top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-01-29

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2 years ago

Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B

https://twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/1752013879532782075

2 years ago

Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games

https://www.boardzilla.io/

2 years ago

Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure

https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/29/first-transmitted-alzheimers-disease-cases-growth-hormone-cadavers/

2 years ago

Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/florida-house-representatives-approves-bill-ban-social-media/story?id=106672586

2 years ago

Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/business/china-evergrande.html

2 years ago

Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack

https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios

2 years ago

Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers

https://blog.rwkv.com/p/eagle-7b-soaring-past-transformers

2 years ago

A Tour of the Lisps

https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/rounds-of-lisp

2 years ago

How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent

https://adaobi.substack.com/p/how-to-do-things-if-youre-not-that

2 years ago

New Renderers for GTK

https://blog.gtk.org/2024/01/28/new-renderers-for-gtk/

2 years ago

Why you've never been in a plane crash

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/why-you-ve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash

2 years ago

Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/29/amazon-terminates-irobot-deal-vacuum-maker-to-lay-off-31percent-of-staff.html

2 years ago

Harmonics Explorer

https://teropa.info/harmonics-explorer/

2 years ago

Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68125589

2 years ago

Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/hell-is-other-people-performance

2 years ago

Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot

https://github.com/collabora/WhisperFusion

2 years ago

Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/em/dyson.pdf

2 years ago

Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades

https://moderncss.dev/12-modern-css-one-line-upgrades/

2 years ago

A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura

https://thewalrus.ca/around-the-world-in-eighty-lies/

2 years ago

How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history

https://glennf.medium.com/how-we-crowdfunded-750-000-for-a-giant-book-about-keyboard-history-c30e24c4022e

2 years ago

An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it

https://www.businessinsider.com/sonar-image-pilot-amelia-earhart-plane-found-pacific-ocean-2024

2 years ago

Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-walmart-uses-trucking-to-dominate-american-retail

2 years ago

What I talk about when I talk about query optimizer (part 1): IR design

https://xuanwo.io/2024/02-what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-query-optimizer-part-1/

2 years ago

The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

https://stratechery.com/2024/the-apple-vision-pros-missing-apps/

2 years ago

The Big Little Guide to Message Queues (2020)

https://sudhir.io/the-big-little-guide-to-message-queues

2 years ago

Svelte Native

https://svelte-native.technology/

2 years ago

An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)

https://archive-it.org/post/the-stack-warc-file/

2 years ago

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature

2 years ago

The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1752098683024220632

2 years ago

Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-01-26-freaktakes-lessons.html

2 years ago

Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale

https://slack.engineering/executing-cron-scripts-reliably-at-scale/

2 years ago

Prediction markets have an elections problem

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/prediction-markets-have-an-elections-problem-jeremiah-johnson

2 years ago

Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript

https://www.kravchyk.com/adding-type-safety-to-object-ids-typescript/

2 years ago

Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-nomadic-eccentric-was-the-most-prolific-mathematician-in-history/

2 years ago

41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective

https://www.uxtigers.com/post/41-years-in-ux

2 years ago

Evergrande, once China's biggest property developer, ordered to liquidate

https://www.wsj.com/articles/evergrande-faces-imminent-liquidation-after-talks-with-top-creditors-break-down-4af5f657

2 years ago

Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level

https://phrasing.app/playground

2 years ago

Ubuntu Looking at Applying Low-Latency Optimizations to Its Generic Kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Low-Lat-Generic-Kernel

2 years ago

Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming

https://github.com/millsteed/macros

2 years ago

Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178753

2 years ago

Global Room-Temperature Superconductivity in Graphite

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qute.202300230

2 years ago

The Broadway Windowing System

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html

2 years ago

Penn Jillette wants to talk it all out

https://www.cracked.com/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html

2 years ago

Dr Strangelove at 60

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240129-dr-strangelove-at-60-the-mystery-behind-kubricks-cold-war-masterpiece

2 years ago

HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/hp-ceo-makes-up-a-whole-lot-of-bullshit-to-defend-crippling-printers-that-use-cheaper-ink/

2 years ago

One Billion Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/1brc-fast-java-processing/

2 years ago

On the Costs of Syscalls (2021)

https://gms.tf/on-the-costs-of-syscalls.html

2 years ago

Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police

https://torrentfreak.com/viewing-illegal-streams-no-cautions-fines-or-arrests-say-gm-police-240129/

2 years ago

Ingenuity had more computing power than all NASA deep space missions combined

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/now-that-weve-flown-on-mars-what-comes-next-in-aerial-planetary-exploration/

2 years ago

There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)

https://etiennefd.substack.com/p/there-is-no-planet-b-for-worldbuilding

2 years ago

Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182738

2 years ago

Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/

2 years ago

Higher Order Derivatives of Transforms

https://nosferalatu.com/HigherOrderDerivativesTransforms.html

2 years ago

How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

https://www.kiphakes.com/2024/01/how-we-had-our-nectar-points-stolen-and-this-is-how-yours-will-be-too/

2 years ago

Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market

https://darkdot.com/articles/darknetlive-sold/

2 years ago

Coding on Copilot: Data suggests downward pressure on code quality

https://www.gitclear.com/coding_on_copilot_data_shows_ais_downward_pressure_on_code_quality

2 years ago

A new Debian package helper: debputy

https://people.debian.org/~nthykier/blog/2023/a-new-debian-package-helper-debputy.html

2 years ago

Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446

2 years ago

Tindallgrams

https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/alsj-Tindallgrams.html

2 years ago

Google significantly reduces recaptcha free tier, introduces new pricing models

https://bytepursuits.com/google-significantly-reduces-recaptcha-free-tier-introduces-new-pricing-models

2 years ago

A confusing probability question: Red and green balls in an urn

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1vK8sl3ZecjBTjrcNcee6hmlHvrp3Zh4_?usp=sharing

2 years ago

Hollywood keeps reminding us why we need physical media

https://www.ign.com/articles/hollywood-keeps-reminding-us-why-we-need-physical-media-more-than-ever

2 years ago

Google marked this vulnerability as "Won't Fix" but I disagree. Care to comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172527

2 years ago

On a Tesla: Don't

https://medium.com/jammernd/on-a-tesla-dont-c6bdb6bf6138

2 years ago

Streetview scraper v1: cheap, arbitrary sized streetview images

https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-scraper.html

2 years ago

Learning Universal Predictors

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14953

2 years ago

Kirei is a work-in-progress keyboard library written in Zig

https://github.com/semickolon/kirei

2 years ago

OpenAI: Copy, Steal, Paste

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712540/openai-copy-steal-paste.html

2 years ago