top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-27

Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

https://www.ign.com/articles/disney-unveils-the-holotile-floor-inching-us-closer-to-a-real-life-holodeck

2 years ago

Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step

https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch

2 years ago

Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/98706/is-it-insider-trading-if-i-bought-boeing-puts-while-i-am-inside-the-wrecked-airp

2 years ago

Show HN: Pong Wars

https://pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl/

2 years ago

Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage

https://rclone.org/

2 years ago

Sxmo: Linux tiling window manager for phones

https://sxmo.org/

2 years ago

I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4

2 years ago

Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"

https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/proposed-top-level-domain-string-for-private-use-24-01-2024

2 years ago

Gitlab password reset bug leaves more than 5.3K servers up for grabs

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/gitlab-password-reset-bug-leaves-more-than-5-3k-servers-up-for-grabs

2 years ago

A hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hacked-microsoft-test-account-was-assigned-admin-privileges/

2 years ago

Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

https://brave.com/leo-mixtral/

2 years ago

Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?

https://danluu.com/why-video/

2 years ago

The invention of a new pasta shape (2021)

https://kottke.org/21/03/the-invention-of-a-new-pasta-shape

2 years ago

Philadelphia Jury Hits Monsanto with $2.25B Roundup Verdict

https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/01/26/philadelphia-jury-hits-monsanto-with-2-25b-roundup-verdict/

2 years ago

Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1750952860131729544

2 years ago

Fossil is quitting smartwatches

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052275/fossil-quitting-smartwatches-android-wear-os

2 years ago

The 100MHz 6502 (2022)

https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/

2 years ago

The FCC Is Taking Steps to Wind Down the Affordable Connectivity Program

https://www.fcc.gov/fcc-taking-steps-wind-down-affordable-connectivity-program

2 years ago

Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise

https://www.hottakes.space/p/remote-work-won-dont-let-anyone-gaslight

2 years ago

Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal

https://news.mit.edu/2024/researchers-demonstrate-rapid-3d-printing-liquid-metal-0125

2 years ago

Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones

https://www.androidpolice.com/android-esim-transfer-tool/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154380

2 years ago

Topaz Unicode

https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/topaz-unicode#topaz-unicode

2 years ago

The Ur Programming Language

http://impredicative.com/ur/

2 years ago

Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-ufo-conspiracy-theory-myths

2 years ago

Show HN: WAYF – A Simple Scheduling App

https://wayf.vercel.app

2 years ago

I am the cheapest bastard in indie games (2019)

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2019/08/i-am-cheapest-bastard-in-indie-games.html

2 years ago

Scale of methane leaks from fossil fuel production and landfills exposed

https://news.sky.com/story/vast-scale-of-methane-leaks-from-fossil-fuel-production-and-landfill-sites-exposed-13023354

2 years ago

Using AI to teach how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/ai_coding_automatic/

2 years ago

Apple's punitive compliance will burn its political and developer goodwill

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/apples-reluctant-punitive-compliance-with-regulators-will-burn-its-political-and-developer-goodwill/

2 years ago

ExifTool CVE-2021-22204 – Arbitrary Code Execution (2021)

https://devcraft.io/2021/05/04/exiftool-arbitrary-code-execution-cve-2021-22204.html

2 years ago

Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot)

https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2024/01/27/driving-faster-takes-longer/

2 years ago

Stem, a stack-based language with metaprogramming and a C FLI

https://ret2pop.nullring.xyz/blog/stem.html

2 years ago

Serious New Warning as Google AI Targets Billions of Private Messages

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/27/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/

2 years ago

LoMA: Lossless Compressed Memory Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09486

2 years ago

The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered

https://van-magazine.com/mag/peter-schickele-pdq-bach/

2 years ago

Spotify calls Apple's DMA compliance plan 'extortion''complete and total farce'

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/spotify-calls-apples-dma-compliance-plan-extortion-and-a-complete-and-total-farce/

2 years ago

On knowing who he was

https://aeon.co/essays/how-alan-watts-re-imagined-religion-desire-and-life-itself

2 years ago

Solar is a market for (financial) lemons

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/#sign-here

2 years ago

Easy-to-Use Apple Vision wrapper for text extraction and clustering

https://pypi.org/project/apple-ocr/

2 years ago

All 7 planets could fit between Earth and the Moon

https://old.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/26i61g/our_seven_fellow_planets_could_fit_end_to_end/

2 years ago

Nesizm: NES emulator for Casio Prizm calculators

https://github.com/tswilliamson/nesizm

2 years ago

NMAP-formatter: convert NMAP results to HTML, CSV, JSON, graphviz (dot), SQLite

https://github.com/vdjagilev/nmap-formatter

2 years ago

Inside .git

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/26/inside-git/

2 years ago

Building a Password Cracker in 2024

https://www.sevnx.com/blog/post/building-a-password-cracker

2 years ago

Confirmation of ancient lake on Mars

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-ancient-lake-mars-perseverance-rover.html

2 years ago

Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen

https://ask.metafilter.com/377988/Best-Documentaries-Youve-Ever-Seen

2 years ago

Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24051966/microsoft-teams-down-outage

2 years ago

Flent: The FLExible Network Tester

https://flent.org/

2 years ago

Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users

https://metebalci.com/blog/hello-ipv6/

2 years ago

Vectorizing Unicode conversions on real RISC-V hardware

https://camel-cdr.github.io/rvv-bench-results/articles/vector-utf.html

2 years ago

The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest (2015)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

2 years ago

The Source of Europe's Mild Climate

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate

2 years ago

Accuracy of Commercial Sleep-Trackers Compared to Research-Grade Tools

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/2/635

2 years ago

Sane C++ Libraries

https://github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

2 years ago

Pregnancies from rape occurring in abortion-ban states

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/estimated-64000-women-girls-became-pregnant-from-rape-in-abortion-ban-states/

2 years ago

Please, don't force me to log in

https://hamatti.org/posts/please-dont-force-me-to-log-in/

2 years ago

The Needless Bullshit of Having a 'Mission'

https://shubhamjain.co/2024/01/27/needless-bullshit-having-mission/

2 years ago

Zig Roadmap 2024 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eL_LcxwwHg

2 years ago

Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/25/mozilla_apple_google_browser_wars/

2 years ago

The things nobody wants to pay for in open source

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/959069/24c0b18e9fc1b073/

2 years ago

Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d)

https://www.gulp.de/gulp2/g/projekte/agentur/C00929028

2 years ago