WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
GitHub
GitHub - maharmstone/btrfs: WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows - maharmstone/btrfs
Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction? https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/29787/did-any-processor-implement-an-integer-square-root-instruction
Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
Has any processor ever implemented an integer square root instruction? Obviously, floating-point square root instructions are quite common, but I've never seen one specifically for integers.
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One cl...
Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02258
arXiv.org
Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in...
Transformer-based language models spread FLOPs uniformly across input sequences. In this work we demonstrate that transformers can instead learn to dynamically allocate FLOPs (or compute) to...
Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests https://github.com/stackframe-projects/pgmock
GitHub
GitHub - stack-auth/pgmock: In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests
In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests. Contribute to stack-auth/pgmock development by creating an account on GitHub.
How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals? https://bxt.rs/blog/just-how-much-faster-are-the-gnome-46-terminals/
bxt.rs
Just How Much Faster Are the GNOME 46 Terminals? | Ivan Molodetskikh’s Webpage
I use a hardware latency tester to measure how much the VTE-based terminals improved from GNOME 45 to GNOME 46.
Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card https://qdiv.dev/posts/eth2/
qdiv.dev
Discrete logic network card
Building a 10BASE-T Ethernet transceiver (receiver and transmitter) with discrete logic chips
2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson https://awards.acm.org/about/2023-turing
awards.acm.org
Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study is the recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award
For foundational contributions to the theory of computation, including reshaping our understanding of the role of randomness in computation
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Untergunther – Restoration of the Pantheon clock (2007) https://urban-resources.net/untergunther.html
Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD https://paulbupejr.com/developing-the-optigap-sensor-system/
Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555
There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/theres-a-dead-rabbit-in-seven-sisters-tube-station-71502/
ianVisits
There’s a 30-year old dead rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
For over thirty years, a dead rabbit has hung inside Seven Sisters tube station, and thousands of people walk past it every day without noticing.
An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data https://heatpumpmonitor.org/
Organizing OpenStreetMap mapping parties https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/blog/mapping-party-tips.html
contrapunctus.codeberg.page
Organizing OpenStreetMap mapping parties
Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P https://github.com/tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules
GitHub
GitHub - tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU with P2P support
NVIDIA Linux open GPU with P2P support. Contribute to tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules development by creating an account on GitHub.
Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/04/1242264274/siblings-science-identical-twin-brothers-autism-spectrum
NPR
These identical twins both grew up with autism, but took very different paths
Sam and John Fetters are identical twins with autism. But Sam is in college, while John still struggles to form sentences. Their experience may shed light on the disorder's mix of nature and nurture.
Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023) https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/11/24/tree-shaking-the-horticulturally-misguided-algorithm
wingolog.org
tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm — wingolog
wingolog: article: tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens https://kenkantzer.com/lessons-after-a-half-billion-gpt-tokens/
Ken Kantzer's Blog
Lessons after a half-billion GPT tokens - Ken Kantzer's Blog
My startup Truss (gettruss.io) released a few LLM-heavy features in the last six months, and the narrative around LLMs that I read on Hacker News is now starting to diverge from my reality, so I thought I’d share some of the more “surprising” lessons after…