421. Peng – A minimal Rust-based quadrotor simulation pipeline (github.com)
130 points | 2024 | author yangrobotics showed up | their comment | thread
“My personal website is [here]((). Thank you all for your interest! This project began as an effort to mentor a talented high school student in learning Rust and…”
422. A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure (cambridge.org)
129 points | 2024 | author maxpalmer showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for reading our paper. Happy to answer any questions. If you're interested, here is a (still in-progress) simulator I wrote where you can try out Define-Combine…”
423. Y combinator codex (2021) (phoe.github.io)
129 points | 2024 | author phoe-krk showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't expect this one on HN tonight, so AMA I guess.”
424. Tailwind CSS marketing and misinformation engine (nuejs.org)
128 points | 2024 | author tipiirai showed up | their comment | thread
“This is probably the most important content piece I've ever written. Curious to hear your thoughts. Thank you!”
425. Building an email-to-calendar LLM (ngacho.com)
128 points | 2024 | author bookmark99 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“This definitely sounds all good. I'll be trying out your app. Funnily enough, when we were building this, friend pitched the idea you're doing (seems fantastic) on…”
426. There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative (creativerly.com)
128 points | 2024 | author philipptemmel showed up | their comment | thread
“First of all, thank you for sharing my post on Hacker News, and secondly, thank you for all the comments. Based on them, I updated the post and added StoryGraph and…”
427. Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs (lepisma.xyz)
127 points | 2024 | author lepisma showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't notice this came up on HN. I wrote a small follow up trying to write and speak at the same time here”
428. Demystifying Git Submodules (cyberdemon.org)
127 points | 2024 | author dmazin showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to really thank you for saying that. I also felt like "why didn't anyone tell me this" so I wanted to share it :-)”
429. Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report (arcprize.org)
127 points | 2024 | author mikeknoop showed up | their comment | thread
“a huge $1M experiment, to test if we need new ideas for AGI. The ARC-AGI benchmark remains unbeaten and I think we can now definitely say "yes". One big update since…”
430. Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023) (donatstudios.com)
126 points | 2024 | author donatj showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“This was a frustrated rant after discovering these people serving my circle generator and frankly moreso my .htaccess rewrite generator on sites plastered with ads get…”
431. Show HN: Pywebview 5 (pywebview.flowrl.com)
126 points | 2024 | author kissaprofeetta showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Here are top advantages from the top of my head * pywebview hides its browser nature. Right click, text select, shortcut keys, swipe gestures etc are disabled by…”
432. Claude 3 beats Google Translate (arxiv.org)
126 points | 2024 | author hackmaxim showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Actually, sentence-by-sentence translation is important in a machine translation system because in many cases users will only provide single sentences. We also test…”
433. Notes on Buttondown.com (jmduke.com)
126 points | 2024 | author jmduke showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions folks have. (I would also be remiss if I didn't say that I am grateful to HN for introducing me to what was called microISVs a decade ago,…”
434. Docker Compose Isn't Enough (blog.tealok.tech)
126 points | 2024 | author eliribble showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“that's the right company name, but not the right company website. Our company doesn't have a website yet. Looks like we may share a company name with some grifters.…”
435. Apple Vision Pro and ADHD (dansalva.to)
125 points | 2024 | author dansalvato showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I’ve been a gadget enthusiast my whole life, and I deliberately left in the tone that I’m trying to justify owning an Apple Vision Pro, despite its flaws. I was also…”
436. The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp (ds9soft.com)
125 points | 2024 | author ds9soft showed up | their comment | thread
“True. But there's no reason not to write when you are in anger about other languages that you do use every single day. I guess I was just venting and also reaffirming my…”
437. Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20 (github.com)
124 points | 2024 | author jmax01 showed up | their comment | thread
“I made this mostly for the purpose of experimenting and playing around and trying out things rather than actually using this for production projects. Making a proper…”
438. The economics of a Postgres free tier (xata.io)
124 points | 2024 | author tudorg showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood or remembered old information (was it always like that?). I have fixed the phrase in the blog post.”
439. DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers (arxiv.org)
123 points | 2024 | author matteopagli showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer questions.”
440. The time keepers: pg_cron and pg_timetable (notso.boringsql.com)
123 points | 2024 | author radimm showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I hope I made it clear pg_cron is available everywhere. Thank you for pg_cron though!”
441. Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte (otherbranch.com)
122 points | 2024 | author rachofsunshine showed up | their comment | thread
“and TB changed my life, even though I'm not an engineer. They hired me almost literally off the street, and now I'm...well, running an attempt at a successor. Not a bad…”
442. Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC (downtowndougbrown.com)
121 points | 2024 | author dougg3 showed up | their comment | thread
“That's very much a fair point. I was thinking more from the perspective of firmware developers maintaining fixed userlands when I wrote that. It would definitely be an…”
443. Bicameral, Not Homoiconic (parentheticallyspeaking.org)
121 points | 2024 | author skrishnamurthi showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, very close. #4 is not a bit strong: there is value to doing this even if you don't have macros, for instance, because of other benefits (e.g., decent support from…”
444. Chickens in Trees (suziepetryk.com)
120 points | 2024 | author familiartime showed up | their comment | thread
“not of the literary beauty you linked). This is amazing. I'll add a mention.”
445. Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021) (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
119 points | 2024 | author msephton showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this blog post and I'm currently waiting to see if I need to renew my Apple developer membership or not!”
446. Postgres vs. Pinecone (lantern.dev)
119 points | 2024 | author ngalstyan4 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“We will benchmark this thoroughly in the future for our vector indexes. But at least anecdotally, it made a ton of difference. We met <200ms latency budget with Ubicloud…”
447. $450 for a School Bag? (one-from-nippon.ghost.io)
118 points | 2024 | author kizunajp showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello! Author here. Pleasantly surprised to see this on the front page! I thought I'd address a couple of questions here: - Why is it so expensive? You can definitely…”
448. How user groups made software reuse a reality (ztoz.blog)
118 points | 2024 | author jwstarr showed up | their comment | thread
“Thank you for the feedback. I may tackle a history of the registries from netlib and CTAN forward in the near future. For this article, I deliberately kept the scope…”
449. Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec (blog.trl.sn)
118 points | 2024 | author bterlson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Right now we don't have any streaming or eventing support, but I am working on it as we speak. My first goal is to support describing SSE and JSONL HTTP streaming…”
450. Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare (mattyyeung.github.io)
117 points | 2024 | author mattyyeung showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks for your interest! Surprising way to wake up in the morning. Happy to answer questions”