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Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ianF
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Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iiYw
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Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ihCc
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Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ihVk
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Hey guys,
I built a route planner that is mostly focused on bike touring and using existing bike infrastructure.
For each request you're shown what bike tracks/trails your route uses and can further explore them by showing them on map or going to the official trail route.
The main idea for the app is to have a friendly and easy to use planner that would make heavy use of official bike trails data (mainly from OpenStreetMap) and make it easy to plan a longer trip using the best possible bike routes out there.
Currently the app only works for the Euro region but I'm planning to add North America very soon and then rest of the world.
Technical overview:
Route finding - Graphhopper sitting in a docker container on a Hetzner server somewhere in Germany. It has 38 GB of graph data(Europe) loaded into RAM for a fast graph traversal.
Web App - Next.js 14 with Typescript, backend on the newest version of .NET
Map tiles - right now I'm using MapTiler their free tier but planning to switch to my own home server soon and host the maps on it.
The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction (Score: 153+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iiZp
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PHP 8.4 (Score: 159+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ijv8
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Hyrum's Law in Golang (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ijfe
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Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6ifqU
Hey fellow HN enthusiasts!
I'm looking to expand my Bluesky feed with accounts that share interesting, tech-related content, similar to what we discuss here on HN.
A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ijqf
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Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6igTW
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1-Bit AI Infrastructure (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hZPw
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Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iiqX
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Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pokémon Go player data (Score: 155+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ieE8
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT (Score: 157+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ihk9
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Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media (🔥 Score: 157+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6igAf
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Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6imj9
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I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3].
I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate this open research replication as well. Happy to answer any questions or face any feedback.
Cheers
[1] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04093
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05147
Handling cookies is a minefield (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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The meme-ification of the "Demon Core" (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Show HN: We open-sourced our compost monitoring tech (Score: 153+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iiFd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6iiFd
I'm from a compost tech startup (Monty Compost Co.) focused on making composting more efficient for households and industrial facilities. But our tech isn’t just for composting— it’s a versatile system that can be repurposed for a wide range of applications. So, we’ve made it open source for anyone to experiment with!
One of the exciting things about our open-source compost monitoring tech is its flexibility. You can connect it to platforms like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other single-board computers to expand its capabilities or integrate it into your own projects.
Our system includes sensors for:
* Gas composition
* Temperature
* Moisture levels
* Air pressure
All data can be exported as CSV files for analysis. While it’s originally built for monitoring compost, the hardware and data capabilities are versatile and could be repurposed for other applications (IoT, environmental monitoring, etc.)
Hacker’s Guide to Monty Tech: https://github.com/gtls64/MontyHome-Hackers-Guide
If you’re into data, sensors, or creative tech hacks, we’d love for you to check it out and let us know what you build!
ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ijLH
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Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript (Score: 153+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iiug
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Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6iitz
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Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ii3M
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How good are American roads? (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6igQ9
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The withering dream of a cheap American electric car (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6i8zz
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What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (🔥 Score: 160+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6igEd
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