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| 211. | Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search (assembled.com) | |
| 249 points | 2024 | author johnjwang showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“you're for sure right -- it's not a problem with RAG the theoretical concept. In fact, I think RAG implementations should likely be specific to their use cases (e.g. our…” | ||
| 212. | Google banned me from Google Voice (dannyguo.com) | |
| 248 points | 2024 | author dguo showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a good hypothesis! But I have a strong preference for email over SMS for communication from companies, so I receive almost no texts from credit card companies.…” | ||
| 213. | The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current at Netflix (2023) [pdf] (people.freebsd.org) | |
| 247 points | 2024 | author drewg123 showed up | their comment | thread
“Note that the 4 hours per bisection is the time to ramp the server up and down and re-image it. It does not count the time to actually do the bisection step. That's…” | ||
| 214. | Clean your codebase with basic information theory (taylor.town) | |
| 246 points | 2024 | author surprisetalk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You may be interested in the programming language I've been working on :) [1]” | ||
| 215. | Friends don't let friends export to CSV (kaveland.no) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author rkaveland showed up | their comment | thread
“I see now that the title is too controversial, I should have toned that down. As I mention in the conclusion, if you're giving parquet files to your user and all they…” | ||
| 216. | Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 (blog.benjojo.co.uk) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author benjojo12 showed up | their comment | thread
“No in fact, it is so much worse! I do agree we should use IPv6, The ending of the blog post says as such :)” | ||
| 217. | Crafting Painterly Shaders (blog.maximeheckel.com) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author MaximeHeckel showed up | their comment | thread
“Fixed the RSS feed (and sitemap as well since both were not updated) Those scripts were silently skipped since January Apologies for the inconvenience, it should be…” | ||
| 218. | You must read at least one book to ride (ludic.mataroa.blog) | |
| 245 points | 2024 | author ludicity showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Starting with Taleb at a young age was helpful for me, as he introduced me to the Narrative Fallacy. I.e, the easiest way to convince anyone of anything is to posit a…” | ||
| 219. | Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity? (trace.yshui.dev) | |
| 244 points | 2024 | author yshui showed up | their comment | thread
“I probably should have stated this more explicitly in the article, but my main concern with using it for day job is copyright. I don't want to accidentally commit…” | ||
| 220. | Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data (github.blog) | |
| 243 points | 2024 | author geekjock showed up | their comment | thread
“Your critique is valid though by research standards, for this type of study, our sample is sufficient. We are planning to replicate this study on a larger scale in the…” | ||
| 221. | Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation (answer.ai) | |
| 242 points | 2024 | author austinvhuang showed up | their comment | thread
“Agh I was intending for the project to fly under the radar for a few more days before making the announcement and blog post (please look/upvote that when you see it haha…” | ||
| 222. | Janet for Mortals (2023) (ianthehenry.com) | |
| 241 points | 2024 | author ianthehenry showed up | their comment | thread
“it's not a good connotation. i chose it because: 1. it is kinda memorable (look there are so many programming books with exactly the same name) 2. the language is named…” | ||
| 223. | Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks (eieio.games) | |
| 237 points | 2024 | author eieio showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Sorry that some of the stuff went over your head! I wanted to include longer descriptions of the tech I was using but the post was already suuuper long and I felt like I…” | ||
| 224. | Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked (crapts.org) | |
| 236 points | 2024 | author mmcnl showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The fact is that currently DNS requests are forwarded to an unknown entity. The matter is not resolved yet and there is no guarantuee it will be resolved. Imo there's no…” | ||
| 225. | Proposal: JavaScript Structs (github.com) | |
| 236 points | 2024 | author syg showed up | their comment | thread
“I hear your feedback about unsafe blocks. Similar sentiment is shared by other delegates of the JS standards committee. The main reason it is there today is to satisfy…” | ||
| 226. | Are we at peak vector database? (softwaredoug.com) | |
| 235 points | 2024 | author softwaredoug showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“well yeah, I agree its probably ridiculous. Sort of testing the waters to see if I'm way off base. I think what I mean to say is that, in my experience, practitioners…” | ||
| 227. | Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014) (thesecretlivesofdata.com) | |
| 235 points | 2024 | author benbjohnson showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm happy to answer any questions although this project was from 10+ years ago so I could be a little rusty. Over the years I've been trying to find better ways to do…” | ||
| 228. | The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup (2021) (anthonynsimon.com) | |
| 234 points | 2024 | author amzans showed up | their comment | thread
“We ran Panelbear for about a year before merging it into Cronitor's codebase. Cronitor is also a Django monolith but on EC2 and was already humming along nicely for…” | ||
| 229. | Self-Compressing Neural Networks (arxiv.org) | |
| 233 points | 2024 | author szcs showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I just noticed this. If you have any questions I can try answering them.” | ||
| 230. | An open-source flow battery kit (dualpower.supply) | |
| 233 points | 2024 | author danielfp248 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“com), working on the project with Kirk and Josh. The Coulomb efficiency of a device with a microporous, non-selective membrane depends fundamentally on how fast you…” | ||
| 231. | Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad (github.com) | |
| 232 points | 2024 | author justinnk showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for your question. Yes, similar to what you describe but not quite. The prime use case is to apply DiscoGrad together with a gradient descent optimizer to…” | ||
| 232. | Making your own hot sauce (successfulsoftware.net) | |
| 232 points | 2024 | author hermitcrab showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Fair comment. I did think about mentioning that. But I didn't want to get too much into the weeds. Better to watch some videos for all the details.” | ||
| 233. | Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? (mtlynch.io) | |
| 231 points | 2024 | author mtlynch showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Thanks for reading! In my defense, it wasn't that I didn't realize one byte per syscall was inefficient; it was that I didn't realize that I was doing one syscall per…” | ||
| 234. | Faer-rs: Linear algebra foundation for Rust (github.com) | |
| 229 points | 2024 | author sarah-ek showed up | their comment | thread
“eigen is compiled with -fopenmp, which enables parallelism by default” | ||
| 235. | gRPC: The Bad Parts (kmcd.dev) | |
| 228 points | 2024 | author sudorandom showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“it's nerdy web trivia but HTTP trailers are actually in the HTTP/1.1 spec, although very few browsers, load balancers, programming languages, etc. implemented it at the…” | ||
| 236. | Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably (ryanliptak.com) | |
| 228 points | 2024 | author squeek502 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm the author if anyone has questions” | ||
| 237. | C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014) (github.com) | |
| 226 points | 2024 | author mcinglis showed up | their comment | thread
“10 years later -- I agree. I'd remove that rule wholesale in an update of this guide. Unsigned integer types can and should be used, especially for memory sizes. I would…” | ||
| 238. | Designing my own watch (2020) (willem.com) | |
| 225 points | 2024 | author willemlaurentz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“With regard to value and cost I would like to add the factor 'time' to the discussion. A watch like this can easily last for decades, possibly longer (and it will retain…” | ||
| 239. | Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone (dumbph.com) | |
| 224 points | 2024 | author hbroadbent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I definitely didn't mean to imply you should remove critical system apps (I don't think that's possible on vanilla iOS). More just that it's worth deleting most apps…” | ||
| 240. | CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion (blurbusters.com) | |
| 222 points | 2024 | author BlurBusters showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“here's some tips: - Throw as much native:emulated Hz ratio as you can. - 120Hz = up to 50% blur reduction - 240Hz = up to 75% blur reduction - 480Hz = up to 87.5% blur…” | ||
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