Hacker News 100 3 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 3 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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Hacker News 100 3 months ago

Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197187

Hacker News 100 3 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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Hacker News 100 3 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 3 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 3 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.

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All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 3 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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Hacker News 100 3 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 3 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.

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Hacker News 100 3 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

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45156414

Hacker News 100 3 months ago

Axial twist theory Link:

Axial twist theory - Wikipedia

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154142

Hacker News 100 3 months ago

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory Link:

I Replaced Animal Crossing's Dialogue with a Live LLM by Hacking GameCube Memory

How I replaced Animal Crossing

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45192655

Hacker News 100 4 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.

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Hacker News 100 4 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...

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Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables | Hacker News

Hacker News 100 4 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 4 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

Hacker News 100 4 months ago

Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale Link: https://derwiki.medium.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-and-then-don-t-scale-9fd2cd7e2156 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44925380

Hacker News 100 4 months ago

What does it mean to be thirsty? Link:

Quanta Magazine

What Does It Mean To Be Thirsty? | Quanta Magazine

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870445

Hacker News 100 4 months ago

Inside OS/2 (1987) Link:

GitPius

Inside OS/2

by Vaughn Vernon from the December 1987 issue of Computer Language OS/2, Microsoft’s latest addition to its operating system line, could well bec...

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Inside OS/2 (1987) | Hacker News