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My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984) (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66ddG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66ddG
Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66dcD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66dcD
Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/669a7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/669a7
Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66dt3
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66dt3
Math Puzzles (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66bTR
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66bTR
I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66cSs
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66cSs
Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir (Score: 153+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66c2D
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66c2D
Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66brv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66brv
Goldene: A single atom layer of gold (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66c4E
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66c4E
Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project (Score: 156+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66bdc
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AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66aE6
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66aE6
libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66a77
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66a77
Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/669x5
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Reddit is taking over Google (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66aEX
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Future of Humanity Institute shuts down (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66a7Q
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Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG (Score: 153+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66aKt
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You Need a "WTF Notebook" (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66e2u
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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66dac
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Meta Llama 3 (🔥 Score: 213+ in 32 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66dQf
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How Antithesis finds bugs (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66aRm
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Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions (Score: 153+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/669nD
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Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media and driving some to suicide (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/664Gu
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66cPZ
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Show HN: BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/669t5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/669t5
Hey everyone!
I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on throughout my university studies. It’s called BiTE (https://github.com/WINSDK/bite) and it's a tool primarily focused on being an executable viewer with reverse engineering capabilities.
BiTE supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux, along with their associated executable formats. It’s also capable of parsing and displaying debug information using DWARF/PDB formats, which I hope will be useful even for just comparing codegen.
I’ve put a lot of effort into this and it's the first time I'm releasing something like this publicly. Any feedback, bug reports, or feature suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66c2k
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Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (Score: 156+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66biz
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The forgotten war on beepers (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66axQ
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CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66aLV
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Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly) (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66aGf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/66aGf
Here's a project I've been working on for the last few months.
It's a new (I think) algorithm, that allows to adjust smoothly - and in real time - how many calculations you'd like to do during inference of an LLM model.
It seems that it's possible to do just 20-25% of weight multiplications instead of all of them, and still get good inference results.
I implemented it to run on M1/M2/M3 GPU. The mmul approximation itself can be pushed to run 2x fast before the quality of output collapses.
The inference speed is just a bit faster than Llama.cpp's, because the rest of implementation could be better, but with a better development I think it can be a new method to speed up inference - in addition to quantization.
You could call it ad-hoc model distillation :)
You can change the speed / accuracy of a model at will, in real time.
Oh, and as a side effect, the data format allows to also choose how much of the model you want to load into the memory. You can decide to skip say 10-20-40% of the least important weights.
It's implemented for Mistral, it was also tested slightly on Mixtral and Llama. It's for FP16 for now, but Q8 is in the works.
The algorithm is described here, and the implementation is open source.
https://kolinko.github.io/effort/
I know these are bold claims, but I hope they survive the scrutiny :)
Show HN: Render audio waveforms to HTML canvas using WebGPU (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6642Y
Hey HN. I built this quick and dirty component to render audio waveforms using WebGPU. I just published it to NPM.
It's the first time I use WebGPU and it's been a while since I write shaders. Feedback is very welcome!
GitHub: https://github.com/mrkev/webgpu-waveform
Examples: https://aykev.dev/webgpu-waveform