Why we use our own hardware

907 nmjenkins 2024-12-22 08:36:31 UTC 516 fastmail.com Llama Share

Fastmail uses its own hardware for over two decades, planning purchases ahead of time and maintaining in-house operations experience. They've successfully moved to ZFS on NVMe SSDs for email servers, achieving significant performance improvements and cost savings.

GPT-5 is behind schedule

571 owenthejumper 2024-12-22 12:29:33 UTC 1071 wsj.com Full Share

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Cognitive load is what matters

530 zdw 2024-12-22 22:18:12 UTC 221 minds.md Llama Share

The user discusses the importance of reducing cognitive load in software development, which is caused by excessive complexity and unnecessary abstractions, and proposes a shallow-deep module principle to achieve this goal. They argue that this principle is more effective than other design patterns and principles, such as the Single Responsibility Principle, and can be applied to various ...

How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster

494 avinassh 2024-12-22 14:44:30 UTC 119 avi.im Llama Share

Researchers used Bloom filters to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries by reducing B-tree probes. They added two opcodes, Filter and FilterAdd, to check rows in a Bloom filter before probing the B-tree.

Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

418 thunderbong 2024-12-22 11:34:17 UTC 88 github.com/hoarder-app Llama Share

User wants a self-hosted bookmark app with AI features to manage links and notes. They built Hoarder to fill the gap left by Pocket and other self-hosting alternatives.

Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

411 matthiasl 2024-12-22 11:49:12 UTC 130 corelatus.com Llama Share

The Wall film features a telephone call scene with audible signalling, likely from the SS5 system used in the early 1980s. The decoded number is 044 1831, possibly a shortened real London number.

Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time

401 ladberg 2024-12-22 02:01:51 UTC 134 linkedin.com Full Share

I am thrilled to welcome Cameron Zwarich to the Lean FRO! As the brilliant creator of Rosetta 2 and an exceptional software developer with over 15 years of…

One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch

341 geox 2024-12-22 18:51:41 UTC 271 npr.org Llama Share

The author attended a Stammtisch in D.C. and learned about this German tradition of regular gatherings at a bar or restaurant. The author found it a nice way to socialize and is now inspired to start a similar group with friends.

Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

307 Gedxx 2024-12-22 20:51:44 UTC 114 twtxt.readthedocs.io Llama Share

Twtxt documentation is divided into parts including Installation, Quickstart, Introduction, Usage, and API sections. It covers twtxt's modules, classes, functions, and CLI usage.

Long Term Software Development

303 todsacerdoti 2024-12-22 17:14:26 UTC 147 berthub.eu Llama Share

The key to long-term software development is to carefully manage dependencies, keep code simple, and prioritize testing, documentation, and a stable team to ensure software longevity. A decade-long software project requires a thoughtful approach to dependencies, testing, documentation, and team stability to avoid complexity and maintainability issues.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

294 keepamovin 2024-12-22 11:21:04 UTC 89 poets.org Llama Share

The speaker stops to admire the snow-covered woods but knows they must leave to keep promises and travel further. The peaceful scene is a contrast to the speaker's obligations.

Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

285 KolmogorovComp 2024-12-22 09:59:28 UTC 33 github.com/princeton-vl Llama Share

Researchers from CVPR 2023 and 2024 presented Infinigen, a procedural generator using Blender Nodes and Python code. Infinigen uses open-source projects and tutorials from various creators, with contributions welcome for procedural generators and pre-generated data.

CUDA Moat Still Alive

216 pella 2024-12-22 22:47:09 UTC 169 semianalysis.com Llama Share

SemiAnalysis conducted a 5-month analysis of AMD's MI300X GPU, comparing it to Nvidia's H100 and H200, and found that MI300X's performance is held back by software issues. Despite its on-paper advantages, MI300X's real-world performance lags behind Nvidia's GPUs due to bugs and a lack of testing from AMD.

Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums

202 Trasmatta 2024-12-22 23:46:05 UTC 82 ukdefencejournal.org.uk Llama Share

War Thunder forums have faced controversy over leaked classified documents about the Eurofighter Typhoon's radar systems. The platform struggles to balance military accuracy with protecting sensitive information, risking serious legal consequences and operational security.

The essays of Michel de Montaigne online

197 octed 2024-12-22 05:16:37 UTC 46 hyperessays.net Llama Share

HyperEssays is a project to create a modern online edition of Michel de Montaigne's Essays, providing context and tools for readers. The project aims to make the Essays accessible and free to all, with contributions helping to support its growth.

Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker

189 todsacerdoti 2024-12-22 10:33:26 UTC 172 blog.polybdenum.com Llama Share

The user, a Rust expert, discusses four surprising limitations of Rust's borrow checker, including issues with hashmap lookups, async callbacks, and Send futures, which can be worked around but are still limitations of the type system. The user concludes that while Rust's type system is generally effective, occasional surprises and limitations can arise, and suggests that addressing these ...

I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24

188 wavelander 2024-12-22 05:48:55 UTC 124 kyunghyuncho.me Llama Share

The AI job market has changed dramatically, leaving PhD students and postdocs feeling anxious and frustrated due to the shift from research freedom to productization. The current pipeline of AI talent is being disrupted, making it difficult for students to find jobs that match their expectations.

Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)

186 fagnerbrack 2024-12-22 03:12:23 UTC 93 tidyfirst.substack.com Llama Share

Engineers think meetings cause deployment delays, but meetings may be a response to avoid overloading deployment. Reducing overhead actually increases pressure, so instead, increase deployment capacity.

CodeMic: A new way to talk about code

185 seansh 2024-12-22 08:27:16 UTC 58 codemic.io Llama Share

The author discusses how code is not literature and can't be read like a novel, but rather studied and examined like a specimen. They propose CodeMic, a platform that brings code and guides into the IDE for interactive exploration and experimentation.

The risk of cancer fades past the age of 80

179 gpi 2024-12-22 16:25:00 UTC 48 sciencealert.com Llama Share

Aging cells have lower iron function despite having more iron, limiting cell growth and cancer. Researchers found a protein called NUPR1 causes this effect, potentially leading to new cancer treatments targeting iron metabolism.

One surprising psychosis treatment that works: Learning to live with the voices

169 JumpCrisscross 2024-12-22 10:40:36 UTC 187 wsj.com Full Share

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The Jujutsu version control system

139 imajoredinecon 2024-12-22 18:29:23 UTC 50 neugierig.org Llama Share

Jujutsu (jj) is a Git frontend that simplifies version control by treating the working copy as a commit, allowing for easier editing and rebasing of code. It provides a different conceptual model and set of commands compared to Git, but still allows for interoperability with the larger Git ecosystem.

Murder Mystery: GCC builds failing after sbuild refactoring

139 pabs3 2024-12-22 07:31:22 UTC 65 linux.it Llama Share

Three investigators, Jochen Sprickerhof, Helmut Grohne, and the user, worked together to solve a GCC build error on Debian build servers. They narrowed down the issue to a problem with the D language tests sending signals to a process, specifically process.exe, which was causing the build to fail.

German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data

128 belter 2024-12-22 21:02:34 UTC 65 euronews.com Llama Share

Worldcoin, a biometrics identification project, has been issued a corrective measure by the German data protection authority for not meeting European data protection rules. The company has been ordered to delete user data in compliance with GDPR rules and has appealed the decision.

The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack

123 ramimac 2024-12-22 10:20:39 UTC 36 buildingslack.com Llama Share

Stewart Butterfield shut down Glitch in 2012 due to financial struggles and lack of players. He then pivoted to create Slack, a communication platform for teams, using the tools they had built internally.

Tokenisation Is NP-Complete

117 belter 2024-12-22 20:32:01 UTC 24 arxiv.org Llama Share

Researchers prove NP-completeness of direct and bottom-up tokenisation methods. Tokenisation involves compressing datasets to at most delta symbols.

