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| 181. | The death and life of prediction markets at Google (asteriskmag.com) | |
| 273 points | 2024 | author ddp26 showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“I agree with this critique in theory, but not in practice. The stakes don't need to be high to encourage strong participation. Corporate prediction markets have already…” | ||
| 182. | Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ (blog.erodriguez.de) | |
| 273 points | 2024 | author RapperWhoMadeIt showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“At least from my personal experience, there are still many jobs in which the main focus isn't frontend development, and per se React. I do have to work with React from…” | ||
| 183. | Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else (theregister.com) | |
| 272 points | 2024 | author lproven showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“No. (Although that sounds fun, I never heard of such a thing.) RISC/ix was Acorn's ARM UNIX. It had nothing of the Acorn GUI -- it was fairly standard X11, I think with…” | ||
| 184. | The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile (righto.com) | |
| 272 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 185. | Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1 (byroot.github.io) | |
| 271 points | 2024 | author byroot showed up | their comment | thread
“Oj has an extremely large API that I have no intent on emulating in the default json gem, things such as "SAJ" (SAX style parsing), various escaping schemes etc. My goal…” | ||
| 186. | How Microchips Work (exclusivearchitecture.com) | |
| 270 points | 2024 | author ExAr showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi everyone! I am the author of the website exclusivearchitecture.com. Thanks everyone for all the positive feedback - so rewarding to see! I have already made some…” | ||
| 187. | Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system (blog.lucasholten.com) | |
| 270 points | 2024 | author Hytak showed up | their comment | thread
“I just wanted to point out that rust-query does in fact read the schema from the database and compares it to the expected schema. There is no checksumming or comparison…” | ||
| 188. | I hacked a train toilet (devever.net) | |
| 267 points | 2024 | author hlandau showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I have seen videos (not on trains) of one hybrid - a power-operated round sliding door, but with a physical lock on it, that hooks onto the door frame. So that would be…” | ||
| 189. | Why we picked AGPL (blog.paradedb.com) | |
| 267 points | 2024 | author philippemnoel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I couldn't agree more. Thank you for your kind words and for sharing the academic perspective of using the AGPL - super interesting!” | ||
| 190. | The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020) (kitze.io) | |
| 266 points | 2024 | author thekitze showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I need to update this article. Years later, I actually got motivated by the comments on HN (whenever this gets posted). P People are always like "why don't you just ship…” | ||
| 191. | Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor (righto.com) | |
| 266 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I know this is a very obscure topic, but hopefully it will be interesting to some. Let me know if there are any questions...” | ||
| 192. | Hypermedia Systems (hypermedia.systems) | |
| 265 points | 2024 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“this is a book about how hypermedia systems work in general, and how htmx (augmenting the standard web hypermedia system) and hyperview (a novel mobile hypermedia) work…” | ||
| 193. | I also hacked my car (goncalomb.com) | |
| 264 points | 2024 | author goncalomb showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yes, there is some good stuff in the logs, I found the Wi-Fi password there, that was useful. At the time I used some VSCode plugin to read the .dlt files (they are not…” | ||
| 194. | The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening (yosefk.com) | |
| 262 points | 2024 | author yosefk showed up | their comment | thread
“would be very interesting to hear more of your thoughts on this! It's not easy to find a pro animator willing to consider the question given the current level reached by…” | ||
| 195. | Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets (github.com) | |
| 261 points | 2024 | author ddjohnson showed up | their comment | thread
“I didn't know PyTorch had its own pytree system. It looks like it's separate from JAX's pytree registry, though, so Penzai's tooling probably won't work with PyTorch out…” | ||
| 196. | Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare (kevinchen.co) | |
| 260 points | 2024 | author kevinchen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“the shorter reaction times you mentioned are collected under ideal conditions, like the person knows they are being tested and only needs to push a button or whatever.…” | ||
| 197. | Learn Git Branching (learngitbranching.js.org) | |
| 259 points | 2024 | author xxbondsxx showed up | their comment | thread
“It's actually not based on geolocation, I just directly look at navigator.language / navigator.browserLanguage:” | ||
| 198. | Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram (github.com) | |
| 259 points | 2024 | author nobuyuki83 showed up | their comment | thread
“Nobuyuki Umetani from the University of Tokyo, who implemented all the codes. I am delighted to see so many good discussions here! I fully understand that the quality of…” | ||
| 199. | Bayesian Neural Networks (cs.toronto.edu) | |
| 259 points | 2024 | author duvenaud showed up | their comment | thread
“What a surprise. This was an abandoned project from 2019, that we never linked or advertised anywhere as far as I know. Anyways, happy to answer questions.” | ||
| 200. | Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews (interviewing.io) | |
| 257 points | 2024 | author michael_mroczka showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Happy to answer questions if you have any. This was such a fascinating experiment!” | ||
| 201. | Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch (flaky.build) | |
| 257 points | 2024 | author onnimonni showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“@dang other users here helped me to understand that the title is bit misleading. I was just eager to share about this and possibly help others with this knowledge…” | ||
| 202. | Automat (automat.org) | |
| 256 points | 2024 | author mafik showed up | their comment | thread
“There is no trick here actually. It's just HTML / JS / CSS. Browsers are pretty good at compositing CSS transforms - and know how to handle DOM updates coming from event…” | ||
| 203. | Native dual-range input (muffinman.io) | |
| 256 points | 2024 | author stankot showed up | their comment | thread
“glad to see it popping up on HN. I see people started opening issues and leaving bug reports here. I’ll try to go through them tomorrow (it is getting late here). I…” | ||
| 204. | When should you give up on a project that doesn't work? (preethamrn.com) | |
| 255 points | 2024 | author xmprt showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think all the buzz that this is getting make me want to give it another shot. I'll probably throw away most of the code and start from scratch though - one thing I…” | ||
| 205. | The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue (blog.funcall.org) | |
| 255 points | 2024 | author varjag showed up | their comment | thread
“if you have any questions.” | ||
| 206. | Numbers Are Leaves (christo.sh) | |
| 255 points | 2024 | author openquery showed up | their comment | thread
“Wasn't expecting to see this on the front page! I'm really very far from a mathematician and this was a write up of a fun side project. I think the title would be…” | ||
| 207. | Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit) (blog.danieljanus.pl) | |
| 254 points | 2024 | author nathell showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks! This is an interesting avenue of exploration that I hadn’t thought about. Exactly the kind of feedback I hoped for. I’ll try and give it a shot.” | ||
| 208. | Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo (tomverbeure.github.io) | |
| 254 points | 2024 | author tverbeure showed up | their comment | thread
“I’m well aware that there are similar autopilot systems. There’s a reason why my requirements list has “extensive charger network” before “autopilot just as good”.…” | ||
| 209. | Battleships Logic Puzzle (lukerissacher.com) | |
| 254 points | 2024 | author QuadrupleA showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“check that the revealed ships in your puzzle are keeping their particular shape. E.g. a revealed-at-start "D" shape ship-end can't be the middle of a ship, or an "O"…” | ||
| 210. | Collaborative text editing with Eg-Walker: Better, faster, smaller (arxiv.org) | |
| 251 points | 2024 | author josephg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It’s kinda both a crdt and an operational transform system. It’s a crdt in that all peers share & replicate the set of all editing events. (A grow-only set crdt if we’re…” | ||
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