top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-02

1D Pac-Man

https://abagames.github.io/crisp-game-lib-11-games/?pakupaku

2 years ago

After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU

2 years ago

Do It Yourself Blind Repair

https://fixmyblinds.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser

https://dillo-browser.github.io/

2 years ago

LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024

http://antirez.com/news/140

2 years ago

Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022)

https://www.nofreelunch.co.uk/blog/salim-kara-lrt-scam/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842977

2 years ago

AI generated security reports about curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

2 years ago

How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python

https://blog.greg.technology/2024/01/02/how-do-you-ocr-on-a-mac.html

2 years ago

A Canadian payroll dependency chart

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-12-31-Canadian-payroll-dependency-chart.html

2 years ago

Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/

2 years ago

50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition)

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/50-algorithms-every/9781803247762/

2 years ago

We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't

https://erikmcclure.com/blog/we-could-fix-everything-we-just-dont/

2 years ago

What I've learned about flow fields so far

https://damoonrashidi.me/articles/flow-field-methods

2 years ago

A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing

https://ph3at.github.io/posts/Ray-Coop-Camera/

2 years ago

New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,125248.0.html?PHPSESSID=su12fvq4ar7cordpr8p1uoa7p0

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar

https://schedule-x.dev/demos/calendar

2 years ago

The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023

https://updown.io/blog/the-funny-rules-of-spamassassin-in-2023

2 years ago

Thomas Cochrane

https://sergey.substack.com/p/thomas-cochrane

2 years ago

JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames

http://avherald.com/h?article=5132b9fe

2 years ago

Building a self-contained game in C# under 2 kilobytes

https://migeel.sk/blog/2024/01/02/building-a-self-contained-game-in-csharp-under-2-kilobytes/

2 years ago

First do it, then do it right, then do it better

https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/1739052802314539371

2 years ago

A simulation of me: fine-tuning an LLM on 240k text messages

https://edwarddonner.com/2024/01/02/fine-tuning-an-llm-on-240k-text-messages/

2 years ago

Hiew Hex Editor

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/hiew.html

2 years ago

Give Us Something to Look At: Why ornament matters in architecture

https://theamericanscholar.org/give-us-something-to-look-at/

2 years ago

Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2023/09/25/eating-fewer-calories-can-ward-off-ageing

2 years ago

Japan Airlines plane catches fire while landing at Tokyo airport runway

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-plane-catches-fire-taking-31786520

2 years ago

Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20240102-hybrid.html

2 years ago

Introduction to Plan 9

http://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html

2 years ago

Notes on the Ivory Coast

https://mattlakeman.org/2024/01/01/notes-on-the-ivory-coast/

2 years ago

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training

https://www.biia.com/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/

2 years ago

The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived

https://jukebox.davi.gq/jukebox_search.html

2 years ago

A new blog for 2024

https://chrisnicholas.dev/blog/a-new-blog-for-2024

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842975

2 years ago

How to forget what you read

https://ckarchive.com/b/68ueh8hk25687hkq88gqmtzope0kk

2 years ago

An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-untold-story-of-lsd-psychotherapy-in-communist-czechoslovakia/

2 years ago

E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents

https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/12/29/major-pornographic-blocks-users-nc-response-new-law/

2 years ago

Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer

https://seater.steam-oven.net/

2 years ago

Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls"

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/elizabeth-line-testing-ways-of-banishing-its-ghosts-in-the-walls-68642/

2 years ago

CGA in 1024 colors – a new mode (2015)

https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/

2 years ago

Blueprint health protocol

https://protocol.bryanjohnson.com/

2 years ago

Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024

https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/postgresql-2024/

2 years ago

Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/01/0/

2 years ago

QEMU AioContext removal and how it was done

http://blog.vmsplice.net/2024/01/qemu-aiocontext-removal-and-how-it-was.html

2 years ago

Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 meters

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240102_22/

2 years ago

$450 for a School Bag?

https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/randoseru/

2 years ago

Build a startup or side project faster with these SaaS templates

https://hackerstartup.com

2 years ago

Why does integer representation of a floating point approximate its logarithm?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75772363/why-does-the-integer-representation-of-a-floating-point-number-offer-a-piecewise

2 years ago

The I Hate AI License

https://ihateailicense.eu/

2 years ago

Show HN: The Sage Programming Language

https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/sage

2 years ago

Zig cookbook: collection of simple Zig programs that demonstrate good practices

https://github.com/zigcc/zig-cookbook

2 years ago

Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites?

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-12-24/can-a-pill-prevent-deaths-from-venomous-snake-bites

2 years ago

90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time

https://lantern.dev/blog/hnsw-index-creation

2 years ago

New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is two smaller galaxies

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-small-magellanic-cloud-smaller-galaxies.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847978

2 years ago

Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes

https://ryan-schachte.com/blog/ha_postgres_zolando/

2 years ago

Push notifications – What to push, what not to push, and how often

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/push/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38838585

2 years ago

The Odin Programming Language

https://odin-lang.org/

2 years ago

A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer

https://stefanabikaram.com/writing/fpga-sa-placer/

2 years ago

Distributed Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models over the Internet

https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.08361v1

2 years ago

Lolwut: A piece of art inside a database command (2018)

http://antirez.com/news/123

2 years ago

Litestream – Opensource disaster recovery and continuous replication for SQLite

https://litestream.io/

2 years ago

Was Javascript really made in 10 days?

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/did-brendan-eich-really-make-javascript-in-10-days/

2 years ago

Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/isna/viz/HackerNewsDashboard_17042353296150/HackerNewsYearinReview2023

2 years ago

Use of HTTPS Resource Records

https://netmeister.org/blog/https-rrs.html

2 years ago

OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

https://www.openindiana.org/

2 years ago

Beijing criticises Netherlands’ move to block ASML exports to China

https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-says-dutch-government-revoked-some-export-license-2024-01-01/

2 years ago

Harvard President Gay resigns after rocky testimony, plagiarism allegations

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harvard-president-gay-resigns-harvard-crimson-student-newspaper-2024-01-02/

2 years ago

Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/22/spotify-france-tax-festivals/

2 years ago

What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power? (2021)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/08/1041511/potential-geothermal-power-infrastructure-bill/

2 years ago

Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/images-altered-to-trick-machine-vision-can-influence-humans-too/

2 years ago

The I in LLM stands for intelligence

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

2 years ago

How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/

2 years ago

Dealing with Weird ELF Libraries

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/69070.html

2 years ago

Show HN: I've Implemented a RSS Reader

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niviva.rssreader.streamsphere&hl=en_US

2 years ago

Show HN: Hook – a simple graphical C/C++ runtime editor

https://github.com/abolinsky/Hook

2 years ago

Meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881926/

2 years ago

Microsoft Copilot iOS App

https://apps.apple.com/at/app/microsoft-copilot/id6472538445

2 years ago

Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review

https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-rtx-5000-ada-32gb-workstation-gpu-review/

2 years ago