top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-09

Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/python-gets-a-jit.html

2 years ago

I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously

https://mrbruh.com/chattr/

2 years ago

Is my plane a 737 MAX?

https://www.ismyplanea737max.com/

2 years ago

Where Have All the Websites Gone?

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

2 years ago

Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses

https://www.wikihouse.cc/

2 years ago

Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)

https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/

2 years ago

Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-09/amazon-s-twitch-to-cut-500-employees-about-35-of-staff

2 years ago

www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916

2 years ago

OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design

https://lwn.net/ml/openwrt-devel/[email protected]/

2 years ago

Turing Complete is a game about computer science

https://turingcomplete.game/

2 years ago

Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2024/01/09/everything-wrong-with-databases-and-why-their-complexity-is-now-unnecessary/

2 years ago

Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

https://www.rabbit.tech/

2 years ago

SEC's X Account Hacked, Bitcoin Spot ETFs Not yet Approved

https://en.bitcoinsistemi.com/breaking-gary-gensler-says-secs-x-account-hacked-bitcoin-spot-etfs-not-yet-approved/

2 years ago

Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album

https://ben.page/eink

2 years ago

DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-01-03

2 years ago

Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00012-z

2 years ago

Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/aim-fire-scan-the-80-20-of-executing-on-big-projects-571580cd0a

2 years ago

Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one

https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/09/five-different-app-stores/

2 years ago

Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)

https://calv.info/heat-pumps

2 years ago

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Networking

2 years ago

Missing the Point of WebAssembly

http://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly

2 years ago

Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf]

http://tom7.org/abc/paper.pdf

2 years ago

Using Git Offline

https://www.gibbard.me/using_git_offline/

2 years ago

Rabbit R1, Designed by Teenage Engineering

https://www.rabbit.tech/

2 years ago

Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-01-09/business/industry/Samsung-forecasts-85-drop-in-profit-for-last-year-amid-chip-slump/1954130

2 years ago

The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/ugliest-airplane-appreciation-180978708/

2 years ago

DeepFlow – open-source eBPF Distributed Tracing

https://deepflow.io/

2 years ago

Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine

https://github.com/gscept/nebula

2 years ago

GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power

https://www.ge.com/news/press-releases/ge-vernova-announces-2point4-gw-order-for-pattern-energy-sunzia-wind-project

2 years ago

Hobbes OS/2 Archive: As of April 15th, 2024 this site will no longer exist

https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/

2 years ago

Bit-Banging Bluetooth Low Energy

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=11.%20Bluetooth%20LE%20fakery

2 years ago

Juniper Networks to Combine with HPE

https://blogs.juniper.net/en-us/driven-by-experience/juniper-networks-to-combine-with-hpe-accelerating-ai-native-networking-leadership

2 years ago

AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library

https://github.com/linkdd/aitoolkit

2 years ago

Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67925304

2 years ago

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d948x/x-purges-prominent-journalists-leftists-with-no-explanation

2 years ago

GitHub having issues today

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pxg3dz4yg7lp

2 years ago

You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-09/what-you-ve-heard-about-resilience-is-probably-wrong

2 years ago

Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements (2023)

https://news.ncsu.edu/2023/12/ancient-stars-made-extraordinarily-heavy-elements/

2 years ago

'Magical' Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient

https://www.quantamagazine.org/magical-error-correction-scheme-proved-inherently-inefficient-20240109/

2 years ago

MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04081

2 years ago

Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled

https://oceanconservancy.org/news/its-not-just-seafood-new-study-finds-microplastics-in-nearly-90-of-proteins-sampled-including-plant-based-meat-alternatives/

2 years ago

Non-PC compatible x86 computers (2007)

https://lproven.livejournal.com/189791.html

2 years ago

Practising Programming (2022)

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/practising_programming.html

2 years ago

2.7M Brits still use a 3G only handset

https://www.comparedial.com/news/27-million-brits-still-use-a-3g-only-handset-as-the-3g-switch-off-looms-closer-406

2 years ago

OpenDev is a collaboratory for open source software development at scale

https://opendev.org/

2 years ago

Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?

https://twitter.com/Johnie/status/1744556503183585471

2 years ago

FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete data

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/ftc-x-mode-ban-delete-location-data/

2 years ago

Moai in Video Games

https://moai.games/

2 years ago

SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]

https://twitter.com/SECGov/status/1744837121406349714

2 years ago

DreamShell: Operating System for the Sega Dreamcast

https://github.com/DC-SWAT/DreamShell

2 years ago

DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/darpas_airsteered_x65_jet_heads/

2 years ago

Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics [pdf] (2020)

https://media.nngroup.com/media/articles/attachments/Heuristic_Summary1-compressed.pdf

2 years ago

YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children with AI

https://gizmodo.com/youtube-bans-ai-reanimated-dead-kids-true-crime-videos-1851150159

2 years ago

A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

http://www.fugue.co/blog/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html

2 years ago

Aldi: Culture and Operations of a Hard Discounter (2023)

https://inpractise.com/articles/aldi-culture-and-operations-of-a-hard-discounter

2 years ago

Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)

https://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/your-last-name-contains-invalid.html

2 years ago

NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's surface due to fuel leak

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/09/nasa-peregrine-1-us-lander-will-not-make-it-to-the-moons-surface-due-to-fuel-leak

2 years ago

AMD Unveils AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Graphics Card

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-1-8-amd-unveils-amd-radeon-rx-7600-xt-graphics-card--.html

2 years ago

Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It (2022)

https://brandur.org/soft-deletion

2 years ago

Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear

http://antirez.com/news/141

2 years ago

Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240109_04/

2 years ago

X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Latest Free Speech Massacre

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-journalists-banning-spree-1851151593

2 years ago

Startup Founders Fret over Getting Fired Like Sam Altman

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/startup-founders-fret-over-getting-fired-like-sam-altman-1c91917c

2 years ago