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Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video] (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwM7
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Uv, a fast Python package and project manager (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxpu
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The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jpzz
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Htmx 2.0.4 Released (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwQ7
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McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwAy
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Exotic new superconductors delight and confound (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jfYL
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Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32 (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jvFx
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Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jv4z
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Colour in the Middle Ages (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jjhE
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Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made (Score: 153+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jvem
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Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jw8a
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MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jvRM
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Librebooting the ThinkPad T480 (❄️ Score: 151+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jcCA
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Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6juje
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Test (🔥 Score: 152+ in 36 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jv3k
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Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxeU
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Luon programming language (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwF9
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My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6juJk
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The Myth of Bananaland (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jd6G
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macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwNx
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Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn? (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6jvMQ
Hey HN! A few weeks ago, meet.hn was released: (Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539125)
We are now about 1700 hackers willing to meet each other in almost 700 locations worldwide.
Since then, some requested features and bug fixes have been implemented:
- locations are now searchable and not restricted to a simplistic city-country pair
- locations work with diacritics and diverse languages
- new socials: personal website, email, Mastodon, Discord, GitLab, Google Scholar, YouTube, etc.
- upon user request, I can now showcase your local meetups on your location listing, as it's done for Old Toronto: [1]
About actual meetings, I'm aware of around a dozen so far, but I think many more occurred.
Why am I writing this post?
About 80% of the ~1700 signups happened in the first 36 hours after launch.
As expected, signups dropped pretty quickly, and now it gains about one new user every other day.
I think a ton of global value (and local joy) can emerge from HN users meeting each other.
That's why I'm writing this post. To answer the question: how can we meet more? and how can meet.hn help?
What I thought about:
1. Implementing RSS for each location: helpful for RSS users only, and not that useful if there are no new registrations.
2. Email notification system: wide audience, but requires users to give their emails.
3. Turning meet.hn into some sort of an atproto [3] project, or at least leveraging it somehow. Might be more Bluesky centric (if we use labels, for example), but maybe not?
4. A bookmarklet which, once clicked when on a HN post, would insert a meet.hn logo next to all user names of users commenting there and registered on meet.hn
5. An HN "proxy website" which would copy HN in every way, but would add the meet.hn logo just like the bookmarklet described point 4 would do, but everywhere and automatically.
6. Create Telegram (or equivalent) channels for each location
But all of these ideas are unideal fixes. The lowest common denominator between everyone on HN... is HN.
Hence, meeting right from HN would be best. An MVP for this could be to have a "willing to meet" attribute with a boolean value (like the "showdead" or "noprocrast" attributes).
When enabled, an icon would be shown next to the user name in threads.
I talked to dang, and even if the idea of implementing something on HN is not out of the question, it is not on the roadmap yet.
Let's discuss all of this in the comments. Looking forward to hearing what you think.
[1] https://meet.hn/city/43.6534817,-79.3839347/Old-Toronto
[2] https://meet.hn/city/43.6044622,1.4442469/Toulouse
[3] https://atproto.com/
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwmA
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Donald Bitzer has died (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6junQ
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OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwtY
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Making my first robot as a software engineer (❄️ Score: 154+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jkMP
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Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jjhR
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What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf] (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jtBJ
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Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers (Score: 151+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6juff
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Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jtKU
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The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jsgu
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