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1.I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350 (dmitry.gr)
700 points by elipsitz on Aug 8, 2024 | 341 comments
2.LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime (github.com/mikex86)
643 points by rrampage on Aug 8, 2024 | 145 comments
3.How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux kernel vulnerability (bughunters.google.com)
268 points by xxmarkuski on Aug 8, 2024 | 65 comments
4.Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out (nightly.mozilla.org)
634 points by ReadCarlBarks on Aug 8, 2024 | 356 comments
5.A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film (jackw01.github.io)
285 points by eloisius on Aug 6, 2024 | 93 comments
6.The Third Atomic Bomb (lflank.wordpress.com)
266 points by dxs on Aug 7, 2024 | 255 comments
7.Eyechat (neal.fun)
268 points by seatac76 on Aug 5, 2024 | 101 comments
8.How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months (figma.com)
298 points by ianvonseggern on Aug 8, 2024 | 385 comments
9.Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
565 points by 45HCPW on Aug 5, 2024 | 594 comments
10.Public Work: a search engine for public domain images (public.work)
364 points by throw0101d on Aug 5, 2024 | 53 comments
11.Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython (codingconfessions.com)
204 points by rbanffy on Aug 8, 2024 | 167 comments
12.How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis (statsignificant.com)
182 points by cainxinth on Aug 8, 2024 | 142 comments
13.NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025 (nytimes.com)
417 points by lode on Aug 7, 2024 | 552 comments
14.The ancient art of roasting agave (atlasobscura.com)
99 points by NoRagrets on Aug 6, 2024 | 21 comments
15.Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II (projectgus.com)
121 points by fanf2 on Aug 5, 2024 | 27 comments
16.Mouse Pong: play a game from mouse's firmware with persistence of vision cursor (github.com/dupontgu)
173 points by gvy-dvpont on Aug 8, 2024 | 26 comments
17.GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1M FPS (arxiv.org)
98 points by jonbaer on Aug 8, 2024 | 10 comments
18.Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers (ft.com)
570 points by ViktorRay on Aug 8, 2024 | 361 comments
19.Maximal min() and max() (lwn.net)
190 points by immibis on Aug 7, 2024 | 114 comments
20.Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative (github.com/stack-auth)
280 points by n2d4 on Aug 8, 2024 | 141 comments
21.Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping (argdown.org)
191 points by urlwolf on Aug 7, 2024 | 47 comments
22.GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments (treatmenteffect.app)
223 points by thoughtpeddler on Aug 7, 2024 | 94 comments
23.FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention (pytorch.org)
210 points by limoce on Aug 8, 2024 | 24 comments
24.In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality (washingtonpost.com)
158 points by Caiero on Aug 7, 2024 | 621 comments
25.The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO (androidauthority.com)
268 points by thunderbong on Aug 6, 2024 | 119 comments
26.RLHF is just barely RL (twitter.com/karpathy)
386 points by tosh on Aug 8, 2024 | 257 comments
27.How to talk to your parents about hardware memory safety (cheriot.org)
112 points by miloignis on Aug 7, 2024 | 40 comments
28.Intel's Immiseration (thechipletter.substack.com)
185 points by rbanffy on Aug 8, 2024 | 218 comments
29.Review – Ford’s First Engine (sites.google.com)
70 points by aebtebeten on Aug 7, 2024 | 14 comments
30.Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate (wired.com)
84 points by mpweiher on Aug 5, 2024 | 29 comments

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