top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-05

Bram Moolenaar has died

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

3 years ago

Just normal web things

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/

3 years ago

NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mission-update-voyager-2-communications-pause

3 years ago

New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-attack-steals-data-from-keystrokes-with-95-percent-accuracy/

3 years ago

Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1687535525169930241

3 years ago

nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990

https://www.funet.fi/

3 years ago

Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

https://twitter.com/andercot/status/1687740396691185664

3 years ago

MK-1

https://mkone.ai/blog/introducing-mk1

3 years ago

IBM and NASA open-source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-03-IBM-and-NASA-Open-Source-Largest-Geospatial-AI-Foundation-Model-on-Hugging-Face?sf180690117=1

3 years ago

Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/05/1632219/vims-creator-bram-moolenaar-dies-at-age-62

3 years ago

Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/110837319716739179

3 years ago

CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

https://southernillinoisnow.com/2023/08/05/ceos-pay-climbed-before-layoffs-at-tech-giants-like-alphabet-and-microsoft-data-shows/

3 years ago

AI won’t replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without AI

https://hbr.org/2023/08/ai-wont-replace-humans-but-humans-with-ai-will-replace-humans-without-ai

3 years ago

Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)

http://www.righto.com/2013/09/intel-x86-documentation-has-more-pages.html

3 years ago

Will browsers be required by law to stop you from visiting infringing sites?

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/04/will-browsers-be-required-by-law-to-stop-you-from-visiting-infringing-sites/

3 years ago

They didn’t ask to go viral

https://www.wired.com/story/social-media-privacy-consent/

3 years ago

Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and open source

https://jesseduffield.com/Lazygit-5-Years-On/

3 years ago

Try the last internet Kermit server

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10555-try-the-last-internet-kermit-server

3 years ago

“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer

https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/behold-a-digitization-of-the-most-beautiful-of-all-printed-books-the-kelmscott-chaucer.html

3 years ago

Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-not-impressed-by-global-dns-blocking-order-230803/

3 years ago

Double neural bypass restores movement, sense of touch after paralysis

https://feinstein.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/bioelectronic-medicine-researchers-restore-feeling-lasting-movement-in-man-living-with-quadriplegia

3 years ago

Cargo Cult AI

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595860

3 years ago

We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-re-closer-to-engineering-blood-vessels

3 years ago

How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf]

https://armkeil.blob.core.windows.net/developer/Files/pdf/graphics-and-multimedia/how-does-a-mobile-gpu-work.pdf

3 years ago

Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet

https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/

3 years ago

Duck DNS

https://www.duckdns.org/

3 years ago

Green vs. brown programming languages (2021)

https://earthly.dev/blog/brown-green-language/

3 years ago

Speed Up C++ Compilation

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/speed-up-c-compilation/30508

3 years ago

Satellite supergroup spots methane super-emitters

https://innovationorigins.com/en/satellite-supergroup-spots-methane-super-emitters-with-staggering-accuracy/

3 years ago

Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.3c01072

3 years ago

He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/#repost

3 years ago

Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics

https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/number-theory-and-evolutionary-genetics

3 years ago

Eventual Business Consistency

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/eventual-business-consistency

3 years ago

GitHub Actions and vanity metrics

https://jamesconroyfinn.com/github-actions-and-vanity-metrics

3 years ago

Disney discontinues DVD and Bluray production in Australia

https://www.whathifi.com/news/disney-discontinues-dvd-and-blu-ray-production-in-australia-effective-immediately

3 years ago

Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla

3 years ago

Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone

https://nutcroft.com/blog/laniakea-books-public-domain-books-for-everyone/

3 years ago

WASI: WebAssembly System Interface

https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI

3 years ago

Jim Keller and his pioneering work on chip design and architecture

https://www.edn.com/the-story-of-jim-keller-and-his-pioneering-work-on-chip-design-and-architecture/

3 years ago

The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)

https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/

3 years ago

E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

https://abolish.social/@_/110828271798284741

3 years ago

Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314435/

3 years ago

Tim Hunkin (Secret Lives of Machines)

https://www.timhunkin.com/control/o_about_the_site.htm

3 years ago

First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, a.k.a. flux-pinning

https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1687740396691185664

3 years ago

NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-helps-spot-wine-grape-disease-from-skies-above-california

3 years ago

The process of making fake food [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9E77WZGCpQ

3 years ago

Replacing the bad flyback transformer in Apple's Studio Display 17"

https://www.riveducha.com/fix-apple-studio-display-flyback

3 years ago

Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/scientists-of-chinese-descent-leaving-the-us-at-an-accelerating-pace/4017831.article

3 years ago

An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440323001073

3 years ago

Searching for Paul C. Pratt

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2023/08/05/searching-for-paul-c-pratt/

3 years ago

RIP Bram Moolenaar (by me, vi/Vim user for decades)

https://synystron.substack.com/p/rip-bram-moolenaar

3 years ago

Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy

https://warfantasy.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/soft-science-fiction-or-science-fantasy/

3 years ago

Mass Editing Memory in a Transformer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07229

3 years ago

The Myth of AI Omniscience: AI's Epistemological Limits

https://cpwalker.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-ai-omniscience-ais-epistemological

3 years ago

Italy is betting big on train travel

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/italy-tourist-trains-180982657/

3 years ago

The Earthsea Trilogy (2003)

https://dannyreviews.com/h/Earthsea.html

3 years ago

The Real Question Behind 'What Do You Want?'

https://lopespm.com/notes/2023/08/05/real_question_behind_what_you_want.html

3 years ago

Why We'll Stay Remote

https://supabase.com/blog/why-supabase-remote

3 years ago