top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-24

Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-now-open-source

2 years ago

Show HN: Startup funding simulator

https://www.fundingsimulator.com/

2 years ago

OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-scrapped-promise-disclose-key-documents/

2 years ago

We made an animated movie in 8kB

https://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/2024/how-we-made-an-animated-movie-in-8kb

2 years ago

Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/alaska-airlines-found-more-loose-bolts-boeing-737-max-9-ceo-says-rcna135316

2 years ago

Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

https://teachyourselfmath.app/

2 years ago

Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020)

https://inference-review.com/article/the-man-who-carried-computer-science-on-his-shoulders

2 years ago

Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier

https://unethical.info/2024/01/24/hacking-my-air-purifier/

2 years ago

Lumiere: A space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation

https://lumiere-video.github.io/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG

https://github.com/nlmatics/nlm-ingestor

2 years ago

Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/magazine/train-robbery-amazon-packages.html

2 years ago

Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data

https://github.blog/2024-01-23-good-devex-increases-productivity/

2 years ago

Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/just-bribe-everyone-it-s-only-scientific-record

2 years ago

Are we at peak vector database?

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/01/24/are-we-at-peak-vector-db

2 years ago

ZX Spectrum Raytracer

https://gabrielgambetta.com/zx-raytracer.html

2 years ago

IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-free-file-is-now-available-for-the-2024-filing-season

2 years ago

Can autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00169-7

2 years ago

Overpass Turbo: A Web Based Data Mining Tool for OpenStreetMap

https://overpass-turbo.eu/

2 years ago

How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer

http://eulerarchive.maa.org/hedi/index.html

2 years ago

Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime

https://babashka.org/

2 years ago

A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run

2 years ago

Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world

https://www.juxt.pro/blog/common-lisp-in-modern-world/

2 years ago

Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2021/are-spiders-intelligent

2 years ago

Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

https://daftsocial.com/

2 years ago

Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies

https://www.space.com/pentagon-us-military-declassify-secret-space-programs

2 years ago

BLIS: A BLAS-like framework for basic linear algebra routines

https://github.com/flame/blis

2 years ago

Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup

https://duplicity.us/

2 years ago

Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.224

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0519

2 years ago

The Secret Life of Machines (1988)

https://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source script to get your site indexed on Google

https://github.com/goenning/google-indexing-script

2 years ago

Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4426143-majority-of-americas-underground-water-stores-are-drying-up-study-finds/

2 years ago

CRT Manufacturing

https://vintagetek.org/crt-manufacturing/

2 years ago

Lightweight woven helical antenna could replace field-deployed dishes

https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/woven-helical-antenna/

2 years ago

A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime

https://www.noemamag.com/a-single-small-map-is-enough-for-a-lifetime/

2 years ago

An open-source browser engine written in Rust

https://github.com/servo/servo

2 years ago

23andMe is reportedly turning the blame back on its customers

https://www.businessinsider.com/23andme-data-breach-victims-responsibility-not-updating-passwords-2024-1

2 years ago

Build your own drone tracking radar [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igrN_wd_g74

2 years ago

Why are Alaska's rivers turning orange?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-alaskas-rivers-turning-orange/

2 years ago

Inside a global phone spy tool monitoring billions

https://www.404media.co/inside-global-phone-spy-tool-patternz-nuviad-real-time-bidding/

2 years ago

eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce

https://www.engadget.com/ebay-is-laying-off-9-percent-of-its-workforce-035136287.html

2 years ago

Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adi2746

2 years ago

Show HN: Deep search of all ML papers

https://app.undermind.ai/home/

2 years ago

Security researchers collect awards for Tesla exploits at Pwn2Own Automotive

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tesla-hacked-24-zero-days-demoed-at-pwn2own-automotive-2024/

2 years ago

AI-Powered Nvidia RTX Video HDR Transforms Standard Video into HDR Video

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-video-hdr-remix-studio-driver/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Does (or why does) anyone use MapReduce anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113583

2 years ago

Man Allegedly Raped in Jail After AI Wrongly IDs Him as Suspect Despite Alibi

https://www.ibtimes.sg/texas-man-allegedly-raped-jail-after-ai-wrongly-identifies-him-robbery-suspect-despite-having-73211

2 years ago

On "Owning" Software

https://avdi.codes/on-owning-software/

2 years ago

Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares the Innocent (2016)

https://www.science.org/content/article/forensics-gone-wrong-when-dna-snares-innocent

2 years ago

Chemists tie a trefoil knot using only 54 atoms

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-chemists-atoms.html

2 years ago

The juror who found herself guilty

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-juror-who-found-herself-guilty/

2 years ago

Amazon's Ring to stop letting police request doorbell video from users

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/amazon-s-ring-to-stop-letting-police-request-video-from-users

2 years ago

A minimal-part-count way to connect an SD card to a 68K

http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=34.%20springSD

2 years ago

Tell HN: GitHub no longer readable without JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39116556

2 years ago

Dutch Police regularly force people to give up footage from doorbell cameras

https://nltimes.nl/2024/01/23/police-regularly-force-people-give-footage-doorbell-cameras-report

2 years ago

Patreon: Blocking platforms from sharing user video data is unconstitutional

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/patreon-attacks-law-that-keeps-platforms-from-sharing-your-video-views/

2 years ago

HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/

2 years ago

Lightweight JavaScript Framework Review (For Django Developers)

https://saashammer.com/blog/lightweight-javascript-framework-review-for-django-developers/

2 years ago

The Bang With Friends Story (2023)

https://ehandbook.com/the-bang-with-friends-story-under-the-covers-77f757bdb822

2 years ago

Replication Prohibited: Attacking Restricted Keyways with 3D Printing [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15-paper-burgess.pdf

2 years ago

Tesla Q4 2023 Earnings Report [pdf]

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q4-2023-Update.pdf

2 years ago

JEP Draft – Derived Record Creation (Preview)

https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8321133

2 years ago

The scam YouTube ads are getting better

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/19dv1dg/the_scam_youtube_ads_are_getting_better/

2 years ago

All the Major Tech Layoffs in 2024 So Far

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-major-tech-layoffs-in-2024-so-far/

2 years ago

An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021)

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-illustrated-guide-to-post-orwellian-censorship/

2 years ago

Elixir – Your entire web stack [video]

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

2 years ago