Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Gordon Bell has died
• The curious case of the missing period
• What UI density means and how to design for it
• CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
• iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
• Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)
• Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file
• Frog or Toad?
• The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]
• Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures
• Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder
• Roame (YC S23) is hiring a founding back end engineer
• 40-Year old BASICA utility code for teaching
• Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
• Show HN: I recreated Jeffery Ventrella's "Particle Life"
• Shipbreaking
• Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
• Shadow Robot’s three-fingered hand is robust enough for reinforcement learning
• Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook
• Reversing Choplifter
• Ask HN: How does modern FreeCAD compare with Solidworks?
• Taking Risk
• Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
• Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images
• Matryoshka Representation Learning with CLIP
• How Might We Learn?
• We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM
• Waxolotl – A small language that compiles to WebAssembly text format
• Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag
• The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible