 1 year ago | 22 comments

Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)(spacex.com)

71 points by grecy 1 year ago | 35 comments

A subtle layout bug in Google Search: When CJK text-wrapping meets float(likang.dev)

70 points by kang_li 1 year ago | 19 comments

El Capitan: New supercomputer is the fastest(spectrum.ieee.org)

70 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 83 comments

A C++ Mixin System(jennyjams.net)

67 points by luu 1 year ago | 32 comments

Cryptographic Calculator(zka.lc)

65 points by altro 1 year ago | 2 comments

Hyrumtoken: A Go package to encrypt pagination tokens(github.com)

63 points by noleary 1 year ago | 39 comments

Prusa CORE One: Our new fully-enclosed CoreXY 3D printer(blog.prusa3d.com)

59 points by hactually 1 year ago | 14 comments

The Physics of Butterfly Wings(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

58 points by boringg 1 year ago | 11 comments

Hong Kong Jails Benny Tai for 10 Years in Longest Security Law Sentence(bloomberg.com)

57 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 7 comments

Red Hat and Microsoft Bringing RHEL to WSL(phoronix.com)

54 points by mikece 1 year ago | 29 comments

PyTorch 101: Understanding Graphs, Automatic Differentiation and Autograd(digitalocean.com)

52 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 2 comments

Important information to all residents of Sweden – In case of crisis or war [pdf](rib.msb.se)

47 points by sndean 1 year ago | 7 comments

Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money(torrentfreak.com)

45 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 22 comments

Joint Declaration by Ministers of Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, UK(auswaertiges-amt.de)

44 points by consumer451 1 year ago | 18 comments

The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost(newstatesman.com)

44 points by drdee 1 year ago | 14 comments

Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn(cnn.com)

44 points by RyeCombinator 1 year ago | 27 comments

Creating Your Own Programming Language – Laurence Tratt [video](youtube.com)

44 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 3 comments

Software-defined (Internet) radio with Liquidsoap (2023)(blog.yossarian.net)

42 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 8 comments

Minecraft enters real world with $110M global theme park deal(theguardian.com)

41 points by sandebert 1 year ago | 23 comments

Bluesky just crossed 20M users(bsky-users.theo.io)

39 points by Philpax 1 year ago | 7 comments

Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan(www3.nhk.or.jp)

38 points by lando2319 1 year ago | 54 comments

Austen and Darwin converged on the question of beauty(aeon.co)

37 points by gmays 1 year ago | 5 comments

Large-Scale Dimension Reduction with Both Global and Local Structure (2021) [pdf](jmlr.org)

35 points by chaosprint 1 year ago | 6 comments

The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles(caneuro.github.io)

31 points by Borrible 1 year ago | 17 comments

Is Python That Slow?(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

30 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 39 comments

Batched reward model inference and Best-of-N sampling(raw.sh)

29 points by rawsh 1 year ago | 0 comments