Hacker News on Sunday, 1 December 2024

Advent of Code 2024(adventofcode.com)

1271 points by thinkingemote 1 year ago | 502 comments

The About page for Advent of Code 2024, an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles solvable in any language, with general tips for participants.

Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines(markwhen.com)

779 points by koch 1 year ago | 82 comments

Homepage for Markwhen, a markdown-like journal language for writing timelines, logs, gantt charts, calendars and other time-based notes, with an interactive syntax demo.

Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?

443 points by prathameshgh 1 year ago | 272 comments

Ask HN post from a new-graduate data engineer acting as tech lead at a non-tech oil company, asking how to grow without senior engineers to learn from.

Sitters and Standers(pudding.cool)

398 points by feross 1 year ago | 216 comments

An interactive visual essay from The Pudding by Alvin Chang titled "sitters and standers," with an option to watch a video version.

What will enter the public domain in 2025?(publicdomainreview.org)

373 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 297 comments

The Public Domain Review's festive countdown feature highlighting notable works whose copyright expires and that enter the public domain in 2025.

Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%(bilbof.com)

335 points by BillFranklin 1 year ago | 186 comments

Blog post by Bill Franklin describing moving Kubernetes infrastructure to Hetzner and cutting hosting costs by about 75%.

Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana(tokyocowboy.co)

272 points by neom 1 year ago | 42 comments

Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models(arxiv.org)

232 points by reqo 1 year ago | 96 comments

Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip(twitter.com)

222 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 145 comments

How to Study Mathematics (2017)(math.uh.edu)

219 points by ayoisaiah 1 year ago | 88 comments

Gene behind orange fur in cats(science.org)

214 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 121 comments

OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt(sfconservancy.org)

205 points by m463 1 year ago | 93 comments

Kyawthuite is so rare it's only ever been found once(sciencealert.com)

191 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 68 comments

Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain(theguardian.com)

188 points by a_w 1 year ago | 197 comments

Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images(news.utexas.edu)

174 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 49 comments

Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code(retrogamecoders.com)

173 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 32 comments

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain(openread.academy)

144 points by cryptozeus 1 year ago | 91 comments

Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017)(cadlag.org)

140 points by luu 1 year ago | 25 comments

Category Theory in Programming(docs.racket-lang.org)

137 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 56 comments

Map UI – Ghost in the Shell(ilikeinterfaces.com)

132 points by aspenmayer 1 year ago | 58 comments

DynaSaur: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions(arxiv.org)

119 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 28 comments

1/0 = 0 (2018)(hillelwayne.com)

117 points by revskill 1 year ago | 182 comments

Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres(oscilloscopemusic.com)

116 points by webmaven 1 year ago | 18 comments

Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood(asimov.press)

114 points by ctoth 1 year ago | 55 comments

The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)(arxiv.org)

113 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 92 comments

Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M(robertsspaceindustries.com)

111 points by haunter 1 year ago | 146 comments

OrioleDB beta7: Benchmarks(orioledb.com)

107 points by oliverrice 1 year ago | 12 comments

Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler(jeremycarterau.substack.com)

98 points by jeremycarter 1 year ago | 38 comments

Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons(betterschooling.in)

90 points by ChaitanyaSai 1 year ago | 82 comments

'Maya blue': The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost(aljazeera.com)

84 points by Qem 1 year ago | 20 comments

Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)(deadreckonings.com)

78 points by joebig 1 year ago | 24 comments

The Color of Noise (2014)(caseymuratori.com)

72 points by ekzhang 1 year ago | 11 comments

A Science of Concurrent Programs (final draft)(lamport.azurewebsites.net)

66 points by lateforwork 1 year ago | 1 comments

IBM RISC System/6000 Family(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

65 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 42 comments

Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month(bleepingcomputer.com)

63 points by woldemariam 1 year ago | 93 comments

2M MPH galaxy smash-up seen in unprecedented detail(phys.org)

59 points by wglb 1 year ago | 22 comments

The Sperry Rand Corporation(abortretry.fail)

59 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 26 comments

A Year of WordHopper – Modern DOS Game Development Retrospective(kokoscript.com)

57 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 1 comments

A made-up name is better than no name(mbuffett.com)

55 points by marcusbuffett 1 year ago | 66 comments

Ampere WS-1 Japanese APL Clamtop(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

53 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 6 comments

Canon ships its first nanoprint lithography machine, rivals ASML(datacenterdynamics.com)

51 points by mgh2 1 year ago | 18 comments

Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [video](youtube.com)

49 points by mxschumacher 1 year ago | 38 comments

The Salvadoran government has 5,940 bitcoins worth $582M(lanoticiasv.com)

48 points by mistrial9 1 year ago | 48 comments

Show HN: Glyph3D – A 3D text visualizer for macOS and iOS / iPadOS(github.com)

46 points by tikimcfee 1 year ago | 19 comments

RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama(kristoff.it)

46 points by Eavolution 1 year ago | 54 comments

All Here founder's arrest shows it's easy for startups to scam investors(axios.com)

45 points by uladzislau 1 year ago | 37 comments

Nucleotide Transformer: building robust foundation models for human genomics(nature.com)

44 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 7 comments

Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia (2018)(medium.com)

43 points by tosh 1 year ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends(github.com)

43 points by Pringled 1 year ago | 8 comments

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to 10.4%, Just Below Worst of GFC Meltdown(wolfstreet.com)

41 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 7 comments

UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale(eurogamer.net)

34 points by healsdata 1 year ago | 36 comments

Controlling AI's Growing Energy Needs(cacm.acm.org)

32 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 37 comments

Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine)(bfcm.stripe.com)

32 points by oli5679 1 year ago | 19 comments

Fucking Tired of AI

32 points by akaTrickster 1 year ago | 19 comments

Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)(avi.im)

31 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 21 comments

The Surprising New History of Horse Domestication(scientificamerican.com)

29 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 18 comments

Turning bogs from wastelands to nature-scapes(worldsensorium.com)

29 points by dnetesn 1 year ago | 8 comments

Smaller Satellite Images(tech.marksblogg.com)

28 points by marklit 1 year ago | 5 comments

First new asthma attack treatment in 50 years(bbc.com)

26 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 8 comments

Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified(gamingonlinux.com)

22 points by WhyNotHugo 1 year ago | 5 comments