The best of Hacker News - October 11, 2024

1.
$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

370 points

2.
"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

364 points

3.
Working from home is powering productivity

310 points

4.
How long til we're all on Ozempic?

282 points

5.
Game Programming in Prolog

262 points

6.
Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

245 points

7.
Proposal: JavaScript Structs

221 points

8.
A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp

220 points

9.
"Bad Apple" in Minecraft

217 points

10.
Conway's Gradient of Life

213 points

11.
Lm.rs: Minimal CPU LLM inference in Rust with no dependency

201 points

12.
Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP

189 points

13.
Research in psychology: are we learning anything?

177 points

14.
Designing a Fast Concurrent Hash Table

176 points

15.
Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs

170 points

16.
Bridge to Nowhere

163 points

17.
Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away

161 points

18.
Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)

157 points

19.
Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python

155 points

20.
Initial CUDA Performance Lessons

150 points

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