top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-05-26

Paper Airplane Designs

https://www.foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2

3 years ago

Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases

https://twitter.com/PGeldsetzer1/status/1661776663074738176

3 years ago

0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years

https://play0ad.com/

3 years ago

Times New Bastard

https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard

3 years ago

Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-shipment-zero-gives-up-most-important-part-climate-pledge-2023-5

3 years ago

htmx

https://htmx.org/

3 years ago

There oughta be a bullet time video booth

https://there.oughta.be/a/bullet-time-video-booth

3 years ago

Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/layoffs-push-down-scores-on-glassdoor

3 years ago

Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023

https://thedriven.io/2023/05/26/tesla-model-y-overtakes-corolla-to-be-worlds-best-selling-car-in-2023/

3 years ago

Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefinitely-postponed/

3 years ago

Micromouse: The fastest maze-solving competition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

3 years ago

Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-stops-firefox-fullscreen-vpn-ads-after-user-outrage/

3 years ago

What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft?

https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1662115266933972993

3 years ago

Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard

https://www.fretboardfly.com

3 years ago

The Silent (R)evolution of SAT

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/6/273222-the-silent-revolution-of-sat/fulltext

3 years ago

New work helps to explain how chronic stress can inflame the gut

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01700-y

3 years ago

Emissions are no longer following the worst case scenario

https://theclimatebrink.substack.com/p/emissions-are-no-longer-following

3 years ago

That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/OnHTMLViaStringTemplates

3 years ago

Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018)

https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-underused-part-1-of-n/

3 years ago

Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/killer-whales-wreck-boat-latest-attack-off-spain-2023-05-25/

3 years ago

AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ai-is-catapulting-nvidia-toward-the-1-trillion-club-14f42380

3 years ago

418 I'm a teapot

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

3 years ago

GCP CloudSQL Vulnerability Leads to Internal Container Access and Data Exposure

https://www.dig.security/post/gcp-cloudsql-vulnerability-leads-to-internal-container-access-and-data-exposure

3 years ago

Phishing domains tanked after Meta sued Freenom

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/phishing-domains-tanked-after-meta-sued-freenom/

3 years ago

George Takei recalls his childhood in an internment camp

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fqggwq/george-takei-recalls-his-childhood-in-an-internment-camp

3 years ago

Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023/05/25/ford-ev-customers-to-gain-access-to-12-000-tesla-superchargers--.html

3 years ago

Tree of Thoughts

https://github.com/kyegomez/tree-of-thoughts

3 years ago

Making $10k/m from a French learning app

https://www.highsignal.io/companies/making-10k-m-french-learning-app/

3 years ago

Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36088224

3 years ago

Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)

https://masteringmonero.com/book/Mastering%20Monero%20First%20Edition%20by%20SerHack%20and%20Monero%20Community.pdf

3 years ago

Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01732-4

3 years ago

MIT Course: Generative AI for Constructive Communication

https://ai4comm.media.mit.edu/

3 years ago

How the lemon was invented (2018)

https://www.trueorbetter.com/2018/05/how-lemon-was-invented.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36081540

3 years ago

Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension

https://carina.app/hnux

3 years ago

12 years since Saab’s bankruptcy: Secret NEVS electric cars revealed

https://www.vibilagare.se/english/12-years-saabs-bankruptcy-secret-nevs-electric-cars-revealed

3 years ago

Am I the Unethical One?

https://dailynous.com/2023/05/25/am-i-the-unethical-one-a-philosophy-professor-his-cheating-students/

3 years ago

XFS metadata corruption after upgrade to 6.3.3 kernel

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2208553

3 years ago

Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy

https://deno.com/blog/node-builtins-on-deploy

3 years ago

Fontemon: Video Game in a Font

https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

3 years ago

A PhD student's perspective on research in NLP in the era of LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12544

3 years ago

The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15717

3 years ago

Fluent 2 Design System

https://fluent2.microsoft.design/

3 years ago

Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953)

https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html

3 years ago

What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups

https://www.supervised.news/p/what-neevas-quiet-exit-tells-us-about

3 years ago

Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/isml/book.pdf

3 years ago

India official empties dam to retrieve lost phone

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65726193

3 years ago

TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles down to Vimscript

https://github.com/tpope/timl

3 years ago

Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project

https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/wa200003696?tab=overview&exp=kyyw

3 years ago

Homebrew Hercules Graphics Card

https://www.root42.de/blog/?p=757

3 years ago

Cloud, Why So Difficult?

https://www.winglang.io/post/cloud-why-so-difficult

3 years ago

Flowers for Turing

https://equalitytime.github.io/FlowersForTuring/

3 years ago

Raspberry Pi/PlatformIO conflict blocks support for Pico-Arduino toolchain

https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36

3 years ago

Biosphere 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

3 years ago

Agent GPT – Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in the browser

https://agentgpt.reworkd.ai/

3 years ago

How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/how-much-of-ais-recent-success-is-due-to-the-forer-effect/

3 years ago

Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with LLMs

https://voyager.minedojo.org/

3 years ago

Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/a-decade-after-it-mattered-windows-xps-activation-algorithm-is-cracked/

3 years ago

Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESCO status

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/swedens-250-year-old-freedom-of-the-press-act-awarded-unesco-status

3 years ago

Show HN: I made an in-browser code editor with code replay and REPL

https://logicboard.com/demo

3 years ago

90% of laid-off H1-B visa holders were able to find new work

https://fortune.com/2023/05/26/90-of-laid-off-h1-b-visa-holders-were-able-to-find-new-work-against-all-odds-heres-what-the-data-tells-us-about-americas-complicated-relationship-with-foreign-born-talent/

3 years ago

Want to buy a West Texas ghost town? Now’s your chance

https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/want-to-buy-a-west-texas-ghost-town-nows-your-chance/

3 years ago

I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

https://twitter.com/jntrnr/status/1662229886386442242

3 years ago

Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/puerto-rico-us-territory-crisis

3 years ago

Why is Betelgeuse glowing so brightly and behaving so strangely?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/26/its-new-territory-why-is-betelgeuse-is-glowing-so-brightly-and-behaving-so-strangely

3 years ago

Weird, Rare, and Everywhere

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/weird-rare-and-everywhere/

3 years ago

A novel about video games became a surprise best seller

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/books/gabrielle-zevin-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow.html

3 years ago

Daniel Micay publicly steps down from GrapheneOS

https://github.com/thestinger/daniel.micay.dev/commit/79e44b41190cd5c64c4ccd9fec4301ee6008da53

3 years ago

The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/windows_xp_activation_cracked/

3 years ago

Please stop sending me emails written by GPT

https://mkbaio.substack.com/p/please-stop-sending-me-emails-written

3 years ago

Stripe Launches PayPal Integration In Europe

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/paypal

3 years ago

Din 1450, recommended for barrier-free reading

https://www.linotype.com/6990/din-1450.html

3 years ago