LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux(skeptrune.com)

144 points by skeptrune 1 year ago | 66 comments

GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

11 points by srathi 1 year ago | 1 comments

GPS (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

365 points by tkiolp4 3 years ago | 32 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog essay explaining how the Global Positioning System works, including its satellite constellation and positioning math.

Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium(smorgasb.org)

62 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 20 comments

Netscape Meteors(erynwells.me)

369 points by ingve 3 years ago | 108 comments

A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.

Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos(maurycyz.com)

208 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 95 comments

Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?(dovepass.com)

28 points by nimitmehra 6 days ago | 8 comments

Dovepass is a web tool that checks whether a drone can legally and safely fly a given route in San Francisco, considering FAA airspace, parks, buildings, wind and battery.

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?(rivendell.dmitrybrant.com)

544 points by dmitrybrant 1 month ago | 236 comments

Interactive 3D browser simulation of a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, showing length contraction, time dilation, Terrell rotation and Doppler effects.

My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)(rcoh.me)

340 points by skanderbm 2 years ago | 154 comments

A 2018 blog post by Russell Cohen explaining how to find the median of a list in linear time using quickselect and the median-of-medians algorithm.

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings(blog.wilsonl.in)

578 points by wilsonzlin 1 year ago | 97 comments

Wilson Lin's blog post describing how he built a web search engine from scratch in two months using 3 billion neural embeddings.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D(flight-viz.com)

342 points by coolwulf 6 months ago | 63 comments

Interactive web app showing a simulated 3D cockpit view following a live flight (DAL123 near JFK) with altitude, speed, heading and minimap.