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93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) 471 by ellieh | 118 comments on Hacker News.

A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949) 525 by CommieBobDole | 144 comments on Hacker News.

Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail 578 by rbanffy | 179 comments on Hacker News.

Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023) 536 by MrVandemar | 204 comments on Hacker News.

Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation 473 by alwillis | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years 503 by darthdeus | 306 comments on Hacker News.

McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting 392 by impish9208 | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Open Sourcing DOS 4 482 by ndiddy | 176 comments on Hacker News.

A useful front-end confetti animation library 435 by blini2077 | 108 comments on Hacker News.

We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services 441 by chadsix | 320 comments on Hacker News.

FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules 479 by throwup238 | 320 comments on Hacker News.

Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights 417 by vyrotek | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest 433 by vyrotek | 908 comments on Hacker News.

Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002) 374 by andsoitis | 54 comments on Hacker News.

ESPHome 440 by kaycebasques | 146 comments on Hacker News.

Phi-3 Technical Report 392 by varunvummadi | 126 comments on Hacker News.

FTC announces rule banning noncompetes 581 by null0ranje | 221 comments on Hacker News.

The man who killed Google Search 650 by elorant | 307 comments on Hacker News.

NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth 457 by jonathankoren | 113 comments on Hacker News.

Meta Horizon OS 448 by ahiknsr | 396 comments on Hacker News.

Generate a YouTube Embed for GitHub 945 by hashimindie | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges 402 by zdw | 115 comments on Hacker News.

Quill v2 – Rich text editor 443 by ulrischa | 96 comments on Hacker News.

I should have loved biology (2020) 618 by paulgb | 203 comments on Hacker News.

Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) 594 by ingve | 230 comments on Hacker News.

Daniel Dennett has died 545 by mellosouls | 255 comments on Hacker News.

How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? 516 by Luc | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Meta Llama 3 725 by bratao | 285 comments on Hacker News.

CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred 553 by Jimmc414 | 234 comments on Hacker News.

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things 537 by tobr | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer 500 by bryantwolf | 143 comments on Hacker News.

Stop Acting Like You're Famous 491 by ashleynewman | 233 comments on Hacker News.

The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet 489 by croes | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation 485 by winstonprivacy | 301 comments on Hacker News.

This is a teenager 488 by gmays | 202 comments on Hacker News.

Redis re-implemented with SQLite 455 by tosh | 115 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: PostgreSQL index advisor 399 by kiwicopple | 95 comments on Hacker News. This is a Postgres extension that can determine if a query should have an index. For example, for this table: create table book( id int primary key, title text not null ); You can run `index_advisor()` to see if there should be an index on a select statement: select * from index_advisor('select book.id from book where title = $1'); And it will return (summarized): {"CREATE INDEX ON public.book USING btree (title)"} It works particularly well with pg_stat_statements[0] which tracks execution statistics of all SQL statements executed on your Postgres database. It leans heavily on HypoPG[1], an excellent extension to determine if PostgreSQL will use a given index without spending resources to create them. [0] pg_stat_statements: https://ift.tt/OrFs6zP... [1] https://ift.tt/i1PxICJ

The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes 426 by rsingel | 311 comments on Hacker News.

XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis 398 by kryster | 248 comments on Hacker News.

Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video] 519 by rohitpaulk | 70 comments on Hacker News.

Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens 470 by lordofmoria | 162 comments on Hacker News.

Obituary for a Quiet Life 449 by conanxin | 101 comments on Hacker News.

The darker side of being a doctor 428 by m-ahmed | 292 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator 441 by zaptrem | 231 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/ Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec ( https://ift.tt/cEml19Q ) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal variational autoencoder bottleneck (along with some other important changes to enable insane compression ratios). This gave us a nice, normally distributed latent space on which to train a diffusion transformer (like Sora). Our diffusion model is also particularly interesting because it is the first audio diffusion model to generate coherent lyrics!

Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P 559 by nikitml | 258 comments on Hacker News.

I Lost Faith in Kagi 561 by Tomte | 492 comments on Hacker News.

An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data 539 by protontypes | 251 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS 535 by geox | 349 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD 543 by 00702 | 100 comments on Hacker News. Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one will ever read. Thanks to an awesome advisor I think I managed to thread the needle between simplicity and functionality. Looking back, the ideas and methods behind it are pretty straightforward, but getting there took some doing. It’s funny how things seem obviou

Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem 440 by speckx | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator 422 by goldemerald | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card 475 by ynoxinul | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS 456 by cluo21 | 127 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! Christine and Steven here. As a PM and engineer, we’ve both evaluated and purchased a lot of software. One of the biggest frustrations was figuring out how much it would cost us without having to go through the sales process. When we did have a quote, we had no idea if we were getting a good deal or ripped off. We built a site where you can see what other companies are actually paying for SaaS and enterprise software. Buyers contribute prices via quotes, pricing proposals, and other documentation to ensure quality. We unlocked Talkdesk for Show HN users so that you can use the product without needing to sign in or upgrade. Check it out at https://ift.tt/XkLAvrI . Would love to hear any feedback, thank you!

Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness 482 by throwup238 | 488 comments on Hacker News.

Beeper acquired by Automattic 406 by Belphemur | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died 413 by angrygoat | 52 comments on Hacker News.

The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics 338 by BirAdam | 358 comments on Hacker News.

How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain 451 by olieidel | 713 comments on Hacker News.

Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces 433 by starkparker | 79 comments on Hacker News.

Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar 424 by henrikf | 116 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? 595 by panqueca | 643 comments on Hacker News. If you're feeling useless, remember that I exist. Let me give you some context. I work in the pipeline automation department of a company. Last month, our team decided to deprecate an internal tool due to several maintenance issues. So we created a pipeline that automates the implementation of this legacy tool, in case other teams needed to use it. (WHAT???) This month, a guy in my team found some improvement scenarios in the automation. So I was chosen to implement this changes in this legacy internal tool. The thing is, after I finished the adjustments, my pull requests are not getting approved due to adjustments meticulously requested by this guy in my team. Adjustments to make the pipeline automation even more resilient in complete unlikely scenarios. But this same week, my TL sent notices to all the other teams informing them that this internal tool has been deprecate

Mario meets Pareto 527 by superMayo | 61 comments on Hacker News.

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License 511 by amichail | 194 comments on Hacker News.

German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice 482 by buovjaga | 298 comments on Hacker News.

Anatomy of a credit card rewards program 536 by disgruntledphd2 | 361 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone 470 by nilsherzig | 89 comments on Hacker News. The video demo runs a 7b Model on a normal gaming GPU. I think it already works quite well (accounting for the limited hardware power). :)

Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners 523 by chippy | 214 comments on Hacker News.

'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza 487 by contemporary343 | 418 comments on Hacker News.

A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024 342 by xoneill | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Timeline of the xz open source attack 630 by todsacerdoti | 325 comments on Hacker News.

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining 547 by bonyt | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor 541 by q3k | 302 comments on Hacker News.

Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained 511 by ecliptik | 116 comments on Hacker News.

LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs 541 by lawrencechen | 154 comments on Hacker News.