Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record — and Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

Issue #1352 — December 21, 2023

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Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record news.ycombinator.com \| points: 463 \| comments: 127

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Advice for new software devs who’ve read all those other advice essays buttondown.email \| points: 332 \| comments: 286

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Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch github.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 86

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Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective reuters.com \| points: 276 \| comments: 281

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Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla’s EV charging plug theverge.com \| points: 259 \| comments: 432

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High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs github.com \| points: 249 \| comments: 48

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The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell lwn.net \| points: 248 \| comments: 80

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LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory huggingface.co \| points: 239 \| comments: 48

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Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode khronos.org \| points: 235 \| comments: 96

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Rite Aid banned from using AI facial recognition for five years ftc.gov \| points: 224 \| comments: 79

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Build a search engine, not a vector DB blog.elicit.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 73

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Wireflow – free, online, open source tool for creating user-flow prototypes wireflow.co \| points: 172 \| comments: 20

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CUDA vs. ROCm: A case study shihab-shahriar.github.io \| points: 153 \| comments: 71

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What’s next for Tor and privacy online? blog.torproject.org \| points: 148 \| comments: 60

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A KDE Plasma theme that aims to replicate the look and feel of Windows 7 gitgud.io \| points: 146 \| comments: 61

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Trying chDB, an embeddable ClickHouse engine antonz.org \| points: 138 \| comments: 12

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There’s a Concorde Engine Complete with Afterburner for Sale on eBay simpleflying.com \| points: 136 \| comments: 103

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The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier switchyardmag.com \| points: 135 \| comments: 96

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Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app notesnook.com \| points: 135 \| comments: 116

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Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features podman-desktop.io \| points: 133 \| comments: 70

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