When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

98 zdw 2024-12-22 21:24:08 UTC 49 utcc.utoronto.ca Llama Share

Two servers of the same model experienced kernel hangs and printed error dumps to their serial consoles during system firmware boot. A cool down period after power interruption restored them to normal service.

Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite

96 vsroy 2024-12-22 10:20:40 UTC 39 gist.github.com Embed Share

RAG Logger: An Open-Source Alternative to LangSmith

94 Brandon_Chen 2024-12-22 08:34:14 UTC 21 github.com/brandon-c-tech Llama Share

RAG Logger is an open-source logging tool for Retrieval-Augmented Generation applications, providing lightweight logging needs. It logs queries, retrieval steps, LLM interactions, and saves logs in a specified directory.

Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)

92 droideqa 2024-12-22 17:30:21 UTC 76 engineering.fb.com Llama Share

Facebook uses a system called Sigma to proactively identify and remove malicious content. They replaced the original language with Haskell, which improved performance and allowed for automatic concurrency and hot-swapping of code.

AI Decodes the Calls of the Wild

90 bookofjoe 2024-12-22 14:01:06 UTC 36 nature.com Llama Share

Researchers are using AI to decode animal communication, including sperm whales, elephants, and crows, to better understand their social behavior and improve conservation efforts. AI can help identify patterns in animal vocalizations, but human intuition and observation are still necessary to interpret the meaning behind these patterns.

Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly

88 thunderbong 2024-12-22 03:00:32 UTC 16 blog.smidt.dev Llama Share

The user is optimizing a lexer component for performance by exploring methods such as lookup tables and bit vectors to speed up character checks. They implemented a bit vector approach in Zig and Go, but were unable to leverage SIMD instructions due to limitations in the x86 architecture and Go's lack of inline assembly support.

ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement

84 franze 2024-12-22 21:27:14 UTC 40 openai.com Llama Share

OpenAI introduces new alignment strategy for o-series models, teaching safety and reasoning. It also expands alpha access to Reinforcement Fine-Tuning and updates the o1 system card with safety improvements.

Apple must ensure interoperability of iPhone with rivals, says EU

81 belter 2024-12-22 21:03:49 UTC 162 euronews.com Llama Share

I'm unable to summarize the input as it appears to be a random collection of characters.

MacKenzie Scott donates over $2B in 2024 to 199 organizations

80 Geekette 2024-12-22 08:47:34 UTC 92 yieldgiving.com Llama Share

The writer has donated $2 billion to 199 organizations, mostly non-profits, to support economic security and well-being. They aim to withdraw funds from mission-aligned ventures led by underrepresented groups to address social issues twice.

Something is wrong on the Internet

74 toss1 2024-12-22 20:33:04 UTC 101 lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Llama Share

The author argues that our digital lives are being manipulated by tech companies for profit, leading to a culture of "the Rot Economy." This is causing widespread dissatisfaction and annoyance.

JRuby with JBang

74 rockyj 2024-12-22 17:53:36 UTC 11 rockyj-blogs.web.app Llama Share

The user combined JBang's dependency management with JRuby to run a Javalin app, leveraging JVM performance and Ruby's productivity. This hacky setup allowed for a CRUD API with JWT auth, SQLite DB, and good performance on a Ryzen 7 CPU.

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas

67 wglb 2024-12-22 22:37:40 UTC 18 phys.org Llama Share

New research suggests humans arrived in the Americas earlier than thought, around 27,000 years ago, and coexisted with giant sloths and other massive animals for millennia. The findings challenge the "Pleistocene overkill" theory that humans caused mass extinctions of these animals upon arrival.

Fish has been ported to Rust

64 tcfhgj 2024-12-22 16:20:23 UTC 4 github.com/fish-shell Llama Share

fish 4.0.0 beta release notes include major changes such as porting the core code from C++ to Rust and new features like improved terminal integration and fuzzy subsequence filtering for option completion.

Being a developer in the age of reasoning AI

62 QueensGambit 2024-12-22 22:40:30 UTC 51 near.tl Llama Share

OpenAI's o3 launch makes developers question their relevance as AI generates code like humans do. The hands-on approach, where developers review and own AI-generated code, is crucial to maintain human reasoning and responsibility.

What Happened to the Largest Tube TV? [video]

62 zdw 2024-12-22 22:12:30 UTC 10 youtube.com Embed Share

The California job-killer that wasn't

57 RestlessMind 2024-12-22 17:26:58 UTC 94 theatlantic.com Llama Share

California's minimum wage increase to $20 an hour for fast-food workers did not lead to job losses as predicted. Instead, the state's fast-food sector gained jobs at a faster pace than the rest of the country.

Bogotá’s open streets program is the oldest and most successful

54 rntn 2024-12-22 18:53:03 UTC 9 slate.com Llama Share

Bogotá's Ciclovía, a weekly car-free event, celebrates its 50th anniversary, attracting over 1.5 million people and transforming the city's public space. The event has become a model for urban planning worldwide, promoting physical and mental well-being, and social cohesion.

The Riddle of Luigi Mangione

53 nth_degree 2024-12-22 18:54:15 UTC 109 gurwinder.blog Llama Share

The author met Luigi Mangione, a young man from a well-to-do family, who expressed concerns about losing agency in modern society. Luigi was intelligent and showed awareness of his own flaws, but his views on intergenerational trauma were unscientific.

Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network

51 pseudolus 2024-12-22 11:53:36 UTC 13 spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share

Researchers have successfully delivered and redeemed quantum tokens over a 10-kilometer fiber-optic network in Tokyo using off-the-shelf equipment. This technology uses quantum key distribution to create unbreakable tokens for secure data transmission.

Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?

49 navs 2024-12-22 11:09:54 UTC 58 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

You write on Substack, blending poetry, mental health, and software career topics after overcoming perfectionism. You seek feedback and recommendations for sharing your work.

Show HN: GitHub-assistant – Natural language questions from your GitHub data

48 aazo11 2024-12-22 00:41:27 UTC 16 github.com/reltadev Llama Share

github-assistant is a PoC built with Relta and assistant-ui, available for commercial and non-commercial use. Contact [email protected] or [email protected] for access and contributor information.

Co-Adapting Human Interfaces and LMs

46 anishathalye 2024-12-22 08:32:48 UTC 4 jessylin.com Llama Share

The digital world is adapting to language models, with websites and codebases changing to accommodate LMs, and researchers exploring new interfaces for LMs. This shift could lead to a future where LMs replace some human functions and change the way we interact with the Internet.

Telling Stories in Athenian Law [pdf] (2002)

44 asimpletune 2024-12-22 11:49:18 UTC 6 classicalstudies.org Full Share

O3 "Arc AGI" Postmortem

43 signa11 2024-12-22 17:15:41 UTC 15 garymarcus.substack.com Llama Share

OpenAI's o3 performance on ARC-AGI was misleading due to unclear explanations and pretraining. The test does not prove AGI capabilities, and more scientific scrutiny is needed to understand the actual advance.

Show HN: Convert ePub to audio files

43 rafael1mc 2024-12-22 17:15:31 UTC 8 github.com/rafael1mc Llama Share

The program parses an ePUB into sections and converts each to an audio file using text-to-speech. It's a proof of concept for listening to books when eyes are tired.

Whither Dashboard Design?

35 gpi 2024-12-22 21:39:39 UTC 9 surfingcomplexity.blog Llama Share

Charity Majors criticizes poorly designed dashboards that invite pattern-matching over present interrogation. She suggests dashboards should engage the human visual system immediately, guiding operators to the next diagnostic step.

Nostr is public key microblogging that works

33 ynniv 2024-12-22 23:06:54 UTC 14 github.com/nostr-protocol Llama Share

This NIP defines a protocol for events with a standard format and tags, and clients can subscribe to events using a websocket connection. Clients can send REQ messages with filters to relays, which return matching events and send new events in real-time.

