12 Months of Mandarin https://isaak.net/mandarin/
Isaak.net
12 Months of Mandarin
Estimates for achieving intermediate fluency in Mandarin Chinese range up to spending years and around 4000 total hours (2,200h classroom hours, 1,800 outside). I did it in 1500 hours total and less than a year.[1]
1. There is a lot of disagreement…
1. There is a lot of disagreement…
Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first https://onestack.dev
onestack.dev
One, a React Framework
One is a React framework focused on simplicity that lets you target both web and native at once with a single Vite plugin.
The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023) https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html
Righto
Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight
The Soviet space program used completely different controls and instruments from American spacecraft. One of the most interesting navigati...
An e-waste dumping ground https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/10/05/g-s1-6411/electronics-public-health-waste-ghana-phones-computers
NPR
Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it
Three photojournalists have created an in-depth report on electronic waste — its negative and ... positive ... consequences.
Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html
Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and took it to the Arctic https://github.com/cepa/aegir-gps-tracker
GitHub
GitHub - cepa/aegir-gps-tracker: Aegir GPS/LTE/Iridium Tracker
Aegir GPS/LTE/Iridium Tracker. Contribute to cepa/aegir-gps-tracker development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991) https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can't https://www.wired.com/story/this-homemade-ai-drone-software-finds-bodies-when-search-and-rescue-teams-cant/
WIRED
This Homemade Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t
British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes.
Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel https://spectrum.ieee.org/fukushima-reactor
IEEE Spectrum
How a Robot Is Grabbing Fuel From a Fukushima Reactor
Like manipulating rovers on Mars, there’s little room for error
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf
My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine https://nullonerror.org/2024/10/08/my-first-game-with-carimbo/
NULL on error
My First Game with Carimbo, My Homemade Engine, For my Son
https://youtu.be/nVRzCstyspQ
Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components https://player.style
player.style
player.style - Video & audio player themes for every web player & framework
Video and audio player themes that work for any web player (Video.js, Youtube embeds, and more), and with every web app framework (HTML, React, and more). Open source and built with Media Chrome so they’re fully customizable using just HTML and CSS.
Addition Is All You Need for Energy-Efficient Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00907
arXiv.org
Addition is All You Need for Energy-efficient Language Models
Large neural networks spend most computation on floating point tensor multiplications. In this work, we find that a floating point multiplier can be approximated by one integer adder with high...