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Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007) (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jAvw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jAvw
Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyf2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyf2
When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jzt7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jzt7
Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups (Score: 154+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jzaF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jzaF
Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jqtm
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jqtm
Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxWk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxWk
Buzee is a file search application that helps you find your files effortlessly.
As a modern-day knowledge worker, I have several thousand documents, presentations and other files on my computer. I built Buzee in my free time to help me weave my way through this maze. I have been using it pretty much everyday since the day I built it - and I love it!
I thought I could turn Buzee into a startup. I reached out to offices and helped set it up for them. But it didn't pan out.
I am now letting go of this project because I have other priorities in life.
Please feel free to do with this project as you wish. I am happy to help you get started with the codebase.
Do share what you build. I would love to see it!
Cheers
Conversations are better with four people (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6js3B
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6js3B
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyUi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyUi
Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyfa
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyfa
NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6juc9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6juc9
Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxAG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxAG
Svader is a library for rendering 2D shaders on Svelte websites, using either WebGL or WebGPU.
It's streamlined for the specific use case of rendering 2D graphics using fragment shaders as an alternative to SVG or the JS canvas API, so it's not meant for doing 3D objects like three.js, for example.
This started as something I needed for my own project, but I eventually decided to split it into a separate library. I've since found that this use case fits really well into the Svelte compiler-based approach and its fine-grained reactivity system.
In general, I think using shaders like these has some really positive upsides compared to traditional ways of doing graphics on the web — not just for games and stuff, but also for something like data visualizations and aesthetic details. My dream is that one day, you'll see web developers using small, isolated shader components ubiquitously across web applications, just as naturally as something like SVGs are used today.
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxjC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxjC
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
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwF9
My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6juJk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6juJk
Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model) (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyDb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyDb
A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b) (🔥 Score: 160+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jzST
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jzST
The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxZ2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxZ2
Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxBc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxBc
Hi Hacker News,
I've created Chord Nebula, a simple web-based game designed to help users learn and practice piano chords, basic progressions, and harmony fundamentals. The game integrates with MIDI keyboards, allowing you to play chords in real-time and receive immediate feedback based on the key you choose.
GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/yottanami/chord_nebula
Live Demo: https://chords.yottanami.com
Requirements:
To use Chord Nebula, you'll need a MIDI keyboard connected to your computer.
Current Status:
Chord Nebula is still a simple project. I'm committed to improving it based on user feedback and would greatly appreciate any support or contributions from the community.
Looking for Feedback and Collaborators:
I'm eager to hear your thoughts on Chord Nebula! Whether it's suggestions for new features, improvements, or bug reports, your feedback is invaluable. Additionally, if you're interested in collaborating to enhance the game, feel free to reach out or contribute directly via GitHub.
Thanks for taking the time to check out Chord Nebula!
Using Libc for GPUs (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jnPw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jnPw
IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jytQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jytQ
Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwHi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwHi
I made a public transport route planning program that's capable of planning journeys across Europe or North America! There's only one other FOSS project I know of (MOTIS/Transitous) that can do transit routing at this scale, and in the testing I've performed mine is about 50x faster. I've spent a few weeks on this project now and it's getting to the point where I can show it off, but the API responses need a lot of work before they're usable for any downstream application.
Example query (Berlin to Barcelona): https://farebox.airmail.rs/plan/52.5176122,13.4180261/41.380...
There are some bugs still. Notably, it's not capable of planning the return trip for this route, nor the reverse of the trip from Seattle to NYC that I gave in the blog post.
Blog post: https://blog.ellenhp.me/performant-intracontinental-transit-...
Repo: https://github.com/ellenhp/farebox
Side-note but in the past some have criticized my writing style and it's been a bit hurtful at times but if you have constructive feedback on the blog post I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to get better at writing. :)
They See Your Photos (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyCx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyCx
People who are good at reading have different brains: study (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jvLw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jvLw
Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024 (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jttj
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jttj
I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxq7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxq7
Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video] (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwM7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwM7
Uv, a fast Python package and project manager (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxpu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxpu
The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jpzz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jpzz
Htmx 2.0.4 Released (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwQ7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwQ7