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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures 395 by gballan | 42 comments on Hacker News.

Open Source does not win by being cheaper 419 by thibo_skabgia | 268 comments on Hacker News.

LibrePCB 418 by WallyFunk | 163 comments on Hacker News.

Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms 537 by stefankuehnel | 44 comments on Hacker News.

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted 517 by ColinWright | 224 comments on Hacker News.

Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk 543 by fury999io | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Live near your friends 447 by thenobsta | 375 comments on Hacker News.

WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight 597 by jamesbvaughan | 299 comments on Hacker News.

Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online 495 by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 293 comments on Hacker News.

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses 484 by mfiguiere | 707 comments on Hacker News.

Raspberry Pi 5 539 by chabes | 345 comments on Hacker News.

Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity 449 by luismedel | 163 comments on Hacker News.

Mistral 7B 524 by jasondavies | 342 comments on Hacker News.

Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies 461 by hprotagonist | 162 comments on Hacker News.

A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy 543 by rossant | 272 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM 516 by TrevorSundberg | 114 comments on Hacker News. In the wake of all the Unity nonsense, just wanted to toss the Raverie engine into this mix :) We’re building off a previous engine that we worked on for DigiPen Institute of Technology called the Zero Engine with a similar component based design architecture to Unity. Our engine had a unique feature called Spaces: separate worlds/levels that you can instantiate and run at the same time, which became super useful for creating UI overlays using only game objects, running multiple simulations, etc. The lighting and rendering engine is scriptable, and the default deferred rendering implementation is based on the Unreal physically based rendering (PBR) approach. The physics engine was built from the ground up to handle both 2D and 3D physics together. The scripting language was also built in house to be a type safe language that binds to C++ objects and facilitates auto-complete (tr

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity 496 by picture | 387 comments on Hacker News.

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power 516 by marcopolis | 367 comments on Hacker News.

macOS Containers v0.0.1 458 by CiTyBear | 296 comments on Hacker News.

Ian's Shoelace Site 428 by mhb | 53 comments on Hacker News.

Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager 405 by punnerud | 264 comments on Hacker News.

There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org 409 by gslin | 71 comments on Hacker News.

We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT 468 by ladino | 325 comments on Hacker News.

A hacker's guide to language models [video] 417 by rrampage | 27 comments on Hacker News.

Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018) 395 by ghastmaster | 62 comments on Hacker News.

The Frustration Loop 469 by zdw | 140 comments on Hacker News.

Text editing on mobile is an invisible problem no one appreciates 564 by kaftan-permans | 342 comments on Hacker News.

My solopreneur story 520 by alexzeitler | 325 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager 464 by ananthakumaran | 197 comments on Hacker News. I have been using plaintext accounting for some time and had a duct-taped together reporting system. Paisa is my latest attempt at making it usable for others. I am interested in knowing what people normally want to understand about their finances PS: Please avoid editing the demo data. Download and run locally if you want to edit.

Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes 508 by chapulin | 561 comments on Hacker News.

I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser 573 by jaytaph | 323 comments on Hacker News.

Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community 590 by WithinReason | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix 520 by jrepinc | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV 534 by sohkamyung | 229 comments on Hacker News.

Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month 563 by darthShadow | 330 comments on Hacker News.

Cisco Acquires Splunk 518 by siddharthb_ | 274 comments on Hacker News.

UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users 464 by judiisis | 276 comments on Hacker News.

Svelte 5: Runes 422 by benmccann | 338 comments on Hacker News.

