Daniel Dennett has died
dailynous.com — Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died. DANIEL, 1
Bitcoin Block 840000
mempool.space — BITCOIN, 2
Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24
news.ycombinator.com — (Usually I put an "Apply to YC" thing in the HN footer [1] but I forgot this time, so here is my pitch to make up for it.) TELL, 3
Quill v2 – Rich text editor
quilljs.com — Switch ExamplesYour powerful rich text editor. QUILL, 4
Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor
ollama.com — Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor. LLAMA, 5
Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)
mptcp.dev — Multipath TCP or MPTCP is an extension to the standard TCP and is described in RFC 8684. It allows a device to make use of multiple interfaces at once to send and receive TCP packets over a single MPTCP connection. MPTCP can aggregate the bandwidth of multiple interfaces or prefer the one with lowest latency, it also allows a fail-over if one path is down, and the traffic is seamlessly reinjected on other paths. MULTIPATH, 6
Church's λ-Calculus (2023) [pdf]
cmu.edu — CHURCH, 7
A mile-long lava tube where humans sheltered for thousands of years
gizmodo.com — Three needs are famously fundamental to survival: food, water, and shelter. According to new research, ancient humans had at least two of those three needs met by a nearly mile-long lava tube about 77 miles (125 kilometers) north of Medina, Saudi Arabia, for at least 7,000 years. MILE-LONG, 8
Erdos Problems Collection
erdosproblems.com — In this note I would like to describe a variety of my problems which I would classify as my favorites. Of course, I can't guarantee that they are all 'acorns', but because many have thwarted the efforts of the best mathematicians for many decades (and have often acquired a cash reward for their solutions), it may indicate that new ideas will be needed, which can, in turn, lead to more general results, and naturally, to further new problems. In this way, the cycle of life in mathematics continues forever. Paul Erdős, Some of my favorite problems and results, 1997 ERDOS, 9
Household size and the housing stock
substack.com — A common claim from supply truthers is that homes per capita is at all time highs, so there can’t be a supply crisis. For some number of reasons, a lot of people are just resistant to the supply story. To someone seeking anti-supply talking points, it seems like a really good point. I have written a little bit before about why it really isn’t an informative piece of evidence. HOUSEHOLD, 10
6th generation x86 CPU Comparisons
azillionmonkeys.com — The following is a comparative text meant to give people a feel for the differences in the various 6th generation x86 CPUs. For this little ditty, I've chosen the Intel P-II (aka Klamath, P6), the AMD K6 (aka NX686), and the Cyrix 6x86MX (aka M2). These are all MMX capable 6th generation x86 compatible CPUs, however I am not going to discuss the MMX capabilities at all beyond saying that they all appear to have similar functionality. (MMX never really took off as the software enabling technology Intel claimed it to be, so its not worth going into any depth on it.) In what follows, I am assuming a high level of competence and knowledge on the part of the reader (basic 32 bit x86 assembly at least). For many of you, the discussion will be just slightly over your head. For those, I would re... 6TH, 11
Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
devops.com — Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis VALKEY, 12
Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits the AI Inference Wave
nextplatform.com — How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. AMPERE, 13
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion
news.ycombinator.com — Hey all, TALK, 14
The Illustrated Word2Vec (2019)
jalammar.github.io — Discussions: Hacker News (347 points, 37 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (151 points, 19 comments) Translations: Chinese (Simplified), French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian ILLUSTRATED, 15
Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms
news.ycombinator.com — Hey HN! We're a YC-backed company building robots that build solar farms. We recently completed the first commercial deployment of our system, and this is one of the first articles about it. ROBOTIC, 16
Dynamic Typography: Bringing Text to Life via Video Diffusion Prior
animate-your-word.github.io — DYNAMIC, 17
Why are there so many beetle species?
