Svelte Hacker News

Why are smokestacks so tall? (practical.engineering)

167 points by azeemba a day ago | 42 comments

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PyOpticL – Code-to-CAD optical system engineering (github.com)

14 points by cinquemb 9 hours ago | 1 comment

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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] (ml-site.cdn-apple.com)

324 points by amrrs a day ago | 183 comments

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Log-Linear Attention (arxiv.org)

21 points by sva_ 9 hours ago | 3 comments

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Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client (tensorzero.com)

118 points by paulwarren a day ago | 26 comments

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I Went Inside the Factory for the Insane Printer Everyone's Talking About [video] (youtube.com)

5 points by YZF an hour ago | 1 comment

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If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999) (dspace.mit.edu)

99 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 53 comments

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Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise (blog.pkh.me)

120 points by ux a day ago | 9 comments

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Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer (blocksandfiles.com)

208 points by rbanffy a day ago | 82 comments

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Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo (veitner.bearblog.dev)

123 points by timmyd a day ago | 60 comments

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EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers (eff.org)

70 points by hn_acker 9 hours ago | 2 comments

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A masochist's guide to web development (sebastiano.tronto.net)

264 points by sebtron a day ago | 44 comments

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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation (flightaware.engineering)

410 points by cratermoon a day ago | 181 comments

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Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) (atlasobscura.com)

126 points by mooreds a day ago | 84 comments

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Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator (godmodeai.cloud)

135 points by lyogavin a day ago | 106 comments

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Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record (heise.de)

188 points by doener 5 days ago | 57 comments

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Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games (odyc.dev)

239 points by achtaitaipai a day ago | 50 comments

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The startling rise of disability in America (2013) (apps.npr.org)

70 points by pseudolus 10 hours ago | 107 comments

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Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device (networkedartifacts.com)

464 points by 256dpi 3 days ago | 182 comments

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What you need to know about EMP weapons (aardvark.co.nz)

156 points by flyingkiwi44 2 days ago | 188 comments

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I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water (nytimes.com)

68 points by rufus_foreman 7 hours ago | 154 comments

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Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024) (sumsar.net)

68 points by Tomte 9 hours ago | 30 comments

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Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp (storytotell.org)

112 points by todsacerdoti a day ago | 54 comments

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What “working” means in the era of AI apps (a16z.com)

98 points by Brysonbw a day ago | 74 comments

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Too Many Open Files (mattrighetti.com)

154 points by furkansahin a day ago | 107 comments

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Curate your shell history (esham.io)

138 points by todsacerdoti a day ago | 73 comments

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