US shoots down two of its own Navy pilots over Red Sea

33 n1b0m 2024-12-22 08:11:31 UTC 53 theguardian.com Llama Share

US Navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent case of friendly fire, but both were rescued alive. The incident highlights the dangers of the Red Sea corridor amid ongoing Houthi attacks on shipping despite US and European military patrols.

Minutes of a Meeting Held at Gear Ratio on Tuesday 13 June 78 [pdf]

33 akehrer 2024-12-22 01:45:23 UTC 8 forgottenweapons.com Llama Share

The meeting discussed production issues with Ferrovorm, including problems with the Mamba pistol's design and manufacturing, and the need for a tolerance study to be done on the gun. The team also discussed potential solutions to the problems, including moving the hole in the sear half a millimetre to resolve the fouling condition.

Gamblers behind half of abusive posts to tennis stars

30 gnabgib 2024-12-22 19:51:10 UTC 55 bbc.com Llama Share

An AI-led system detected 48% of abusive social media posts towards tennis players were from angry gamblers, prompting removal of 15 accounts and reporting to law enforcement. The system, Threat Matrix, protects 8,302 players and officials from abuse in 39 languages.

Behind Germany's political turmoil, a stagnating economy

30 bookofjoe 2024-12-22 13:10:30 UTC 52 nytimes.com Full Share

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2solitude – Honeywell TPE 331-12 refitted Antonov AN-2 camper

28 palmfacehn 2024-12-22 08:24:15 UTC 7 2solitude.com Llama Share

We created 2Solitude for adventure travel with home amenities. Our bush planes serve as mobile camps for quick access to new locations.

Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse

27 harryday 2024-12-22 06:47:19 UTC 28 solar.lowtechmagazine.com Llama Share

Historical public bathhouses were more energy-efficient and sustainable than modern private bathrooms, with some ancient Roman baths using as little as 60 ash trees per year for heating. Reviving public bathhouses could be a solution to reduce energy use and promote sustainability, but it would require addressing concerns about health, morals, and the fear of contagious disease.

What would it take to add refinement types to Rust?

25 leosarev 2024-12-22 22:07:49 UTC 3 yoric.github.io Llama Share

The user wants to extend Rust's type system to support refinement types, specifically units of measure, and proposes several ways to do this, including adding a type-level oracle function or plugging into rustc's trait resolution or type inference. The user suggests a lower-powered solution that discards unit information during trait resolution and performs late rejection of types before code ...

Database Release and End-to-End Testing: ClickHouse Database Cloning

25 LittleCat38 2024-12-22 15:14:38 UTC 2 qingant.notion.site Llama Share

Developers at Jerry created a system to clone ClickHouse databases, enabling end-to-end testing and controlled releases. This approach improves data quality, reliability, and consistency by replicating software development best practices in data management.

Show HN: Npflared serveless private NPM registry that you can host for free

25 thomas-cogez 2024-12-22 13:16:38 UTC 6 npflared.thomas-cogez.fr Full Share

A self hostable serverless private npm registry

How much does The Cloud really cost?

24 thunderbong 2024-12-22 16:16:18 UTC 9 baremetalsavings.com Llama Share

Prices are calculated based on factors such as usage and hardware. Accuracy varies due to changing costs and usage patterns.

T2 24.12 "Sky's the Limit " – 37 ISOs for 25 CPU ISAs

23 zdw 2024-12-22 21:31:42 UTC 3 t2sde.org Llama Share

T2 System Development Environment is a low-code package manager for custom OS development, supporting various CPU architectures and C libraries. It provides a clean reference Linux distro and supports cross-compilation of custom OS.

The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe

23 dnetesn 2024-12-22 13:43:53 UTC 8 nautil.us Llama Share

The two Sean Carrolls, a physicist and an evolutionary biologist, discuss their shared name, their paths to science, and the relationship between science and religion, finding common ground despite their differing perspectives. They also explore the origins of life, the possibility of life on other planets, and the importance of storytelling in science, highlighting the complexities and ...

