top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-12-11

Beeper Mini is back

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back

2 years ago

Mixtral of experts

https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

2 years ago

Modern iOS Navigation Patterns

https://frankrausch.com/ios-navigation

2 years ago

Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access

https://mistral.ai/news/la-plateforme/

2 years ago

Show HN: I Remade the Fake Google Gemini Demo, Except Using GPT-4 and It's Real

https://sagittarius.greg.technology/

2 years ago

To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/portland-oregon-drug-laws.html

2 years ago

Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9330/

2 years ago

John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary

https://www.pcgamer.com/for-dooms-30th-anniversary-the-johns-romero-and-carmack-reunited-to-celebrate-the-fps-that-changed-everything-i-want-to-thank-everybody-in-the-doom-community-for-keeping-this-game-alive/

2 years ago

We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

https://developer.chrome.com/feeds

2 years ago

FISA "reform" bill would greatly expand the entities forced to surveil users

https://www.zwillgen.com/law-enforcement/fisa-reform-bill-702-surveillance/

2 years ago

What if an SQL statement returned a database?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00638

2 years ago

Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface

https://www.pitivi.org/

2 years ago

Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

https://smart.tohands.in/

2 years ago

Deep Learning – Foundations and Concepts (Chris Bishop)

https://www.bishopbook.com/

2 years ago

Templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go

https://github.com/a-h/templ

2 years ago

GigaGPT: GPT-3 sized models in 565 lines of code

https://www.cerebras.net/blog/introducing-gigagpt-gpt-3-sized-models-in-565-lines-of-code

2 years ago

Earliest Carpenters: 476k-year-old log structure discovered in Zambia

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/537-features/top10/11937-zambia-kalambo-river-earliest-woodworking

2 years ago

Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo

https://cdacamar.github.io/data%20structures/algorithms/benchmarking/text%20editors/c++/rethinking-undo/

2 years ago

The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime

https://00f.net/2023/12/11/webassembly-compilation-to-c/

2 years ago

The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill Is a Farce

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/section-702-needs-reform-and-oversight-not-expansion-congress-should-oppose-hpsci

2 years ago

Bad science and bad statistics in the courtroom convict innocent people

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-science-and-bad-statistics-in-the-courtroom-convict-innocent-people/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an OSS alternative to Azure OpenAI services

https://github.com/bricks-cloud/BricksLLM

2 years ago

Building a bare-metal bootable game for Raspberry Pi in C#

https://migeel.sk/blog/2023/12/08/building-bare-metal-bootable-game-for-raspberry-pi-in-csharp/

2 years ago

Transparent wood could soon find uses in smartphone screens, insulated windows

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/why-scientists-are-making-transparent-wood/

2 years ago

Show HN: Visualize rotating objects from the 4th, 5th, nth dimensions

https://ncube.ndavd.com

2 years ago

US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting

https://www.ft.com/content/497fdb45-fe81-4b13-97d0-70abe667b94f

2 years ago

The Secret Behind Qualcomm's Margins? Patents

https://blog.withedge.com/p/the-secret-behind-qualcomms-margins

2 years ago

Deep in the wilderness, the largest beaver dam endures

https://e360.yale.edu/features/worlds-largest-beaver-dam

2 years ago

Fixing Classical Cats: How I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2023/12/10/fixing-classical-cats-or/

2 years ago

Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models

https://walt-video-diffusion.github.io/

2 years ago

Magical Fibonacci Formulae

https://orlp.net/blog/magical-fibonacci-formulae/

2 years ago

Apple introduces spatial video capture on iPhone 15 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/12/apple-introduces-spatial-video-capture-on-iphone-15-pro/

2 years ago

Show HN: Crunching 1,200 Authors' Favorite Reads of 2023

https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023

2 years ago

Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal

https://terminaltrove.com/

2 years ago

Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting

2 years ago

'Glacier mice' baffle scientists

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/herds-of-glacier-mice-baffle-scientists

2 years ago

Who will lead the charge to a four-day work week?

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-shift/2023/12/11/who-will-lead-the-charge-to-a-four-day-work-week-00131035

2 years ago

Littlefs – a little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers

https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs

2 years ago

Marmot: Multi-writer distributed SQLite based on NATS

https://github.com/maxpert/marmot

2 years ago

Comparing 6502 Multiply Routines

https://github.com/TobyLobster/multiply_test

2 years ago

TSA introducing self-service screening technology in Las Vegas

https://upgradedpoints.com/news/tsa-self-service-screening/

2 years ago

A rare occultation of Betelgeuse

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2023/12/10/an-extremely-rare-occultation-of-betelgeuse/

2 years ago

Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval

https://www.foxnews.com/health/anti-aging-drug-dogs-san-francisco-firm-moves-closer-gaining-fda-approval

2 years ago

GPT-4 has Seasonal Depression

https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1734296159873536214

2 years ago

Natl Sheriffs' Assoc. letter against federal civil asset forfeiture reform [pdf]

https://www.sheriffs.org/sites/default/files/NSALetterOpposingHR1525FAIRAct.pdf

2 years ago

Factors that act(ed) as drag on the European tech/startup scene

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-list-of-factors-that-acted-as-drag-on.html

2 years ago

Behavior belongs in the HTML

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/behavior-belongs-in-html/

2 years ago

JEDEDC publishes new CAMM2 memory module standard

https://www.jedec.org/news/pressreleases/jedec-publishes-new-camm2-memory-module-standard

2 years ago

Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing – Even in the Human Body

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ultrasound-enables-remote-3-d-printing-even-in-the-human-body/

2 years ago

Idempotency

https://www.berkansasmaz.com/every-programmer-should-know-idempotency/

2 years ago

The BBC Is Hacked Live on Air [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yUSRom2CM

2 years ago

The depths of the input element

https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/8/

2 years ago

Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol (2007) [pdf]

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf

2 years ago

W4 Games announces pricing model for console ports

https://w4games.com/2023/12/11/w4-games-announces-pricing-model-for-console-ports/

2 years ago

Ego killed the empowered product team

https://jeffgothelf.com/blog/ego-killed-the-empowered-product-team/

2 years ago

Where do journals go to die?

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/12/where-do-journals-go-to-die.html

2 years ago

Europe needs to escape providerism

https://loeber.substack.com/p/14-why-europe-fails-to-create-wealth

2 years ago

NeurIPS 2023: Expo Day

https://mlcontests.com/neurips-2023/expo-day/

2 years ago