Hacker News 100 8 months ago

California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month Link:

California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this excerpt from a Los Angeles Times newsletter: One of the most consequential moments in California

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567645

Hacker News 100 8 months ago

Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook Link:

GitHub

GitHub - sirbread/spellscript: esotoric programming language that's read like a spellbook

esotoric programming language that's read like a spellbook - sirbread/spellscript

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Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured Link:

digitalcourage.social

Patrick Breyer (@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social)

Attached: 1 image 🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting the EU's #ChatControl bill as proposed! The blocking minority needed to stop this illegal...

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Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

The Scam Called "You Don't Have to Remember Anything" Link:

The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything” • Zettelkasten Method

Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory. Building deep knowledge through active learning remains essential for ...

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We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal Link:

GitHub

GitHub - mmulet/term.everything: Run any GUI app in the terminal❗

Run any GUI app in the terminal❗. Contribute to mmulet/term.everything development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines Discussion:

Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Supabase OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community Link:

OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community

Supabase is explicitly making available a non-exclusive license of the OrioleDB patent to all OrioleDB users in accordance with the OrioleDB license.

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OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Hypervisor in 1k Lines Link:

Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines

Write your first hypervisor from scratch, in 1K LoC.

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Hypervisor in 1k Lines | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities Link:

Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities

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Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone" | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity Link:

Ars Technica

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171733

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images Link:

Bottlefire - Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

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Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls Link:

ScienceDaily

NASA finds Titan’s alien lakes may be creating primitive cells

Saturn’s moon Titan may be more alive with possibilities than we thought. New NASA research suggests that in Titan’s freezing methane and ethan...

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NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Go for Bash Programmers – Part II: CLI Tools Link:

GitHub

GitHub - go-monk/from-bash-to-go-part-ii: Go for Bash Programmers II - CLI Tools

Go for Bash Programmers II - CLI Tools. Contribute to go-monk/from-bash-to-go-part-ii development by creating an account on GitHub.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45167436

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging Link:

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

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Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Axial twist theory Link:

Axial twist theory - Wikipedia

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Axial twist theory | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory Link: https://joshfonseca.com/blogs/animal-crossing-llm Discussion:

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 9 months ago

Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference Link:

Ars Technica

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44992832

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Apple Watch wearable foundation model Link:

arXiv.org

Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions

Wearable devices record physiological and behavioral signals that can improve health predictions. While foundation models are increasingly used for...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973375

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells Link:

Ars Technica

Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike battery

Tiny French firm wants to keep a few bad cells from spoiling a lot of e-bikes.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936535

Hacker News 100 10 months ago

Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis Link: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-law-gives-grid-operator-power-to-disconnect-data-centers-during-crisi/751587/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44940416