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Journey from Entrepreneur to Employee 14 by vortex_ape | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 110 by simonw | 64 comments on Hacker News.

How Well Do LLMs Generate Code for Different Application Domains? 8 by belter | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11 27 by supermatou | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Breaking NATO Radio Encryption [video] 35 by doener | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Short-Term Rentals Are Hollowing Out Communities with Loose Restrictions 9 by rntn | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Notes on China 27 by admp | 9 comments on Hacker News.

EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force 34 by belter | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Libero – A Programmer's Tool and Code Generator 8 by leonry | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 10 by latexr | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Why history is always political 16 by pepys | 7 comments on Hacker News.

A Simple ELF 38 by signa11 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbaijan E190tragedy 56 by bratao | 15 comments on Hacker News.

Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports 27 by nateb2022 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one? 5 by surprisetalk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think 38 by bilsbie | 19 comments on Hacker News.

I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24 27 by mooreds | 1 comments on Hacker News.

2solitude – Honeywell TPE 331-12 refitted Antonov AN-2 camper 2 by palmfacehn | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack 18 by ramimac | 1 comments on Hacker News.

CodeMic: A New Way to Talk About Code 2 by seansh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

My vote on voting systems 30 by max__dev | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Building Effective "Agents" 20 by jascha_eng | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"? 13 by charles_f | 7 comments Hey, This is a touchy subject, and that might be a lack of awareness or empathy from my part. But trust that it comes from a genuine willingness of making things better for everyone. We all work with people who we find "not as good", have different ways or work ethics. After being told for decades that this is usually a problem with communication or point of view, I had somewhat internalized the idea. And it is often true, but what I've realized as of late, is that there's a category of people who are not just working a different way, but are - to put it bluntly - plainly not smart. What I'm talking about is people below average when it comes to understanding concepts, or conceptualizing altogether. Their intuition is always twisted and wrong. Completely lack critical feedback. Work needs to be decomposed for them in extremely precise steps if you want anything t...

We're about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time 29 by pseudolus | 4 comments on Hacker News.

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Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips 14 by xyx0826 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code 25 by gniting | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Adventures in OCR 6 by bambax | 2 comments Hello HN! In a recent "Ask HN: What are you working on?" thread, I mentioned I was working on OCRing a large book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971614 The post generated some interest so I thought I would keep HN posted. The book is Saint-Simon’s Memoirs -- an invaluable historical account of the French court under Louis XIV, full of wit, sharp observations, and of incredible literary value. I'm OCRing the edition of reference made between 1879-1930, that contains a lot of comments and footnotes: 45 volumes, ~27,000 pages. Here's a link to a blog post that describes the techniques used so far (the project is still ongoing): https://blog.medusis.com/38_Adventures+in+OCR.html But you may also directly access the result here: https://divers.medusis.net/boislisle/pub This web app (not optimized for mobile, sorry) solves a tricky problem of preloading images efficiently. In short: preloading the next image isn...

Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic 5 by prismatic | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Mysteries of Mangifera: Finding the Mango's Origin (2017) 3 by Tomte | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Loss Functions 5 by snprajwal | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Proof of Concept showcasing WASM program access files outside node:wasi's dir 7 by thunderbong | 3 comments on Hacker News.

South Korea's parliament votes to impeach President over his martial law order 48 by Geekette | 5 comments on Hacker News.

NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars 22 by thunderbong | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Internal Ocean Tides (2021) 4 by raattgift | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers 47 by geekinchief | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit' 27 by tartoran | 8 comments on Hacker News.

How to Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure 3 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

God Plays Chess (2018) 14 by akkartik | 5 comments on Hacker News.

"Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers" 237 by unbelauscht | 146 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A portable hash map in C 9 by e-dant | 2 comments on Hacker News.

UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers 23 by ivewonyoung | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD 13 by rbanffy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI; they're being written out of history 29 by YeGoblynQueenne | 4 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program 33 by marban | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Why did clothing become boring? 51 by benbreen | 58 comments on Hacker News.

Native Dual-Range Input 21 by Wolfr_ | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Test Driven Development (TDD) for your LLMs? Yes please, more of that please 11 by lewq | 1 comments on Hacker News.

‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’ 21 by bookofjoe | 80 comments on Hacker News.

Claud Cockburn invented guerrilla journalism 9 by mdp2021 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends 15 by Pringled | 0 comments We’ve just open-sourced Vicinity, a lightweight approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) search package that allows for fast experimentation and comparison of a larger number of well known algorithms. Main features: - Lightweight: the base package only uses Numpy - Unified interface: use any of the supported algorithms and backends with a single interface: HNSW, Annoy, FAISS, and many more algorithms and libraries are supported - Easy evaluation: evaluate the performance of your backend with a simple function to measure queries per second vs recall - Serialization: save and load your index for persistence After working with a large number of ANN libraries over the years, we found it increasingly cumbersome to learn the interface, features, quirks, and limitations of every library. After writing custom evaluation code to measure the speed and performance for the 100th time to compare ...