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How video games use lookup tables 527 by todsacerdoti | 96 comments on Hacker News.

The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 525 by jrepinc | 393 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 480 by fgfm | 236 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver 483 by xyc | 205 comments on Hacker News. Hi Hackers, Excited to share a macOS app I've been working on: https://recurse.chat/ for chatting with local AI. While it's amazing that you can run AI models locally quite easily these days (through llama.cpp / llamafile / ollama / llm CLI etc.), I missed feature complete chat interfaces. Tools like LMStudio are super powerful, but there's a learning curve to it. I'd like to hit a middleground of simplicity and customizability for advanced users. Here's what separates RecurseChat out from similar apps: - UX designed for you to use local AI as a daily driver. Zero config setup, supports multi-modal chat, chat with multiple models in the same session, link your own gguf file. - Import ChatGPT history. This is probably my favorite feature. Import your hundreds of messages, search them and even continuing previous chats using local AI offline. - Full text search. Search

U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe 492 by moose_man | 212 comments on Hacker News.

Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu 536 by brandrick | 358 comments on Hacker News.

Apple cancels work on electric car, shifts team to generative AI 467 by coloneltcb | 504 comments on Hacker News.

Airfoil 544 by todsacerdoti | 57 comments on Hacker News.

I turned my open-source project into a full-time business 361 by andris9 | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out 373 by corysama | 121 comments on Hacker News.

Meta's new LLM-based test generator 355 by ben_s | 186 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires 458 by uSoldering | 94 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 446 by LorenDB | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) 615 by stareatgoats | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution 514 by walterbell | 355 comments on Hacker News.

GPT in 500 Lines of SQL 524 by thunderbong | 30 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 | 1084 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] 634 by Jtsummers | 270 comments on Hacker News.

Stable Diffusion 3 644 by reqo | 454 comments on Hacker News.

The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video 610 by simonw | 239 comments on Hacker News.

Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero 718 by pabs3 | 441 comments on Hacker News.

Gemma: New Open Models 562 by meetpateltech | 239 comments on Hacker News.

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames 386 by Josely | 236 comments on Hacker News.

AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer 356 by cebert | 131 comments on Hacker News.

How to make a better default Firefox UI 372 by black7375 | 245 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 518 by beavershaw | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s 514 by tin7in | 352 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML 496 by Kalabasa | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China 440 by wyldfire | 280 comments on Hacker News.

Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi 479 by ilikepi | 323 comments on Hacker News.

Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D 467 by PaulHoule | 250 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 608 by alphabetting | 215 comments on Hacker News.

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder 615 by mtlynch | 207 comments on Hacker News.

Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps 590 by tmcw | 139 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 1.5 601 by todsacerdoti | 391 comments on Hacker News.

Sora: Creating video from text 774 by davidbarker | 397 comments on Hacker News.

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ 509 by MetallicCloud | 436 comments on Hacker News.

Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died 495 by mikhael | 256 comments on Hacker News.

Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork 460 by bkallus | 181 comments on Hacker News.

European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption 507 by robtherobber | 70 comments on Hacker News.

OpenTTD 428 by simonebrunozzi | 95 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial 578 by jgrahamc | 205 comments on Hacker News.

AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: It's Now Open-Source 547 by mfiguiere | 224 comments on Hacker News.

Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents (2021) 492 by todsacerdoti | 140 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 677 by dutchkiwifruit | 127 comments on Hacker News.

How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years 617 by matryer | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret 640 by slyall | 302 comments on Hacker News.

Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat 560 by l0b0 | 356 comments on Hacker News.

Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced 485 by chamoda | 938 comments on Hacker News.

Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy 454 by jacooper | 399 comments on Hacker News.

Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games 473 by sp3n | 356 comments on Hacker News.

FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal 569 by ortusdux | 358 comments on Hacker News.

TSMC to build second Japan chip factory 415 by ytch | 277 comments on Hacker News.

RustPython 431 by BerislavLopac | 156 comments on Hacker News.

The Ladybird browser project 448 by defied | 192 comments on Hacker News.

Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly 448 by notamy | 875 comments on Hacker News.

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

How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014) 492 by tripdout | 86 comments on Hacker News.

The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances 440 by ChrisArchitect | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration 687 by bioballer | 457 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 648 by swatson741 | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Google has another secret browser 629 by matan-h | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro 584 by axxl | 301 comments on Hacker News.

Thanksgiving 2023 security incident 565 by nomaxx117 | 285 comments on Hacker News.

My favourite Git commit (2019) 554 by karagenit | 323 comments on Hacker News.

Making a PDF that's larger than Germany 521 by alexwlchan | 96 comments on Hacker News.