The best of Hacker News - October 13, 2024

1.
Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

544 points

2.
Diffusion for World Modeling

410 points

3.
The quiet art of attention

354 points

4.
Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

335 points

5.
CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

313 points

6.
Turkish language has a gossip tense

265 points

7.
FLUX is fast and it's open source

236 points

8.
Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

229 points

9.
Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably

216 points

10.
Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why

204 points

11.
Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]

184 points

12.
ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

180 points

13.
The 1/8th Sleep

179 points

14.
Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world

172 points

15.
DuckStation

168 points

16.
Restic: Backups done right

162 points

17.
Omni SenseVoice: High-Speed Speech Recognition with Words Timestamps

158 points

18.
Putting a full power search engine in Ecto

142 points

19.
Gleam: A Basic Introduction

136 points

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