My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions 414 by mig4ng | 166 comments on Hacker News. Repository with my filter lists that block some distractions from sites I want to keep using. I am pretty ruthless removing distractions from my life (e.g. no Instagram, Facebook, TikTok), but some tools I'd like to keep using some parts of it. E.g. Twitter/X, I dislike the feed but I like reading some threads that are shared here or on blog posts. Same for YouTube, I enjoy some videos but I do not want recommendations when I finish the video I was watching. Feel free to suggest more, open issues, pull requests or send me an email :)

Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps 402 by samwillis | 118 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, James, Valter, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. We're really excited to be sharing ElectricSQL with you today. It's an open source, local-first sync layer that can be used to build reactive, realtime, offline-capable apps directly on Postgres with two way active-active sync to SQLite (including with WASM in the browser). Electric comprises a sync layer (built with Elixir) placed in front of your Postgres database and a type safe client that allows you to bidirectionally sync data from your Postgres to local SQLite databases. This sync is CRDT-based, resilient to conflicting edits from multiple nodes at the same time, and works after being offline for extended periods. Some good links to get started: - website: https://ift.tt/N4K6PzV - docs: https://ift.tt/BvTMi1S - code: https://ift.tt/QRTjgxt - introducing post: https://ift.tt/7jxVcM

DALL·E 3 541 by davidbarker | 408 comments on Hacker News.

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) 528 by isomorph | 178 comments on Hacker News.

FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones 450 by gok | 377 comments on Hacker News.

We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score 458 by fraXis | 319 comments on Hacker News.

Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) 472 by dvrp | 83 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative 465 by mikeshi42 | 108 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We've been building HyperDX (hyperdx.io). HyperDX allows you to easily search and correlate logs, traces, metrics (alpha), and session replays all in one place. For example, if a user reports a bug “this button doesn't work," an engineer can play back what the user was doing in their browser and trace API calls back to the backend logs for that specific request, all from a single view. Github Repo: https://ift.tt/rRSco6s Coming from an observability nerd background, with Warren being SRE #1 at his last startup and me previously leading dev experience at LogDNA/Mezmo, we knew there were gaps in the existing tools we were used to using. Our previous stack of tools like Bugsnag, LogRocket, and Cloudwatch required us to switch between different tools, correlate timestamps (UTC? local?), and manually cross-check IDs to piece together wh

OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era 429 by xbmcuser | 106 comments on Hacker News.

Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model 497 by nojito | 243 comments on Hacker News.

Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home 465 by todsacerdoti | 60 comments on Hacker News.

Building an economy simulator from scratch 474 by Ruddle | 196 comments on Hacker News.

Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites 596 by boffbowsh | 361 comments on Hacker News.

I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it 560 by robdimarco | 409 comments on Hacker News.

FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker 518 by popey | 330 comments on Hacker News.

My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website 652 by qsantos | 202 comments on Hacker News.

Willingham sends Fables into the public domain 592 by Tomte | 217 comments on Hacker News.

Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming 555 by TMM2K | 523 comments on Hacker News.

PostgreSQL 16 496 by pella | 66 comments on Hacker News.

The Tyranny of the Marginal User 522 by ivee | 286 comments on Hacker News.

Don’t mess with a genius (2010) 462 by wglb | 112 comments on Hacker News.

Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum 445 by kraktoos | 282 comments on Hacker News.

Interactive Map of Linux Kernel 434 by mr_o47 | 31 comments on Hacker News.

Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus 444 by Klaster_1 | 265 comments on Hacker News.

Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working 469 by eptcyka | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Unity plan pricing and packaging updates 445 by aschearer | 500 comments on Hacker News.

Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware 442 by mycall | 282 comments on Hacker News.

Credit card debt collection 432 by got-any-grapes | 179 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? 405 by Zelphyr | 507 comments on Hacker News. I've been a software developer for almost 30 years. I remember using VB back in the 90's and I was thinking about it the other day and it dawned on me; despite all the advances in technology since then, nothing I have found compares to that development experience today. I would go so far as to say we've gone backwards in a big way. Now, I'm no fan of Microsoft products but, I have yet to find a tool that can allow me to be as productive in so short a time as Visual Basic. Yet I can't help wondering what problems it had that caused them to abandon it? Moreover, why hasn't someone come out with a solid replacement?

