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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 538 by stefankuehnel | 44 comments on Hacker News.

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted 524 by ColinWright | 226 comments on Hacker News.

Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk 417 by fury999io | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine? 418 by segfaultbuserr | 99 comments on Hacker News.

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

WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight 602 by jamesbvaughan | 301 comments on Hacker News.

Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online 486 by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 286 comments on Hacker News.

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses 486 by mfiguiere | 707 comments on Hacker News.

Raspberry Pi 5 476 by chabes | 305 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 533 by jasondavies | 350 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 550 by rossant | 275 comments on Hacker News.

Первый в истории Глобальный доклад о коррупции в спорте указывает на острую необходимость принятия единых международных мер реагирования на коррупцию в спорте Published September 27, 2023 at 11:56PM Read more at unodc.org

Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM 517 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 508 by picture | 396 comments on Hacker News.

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power 522 by marcopolis | 378 comments on Hacker News.

macOS Containers v0.0.1 460 by CiTyBear | 296 comments on Hacker News.

Ian's Shoelace Site 429 by mhb | 53 comments on Hacker News.

Unity's oldest community announces dissolution 427 by Morizero | 283 comments on Hacker News.

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

The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression 397 by myshpa | 839 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic 484 by jedwhite | 238 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 472 by ladino | 329 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) 397 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 570 by kaftan-permans | 346 comments on Hacker News.

My solopreneur story 524 by alexzeitler | 328 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager 467 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.

Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study 450 by wglb | 446 comments on Hacker News.

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 585 by jaytaph | 327 comments on Hacker News.

Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community 598 by WithinReason | 164 comments on Hacker News.

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

Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month 571 by darthShadow | 336 comments on Hacker News.

Cisco Acquires Splunk 533 by siddharthb_ | 280 comments on Hacker News.

UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users 467 by judiisis | 280 comments on Hacker News.

Progress on peace, justice and inclusion dangerously off track – a new UN report calls for urgent action to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 16 Published September 22, 2023 at 02:30AM Read more at unodc.org

Svelte 5: Runes 423 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 404 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/2V8Gg4m - docs: https://ift.tt/d4PbmlC - code: https://ift.tt/273pcKW - introducing post: https://ift.tt/VYG26o...

DALL·E 3 544 by davidbarker | 415 comments on Hacker News.

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) 538 by isomorph | 184 comments on Hacker News.

FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones 452 by gok | 379 comments on Hacker News.

We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score 460 by fraXis | 319 comments on Hacker News.

Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) 476 by dvrp | 85 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative 467 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/0imfIpW 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 431 by xbmcuser | 106 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 | 410 comments on Hacker News.

FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker 519 by popey | 330 comments on Hacker News.

My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website 657 by qsantos | 203 comments on Hacker News.

Willingham sends Fables into the public domain 594 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.

Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes 509 by agluszak | 131 comments on Hacker News.

PostgreSQL 16 489 by pella | 66 comments on Hacker News.

The Tyranny of the Marginal User 530 by ivee | 294 comments on Hacker News.

Don’t mess with a genius (2010) 445 by wglb | 108 comments on Hacker News.

Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum 437 by kraktoos | 275 comments on Hacker News.

Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus 446 by Klaster_1 | 265 comments on Hacker News.

Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working 413 by eptcyka | 88 comments on Hacker News.

LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua 432 by rapnie | 128 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 450 by mycall | 286 comments on Hacker News.

Credit card debt collection 434 by got-any-grapes | 181 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-3.5/4 491 by kcorbitt | 126 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/kKT3bsh ). 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/aTuNFU9... , 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 399 by thunderbong | 271 comments on Hacker News.

UK air traffic control meltdown 395 by jameshh | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) 432 by sathishmanohar | 262 comments on Hacker News.

Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather 365 by myshpa | 501 comments on Hacker News.

Memories from old LAN parties 451 by ecliptik | 252 comments on Hacker News.

Every type of plastic used by LEGO (2022) 383 by nkurz | 116 comments on Hacker News.

Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads 459 by ed_westin | 335 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 589 by promiseofbeans | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found 562 by jseliger | 264 comments on Hacker News.

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

UNODC: Methamphetamine trafficking in and around Afghanistan expanding rapidly as heroin trade slows Published September 10, 2023 at 10:17AM Read more at unodc.org

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

Touch Pianist 564 by thunderbong | 181 comments on Hacker News.

Bun v1.0.0 535 by tuananh | 182 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 561 by ericzawo | 342 comments on Hacker News.

Kagi Small Web 485 by u2077 | 133 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!

U.K. abandons, for now, legislation that would have banned end-to-end encryption 507 by alwillis | 126 comments on Hacker News.

Is this Duplo train track under too much tension? 455 by robin_reala | 85 comments on Hacker News.

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare 434 by rntn | 440 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 | 90 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.

OpenTF repository is now public 429 by cube2222 | 149 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates 577 by SimingtonFCC | 184 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) 422 by resolutebat | 326 comments on Hacker News.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python 385 by vgel | 117 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 398 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/9M4Pu8t , https://ift.tt/Ukxs9qW , https://hnhired.fly.dev , https://ift.tt/BrAvECM , https://ift.tt/beFNm0Z . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/ULlSp3m Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/8fCJzqn

I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency 437 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 489 by Gazoche | 319 comments on Hacker News.

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge 546 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 467 by _Microft | 80 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 433 by zingerlio | 62 comments on Hacker News.