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posted on Wed Dec 07 14:50:40 UTC 2022 by TangerineDream | view on HN
The article discusses how Blender can be used to create 3D images and how it is a free and open source software.
posted on Wed Dec 07 12:57:58 UTC 2022 by thecosmicfrog | view on HN
posted on Wed Dec 07 15:10:25 UTC 2022 by pclmulqdq | view on HN
This article is about abstraction misalignment, and how it can lead to costly problems in a computer system.
Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth
posted on Mon Dec 05 15:33:18 UTC 2022 by wglb | view on HN
The article is about a team of astronomers from NASA, Caltech, and MIT who have discovered the brightest and farthest "tidal disruption event" (TDE) ever observed.
I don’t want to be an internet person
posted on Wed Dec 07 10:22:03 UTC 2022 by chippy | view on HN
The article is about how internet culture is increasingly spilling out into the real world, and how people who are "extremely online" are often difficult to communicate with in person.
Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
posted on Wed Dec 07 14:51:09 UTC 2022 by 9dev | view on HN
Dora: A open-source Rust DHCP Server
posted on Wed Dec 07 15:10:57 UTC 2022 by ckdarby | view on HN
The article discusses the DHCP server written in Rust using tokio, which is built on the library and . It explains the features of the server and how to install and run it.
Elixir – HUGE Release Coming Soon
posted on Wed Dec 07 14:29:40 UTC 2022 by gregors | view on HN
posted on Wed Dec 07 14:56:19 UTC 2022 by subomi | view on HN
The article discusses how to set up a app with SQLite and Go, with code that is production-ready and best-practice.
posted on Wed Dec 07 15:53:48 UTC 2022 by jbredeche | view on HN
The CEO of Plaid announces that they are reducing their team size by 260 people and outlines how the process will work.
Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
posted on Tue Dec 06 10:46:25 UTC 2022 by ggerganov | view on HN
The entire implementation of the OpenAI Whisper automatic speech recognition model is contained in 2 source files, written in C and C++. The model is optimized for Apple silicon CPUs and can be run on various platforms, including Mac OS, iOS, Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi, and Android.
In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015)
posted on Wed Dec 07 06:23:18 UTC 2022 by peignoir | view on HN
The article discusses how businesses that own knowledge, like Elsevier, profit off of the free labor of academics and make it difficult for people to access academic research.
Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow
posted on Wed Dec 07 09:59:09 UTC 2022 by ibobev | view on HN
The article discusses an efficient way to find the midpoint of an interval of integers using the 'Warren' method from 'Hacker's Delight'.
The Chinese Civil Examinations
posted on Tue Dec 06 23:08:39 UTC 2022 by onepossibility | view on HN
The article discusses how the Chinese civil service examinations became a symbol of the failure of the Chinese dynastic state and the backwardness of Chinese society to intellectuals.
Why being able to partially distrust a Certificate Authority is good
posted on Wed Dec 07 05:08:03 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN
The article discusses the idea of partially distrusting Certificate Authorities in order to balance the harm caused to people today with the potential harm that could be prevented in the future.
PiinPoint (YC W14) Is Hiring Developers (Remote in Canada)
posted on Wed Dec 07 12:00:07 UTC 2022 by AdamTSaunders | view on HN
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
posted on Wed Dec 07 06:12:03 UTC 2022 by sohkamyung | view on HN
The article discusses the release of the first public Apple Silicon GPU driver and how it is still an alpha driver.
Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory
posted on Wed Dec 07 02:38:06 UTC 2022 by sebastian_z | view on HN
The last 747 rolled out of Boeing's factory north of Seattle.
Memories: First Exposure to Computers
posted on Wed Dec 07 14:09:13 UTC 2022 by furcyd | view on HN
In The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, the legendary former World Chess Champion mentioned his urge—when annotating his earliest games—to stretch out his hand to attach a question mark (indicating an error) to almost every move.
Talk = GPT-2 and Whisper and WASM
posted on Wed Dec 07 08:41:53 UTC 2022 by tomthe | view on HN
The article is discussing whether or not OpenAI will ban people who use workarounds to use the ChatGPT API.
posted on Wed Dec 07 14:30:41 UTC 2022 by mcovalt | view on HN
The article discusses the many improvements made to the Bun JavaScript runtime in its latest update, including increased speed, compatibility, and stability.
I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops
posted on Wed Dec 07 14:08:23 UTC 2022 by jessaustin | view on HN
The article discusses the controversy around the systemd component systemd-oomd, which kills user processes when the system is under memory pressure, and the author's experience with it.
posted on Tue Dec 06 03:14:57 UTC 2022 by voxadam | view on HN
The article discusses how most programming languages were designed, with the exception of C and PHP, and how life is easier when a programming language has only one implementation.
posted on Wed Dec 07 14:28:59 UTC 2022 by nluken | view on HN
This article is about the new ugliness in American architecture, which is characterized by its flatness, grayness, and lack of thought.
posted on Wed Dec 07 11:20:59 UTC 2022 by iluzone | view on HN
The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to continue using twitter.com.
Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [video]
posted on Wed Dec 07 04:19:39 UTC 2022 by bane | view on HN
Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
posted on Wed Dec 07 16:26:42 UTC 2022 by PaulHoule | view on HN
Emacs: Using SQLite as a Data Source
posted on Sun Dec 04 13:25:56 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN
The article discusses the triples package, which is a RDF-like database for storing and retrieving data from SQLite, and how it can be used to build extensible databases.
What does it feel like to do maths? (2016)
posted on Tue Dec 06 22:47:28 UTC 2022 by notagain | view on HN
In an interview, Andrew Wiles discusses what it was like proving Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had been taunting mathematicians for centuries, and what it's like to do maths in general.
Experimentally Inventing a Programming Language Using Chat GPT
posted on Wed Dec 07 15:12:25 UTC 2022 by smallerfish | view on HN
ChatGPT: Okay. me: let’s add an “else” keyword to the “if” keyword. ChatGPT: Okay. me: let’s add a “while” keyword. ChatGPT: Okay. me: let’s add a “for” keyword. ChatGPT: Okay.