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1. We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x (redplanetlabs.com)
954 points by tekacs on Aug 15, 2023 | 355 comments
2. How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible? (finbarr.ca)
685 points by birriel on Aug 15, 2023 | 227 comments
3. Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider (phoronix.com)
850 points by marcodiego on Aug 15, 2023 | 387 comments
4. Opendream: A layer-based UI for Stable Diffusion (github.com/varunshenoy)
472 points by varunshenoy on Aug 15, 2023 | 137 comments
5. The OpenTF Manifesto (opentf.org)
633 points by CathalMullan on Aug 15, 2023 | 379 comments
6. Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media (archive.org)
406 points by leotravis10 on Aug 14, 2023 | 183 comments
7. ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule (arstechnica.com)
483 points by LinuxBender on Aug 15, 2023 | 363 comments
8. Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration (tristam.ie)
393 points by rcarmo on Aug 15, 2023 | 162 comments
9. Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript (github.com/a16z-infra)
429 points by ykhli on Aug 14, 2023 | 115 comments
10. How should I read type system notation? (langdev.stackexchange.com)
349 points by mpweiher on Aug 15, 2023 | 92 comments
11. Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React (joshcollinsworth.com)
526 points by inner_square on Aug 15, 2023 | 629 comments
12. The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm (mindmatters.ai)
303 points by momirlan on Aug 15, 2023 | 449 comments
13. Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21 (java.net)
222 points by philonoist on Aug 15, 2023 | 120 comments
14. Show HN: Llama2 Embeddings FastAPI Server (github.com/dicklesworthstone)
178 points by eigenvalue on Aug 15, 2023 | 31 comments
15. Selling open-source software (thenewstack.io)
191 points by webmaven on Aug 15, 2023 | 82 comments
16. Lynn Conway's Story (2000) (umich.edu)
171 points by panic on Aug 15, 2023 | 39 comments
17. Show HN: Layerform – Open-source development environments using Terraform files (github.com/ergomake)
124 points by lucas_vieira on Aug 15, 2023 | 23 comments
18. Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics (probml.github.io)
183 points by abhi9u on Aug 15, 2023 | 19 comments
19. Show HN: Lottielab – Create product animations in the browser easily (lottielab.com)
154 points by thegeomaster on Aug 15, 2023 | 57 comments
20. Be sceptical of your own work (2009) (terrytao.wordpress.com)
138 points by creer on Aug 15, 2023 | 39 comments
21. How to be successful as a research mathematician? Follow your gut (nature.com)
99 points by webmaven on Aug 15, 2023 | 65 comments
22. Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (pluralistic.net)
142 points by samizdis on Aug 15, 2023 | 30 comments
23. Why Darwin admired the earthworm (nautil.us)
95 points by sohkamyung on Aug 15, 2023 | 37 comments
24. The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V (github.com/cube9999)
149 points by hggh on Aug 12, 2023 | 52 comments
25. Why host your own LLM? (marble.onl)
262 points by andy99 on Aug 15, 2023 | 132 comments
26. Peter Shor's MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing (math.mit.edu)
165 points by programd on Aug 14, 2023 | 45 comments
27. Code Is Not Literature (2014) (gigamonkeys.com)
219 points by fanf2 on Aug 15, 2023 | 137 comments
28. Anti Warez Association, 1 (1993) (defacto2.net)
122 points by hggh on Aug 14, 2023 | 81 comments
29. Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story (wired.com)
137 points by Geekette on Aug 14, 2023 | 120 comments
30. GPU-Accelerated LLM on an Orange Pi (mlc.ai)
214 points by tosh on Aug 15, 2023 | 80 comments

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