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What Excessive Screen Time Does to the Adult Brain (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fC8T
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The bunkbed conjecture is false (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fzZy
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VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fA2s
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OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fAsY
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AMD GPU Inference (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fyWQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fyWQ
An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fAgz
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American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fA5Z
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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwZB
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Serialization Is the Secret (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fp92
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NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fyDk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fyDk
A Local-First Case Study (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fxdK
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fxdK
Radio Shack Catalog Archive (1939-2011) (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fxUg
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Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds vintage liquor at bottom of lake (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fye5
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Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021) (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fxiX
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Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6frZE
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6frZE
Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fC7F
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fC7F
Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf] (🔥 Score: 158+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fByF
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Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fyBZ
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John Wheeler saw the tear in reality (❄️ Score: 154+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6frBr
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SlateDB – An embedded database built on object storage (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fxWc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fxWc
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwaV
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
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The Fastest Mutexes (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fA7N
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Why TCP needs 3 handshakes (❄️ Score: 153+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fnAx
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300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fx7r
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Show HN: I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (No Visuals/Sound) (🔥 Score: 162+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fzrD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fzrD
Hello everyone! I just launched an iOS game called Tik! and it has no visuals or sound of any kind.
So the obvious question is.. how do you play it?
The game uses your phone’s Haptics in order to play a rhythm of “Tiks” (haptic vibrations). The user then has to try and recreate the timing of the rhythm they just felt by tapping it anywhere on the screen. It sounds easy, but getting the timing right is tricky, and so it usually takes a couple tries before your able to get it right.
The inspiration for the game came from wanting something to do in a really boring presentation. It would have been disrespectful to look at my phone, but I also needed a distraction. I typically hold my phone in these kinds of scenarios, and fiddle with the case, when it occurred to me: what if there was a game I could play just holding the phone anywhere (under a desk, in my pocket, to the side, etc.). Sometime later Tik! was born :)
I would love your feedback on it. The game is paid, but if someone would like a promo code to try it please let me know below.
Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6720712299
The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fx5i
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How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video] (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fy5F
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Math from Three to Seven (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fyek
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Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwU3
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwU3
Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwHS
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwHS
Hi HN,
We’re Brendan and Michael, the creators of Sourcebot (https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot). Sourcebot is an open-source code search tool that allows you to quickly search across many large codebases. Check out our demo video here: https://youtu.be/mrIFYSB_1F4, or try it for yourself on our demo site here: https://demo.sourcebot.dev
While at prior roles, we’ve both felt the pain of searching across hundreds of multi-million line codebases. Using local tools like grep were ill-suited since you often only had a handful of codebases checked out at a time. Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/) solves this issue by indexing a collection of codebases in the background and exposing a web-based search interface. It is the de-facto search solution for medium to large orgs, but is often cited as expensive ($49 per user / month) and recently went closed source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41296481). That’s why we built Sourcebot.
We designed Sourcebot to be:
- Easily deployed: we provide a single, self-contained Docker image (https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot/pkgs/container/so...).
- Fast & scalable: designed to minimize search times (current average is ~73ms) across many large repositories.
- Cross code-host support: we currently support syncing public & private repositories in GitHub and GitLab.
- Quality UI: we like to think that a good looking dev-tool is more pleasant to use.
- Open source: Sourcebot is free to use by anyone.
Under the hood, we use Zoekt (https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt) as our code search engine, which was originally authored by Han-Wen Nienhuys and now maintained by Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-accepting-zoekt-mai...). Zoekt works by building a trigram index from the source code enabling extremely fast regular expression matching. Russ Cox has a great article on how trigram indexes work if you’re interested: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html
In the shorter-term, there are several improvements we want to make, like:
- Improving how we communicate indexing progress (this is currently non-existent so it’s not obvious how long things will take)
- UX improvements like search history, query syntax highlighting & suggestions, etc.
- Small QOL improvements like bookmarking code snippets.
- Support for more code hosts (e.g., BitBucket, SourceForge, ADO, etc.)
In the longer-term, we want to investigate how we could go beyond just traditional code search by leveraging machine learning to enable experiences like semantic code search (“where is system X located?”) and code explanations (”how does system X interact with system Y?”). You could think of this as a copilot being embedded into Sourcebot. Our hunch is that will be useful to devs, especially when packaged with the traditional code search, but let us know what you think.
Give it a try: https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot. Cheers!