top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-20

What's that touchscreen in my room?

https://laplab.me/posts/whats-that-touchscreen-in-my-room/

2 years ago

Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

2 years ago

Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067213

2 years ago

Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization

https://twitter.com/mjwhansen/status/1748345492998696961

2 years ago

The Bun Shell

https://bun.sh/blog/the-bun-shell

2 years ago

Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/19/ubisoft-says-it-out-loud-we-want-people-to-get-used-to-not-owning-what-theyve-bought/

2 years ago

Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

https://wandering.shop/@youseeatortoise/111782434593735690

2 years ago

Textart.sh

https://textart.sh

2 years ago

Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/jan/20/retired-teachers-pension-stopped-as-provider-refuses-to-believe-she-is-not-dead

2 years ago

Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-employees-using-vehicle-cameras-to-spy-on-private-scenes-owners-suing/

2 years ago

Vint Cerf is accumulating Dave Mills stories

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XU6Fn5rFeJLO4mIBSa9e8V8BIDwafI0Lvlmi4gQwcmE/edit?usp=sharing

2 years ago

Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

https://coffeehouse.chat/hn

2 years ago

Lowercase letters save data

https://endtimes.dev/why-lowercase-letters-save-data/

2 years ago

Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu

https://thewalrus.ca/qr-code-restaurant-menu/

2 years ago

Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector

https://medium.com/@mustafaakin/indexing-icloud-photos-with-ai-using-llava-and-pgvector-fd58182febf6

2 years ago

NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter

https://www.space.com/nasa-loses-contact-ingenuity-mars-helicopter

2 years ago

Investigating a vanishing BIOS on the Fujitsu Lifebook AH532

https://blog.timschumi.net/2024/01/20/ah532-bios-investigation.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Can the black border atop the HN mourning header link to who died?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39063870

2 years ago

Show HN: Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics

https://www.checkmatechamp.net/

2 years ago

Snowcraft – Building a Lego Snowfort from giant Lego snow-bricks

https://www.verandavikings.com/blog/building-lego-iglos

2 years ago

What Happened to David Graeber?

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-happened-to-david-graeber/

2 years ago

On Leibniz Notation

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3266639/notation-for-partial-derivative-of-functions-of-functions

2 years ago

Let's talk about joins

https://cghlewis.com/blog/joins/

2 years ago

Simulating a minimal cell in the browser

https://technistuff.com/posts/simulating-a-minimal-cell/

2 years ago

The Orange Pi 5 Plus

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/01/20/1800

2 years ago

Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing

https://medium.com/@petervoica/how-an-ugly-single-page-website-makes-5-000-a-month-with-affiliate-marketing-c4974a8d1d69

2 years ago

So you think you know C? (2016)

https://wordsandbuttons.online/so_you_think_you_know_c.html

2 years ago

Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (2011)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-expression-parsing-made-easy/

2 years ago

Textfiles

http://www.textfiles.com/index.html

2 years ago

How different languages laugh online

https://restofworld.org/2023/how-people-laugh-online/

2 years ago

Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators

https://www.the74million.org/article/emergency-hired-teachers-do-just-as-well-as-those-who-go-through-normal-training/

2 years ago

TSMC 2nm Update: Two Fabs in Construction, One Awaiting Government Approval

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21241/tsmc-2nm-update-two-fabs-in-construction-one-awaiting-government-approval

2 years ago

Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/google-search-is-losing-the-fight-with-seo-spam-study-says/

2 years ago

How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)

https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protomammals-were-born/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

https://www.ubidrop.com

2 years ago

1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets

https://futureoflife.org/resource/us-nuclear-targets/

2 years ago

'Cozy' relationship between Boeing and the US draws scrutiny amid 737 MAX 9 mess

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225466035/boeing-737-max-faa-door-plug-alaska-crashes-ntsb

2 years ago

The possibility of making money from shredded banknotes using computer vision

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06133

2 years ago

Shiyu discovery reveals East Asia's advanced materials dating to 45,000 BCE

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-shiyu-discovery-reveals-east-asia.html

2 years ago

Efficient LLM inference solution on Intel GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05391

2 years ago

Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/convicted-murderer-filesystem-creator-writes-of-regrets-to-linux-list/

2 years ago

Tour of new custom M1 macOS runners racks with Christina Warren [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2J2MzKjcqY

2 years ago

Starlite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite

2 years ago

Ask HN: Are you using SQLite and Litestream in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065201

2 years ago

Meta Introduces Self-Rewarding Language Model Capable of GPT-4 Level Performance

https://digialps.com/meta-research-introduces-revolutionary-self-rewarding-language-models-capable-of-gpt-4-level-performance/

2 years ago

Dumping Firmware for fun and learning [pdf]

https://github.com/AkechiShiro/slides-talks/blob/main/UYBHYS2022/Talk%20SPI%20chips.pdf

2 years ago

Lee Kuan Yew on Malta

https://www.karlsnotes.com/lee-kuan-yew-on-malta/

2 years ago

Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL

https://r2.community.samsung.com/t5/CamCyclopedia/Introducing-the-Galaxy-S24-Camera-Gallery/ba-p/15350511

2 years ago

The Founder: A dystopian business simulator (2015)

http://thefounder.biz/

2 years ago

Elevator Expert on How to Move 10k People Up a 118-Floor Skyscraper [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6XZvIt22w

2 years ago

The evolution of C64 games 1982–2023

http://www.linusakesson.net/games/evolution/c64.php

2 years ago

CAP twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed (2012)

https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed/

2 years ago

Companies make it too easy for thieves to impersonate police and steal data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/companies-make-it-too-easy-thieves-impersonate-police-and-steal-our-data

2 years ago

For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/remembering_lotus_notes/

2 years ago

GPU Reshape – shader instrumentation for everyone

https://gpuopen.com/learn/introducing-gpu-reshape-shader-instrumentation-toolset/

2 years ago

Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/01/17/many-ai-researchers-think-fakes-will-become-undetectable

2 years ago

The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy

https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-knowledge-economy-is-over-welcome-to-the-allocation-economy#

2 years ago

Ludum Mortuus Est

https://www.brokentoys.org/ludum-mortuus-est/

2 years ago

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (2021)

https://dlang.org/blog/2021/12/23/teaching-d-from-scratch-is-it-a-viable-first-language/

2 years ago

Study discovers short, toxic RNAs kill brain cells allows Alzheimer's to develop

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-short-toxic-rnas-brain-cells.html

2 years ago

VNote: A pleasant note-taking platform

https://app.vnote.fun/en_us/

2 years ago