knowablemagazine.org — Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re members of a group of 40,000 species of leaf beetles, the Chrysomelidae, one of the most species-rich branches of the vast beetle order, Coleoptera. “You have your weevils, longhorns, and leaf beetles,” she says. “That’s really the trio that dominates beetle diversity.” WHY, 18
Introduce BPF Trampoline (2019)
lwn.net — Introduce BPF trampoline that works as a bridge between kernel functions, BPF programs and other BPF programs. The first use case is fentry/fexit BPF programs that are roughly equivalent to kprobe/kretprobe. Unlike k[ret]probe there is practically zero overhead to call a set of BPF programs before or after kernel function. The second use case is heavily influenced by pain points in XDP development. BPF trampoline allows attaching similar fentry/fexit BPF program to any networking BPF program. It's now possible to see packets on input and output of any XDP, TC, lwt, cgroup programs without disturbing them. This greatly helps BPF-based network troubleshooting. The third use case of BPF trampoline will be explored in the follow up patches. The BPF trampoline will be used to dynamicly link B... INTRODUCE, 19
Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol
supabase.com — Supabase Storage is now officially an S3-Compatible Storage Provider. This is one of the most-requested features and is available today in public alpha. Resumable Uploads are also transitioning from Beta to Generally Available. SUPABASE, 20
Git Bisect-Find
kevincox.ca — Posted on 2024-05-19This is a small utility that I wrote to compliment git bisect. git bisect is a fantastic tool. In the most basic usage you give it one “good” commit (a commit that doesn’t yet include some property) and at least one “bad” commit (one that does have it). git bisect will then guide you through the search, picking commits to test that cut the search space in half. This allows you to efficiently identify the first commit with a particular feature. However one of the premises of git bisect is that you know a good commit. Often times you notice a bug but don’t yet know a good version. Was that broken in the last release? Or is it new? Maybe it was broken unnoticed in the past couple of releases? Sure, you could start checking out various revisions to see if the bug is there, ... GIT, 21
Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems – Update on April 18
chenyilei.net — I am an assistant professor at Tsinghua University Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science (IIIS). Before joining Tsinghua I was a researcher at VISA Research. In 2018 I got my Ph.D. from Boston University under the guidance of Professor Ran Canetti and Professor Leonid Reyzin. I attended college at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I was seduced to science by an interesting problem. My research interest is cryptography. As cryptographers, our mission is to spread love with mystery. Occasionally I make comic slides to carry out my duty; see samples "Merkletree", "Napoleon", "Howareyou", "VAR", "KuleshovEffect", EC2020rump. New: Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems [ eprint || Github ] Update on April 18: Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know h... QUANTUM, 22
Eight Transaction Papers by Jim Gray
arxiv.org — arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. EIGHT, 23
Magnesium Depletion Score and Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults
oup.com — Xiaohao Wang, Zhaohao Zeng, Xinyu Wang, Pengfei Zhao, Lijiao Xiong, Tingfeng Liao, Runzhu Yuan, Shu Yang, Lin Kang, Zhen Liang, Magnesium Depletion Score and Metabolic Syndrome in US Adults: Analysis of NHANES 2003 to 2018, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2024;, dgae075, https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgae075 MAGNESIUM, 24
Francisco Varela
wikipedia.org — Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, cybernetician, and neuroscientist who, together with his mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism. FRANCISCO, 25
Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab
news.ycombinator.com — I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about). COMPOSABLE, 26
The Curse of Monkey Island
filfre.net — Fair Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and The Curse of Monkey Island. No puzzle spoilers, however… CURSE, 27
Why Dolphin Isn't Coming to the App Store
oatmealdome.me — Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store. This week, Delta, a multi-system emulator that was previously only available via AltStore, was released on the App Store. WHY, 28
The Endless Maze algorithm (Atari 2600)
gamesthatwerent.com — Speaking recently with Paul Allen Newell, who helped with the Games That Weren’t book due to his Vectrex connections, Paul flagged up with us recent stories of how his endless maze algorithm (developed for the Atari 2600) caused a bit of attention. Where researchers tried to figure out how it worked and who did what, as well as resolving mythologies uncovered in the process. It made for fascinating reading and I loved how everything came to light over a period of time. ENDLESS, 29
Paces (YC S22, Climate and AI) Is Hiring Engineers in NYC ycombinator.com
Chariot (YC S22) – Stripe/Visa for Nonprofits – Is Hiring a Senior Back End Eng ycombinator.com