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| 91. | Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship (deepsouthventures.com) | |
| 396 points | 2024 | author eightturn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“) that came after DudeRanch : )” | ||
| 92. | Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig (github.com) | |
| 394 points | 2024 | author judofyr showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I knew that some people would react negatively to the term, but I can assure the intention is for you to have a better understanding of exactly how and when you should…” | ||
| 93. | Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C (salykova.github.io) | |
| 392 points | 2024 | author salykova showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of the article. It's my really first time optimizing C code and using intrinsics, so I'm definitely not an expert in this area, but Im willing to…” | ||
| 94. | How to make a better default Firefox UI (github.com) | |
| 389 points | 2024 | author black7375 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“a popular theme for Firefox. You can see how I made various decisions from my perspective and how I improved on some of Mozilla's less-than-stellar decisions. I think…” | ||
| 95. | 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js (threlte.xyz) | |
| 389 points | 2024 | author legrisch showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting it! If you want to see what we're currently up to, here's the talk I just presented at the Svelte Summit Spring[0]. In essence, we're busy with two…” | ||
| 96. | Draw an iceberg and see how it will float (joshdata.me) | |
| 388 points | 2024 | author joshdata showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to see this making the rounds again after a few years. Go science! Support your local climate scientist!” | ||
| 97. | The motor turns too much (projectgus.com) | |
| 386 points | 2024 | author angusgr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey! Post author here. I appreciate the insight from someone who's worked on this kind of thing formally, thanks. This was also my hypothesis at the time of the post.…” | ||
| 98. | Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter (joshwcomeau.com) | |
| 384 points | 2024 | author joshwcomeau showed up | their comment | thread
“yeah, so my goal with 200% was to make the code as comprehensible as possible. My actual glassy header does something quite similar to what you’re suggesting, but that…” | ||
| 99. | 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch (chrisfenton.com) | |
| 382 points | 2024 | author fentonc showed up | their comment | thread
“Most of my projects are kind of like this penny arcade comic () - I saw where something was not, and said "No. This will not do." It's 2024 and a supercomputer wrist…” | ||
| 100. | I quit Google to work for myself (2018) (mtlynch.io) | |
| 381 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Cool to see this pop up again! Happy to answer any questions about this post.” | ||
| 101. | You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? (gaultier.github.io) | |
| 380 points | 2024 | author broken_broken_ showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“thanks! A second article will cover this, but the bottom line is that it entirely depends on the team and the constraints e.g. is a GC an option (then Go is a good…” | ||
| 102. | Diffusion models from scratch, from a new theoretical perspective (chenyang.co) | |
| 379 points | 2024 | author ycy showed up | their comment | thread
“when I tried to understand diffusion models I realized that the code and math can be greatly simplified, which led to me writing this blog post and diffusion library.…” | ||
| 103. | Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens (ai.meta.com) | |
| 378 points | 2024 | author entilzha showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“Not sure what you mean by implicit? If you mean just treat bytes as tokens, one issue you run into is your sequence lengths get quite long, so compared to a regular…” | ||
| 104. | Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug (righto.com) | |
| 378 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“-) My Mastodon thread about the bug was on HN a few weeks ago, so this might seem familiar, but now I've finished a detailed blog post. The previous HN post has a bunch…” | ||
| 105. | Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive (blancas.io) | |
| 377 points | 2024 | author edublancas showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm working on a follow-up post. Turns out, removing all HTML tags works great and reduces the cost by a huge margin.” | ||
| 106. | Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust (turso.tech) | |
| 373 points | 2024 | author glommer showed up | their comment | thread
“fully compatible at the language and file format level. Further down the post I actually call out explicitly that we do intend to get rid of some of the baggage.” | ||
| 107. | Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers (bitbytebit.substack.com) | |
| 372 points | 2024 | author recroad showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Appreciate your perspective. I find large backlogs get stale quickly, and what was important three months ago is often not the case as context has changed. If I have a…” | ||
| 108. | Never Missing the Train Again (lilymara.xyz) | |
| 371 points | 2024 | author FrecklySunbeam showed up | their comment | thread
“I've also been thinking about this - I've since built out a Rust library () for scaffolding the server piece of this and I've been considering creating a Kindle client…” | ||
| 109. | Isometric Projection in Game Development (pikuma.com) | |
| 370 points | 2024 | author gustavopezzi showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi. Author here! I'll try to be unbiased and say that if she's just starting out I'm afraid there are better beginner-oriented resources out there for teens. Frankly,…” | ||
| 110. | Pretty.c (github.com) | |
| 370 points | 2024 | author aartaka showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't see any problem with this” | ||
| 111. | Rewriting Rust (josephg.com) | |
| 368 points | 2024 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+11 more) | thread
“That was the reference I was going for with the title :D” | ||
| 112. | Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V (box86.org) | |
| 366 points | 2024 | author ksco showed up | their comment | thread
“we have adopted this approach as a fast path to box64:, thank you very much!” | ||
| 113. | Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO (lucumr.pocoo.org) | |
| 363 points | 2024 | author the_mitsuhiko showed up | their comment | thread
“the result is now that the debt got absorbed into a project that uses the fork exclusively. It’s less likely that folks will look for security issues. It would in my…” | ||
| 114. | Simulating Jupiter (emildziewanowski.com) | |
| 362 points | 2024 | author e_dziewanowski showed up | their comment | thread
“Hello everyone! I'm the author of the article. First of all, thank you so much for sharing it here. I've been taking note of the feedback - I'll try to fix the issue…” | ||
| 115. | Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector (jacobfilipp.com) | |
| 361 points | 2024 | author jfil showed up | their comment | thread
“I appreciate your comment & the parent comment. I'll make the sqlite file more manageable shortly (wasn't expecting the project to get this much attention so its taking…” | ||
| 116. | Reactive HTML Notebooks (maxbo.me) | |
| 361 points | 2024 | author mbo showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to take questions!” | ||
| 117. | Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim (github.com) | |
| 360 points | 2024 | author khaledh showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for posting this <3 Happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 118. | Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite (wafris.org) | |
| 360 points | 2024 | author michaelbuckbee showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“- yes 100% and I hope that came through in the article that this is great solution given our particular use case and that it's not a 1:1 swap out of Redis or Postgres.” | ||
| 119. | Generating sudokus for fun and no profit (tn1ck.com) | |
| 358 points | 2024 | author TN1ck showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author, didn't expect this to be posted here yet. I was still somewhat working on it, so please bear with me when you find anything weird. You can give me…” | ||
| 120. | WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System (github.com) | |
| 355 points | 2024 | author lvkv showed up | their comment | thread
“Those are kind words! I’d like to add the last part of that quote:” | ||
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