May 12, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-05-12

Good Morning, Hackers! Here are today's top stories:

1. Garbage Collectors Are Scary
   
   
2. Automatically Detecting Under-Trained Tokens in Large Language Models
   
   
3. Roll A Lisp In C – Reading (2020)
   
   
4. Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
   
   
5. Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)
   
   
6. Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6
   
   
7. 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI
   
   
8. Show NH: "data-to-paper" - autonomous stepwise LLM-driven research
   
   
9. Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983)
   
   
10. Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext
    
    
11. Emoji History: The Missing Years
    
    
12. Binius: Highly efficient proofs over binary fields
    
    
13. PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software
    
    
14. 100k Stars
    
    
15. Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head
    
    
16. Brazil's catastrophic weather spawns spate of conspiracy theories
    
    
17. Citation Needed – Wikimedia Foundation's Experimental LLM/RAG Chrome Extension
    
    
18. The Software Behind Silicon
    
    
19. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
    
    
20. Vision Transformers Need Registers
    
    
21. Running CHIP-8 on an HP 48 calculator (2020)
    
    
22. Show HN: Multilspy – Cross platform framework to develop Language Server Clients
    
    
23. Show HN: Attempt to bring a cinematic experience in 256 bytes (WASM)
    
    
24. There's Not Enough Power for America's High-Tech Ambitions
    
    
25. Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics
    
    
26. Roger Corman Dead: King of B Movies was 98
    
    
27. System Analysis and Programming (1966)
    
    
28. Fathom (YC W21) is hiring a TPM to prototype new AI features
    
    
29. Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard
    
    
30. Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)