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OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f6Pg
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DOJ accuses Visa of debit network monopoly, impacts price of 'nearly everything' (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f7WV
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Tracy: A real time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f5Kr
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Maker Pipe – Structural Pipe Fittings for DIY Builders (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f5Td
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Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) (Score: 153+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f5EN
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Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f5XA
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WP Engine sent "cease and desist" letter to Automattic (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f5v2
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Direct link to letter: https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-De...
Related article on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/22/matt-mullenweg-calls-wp-en...
Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f4L6
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What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f4bm
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In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f4Hv
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Intel's Redwood Cove: Baby Steps Are Still Steps (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eZbx
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Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6f4FK
https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j...
This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It's about how to organize programs around data "as plain data" and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and significantly easier understand.
Java has changed radically over the last several years. It has picked up all kinds of new language features which support data oriented programming (records, pattern matching, `with` expressions, sum and product types). However, this is not a book about tools. No amount of studying a screw-driver will teach you how to build a house. This book focuses on house building. We'll pick out a plot of land, lay a foundation, and build upon it house that can weather any storm.
DoP is based around a very simple idea, and one people have been rediscovering since the dawn of computing, "representation is the essence of programming." When we do a really good job of capturing the data in our domain, the rest of the system tends to fall into place in a way which can feel like it’s writing itself.
That's my elevator pitch! The book is currently in early access. I hope you check it out. I'd love to hear your feedback.
You can get 50% off (thru October 9th) with code `mlkiehl`
https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j...
The Intelligence Age (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f4i9
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Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f3zH
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GPU Puzzles (❄️ Score: 154+ in 5 days)
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Giving T cells extra batteries supercharges them against cancer (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f6Mk
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Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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Move Fast and Abandon Things (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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Winamp Legacy player source code is now open (🔥 Score: 150+ in 52 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f74n
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Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f6EJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6f6EJ
Hi HN,
After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I've open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap.
You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no 'open-core' model here. Check out the repo (https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap). The map data comes from OpenStreetMap.
I also provide weekly full planet downloads both in Btrfs and MBTiles formats.
I aim to cover the running costs of the public instance through donations.
Looking forwards for your feedback.
Using YouTube to steal your files (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eWaX
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iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video] (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f5f4
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Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f477
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We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f5bb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6f5bb
Hey HN, we recently fine-tuned the llama3.1 405B model on 8xAMD MI300x GPUs using JAX instead of PyTorch. JAX's advanced sharding APIs allowed us to achieve great performance. Check out our blog post to learn about the cool sharding tricks we used. We've also open-sourced the code: https://github.com/felafax/felafax
We're a small startup building AI infra for fine-tuning and serving LLMs on non-NVIDIA hardware (TPUs, AMD, Trainium).
Problem: Many companies are trying to get PyTorch working on AMD GPUs, but we believe this is a treacherous path. PyTorch is deeply intertwined with the NVIDIA ecosystem in a lot of ways (e.g., `torch.cuda` or scaled_dot_product_attention is an NVIDIA CUDA kernel exposed as a PyTorch function). So, to get PyTorch code running on non-NVIDIA hardware, there's a lot of "de-NVIDIAfying" that needs to be done.
Solution: We believe JAX is a better fit for non-NVIDIA hardware. In JAX, ML model code compiles to hardware-independent HLO graphs, which are then optimized by the XLA compiler before hardware-specific optimization. This clean separation allowed us to run the same LLaMA3 JAX code both on Google TPUs and AMD GPUs with no changes.
Our strategy as a company is to invest upfront in porting models to JAX, then leverage its framework and XLA kernels to extract maximum performance from non-NVIDIA backends. This is why we first ported Llama 3.1 from PyTorch to JAX, and now the same JAX model works great on TPUs and runs perfectly on AMD GPUs.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on our vision and repo!
A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f2xF
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Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated (❄️ Score: 168+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eTs6
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Alan Turing's 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf] (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f2tv
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Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE) (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f2ei
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Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eZGk
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I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock (Score: 167+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6f2Nd
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