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How video games use lookup tables 515 by todsacerdoti | 95 comments on Hacker News.

Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video] 468 by enderfusion | 261 comments on Hacker News.

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing 490 by fgfm | 247 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe 489 by moose_man | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Testcontainers 530 by floriangosse | 201 comments on Hacker News.

Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu 551 by brandrick | 367 comments on Hacker News.

Apple cancels work on electric car, shifts team to generative AI 490 by coloneltcb | 526 comments on Hacker News.

Airfoil 631 by todsacerdoti | 63 comments on Hacker News.

Meta's new LLM-based test generator 356 by ben_s | 186 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires 453 by uSoldering | 92 comments on Hacker News. Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link. Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main concern is that even released as a low-cost purchase, there is a very strong culture to share this type of information at no cost. I would like to have a more sophisticated suggested donation system adaptive to user country, but I wasn't able to find a good solution. In terms of 'good...

Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon 447 by LorenDB | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) 641 by stareatgoats | 208 comments on Hacker News.

Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution 539 by walterbell | 368 comments on Hacker News.

GPT in 500 Lines of SQL 489 by thunderbong | 27 comments on Hacker News.

Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users 471 by rooooob | 451 comments on Hacker News.

Private company landing on the moon today 492 by SigKill9 | 259 comments on Hacker News.

Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues 619 by helsinkiandrew | 1086 comments on Hacker News.

iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol 540 by galad87 | 267 comments on Hacker News.

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] 651 by Jtsummers | 276 comments on Hacker News.

Stable Diffusion 3 665 by reqo | 467 comments on Hacker News.

The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video 575 by simonw | 223 comments on Hacker News.

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud 375 by greghn | 277 comments on Hacker News.

I broke IKEA (2023) 365 by jcurbo | 53 comments on Hacker News.

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames 443 by Josely | 280 comments on Hacker News.

In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022) 392 by Brajeshwar | 290 comments on Hacker News.

The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US 374 by namanyayg | 290 comments on Hacker News.

Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations 511 by beavershaw | 255 comments on Hacker News.

Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s 529 by tin7in | 359 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML 510 by Kalabasa | 131 comments on Hacker News.

Lapce 461 by tosh | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China 437 by wyldfire | 278 comments on Hacker News.

Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi 478 by ilikepi | 322 comments on Hacker News.

Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D 466 by PaulHoule | 249 comments on Hacker News.

Think Python, 3rd Edition 529 by beefman | 118 comments on Hacker News.

Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification 611 by alphabetting | 215 comments on Hacker News.

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder 623 by mtlynch | 210 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed 571 by vincent_s | 250 comments on Hacker News.

Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 563 by todsacerdoti | 379 comments on Hacker News.

Sora: Creating video from text 593 by davidbarker | 266 comments on Hacker News.

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ 514 by MetallicCloud | 441 comments on Hacker News.

Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died 489 by mikhael | 250 comments on Hacker News.

Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork 495 by bkallus | 196 comments on Hacker News.

Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it? 433 by jgrahamc | 182 comments on Hacker News.

Stable Cascade 420 by davidbarker | 88 comments on Hacker News.

Git tips and tricks 406 by ChrisArchitect | 113 comments on Hacker News.

OpenTTD 429 by simonebrunozzi | 95 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial 518 by jgrahamc | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever" 562 by nickthegreek | 296 comments on Hacker News.

I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner 734 by dutchkiwifruit | 139 comments on Hacker News.

How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years 620 by matryer | 167 comments on Hacker News.

Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret 604 by slyall | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat 552 by l0b0 | 355 comments on Hacker News.

Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy 479 by jacooper | 409 comments on Hacker News.

FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal 605 by ortusdux | 389 comments on Hacker News.

VirtualBox KVM Public Release 448 by CyberusTech | 173 comments on Hacker News. For the past few months we have been working hard to provide a fast, reliable and secure KVM backend for VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a multi-platform Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) with a great feature set, support for a wide variety of guest operating systems, and a consistent user interface across different host operating systems. Cyberus Technology’s KVM backend allows VirtualBox to run virtual machines utilizing the Linux KVM hypervisor instead of the custom kernel module used by standard VirtualBox. Today we are announcing the open-source release of our KVM backend for Virtualbox.

Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games 473 by sp3n | 355 comments on Hacker News.

A search engine in 80 lines of Python 447 by alexmolas | 59 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute 462 by junetic | 218 comments on Hacker News. Staring at something for 30-90 seconds has been proven to improve & boost mental focus on subsequent tasks (from Andrew Huberman - https://youtu.be/CrtR12PBKb0?t=3367 ). So I made something simple you can look at (and simultaneously meditate) for 1 minute to improve focus for your next task :) Let me know if it works for you

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement 404 by Tomte | 246 comments on Hacker News.

TSMC to build second Japan chip factory 400 by ytch | 263 comments on Hacker News.

Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token 463 by tplrbv | 85 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code 471 by Timot05 | 246 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! We are the founders of atopile. We’re building a tool to describe electronics with code. Here is a quick demo: https://youtu.be/7-Q0XVpfW3Y Could you imagine the pain of building an entire software product using only assembly code? That’s about how we felt designing hardware. We don’t currently have good ways to describe what we need, reuse existing designs and compile that description down to a product. We started atopile to fix this. atopile is an open-source language and toolchain to describe circuits with code. The compiler is here: https://ift.tt/lAOTBPE Docs are here: https://ift.tt/POHZYmk . For a detailed deep dive designing an ESP32 module, see this video: https://youtu.be/eMWRwZOajdQ We realized this was a problem in our previous jobs. Narayan and I (Tim) had to manually, draw and export all our electronic circuit boards. This lasted until our friend Matt, a software en...

Relativistic Spaceship 460 by thunderbong | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll 502 by amrrs | 69 comments on Hacker News.

How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work? 434 by trashtensor | 250 comments on Hacker News.

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016) 527 by whatever3 | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice 430 by ChrisArchitect | 306 comments on Hacker News.

How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014) 491 by tripdout | 86 comments on Hacker News.

The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances 438 by ChrisArchitect | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration 694 by bioballer | 462 comments on Hacker News.

Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time 679 by Robin89 | 466 comments on Hacker News.

Pandoc 642 by swatson741 | 245 comments on Hacker News.

Google has another secret browser 612 by matan-h | 159 comments on Hacker News.

Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro 601 by axxl | 304 comments on Hacker News.

Thanksgiving 2023 security incident 571 by nomaxx117 | 285 comments on Hacker News.

My favourite Git commit (2019) 553 by karagenit | 321 comments on Hacker News.

Making a PDF that's larger than Germany 532 by alexwlchan | 96 comments on Hacker News.