top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-14

Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database

https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna

2 years ago

Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run

https://gist.github.com/adtac/595b5823ef73b329167b815757bbce9f

2 years ago

Dynamic programming is not black magic

https://qsantos.fr/2024/01/04/dynamic-programming-is-not-black-magic/

2 years ago

SQLite: Wal2 Mode

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md

2 years ago

Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

https://posthog.com/blog/slack-closure

2 years ago

When Random Isn't

https://orlp.net/blog/when-random-isnt/

2 years ago

Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app

https://github.com/every-day-things/citadel

2 years ago

Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38986187

2 years ago

Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/12/microsoft_update_for_bitlocker_vuln/

2 years ago

OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions

https://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2024_01_01.html

2 years ago

ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/01/ico-fines-hellofresh-140-000-for-spam-texts-and-emails/

2 years ago

Nitter.net has disappeared

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1150

2 years ago

Some memories of Niklaus Wirth

https://odersky.github.io/blog/2024-01-04-post.html

2 years ago

Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux

https://www.ypsidanger.com/announcing-project-bluefin/

2 years ago

How to delete your data from data brokers

https://www.cybercollective.org/blog/how-to-delete-your-data-from-data-brokers

2 years ago

Cars suck, man

https://petargyurov.com/2024-01-14/cars-suck-man

2 years ago

Show HN: Material Files – Open Source Material Design File Manager for Android

https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles

2 years ago

What Happened to GE? (2021)

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Lights-Out

2 years ago

Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications (2023)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593856.3595909

2 years ago

Fast RISC-V-based scripting back end for game engines

https://github.com/fwsGonzo/rvscript

2 years ago

The Ultimate Docker Cheat Sheet

https://devopscycle.com/blog/the-ultimate-docker-cheat-sheet/

2 years ago

‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-manufacturing-737-max-alaska-door-plug-spirit-18f7e233

2 years ago

Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/before-i-reach-my-enemy-bring-me

2 years ago

Ruffle: 2023 in Review

https://ruffle.rs/blog/2024/01/14/2023-in-review

2 years ago

Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-and-coding-self-attention

2 years ago

Building a Faraday cage with data passthrough for ESP32 reverse engineering

https://esp32-open-mac.be/posts/0003-faraday-cage/

2 years ago

The origins of the Guinness stout yeast

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05587-3

2 years ago

Rethinking Diabetes – interview with Gary Taubes

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/14/unlocking-the-truth-about-diabetes-is-it-time-for-a-diet-based-treatment

2 years ago

How to build a submarine and survive [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11828-how_to_build_a_submarine_and_survive#l=eng&t=0

2 years ago

Free unexpected MIT courses to kick start the new year

https://medium.com/open-learning/free-unexpected-mit-courses-to-kick-start-the-new-year-c226e444e61a

2 years ago

Researchers trace a form of lupus back to a single mutation

https://www.mpg.de/21374791/lupus-trigger

2 years ago

Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/14/an-aged-hobby-enthusiasts-struggle-to-keep-model-railway-industry-on-track

2 years ago

Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/leaving-arizona

2 years ago

He spent his life building a $1M stereo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2024/ken-fritz-greatest-stereo-auction-cost

2 years ago

Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released

https://crystal-lang.org/2024/01/08/1.11.0-released/

2 years ago

The $500M Dollar Typo

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/true-tales-survival-usps/

2 years ago

What's the story on the "toxic lady"? (1996)

https://www.straightdope.com/21342164/what-s-the-story-on-the-toxic-lady

2 years ago

Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/11/16/mexico-rail-rival-panama-canal/

2 years ago

The hovercraft's time might have arrived

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240112-why-the-hovercrafts-time-might-have-finally-arrived

2 years ago

Introduction to GPU Programming in Chapel

https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/intro-to-gpus/

2 years ago

Ancestry to paywall formerly free features included with DNA kit

https://easygenie.org/blogs/news/ancestrydna-plus-adds-new-fees-for-formerly-free-features

2 years ago

Type information for faster Python C extensions

https://bernsteinbear.com//blog/typed-c-extensions/

2 years ago

Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]

https://calgary.citynews.ca/video/2024/01/12/gas-pumps-freeze-at-calgary-gas-stations/

2 years ago

Kind of annoyed at React

https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/annoyed-at-react/

2 years ago

30% of Portuguese people between the ages of 15 and 39 have left the country

https://twitter.com/jose_goncalves_/status/1745806181073858903

2 years ago

NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments

https://nixos.org/

2 years ago

All PyCon 2023 talks sorted by the view count

https://techtalksweekly.substack.com/p/all-pycon-2023-talks-sorted-by-views

2 years ago

Much of the Web Is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05749

2 years ago

YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/195octe/youtube_started_slowing_video_buffer_with_adblock/

2 years ago

A collector of math and physics surprises (2018)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/

2 years ago

An eruption has begun north of Grindavík

https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-01-14-an-eruption-has-begun-north-of-grindavik-401887

2 years ago

Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nuclear-battery-betavolt-atomic-china-b2476979.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38995719

2 years ago

Modern misconceptions about medieval warfare

https://warfantasy.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/26-modern-misconceptions-about-medieval-warfare/

2 years ago

COSMIC SETI

https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vla/observing/cosmic-seti

2 years ago

AMD Unveils Ryzen 8000G Series Processors: Zen 4 APUs for Desktop with Ryzen AI

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21208/amd-unveils-ryzen-8000g-series-processors-zen-4-apus-for-desktop-with-ryzen-ai

2 years ago

Dutch designer drives his car on the plastic waste he collects

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/11/plastic-waste-in-the-fuel-tank/

2 years ago

How to write a logline producers won't pass on

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/write-compelling-logline-examples

2 years ago

Show HN: EXT – an easy way to build cross-platform desktop software

https://ext.store

2 years ago

Estimating your memory bandwidth

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/01/13/estimating-your-memory-bandwidth/

2 years ago

Field trip: inside America's first magic mushroom school

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/oregon-first-magic-mushroom-psilocybin-school

2 years ago

Single SF restaurant may be operating 70 different storefronts on DoorDash

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-restaurant-doordash-storefronts-18605341.php

2 years ago

Skiff: Various Privacy Failures

https://www.grepular.com/Skiff_Emails_Various_Privacy_Failures

2 years ago