Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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X (formerly Twitter)
jess ᯅ (@spatiallyjess) on X
Today I learned the city of Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free for anyone to download 👀
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Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
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Considerations on Codecrafting
Four limitations of Rust’s borrow checker
I’ve been using Rust for hobby projects since 2016 and have been working professionally in Rust since 2021, so I tend to consider myself pretty knowledgeable about Rust. I’m already familiar with all the common limitations of Rust’s type system and how to…
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More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market (❄️ Score: 153+ in 4 days)
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WSJ
More Men Are Addicted to the ‘Crack Cocaine’ of the Stock Market
Gamblers Anonymous meetings are filling up with people hooked on trading and betting.
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Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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Rfleury
Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy Of A Running Program
On the concepts involved in a running program. What happens, exactly, when you double click an executable file, or launch it from the command line, and it begins to execute?
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macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
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GitHub
GitHub - Jaennaet/pISSStream: App that shows how full the International Space Station's urine tank is in real time, available for…
App that shows how full the International Space Station's urine tank is in real time, available for macOS (menu bar), iOS, watchOS and visionOS - Jaennaet/pISSStream
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Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
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sakana.ai
Sakana AI
Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models
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I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24 (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Merry Christmas Everyone (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
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What are some of your favorite memories from Christmas? Share them here :)
- Josh :)
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What are some of your favorite memories from Christmas? Share them here :)
- Josh :)
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T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804 (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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Medium
Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
In 2016, an EgyptAir A320 spiraled into the Mediterranean, killing 66 people. Was it an act of sabotage, or something even scarier?
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Trying out QvQ – Qwen's new visual reasoning model (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
Trying out QvQ—Qwen’s new visual reasoning model
I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache 2.0 licensed Qwen licensed (the license changed) QvQ-72B-Preview, “an …
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Why making friends as an adult is harder (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
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The Established
Why making true friendships as an adult is harder than ever | The Established
Seeking and maintaining meaningful equations becomes difficult as we grow older. Does it always have to be like that?
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Ruby 3.4.0 (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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www.ruby-lang.org
Ruby 3.4.0 Released
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This open problem taught me what topology is [video] (Score: 156+ in 7 hours)
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YouTube
This open problem taught me what topology is
The inscribed square/rectangle problem, solved using Möbius strips and Klein bottles.
Playlist with more neat proofs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPSKntUcMArGheySM4gL7wS
Instead of sponsored ad reads, these lessons are funded directly…
Playlist with more neat proofs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPSKntUcMArGheySM4gL7wS
Instead of sponsored ad reads, these lessons are funded directly…
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Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
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Hello, I'm working on a web browser that focuses on being truly lightweight and designed for privacy.
At some point I've realized that much of the complexity and resource requirements of web browsers comes from JavaScript. This is because every part needs to be dynamic and optimized for speed.
So a few years ago I've started to work on a web browser that intentionally doesn't implement JavaScript, instead it contains an updated set of scripts that fix and improve various websites.
I've been using this approach using a proxy server for a few years as my primary way of web browsing with good results. It uses a whitelist approach where no resources are loaded from different domains by default (the fix scripts can override it to load images from CDNs, etc.). This avoids any trackers by default.
You can find more details on the homepage of the project:
https://www.fixbrowser.org/
I'm currently running a fundraiser to get it really going. All the foundation blocks are there it just needs some more work. Any support is welcome.
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6k4pT
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Hello, I'm working on a web browser that focuses on being truly lightweight and designed for privacy.
At some point I've realized that much of the complexity and resource requirements of web browsers comes from JavaScript. This is because every part needs to be dynamic and optimized for speed.
So a few years ago I've started to work on a web browser that intentionally doesn't implement JavaScript, instead it contains an updated set of scripts that fix and improve various websites.
I've been using this approach using a proxy server for a few years as my primary way of web browsing with good results. It uses a whitelist approach where no resources are loaded from different domains by default (the fix scripts can override it to load images from CDNs, etc.). This avoids any trackers by default.
You can find more details on the homepage of the project:
https://www.fixbrowser.org/
I'm currently running a fundraiser to get it really going. All the foundation blocks are there it just needs some more work. Any support is welcome.
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CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
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Blur Busters
CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than BFI - Blur Busters
Who Is this for? CRT Enthusiasts, software & hardware developers, emulator authors, all of who wish to reduce display motion blur of 60 years of legacy 60fps 60Hz content with softer flicker than BFI. UPDATE 2024/12/24: It just got added to Retroarch emulator…
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Show HN: I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for.
I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4].
To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric.
I would love your feedback on the site :)
Happy Holidays!
[1]: https://www.mixedbread.ai/docs/embeddings/mxbai-embed-large-...
[2]: https://milvus.io/
[3]: https://www.gradio.app/
[4]: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/Cornell-University/arxiv
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As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for.
I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4].
To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric.
I would love your feedback on the site :)
Happy Holidays!
[1]: https://www.mixedbread.ai/docs/embeddings/mxbai-embed-large-...
[2]: https://milvus.io/
[3]: https://www.gradio.app/
[4]: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/Cornell-University/arxiv
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Cognitive load is what matters (❄️ Score: 152+ in 2 days)
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minds.md
Cognitive load is what matters
There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.
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Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported (Score: 153+ in 17 hours)
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It seems the day has arrived. Merry Christmas from the folks at Google, I guess.
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It seems the day has arrived. Merry Christmas from the folks at Google, I guess.
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Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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LinuxBlog.io
Immutable Linux Distros: Are They Right for You? Take the Test.
Like the amber in “Jurassic Park,” immutable Linux distros safeguard the core system. Here's a story about how I, like many of you, have been using Linux
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