top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-07

Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

https://oneminutefocus.com

2 years ago

A search engine in 80 lines of Python

https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/02/05/a-search-engine-in-80-lines.html

2 years ago

RustPython

https://rustpython.github.io/

2 years ago

jQuery v4.0 Beta

https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/

2 years ago

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

2 years ago

Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/07/disney-to-take-1point5-billion-stake-in-epic-games-maker-of-fortnite.html

2 years ago

How to hire low experience, high potential people

https://worktopia.substack.com/p/how-to-hire-low-experience-high-potential

2 years ago

Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/google-workers-company-culture-pichai-18653877.php

2 years ago

The appendix is not, in fact, useless

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/02/1228474984/appendix-function-appendicitis-gut-health

2 years ago

Unison Cloud

https://www.unison.cloud/

2 years ago

Latest ChatGPT 4 System prompt (1,700 tokens)

https://pastebin.com/vnxJ7kQk

2 years ago

Interview with Andreas Kling of Serenity OS (2022)

https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/

2 years ago

Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/02/paperwall-chinese-websites-posing-as-local-news-outlets-with-pro-beijing-content/

2 years ago

Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV

https://apnews.com/article/toyota-investment-georgetown-kentucky-factory-9d8142fb9d92ead0f895dd6f3d9fe215

2 years ago

My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/05/phone-screentime-detox-reflection

2 years ago

Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark

https://theprivacydad.com/final-decision-on-chromebook-case-in-denmark/

2 years ago

A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

2 years ago

Vision Pro teardown part 2: What’s the display resolution?

https://www.ifixit.com/News/90409/vision-pro-teardown-part-2-whats-the-display-resolution

2 years ago

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-5-8500g

2 years ago

Oslo acquires ChatGPT for 110k students and teachers

https://www.digi.no/artikler/oslo-kjoper-chat-gpt-til-110-000-elever-og-laerere/543339

2 years ago

Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres

https://hypirion.com/musings/implementing-system-versioned-tables-in-postgres

2 years ago

Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/chatbots-ai-neal-stephenson-diamond-age/677364/

2 years ago

EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend

https://electrek.co/2024/02/06/eu-coal-and-gas-collapse-wind-and-solar-ascend/

2 years ago

The power of two random choices

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html

2 years ago

Europe's deepest mine to become giant gravity battery

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/gravity-battery-mine-renewable-energy-b2492087.html

2 years ago

Should error messages apologize? (2013)

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/31359/should-error-messages-apologize

2 years ago

Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos

https://www.ytpics.com/

2 years ago

How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)

https://ben.page/scammed

2 years ago

The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2959039

2 years ago

Woman Got Cremation Ads in the Mail After Getting Chemotherapy

https://www.404media.co/woman-got-cremation-ads-in-the-mail-after-getting-chemotherapy/

2 years ago

Orange Pi Neo Coming as a Ryzen 7 and Linux Powered Handheld Device

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-Neo-Console

2 years ago

BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/youtuber-breaks-bitlocker-encryption-in-less-than-43-seconds-with-sub-dollar10-raspberry-pi-pico

2 years ago

Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/#dma

2 years ago

Nvidia's "Grace" Arm CPU holds its own against x86 for HPC

https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/06/nvidias-grace-arm-cpu-holds-its-own-against-x86-for-hpc/

2 years ago

Apple releases MGIE, an AI-based image editing model

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/07/apple-throws-its-hat-into-the-ai-generated-image-ring

2 years ago

Automate the creation of YouTube Shorts by providing a topic

https://github.com/FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinter

2 years ago

Anchovy spawning causes temperature swings and turbulence in ocean layers

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/anchovy-sex-is-a-force-of-nature/

2 years ago

Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24062765/mozilla-monitor-plus-firefox-paid-subscription-privacy-data-broker-removal-requests

2 years ago

Momentary fusion breakthroughs face hard reality

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-long-road

2 years ago

"Niksen": The art of doing nothing

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/07/the-art-of-doing-nothing-have-the-dutch-found-the-answer-to-burnout-culture

2 years ago

Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/new-localllm-lets-you-develop-gen-ai-apps-locally-without-gpus

2 years ago

OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator

https://www.openscope.io/

2 years ago

Adaptive Cards: Platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON

https://adaptivecards.io/

2 years ago

ElixirNitpicks

https://wiki.alopex.li/ElixirNitpicks

2 years ago

Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)

https://sive.rs/srs

2 years ago

Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat

https://torrentfreak.com/lawsuit-accuses-annas-archive-of-hacking-worldcat-stealing-2-2-tb-data-240207/

2 years ago

Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long

https://graphite.dev/blog/the-ideal-pr-is-50-lines-long

2 years ago

A rural ski slope caught up in an international scam

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/the-rural-ski-slope-caught-up-in-an-international-scam

2 years ago

Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/beyond-the-1-mb-barrier-in-dos

2 years ago

Unison File Synchronizer

https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/07/breaking_bitlocker_pi_pico/

2 years ago

The Sinusoidal Tetris

https://www.andreinc.net/2024/02/06/the-sinusoidal-tetris

2 years ago

Viboritas: Reverse engineering of my 1990 game (I was 11 years old)

https://nanochess.org/viboritas.html

2 years ago

Lessons Learned from Payments Startups

https://www.pgrs.net/2024/01/26/lessons-learned-from-payemnts-startups/

2 years ago

The EU sets the limit for bank transfer time to 10 seconds

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240202IPR17318/ensuring-euro-money-transfers-arrive-within-ten-seconds

2 years ago

City Street Orientations Around the World

https://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-street-orientations-world/

2 years ago

MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/duke-universitys-madradar-attack-causes-automotive-radar-to-hallucinate/

2 years ago