top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-07

Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

https://nino.app

2 years ago

Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

https://pocketbase.io/

2 years ago

DNS Toys (2022)

https://www.dns.toys/

2 years ago

"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"

https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/111716610017454919

2 years ago

What does the cerebellum do?

https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/what-does-the-cerebellum-do-anyway

2 years ago

GitUI

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

2 years ago

What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/million.html

2 years ago

Teachable Machine (2017)

https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/

2 years ago

NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach

https://goodlawproject.org/nhs-to-investigate-palantir-influencer-campaign-as-possible-contract-breach/

2 years ago

First new VAX in 30 years? (2021)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003899.html

2 years ago

Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wtf-commission/

2 years ago

Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

https://overclock3d.net/news/software/windows-xp-2024-edition-is-everything-i-want-from-a-new-os/

2 years ago

The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/01/07/french-bio-lab-research-scandal/

2 years ago

Carta CEO's response to the unsolicited outreach to their customers' investors

https://twitter.com/henrysward/status/1743794996732735679

2 years ago

802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/07/802-11ah-wi-fi-halow-the-1-kilometer-wifi-standard/

2 years ago

The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI

https://katedowninglaw.com/2024/01/06/the-new-york-times-launches-a-very-strong-case-against-microsoft-and-openai/

2 years ago

Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/d7db4f96a4059c8906b953677ce533493d7b9da0f854a21b99f5772910dd0a31

2 years ago

Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim

https://mashable.com/article/disney-pulls-youtube-steamboat-willie-copyright-claim

2 years ago

Show HN: I made an interactive math crossword puzzle with infinite levels

https://scientific.place/math-crossword/

2 years ago

A concrete example of what goes wrong with Apple's docs

https://www.amimetic.co.uk/blog/a-concrete-example-of-why-apples-docs-are-terrible/

2 years ago

Simple Lasts Longer

https://newsletter.pnote.eu/p/simple-lasts-longer

2 years ago

Things engineers believe about Web development

https://birtles.blog/2024/01/06/weird-things-engineers-believe-about-development/

2 years ago

Mouse filmed tidying man's shed every night

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/07/mouse-secretly-filmed-tidying-mans-shed-every-night

2 years ago

Linear CEO alleges Carta mishandled sensitive cap table data

https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1743824345334714587

2 years ago

Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element

https://localghost.dev/blog/just-because-you-can-doesn-t-mean-you-should-the-meter-element/

2 years ago

Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself

https://jxnl.github.io/blog/writing/2024/06/01/advice-to-young-people/

2 years ago

Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021)

https://jeffhuang.com/struggle_for_each_paper/

2 years ago

Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog

https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

2 years ago

Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV

https://theconversation.com/with-higher-fees-and-more-ads-streaming-services-like-netflix-disney-and-hulu-are-cashing-in-by-using-the-old-tactics-of-cable-tv-215048

2 years ago

The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/

2 years ago

C Compiler Assembler and Runtime for C64

https://github.com/drmortalwombat/oscar64

2 years ago

Card Game Rules

https://www.pagat.com/

2 years ago

The browser's biggest TLS mistake

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/browsers-biggest-tls-mistake

2 years ago

When random numbers are too random: Low discrepancy sequences (2017)

https://blog.demofox.org/2017/05/29/when-random-numbers-are-too-random-low-discrepancy-sequences/

2 years ago

Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

https://marclou.beehiiv.com/p/7-lessons-from-building-9-startups-as-a-solopreneur

2 years ago

Shecc: A self-hosting and educational C optimizing compiler

https://github.com/sysprog21/shecc

2 years ago

MK1 Flywheel Unlocks the Full Potential of AMD Instinct for LLM Inference

https://mkone.ai/blog/mk1-flywheel-amd

2 years ago

AI or Ain't: Eliza

https://zserge.com/posts/ai-eliza/

2 years ago

Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/rtx-5880/

2 years ago

Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2024/01/06/defending-against-hypothetical-moon-life-during-apollo-11/

2 years ago

Pure C WebRTC

https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c

2 years ago

US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222714145/jobs-report-december-labor-wages

2 years ago

The One Billion Row Challenge – .NET Edition

https://github.com/praeclarum/1brc

2 years ago

A legal and moral question: The crash of Turkish Airlines flight 981 (2021)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-legal-and-moral-question-the-crash-of-turkish-airlines-flight-981-and-the-dc-10-cargo-door-saga-d22f0b9fa689

2 years ago

Attacks on machine learning models

https://rnikhil.com/2024/01/07/attacking-neural-networks.html

2 years ago

RIP Microsoft WordPad

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wordpad-gone-windows-11-1851144100

2 years ago

Tiny Computers from Texas: The Early History of the Microcontroller

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tiny-computers-from-texas

2 years ago

The Tensor Network

https://tensornetwork.org

2 years ago

Two physicists who correctly predicted the mass of Higgs boson [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnQy-5lkbPg

2 years ago

Live Objects All the Way Down: Removing the Barriers Between Apps and VMs

https://programming-journal.org/2024/8/5/

2 years ago

Transputer.net

http://transputer.net/

2 years ago

The Erlang Ecosystem (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AJR66p5E4s

2 years ago

How the first fourth-generation nuclear power plant works

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-01-06/How-the-world-s-first-fourth-generation-nuclear-power-plant-works-1q8JzrGNrj2/p.html

2 years ago

Exploring x86-64 Instruction Encoding

https://blog.kenanb.com/code/low-level/2024/01/06/encoding-diagram-attempt.html

2 years ago

MozillaSocial

https://github.com/MozillaSocial/mozilla-social-android

2 years ago

Deep beneath earth's surface, clues to life's origins

https://www.quantamagazine.org/deep-beneath-earths-surface-clues-to-lifes-origins-20240104/

2 years ago

True Name – Mastercard (2022)

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2022/true-name-feature-for-transgender-community/

2 years ago

Parable of the Polygons (2014)

https://ncase.me/polygons/

2 years ago

Four Team Types

https://itrevolution.com/articles/four-team-types/

2 years ago

Tesla lowers Model Y, S, X range estimations following exaggeration complaints

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/5/24026367/tesla-lowers-range-estimations-model-x-s-y-mileage-exaggeration

2 years ago

Source code for a 1977 version of Zork

https://github.com/MITDDC/zork

2 years ago

How I'm writing CSS in 2024

https://leerob.io/blog/css

2 years ago

How Does FreeBSD Compare to Linux on a Raspberry Pi?

https://m.slashdot.org/story/423462

2 years ago

The Unhinged Nature of GTA V Source Code [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6rLbu4LQw

2 years ago

Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in 'safe parking lots'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/05/safe-overnight-parking-lot-sleep-in-car-rv-homelessness-housing-shelter

2 years ago

2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification"

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

2 years ago