As drugstores close, older people are left in 'pharmacy deserts'

21 lxm 2024-12-22 20:55:22 UTC 34 nytimes.com Full Share

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Show HN: AuthorTrail – Browse files you've touched in a Git repo

20 campfireshuffle 2024-12-22 10:18:57 UTC 0 github.com/sarimabbas Full Share

AuthorTrail helps you explore your Git repository's history by author. Find and browse files you've contributed to, with quick access to view and edit them. Note: A majority of the code in this repository was generated with Lovable and Cursor using the Claude 3.5 Sonnet LLM. This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Why are we using LLMs as calculators?

19 fzliu 2024-12-22 07:40:31 UTC 12 vickiboykis.com Llama Share

Researchers used OpenAI's 40 model to test if large language models can reason and solve math problems. The process involves training the model to predict the next word in a sentence, then fine-tuning it to perform specific tasks like summarization and math.

How Bad Is Link Rot?

17 ZacnyLos 2024-12-22 13:14:53 UTC 6 brainbaking.com Llama Share

The author tested link rot on their site Brain Baking and found 10% of links to be dead, but this dropped to 7% after using a proper user-agent. The largest number of failures came from the author's own domain jefklakscodex.com.

NetVentory – Modern single binary console NMAP replacement with GUI

16 RamboRogers 2024-12-22 18:15:19 UTC 9 github.com/ramborogers Llama Share

NetVentory is a terminal-based network inventory tool with a single binary and zero dependencies for effortless network discovery. It offers standard usage, debug logging, and customizable settings for network administrators and security professionals.

A chart that shows everything that has ever existed

16 asplake 2024-12-22 12:53:05 UTC 6 economist.com Llama Share

The universe's history can be understood as a sequence of condensations, with objects forming at specific densities. A chart plots every known object, raising the question: is the universe itself a black hole?

Stem cells head to the clinic: treatments for cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's

13 LinuxBender 2024-12-22 16:26:50 UTC 1 nature.com Llama Share

Andrew Cassy, a Parkinson's patient, received stem cells in a clinical trial in Sweden, where neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells were placed in his brain to replace damaged tissue. Researchers expect some stem-cell therapies to enter the clinic soon, with treatments for some conditions becoming part of general medicine in five to ten years.

ByteDance INFP: The AI That Brings Images to Life

13 sh_tomer 2024-12-22 12:50:44 UTC 2 pdftranslate.ai Llama Share

Bytedance introduced INFP, a powerful AI that brings still images to life by matching audio with realistic movements and lip-syncing. INFP enables seamless communication between AI agents and can be used in various fields, from customer service to gaming and virtual performances.

Experiment with LLMs and Random Walk on a Grid

11 attentionmech 2024-12-22 15:29:37 UTC 1 github.com/attentionmech Llama Share

User tested LLMs with random walk experiment, but gemma2:9b model behaves strangely by ignoring UP and DOWN directions. Other LLMs, including smaller ones, successfully simulate random walks with varying temperatures and grid sizes.

Planet Puppet – A weekend at the ventriloquist convention

11 pseudolus 2024-12-22 11:39:26 UTC 1 nplusonemag.com Llama Share

A ventriloquist convention in Kentucky brings together enthusiasts of the art, including children, adults, and seasoned professionals, to share their passion and showcase their skills. The convention is a celebration of the art form, with its history, techniques, and community, despite its decline in popularity and the challenges faced by its practitioners.

Suprnova's Founder Speaks: 20 Years, Many Lessons, and a YouTube Empire

11 franczesko 2024-12-22 11:20:42 UTC 2 torrentfreak.com Llama Share

Andrej Preston, aka Sloncek, founded Suprnova.org in 2002, a pioneering torrent site that became a hub for file-sharing and piracy. He later pursued a career in online video production, launching The Infographics Show on YouTube, which now has 14 million subscribers and over 6 billion views.