Monday, April 22, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
431 by zdw | 140 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Generate a YouTube Embed for GitHub

Generate a YouTube Embed for GitHub
1105 by hashimindie | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Generate a YouTube Embed for GitHub

Generate a YouTube Embed for GitHub
815 by hashimindie | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
406 by zdw | 118 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I should have loved biology (2020)

I should have loved biology (2020)
626 by paulgb | 206 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I should have loved biology (2020)

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


Thursday, April 18, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Mixtral 8x22B

Mixtral 8x22B
501 by meetpateltech | 236 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?

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


New best story on Hacker News: Meta Llama 3

Meta Llama 3
744 by bratao | 289 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
608 by tobr | 219 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
553 by tobr | 191 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer

Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
512 by bryantwolf | 145 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, April 15, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Redis re-implemented with SQLite

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


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: PostgreSQL index advisor

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/Sz1mBA9... [1] https://ift.tt/YIer6Tj

New best story on Hacker News: The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes

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


New best story on Hacker News: XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

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


New best story on Hacker News: Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]

Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
527 by rohitpaulk | 81 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]

Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
509 by rohitpaulk | 68 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, April 11, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD

Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
519 by 00702 | 98 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 obvious once you've figured them out! Oh, I love creating GUIs for sensor data and visualizations as you'll see -- it's such a game changer! pyqtgraph is my go-to at the moment - such a great library.

New best story on Hacker News: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem
467 by speckx | 267 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem
449 by speckx | 253 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, April 8, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: What I think about when I edit (2019)

What I think about when I edit (2019)
319 by tarf | 132 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

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


New best story on Hacker News: How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
468 by olieidel | 739 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
452 by olieidel | 714 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces

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


New best story on Hacker News: Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces

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


Saturday, April 6, 2024

New best story on Hacker News: The design philosophy of Great Tables

The design philosophy of Great Tables
493 by randyzwitch | 91 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar

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


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
587 by panqueca | 639 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 deprecated and they should no longer use it. So what sense does it make to have a pipeline automation that implements the use of the deprecated tool? And if it has been deprecated, why would I need to make an adjustment for the automation to be even resilient if no one should be able to use it anymore? So why am I being allocated to work on in such waste of time like it? (WTF???) This makes me wonder, how many people have to work on something that they see no sense in doing at all. So once again, if you're feeling useless, remember that I exist.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
572 by panqueca | 634 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 deprecated and they should no longer use it. So what sense does it make to have a pipeline automation that implements the use of the deprecated tool? And if it has been deprecated, why would I need to make an adjustment for the automation to be even resilient if no one should be able to use it anymore? So why am I being allocated to work on in such waste of time like it? (WTF???) This makes me wonder, how many people have to work on something that they see no sense in doing at all. So once again, if you're feeling useless, remember that I exist.

New best story on Hacker News: I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension

I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension 498 by sebg | 85 comments on Hacker News.