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Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66wbG
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Simulating Jupiter (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66zzC
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Bottle Plotter (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66rvH
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American flag sort (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66zim
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Reverse engineering a software crack (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66xrH
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Apple's risky bet on CarPlay (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66y93
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How a photographer captured his eclipse photo (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66rjR
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language (Score: 155+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66xhT
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Rabbit R1 source code [part 1] (🔥 Score: 168+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66yeU
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The Man Who Killed Google Search (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66xQa
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Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66rzG
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Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66vDN
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Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66wBN
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Dify, a visual workflow to build/test LLM applications (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66tN8
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Phi-3 Technical Report (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
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GPU compute in the browser at the speed of native: WebGPU marching cubes (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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ESPHome (Score: 153+ in 9 hours)
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I'm giving up on open source (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66zGP
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FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66znJ
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Apple releases CoreNet, a library for training deep neural networks (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66zyY
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Network visualization of 50k blogs and links (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
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Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66xjx
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One of my goals with Ada is to have a one-liner copy-paste terminal command for people to install Ada so they can get to coding in just a few minutes. After extensive testing I feel like it's ready for general release[1].
Getada was inspired by Rustup[2] and aside from the init script is written entirely in Ada.
It's completely open source and you can check out the readme and code on github[3]. It currently supports all non-windows platforms that Alire has an official release for, which at present is Linux (glibc) and MacOS. If you try running it on an unsupported platform, it tries to point you in the right direction. For example, you can install Alire on windows with an already-existing installer.
It downloads the latest version of Alire[4] (Ada's toolchain and package manager, similar to Cargo) for your platform as a zip file to a temporary directory and then extracts it to a binary directory. By default the temporary directory (configure with "-t /directory" or "--tmp=/directory") defaulted to $TMPDIR or /tmp. The config directory is ~/.getada (change via "-c /directory", "--cfg=/directory", or $GETADA_CFG), and the alr and getada binaries go in ~/.getada/bin (configure with ""-b /directory", "--bin=/directory", or $GETADA_BIN). It also tries to add the file to your path by dropping a "env.sh" file into ~/.profile/ (disable with -p or --no-path).
If you don't allow executables in temporary or home directories, you can change all of these via environmental variables or passing parameters.
You can remove it all by running: getada --uninstall
Now you can create a brand new Ada project with: alr init --bin my_project (How to use Alire[5] for more details)
Since one of the biggest complaints about Ada is getting the toolchain [6], I hope this can solve a lot of problems for newcomers to the language.
[1] https://www.getada.dev
[2] https://rustup.rs/
[3] https://github.com/aj-ianozi/getada
[4] https://alire.ada.dev/
[5] https://www.getada.dev/how-to-use-alire.html
[6] https://programming.dev/comment/9438211
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes (🔥 Score: 201+ in 32 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66yuu
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New Foundations is consistent – a difficult mathematical proof proved using Lean (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66wRE
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Show HN: 10 Level Balancing Game for the Mobile Browser w/ increasing difficulty (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66wEA
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I made this 10 level Game. Excited for people to try it. :) Stay Balanced :)
AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an Accidental Expert on Conway's Game of Life (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/66x5F
I drifted into the Conway's Life research community in 2001 when I won a small cash prize for a lucky discovery of something called a "boojum reflector". My involvement has gradually snowballed since then. Off and on I've helped maintain various Life-related mailing lists and blogs, the Life Lexicon, and more recently the conwaylife.com forums and LifeWiki.
Another thing I stumbled into was helping Nathaniel Johnson complete an improbably thorough 480-page Conway's Life textbook, with end-of-chapter exercises and everything. The book could be used to teach a college-level class on the subject. https://conwaylife.com/book/ has a free PDF download for the book.
So... I'm not the cleverest Lifenthusiast by a long shot, but for a random question about the Game of Life, I'm more likely to know something about it than at least 99.9999% of the world's population. Ask me anything!
Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents? (Score: 155+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/66vJJ
I have a friend whose parents are getting up in years. They're still functional enough that they want to be independent and surf the web, check their stocks, etc. He has some remote desktop software installed on their PCs, and antivirus installed and locked down. But they keep destroying their PCs with downloads, keep turning airplane mode on for their phones and can't figure out how to disable it, and recently his dad got in a cleaning mood and deleted a bunch of system files and bricked his machine. He's almost to the point of setting up an Intune tenant just to onboard and lock down his parents devices. Any suggestions on how to manage phones and PCs of the elderly to keep them functional but useful?
HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66uk9
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Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently? (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/66tcb
You get nerd-sniped. Assigned a bug to squash. Some new tech or gadget arrived, to familiarize yourself with.
While researching / reading up / debugging, you stumble upon something interesting. Upon looking into that, yet another subject catches your attention.
You know how this goes. So... (see title). Bonus questions: what intermediate steps did you pass along the way? What stuck in your mind the most?
The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/66siE
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