top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-11-28

Charlie Munger has died

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov2823.pdf

2 years ago

My $500M Mars rover mistake

https://www.chrislewicki.com/articles/failurestory

2 years ago

MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers

https://nihalsid.github.io/mesh-gpt/

2 years ago

Writing documentation for your house

https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/housing-documentation/

2 years ago

Modern C++ Programming Course

https://github.com/federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming

2 years ago

Designing a SIMD Algorithm from Scratch

https://mcyoung.xyz/2023/11/27/simd-base64/

2 years ago

IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23977693/ikea-sensors-door-window-water-motion-price-date-specs

2 years ago

PeerTube v6

https://framablog.org/2023/11/28/peertube-v6-is-out-and-powered-by-your-ideas/

2 years ago

Show HN: Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform

https://dobb-e.com/

2 years ago

Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto

2 years ago

New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties

https://godforsaken.website/@Shrigglepuss/111482466182637440

2 years ago

Microsoft open-sources ThreadX

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/microsoft_opens_sources_threadx/

2 years ago

That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/11/27/sitefinder/

2 years ago

SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model

https://stability.ai/news/stability-ai-sdxl-turbo

2 years ago

Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension

https://loyalfordogs.com/posts/loyal-announces-historic-fda-milestone-for-large-dog-lifespan-extension-drug

2 years ago

Orion Browser by Kagi

https://kagi.com/orion/

2 years ago

Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/apple-pulls-plug-on-goldman-credit-card-partnership-ca1dfb45

2 years ago

The camel, the rope, and the needle's eye

http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/11/camel.html

2 years ago

The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS

https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/27/the-hanging-punctuation-property-in-css/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443668

2 years ago

How to Read a Paper [pdf]

http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf

2 years ago

Keras 3.0

https://keras.io/keras_3/

2 years ago

Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset'

https://www.reuters.com/technology/unity-software-cut-38-staff-company-reset-2023-11-28/

2 years ago

Hackers spent 2 years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/hackers-spent-2-years-looting-secrets-of-chipmaker-nxp-before-being-detected/

2 years ago

The dead children we must see

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dead-children-we-must-see

2 years ago

The Knight Capital Disaster

https://specbranch.com/posts/knight-capital/

2 years ago

GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories

https://belkadan.com/blog/2023/11/GitMounter/

2 years ago

Relational Deep Learning: Graph representation learning on relational databases [pdf]

https://relbench.stanford.edu/paper.pdf

2 years ago

Most AI startups are doomed

https://weightythoughts.com/p/most-ai-startups-are-doomed

2 years ago

Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous

https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger

2 years ago

S3 Express Is All You Need

https://www.warpstream.com/blog/s3-express-is-all-you-need

2 years ago

General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-general-availability-of-the-aws-sdk-for-rust/

2 years ago

Herbie: Find and fix floating-point accuracy problems

https://herbie.uwplse.org/

2 years ago

Donkey code

https://einarwh.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/donkey-code/

2 years ago

Semantic fuzzing of the Rust compiler and interpreter [pdf]

https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-pls/plf-dam/documents/StudentProjects/MasterTheses/2023-Andy-Thesis.pdf

2 years ago

Antirez' tiny JSON selector library

https://notes.billmill.org/link_blog/2023/11/antirez__tiny_JSON_selector_library.html

2 years ago

How Jensen Huang's Nvidia is powering the A.I. revolution

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-ai-revolution

2 years ago

RPG Engine for the Nintendo 64

https://github.com/breadbored/N64-RPG

2 years ago

Undercover in Saudi Arabia's secretive program to keep the world burning oil

https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-saudi-arabia-keep-burning-oil/

2 years ago

Eclipse ThreadX

https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/11/21/introducing-eclipse-threadx/

2 years ago

Simplifying Transformer Blocks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01906

2 years ago

Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay"

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-gdpr-complaint-against-meta-over-pay-or-okay

2 years ago

Please don't use AI to get on the global leaderboard

https://adventofcode.com/

2 years ago

Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/28/shutting-down-bridge-to-libera-chat/

2 years ago

Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/technology/amazon-ai-chatbot-q.html

2 years ago

Meditron: A suite of open-source medical Large Language Models

https://github.com/epfLLM/meditron

2 years ago

Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it continues riding the AI wave

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/nvidias-earnings-are-up-206-from-last-year-as-it-continues-riding-the-ai-wave/

2 years ago

San Francisco Blows Housing Deadline, Prompting Standoff with State Regulators

https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/27/san-francisco-blows-state-housing-deadline-constraints-reduction-ordinance/

2 years ago

Hacking my filter coffee machine

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/17079.html

2 years ago

Trojan Room Coffee Pot

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

2 years ago

The hunt for life in Alpha Centauri

https://daily.jstor.org/the-hunt-for-life-in-alpha-centauri/

2 years ago

Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23972940/google-data-center-geothermal-energy

2 years ago

Show HN: SwaraNotebook – a notation editor for Indian classical music

https://swaranotebook.com/

2 years ago

Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now (2022)

https://jasonstanford.substack.com/p/he-thought-tending-bar-sounded-like

2 years ago

Combine GPTs with private knowledge for actually useful AIs

https://medium.com/@yuhongsun96/using-gpts-as-team-members-357a8d7c86ac

2 years ago

My techno-optimism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html

2 years ago

Parsing 8-bit integers quickly

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/11/28/parsing-8-bit-integers-quickly/

2 years ago

Semantic Kernel

https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel

2 years ago

Sorry you feel that way: why passive aggression took over the world

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/11/21/sorry-you-feel-that-way-why-passive-aggression-took-over-the-world

2 years ago

Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs (2018)

https://jamie-wong.com/post/color/

2 years ago

Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider

https://torrentfreak.com/court-cloudflare-is-liable-for-pirate-site-but-not-as-a-dns-provider-231127/

2 years ago

Portuguese Orange, Persian Portugal

https://untested.sonnet.io/Portuguese+Orange%2C+Persian+Portugal

2 years ago

3M, DuPont Defeat Class Action over Forever Chemicals

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/3m-dupont-defeat-massive-class-action-over-forever-chemicals-2023-11-27/

2 years ago

AWS unveils Graviton4 & Trainium2

https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/11/aws-unveils-next-generation-aws-designed-chips

2 years ago

World Appears on Track to Triple Renewable Power by 2030

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/un-climate-negotiations-triple-renewable-energy

2 years ago

An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-invasive-tick-that-can-clone-itself-is-spreading-across-us-threatening-livestock-180983323/

2 years ago

District court rejects Tesla request, Postnord does not have to deliver plates

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/solna-tingsratt-avslar-teslas-stamning-mot-postnord--33vhqt

2 years ago

Transistor first reported as "little brain cell"

https://www.biodigitaljazz.net/blog/littlebraincell.html

2 years ago

The case for never reading the book jacket

https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-for-never-reading-the-book-jacket/

2 years ago