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| 121. | Crossing the USA by Train (blinry.org) | |
| 355 points | 2024 | author blinry showed up | their comment | thread
“I paid $70 for the section from New York to Chicago, because I slept in the coach section there. For the section from Chicago to Emeryville, I treated myself to a…” | ||
| 122. | In Search of a Faster SQLite (avi.im) | |
| 355 points | 2024 | author avinassh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this blog post and I didn't expect to see it on the front page! For disclosure, I work at Turso and one of the authors, Pekka, is from Turso. This…” | ||
| 123. | Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust (github.com) | |
| 353 points | 2024 | author Sean-Der showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“* I want to show people that native WebRTC players can be a thing. I hope this encourages hangouts/discord/$x to implement WHIP and WHEP it would let people do so much…” | ||
| 124. | NandGame – Build a computer from scratch (nandgame.com) | |
| 353 points | 2024 | author sergex showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah, the first level is special and perhaps half-baked. It felt like cheating to start with the NAND-gate as the atomic component since transistors are not NAND-gates.…” | ||
| 125. | Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing (moment.dev) | |
| 352 points | 2024 | author antics showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Hi folks! Author here. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. I'll be in meetings for an hour or two but I love talking about this stuff. :) Here or over email if…” | ||
| 126. | 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps (blog.openstreetmap.org) | |
| 345 points | 2024 | author stereo showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yes, most apps have to create their own tile or download server at the moment. We’re hoping that our tiles will be useful to the greater ecosystem, in the same way that…” | ||
| 127. | No Abstractions: our API design principle (increase.com) | |
| 345 points | 2024 | author jackflintermann showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“this has been a useful mindset for us internally but I'm curious if it resonates externally. I'd love your feedback!” | ||
| 128. | Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) (andrewkchan.dev) | |
| 344 points | 2024 | author reasonableklout showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for sharing, was great to wake up to my blog post on the front page! Would love to hear any feedback or if I missed anything.” | ||
| 129. | Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) (fasterthanli.me) | |
| 342 points | 2024 | author fasterthanlime showed up | their comment | thread
“in which ways does Gleam come short of that? Because I'm also looking for that middle ground and I was very curious to get a look at Gleam.” | ||
| 130. | Command line interface guidelines (2021) (clig.dev) | |
| 341 points | 2024 | author tashian showed up | their comment | thread
“See my post for a bit more of a deep dive about using secrets on the command line. Credential files are a good, simple, portable option. Files have permissions already.…” | ||
| 131. | Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle (righto.com) | |
| 340 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 132. | Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (macchaffee.com) | |
| 340 points | 2024 | author mac-chaffee showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes there were many times while writing this that I wanted to insert nuance, but couldn't without breaking the format too much. I appreciate the wide range of…” | ||
| 133. | Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 (blog.plerion.com) | |
| 336 points | 2024 | author dagrz showed up | their comment | thread
“There's no complaint. It's an observation rather than an absolute good or bad. It's something you have the consider in designing your application.” | ||
| 134. | Faster CRDTs (2021) (josephg.com) | |
| 326 points | 2024 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“Yjs has also been rewritten in rust (yrs) and it’s significantly faster than the JavaScript version. I’ve also got a new, totally different approach to solving this…” | ||
| 135. | Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] (media.ccc.de) | |
| 326 points | 2024 | author redfast00 showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here; see also the entire series of posts on” | ||
| 136. | Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (ai.meta.com) | |
| 325 points | 2024 | author entilzha showed up | their comment | thread
“, I do think it’s a good direction to look into! That said, aside from it being a bit too much to do at once, you’d also have to be careful about how you distributed…” | ||
| 137. | Unconventional Uses of FPGAs (voltagedivide.com) | |
| 323 points | 2024 | author ShadowBlades512 showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading, I just scaled the VPS to hopefully handle the traffic better, hahaha” | ||
| 138. | Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript (electrobun.dev) | |
| 323 points | 2024 | author yoav showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey hn! Author here: Thanks to whoever submitted. Electrobun is in the very early stages. The roadmap is a bit out of date. Here are some highlights: - it’s like Tauri…” | ||
| 139. | YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design (zach.be) | |
| 322 points | 2024 | author zachbee showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually noted this in the article: I think designers getting 2x faster is probably optimistic, but I also could be wrong about that! Most of my chip design experience…” | ||
| 140. | Life, death, and retirement (randomascii.wordpress.com) | |
| 320 points | 2024 | author brucedawson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I do recognize my immense privilege. I was even able to turn the dial a significant distance towards life before my wife died. I had dropped to 80% time (32 hours a…” | ||
| 141. | Using S3 as a Container Registry (ochagavia.nl) | |
| 319 points | 2024 | author wofo showed up | their comment | thread
“If anyone knows why layer pushes need to be sequential in the OCI specification, please tell! Is it merely a historical accident, or is there some hidden rationale…” | ||
| 142. | Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere (github.com) | |
| 314 points | 2024 | author alexgarcia-xyz showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions! Been working on this for a while, so I'm very happy to get this v0.1.0 "stable" release out. sqlite-vec works on MacOS, Linux, Windows,…” | ||
| 143. | Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11 (noinitrd.github.io) | |
| 310 points | 2024 | author NoInitRD showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I did this on DDR4 RAM. Specifically, it was F4-3600C18D-32GVK in two slots and MD16GK2D4320016AXR in the other two.” | ||
| 144. | Algorithms for Modern Hardware (en.algorithmica.org) | |
| 308 points | 2024 | author sereja showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“For a perfect drop-in replacement of std::lower_bound, the best you can do without breaking anything is to make the search branchless and maybe add some prefetching [1].…” | ||
| 145. | Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction (arxiv.org) | |
| 302 points | 2024 | author faabian showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here -- that's a very good point and as I understand work in progress in different teams. Training autoencoders for language is actually super easy given the…” | ||
| 146. | L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer (loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ong) | |
| 301 points | 2024 | author ccbikai showed up | their comment | thread
“I wanted to publish it myself, I didn't expect you had already published it. Thank you very much. Encountered quite a few problems during the deployment, mainly related…” | ||
| 147. | Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs? (seangeiger.substack.com) | |
| 301 points | 2024 | author slaucon showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Appreciate the feedback! Agreed on importance of portability and durability. I'm not trying to build this out or sell it as a tool to providers. Just wanted to demo what…” | ||
| 148. | Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE (github.com) | |
| 300 points | 2024 | author yetone showed up | their comment | thread
“nvim. Thank you for your suggestion, it's very helpful for avante.nvim! I plan to abandon nui.nvim for implementing the UI (actually, we only use nui's Split now, so…” | ||
| 149. | Ten years of improvements in PostgreSQL's optimizer (rmarcus.info) | |
| 299 points | 2024 | author RMarcus showed up | their comment | thread
“"Tail latency has improved by YMMV for everything else" => yes, I think that's a valid (but conservative) read. Of course, in many (most?) applications, tail latency is…” | ||
| 150. | Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language (github.com) | |
| 298 points | 2024 | author gabigrin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+6 more) | thread
“The main difference is the target use case. I'm far from being a Pure Data expert, but it seems more aimed towards music/media generation. Flyde on the other hand is…” | ||
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