Fine-tune your own Llama 2 to replace GPT-3.5/4 487 by kcorbitt | 125 comments on Hacker News. There has been a lot of interest on HN in fine-tuning open-source LLMs recently (eg. Anyscale's post at https://ift.tt/LWiKUbx ). I've been playing around with fine-tuning models for a couple of years, and wanted to share some insights and practical code. I’ve condensed what I’ve learned into a small set of notebooks at https://ift.tt/nPCgcO3... , covering labeling data, fine-tuning, running efficient inference, and evaluating costs/performance. The 7B model we train here matches GPT-4’s labels 95% of the time on the test set, and for the 5% of cases where they disagree it’s often because the correct answer is genuinely ambiguous. What is fine-tuning? You can think of it as a more-powerful form of prompting, where instead of writing your instructions in text you actually encode them in the weights of the model itself. You do this by training an existing model on example input/outpu

Death by a Thousand Microservices 391 by thunderbong | 271 comments on Hacker News.

Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022) 383 by nkurz | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads 459 by ed_westin | 331 comments on Hacker News.

Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later 490 by mtlynch | 167 comments on Hacker News.

Nginx Unit – Universal web app server 587 by promiseofbeans | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found 560 by jseliger | 263 comments on Hacker News.

Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla 584 by sandermvanvliet | 296 comments on Hacker News.

Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software 569 by mrkline | 475 comments on Hacker News.

Touch Pianist 563 by thunderbong | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Bun v1.0.0 529 by tuananh | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web 506 by xd1936 | 287 comments on Hacker News.

NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild 547 by ericzawo | 330 comments on Hacker News.

Kagi Small Web 485 by u2077 | 132 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Host a Website in the URL 448 by acidx | 147 comments on Hacker News. I wrote this silly thing a couple of weeks ago. It's absolutely useless but it's a fun tech demo for my web server library. Enjoy!

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare 428 by rntn | 432 comments on Hacker News.

Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs 400 by todsacerdoti | 69 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Puck – Open-source visual editor for React 397 by chrisvxd | 88 comments on Hacker News. Hey hackers, OP here! I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients. Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components. Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved. Puck provides a visual editor for React that can sit on top of your existing headless CMS (or act as standalone). We've been dog-fooding it on a few pages at https://measured.co and on https://wellpaid.io . So far, so good The API is built for React, which allows FE devs to quickly integrate their existing componen

ZFS for Dummies 394 by giis | 150 comments on Hacker News.

Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam 396 by robbiet480 | 196 comments on Hacker News.

OpenTF repository is now public 426 by cube2222 | 145 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates 543 by SimingtonFCC | 173 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone, I’m FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and I’m here to discuss security updates for IoT devices and how you can make a difference by filing comments with the FCC. As you know, serious vulnerabilities are common in IoT, and it often takes too long for these to be patched on end-user devices—if the manufacturer even bothers to release an update, and if the device was even designed to receive them. Companies may cease supporting a device well before consumers have stopped using it. The support period is often not communicated at the time of sale. And sometimes the end of support is not even announced, leaving even informed users unsure whether their devices are still safe. I’ve advocated for the FCC to require device manufacturers to support their devices with security updates for a reasonable amount of time [1]. I can't bring such a proposal

Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999) 420 by resolutebat | 324 comments on Hacker News.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python 379 by vgel | 116 comments on Hacker News.

Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old 368 by CoBE10 | 190 comments on Hacker News.

VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode 397 by Brajeshwar | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023) 375 by whoishiring | 362 comments on Hacker News. Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: try https://ift.tt/HkAdl4K , https://ift.tt/1gZnolK , https://hnhired.fly.dev , https://ift.tt/N3EQHVC , https://ift.tt/AgU1lcX . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/lsNvzQ8 Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/YsPXh98

I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency 436 by taubek | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing 418 by everybodyknows | 228 comments on Hacker News.

The boiling frog of digital freedom 487 by Gazoche | 318 comments on Hacker News.

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge 544 by graypegg | 144 comments on Hacker News.

The worst programmer I know 545 by zdw | 274 comments on Hacker News.

Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web 460 by _Microft | 79 comments on Hacker News.

Doug Lenat has died 442 by snewman | 123 comments on Hacker News.

Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI? 450 by alabhyajindal | 142 comments on Hacker News.

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 431 by iamwil | 252 comments on Hacker News.

Animated Knots 430 by zingerlio | 61 comments on Hacker News.