top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-28

WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

https://jamesbvaughan.com/southwest-wifi/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi 5

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

3 years ago

LibrePCB

https://librepcb.org/

2 years ago

That's a Lot of YAML

https://noyaml.com/

3 years ago

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/

2 years ago

Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D

https://github.com/fill3d/fill

2 years ago

Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?

https://rocknerd.co.uk/2023/09/28/bandcamp-has-been-sold-to-songtradr/

2 years ago

Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37689282

2 years ago

Amtrak Explorer

https://amtrakexplorer.com/

2 years ago

FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation

https://www.freerdp.com/

2 years ago

Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/epic-games-is-cutting-about-900-jobs-or-16-of-staff

2 years ago

Conversation with Zuckerberg, this time we talked as photorealistic avatars

https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1707453830344868204

2 years ago

WebGPU Technical Report

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/security/research/graphics/webgpu_technical_report.md

2 years ago

As We May Think (1945)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

3 years ago

Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their libraries

https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/

2 years ago

Tao Te Ching

https://taoism.net/tao-te-ching-online-translation/

3 years ago

Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06585-5

3 years ago

Crux: Cross-platform app development in Rust

https://redbadger.github.io/crux/

2 years ago

Google Ending Support for Jamboard

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/the-next-phase-of-digital-whiteboarding-for-google-workspace.html

2 years ago

Ads team begging for worse search results so that ads team can hit their goals

https://twitter.com/pdrmnvd/status/1707395736458207430

2 years ago

Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist

https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/noam-chomsky-explains-why-nobody-is-really-a-moral-relativist-even-michel-foucault.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Lessons learned from implementing user-facing analytics / dashboards?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37687798

2 years ago

Interactive GCC (igcc) is a read-eval-print loop (REPL) for C/C++

https://github.com/alexandru-dinu/igcc

3 years ago

The saga of the Closure compiler, and why TypeScript won

https://effectivetypescript.com/2023/09/27/closure-compiler/

3 years ago

Bing Chat responses infiltrated by ads pushing malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware/

2 years ago

Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been 'felled'

https://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/23819352.sycamore-gap-northumberland-damaged-storm-agnes/

2 years ago

Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? (2019)

https://grantwinney.com/websites-requesting-access-to-motion-sensors/

2 years ago

Cloudflare is now powering Microsoft Edge Secure Network

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-now-powering-microsoft-edge-secure-network/

2 years ago

Prophetic Perfect Tense

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

3 years ago

Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0370

2 years ago

Airliner Repair, 24/7 Boeing’s traveling fix-it team (2008)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/airliner-repair-247-9974457/

2 years ago

How async/await works internally in Swift

https://swiftrocks.com/how-async-await-works-internally-in-swift

2 years ago

Discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year

https://this.alicorn.gay/post/729670550209937408/discord-as-a-filehost-will-no-longer-be-possible

2 years ago

How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27741/how-were-the-signs-for-logical-and-arithmetic-operators-decided

2 years ago

Winklevoss twins secretely withdrew $280M in assets before crypto firm collapsed

https://nypost.com/2023/09/27/winklevoss-twins-secretly-withdrew-282m-in-gemini-assets-before-genesis-collapse-sources/

2 years ago

Why do cats love boxes so much?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-do-cats-love-boxes-so-much

3 years ago

Very high number of workplace accidents at Tesla factory in Germany

https://globeecho.com/news/europe/germany/a-striking-number-of-work-accidents-in-the-tesla-factory-in-grunheide/

2 years ago

Upcycled Bicycle Panniers DIY

https://rackhackers.com/

3 years ago

Japan’s silent movie culture is still going

https://petertasker.asia/articles/culture/think-again-al-jolson-japans-silent-movie-culture-is-still-going-strong/

2 years ago

Snap shutters its enterprise services division after less than a year

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/snap-shutters-its-enterprise-services-division-after-less-than-a-year/

2 years ago

What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090

2 years ago

Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-4-e-operating-system

2 years ago

What codegen is good for

https://www.figma.com/blog/what-codegen-is-actually-good-for/#aAkZ9

2 years ago

US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/surgeons-suicide-doctors-physicians-mental-health

3 years ago

Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/09/28/scientists-unveil-fire-safe-fuel

2 years ago

A trilobite found with a full stomach

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/we-finally-know-for-sure-what-a-trilobite-ate/

3 years ago

Show HN: Abuse inflight WiFi APIs to track your flight

https://github.com/NalinPlad/OuterFlightTracker

2 years ago

RackNES: NES Module for VCV Rack

https://github.com/Kautenja/RackNES

2 years ago

The German group buying ticket dodgers out of prison

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66664823

3 years ago

Making Gaussian Splats more smaller

https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/27/Making-Gaussian-Splats-more-smaller/

3 years ago

DHS uses travel as pretext for search of researcher and journalist

https://papersplease.org/wp/2023/09/28/dhs-uses-travel-as-pretext-for-search-of-researcher-and-journalist/

2 years ago

Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/testing-pcie-on-raspberry-pi-5

2 years ago

Sweden turns to military to help police combat gang crime

https://www.ft.com/content/6b470a3a-178b-4f9a-95af-2d4a59b4c982

2 years ago

OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture

https://www.ft.com/content/4c64ffc1-f57b-4e22-a4a5-f9f90a7419b7

2 years ago

Searchable Database of the 183,000 Pirated Books Meta, et al., Used to Train AI

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/

3 years ago

Lex Fridman #398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse [video]

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

2 years ago

Bloomberg: Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/28/bloomberg-apple-held-talks-with-microsoft-about-acquiring-bing-in-2020/

2 years ago

The Timer in WatchOS 10

https://furbo.org/2023/09/28/the-timer-in-watchos-10/

2 years ago

Cloudflare and Meta Collaborate to Make Llama 2 Available Globally

https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2023/cloudflare-and-meta-collaborate-to-make-llama-2-available-globally/

2 years ago

Japanese scientists working on creating human eggs and sperm in the lab

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/28/1200105467/japanese-scientists-race-to-create-human-eggs-and-sperm-in-the-lab

2 years ago

AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-language-models-can-exceed-png-and-flac-in-lossless-compression-says-study/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688095

2 years ago

Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in the last two years

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/09/28/dramatic-acceleration-switzerland-has-lost-10-of-its-glaciers-in-the-last-two-years

2 years ago

Coding in the Debugger (2007)

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/coding-in-the-debugger

2 years ago

The Design of the Connection Machine

https://www.tamikothiel.com/theory/cm_txts/di-frames.html

2 years ago

Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

https://www.tech-knowhow.com/2023/09/rasperry-pi-5-specs-and-images-leaked-from-element14/

3 years ago

Ask HN: How do your ML teams version datasets and models?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694701

2 years ago