top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-12

Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-defeats-patent-troll-sable-at-trial

2 years ago

AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-cuda-zluda

2 years ago

Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/1318/should-a-toggle-button-show-its-current-state-or-the-state-to-which-it-will-chan

2 years ago

I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/i_applied_for_a_software_role_at_fedex_and_was/

2 years ago

Billions stolen in wage theft from US workers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees

2 years ago

Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cousins-decline-canada-1.7103338

2 years ago

Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers

https://github.com/R-O-C-K-E-T/Factorio-SAT

2 years ago

Kalman Filter Explained Simply

https://thekalmanfilter.com/kalman-filter-explained-simply/

2 years ago

It Can Be Done (2003)

https://multicians.org/andre.html

2 years ago

Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2024/02/12/fractal.html

2 years ago

Systemd by Example (2021)

https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-1-minimization/

2 years ago

28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid

https://newatlas.com/energy/minesto-tidal-kite/

2 years ago

Home Assistant: Three years later

https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/home-automation-three-years/2024-02-11-home-assistant-three-years-later/

2 years ago

Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch

https://flaky.build/built-in-workaround-for-applications-hiding-under-the-macbook-pro-notch

2 years ago

FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/02/12/fosdem-2024/

2 years ago

Wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea 'may be Europe’s oldest megastructure'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/12/stone-age-wall-found-at-bottom-of-baltic-sea-may-be-europes-oldest-megastructure

2 years ago

Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/prime-video-cuts-dolby-vision-atmos-support-from-ad-tier-and-didnt-tell-subs/

2 years ago

The Ultraviolet Myth

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/2402.03405

2 years ago

FCC: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/fcc_gets_tough_on_telcos/

2 years ago

What if I’m wrong? (2023)

https://behavioralscientist.org/ive-been-thinking-daniel-dennett-what-if-im-wrong/

2 years ago

Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)

https://taylor.town/nextdoor

2 years ago

Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/i-was-wrong-to-ignore-zigbee-and-z-wave-theyre-the-best-part-of-my-smart-home/

2 years ago

US rail safety legislation stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster

https://www.wlbt.com/2024/02/02/rail-safety-legislation-still-stalled-one-year-after-east-palestine-disaster/

2 years ago

Time Series Forecasting vs Regression: An informal guide

https://www.amorphousdata.com/blog/time-series-vs-regression

2 years ago

The Erlang Runtime System

https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/

2 years ago

Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser

https://t-shaped.nl/understanding-complexity-like-an-engineer-the-case-of-the-ladybird-browser

2 years ago

US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24070550/open-ran-standard-us-funding-5g-huawei

2 years ago

Cool URIs can be ugly (2023)

https://unterwaditzer.net/2023/cool-uris.html

2 years ago

Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both audio and touch feedback

https://spectrum.ieee.org/piezoelectric-speakers

2 years ago

Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules

https://www.wired.com/story/developers-revolt-apple-dma/

2 years ago

The Brennan self-balancing monorail [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M

2 years ago

Shell scripting with Elixir

https://arathunku.com/b/2024/shell-scripting-with-elixir/

2 years ago

The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service

https://howardchen.substack.com/p/after-switching-from-a-1080ti-to

2 years ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39348500

2 years ago

vDPA: Support for block devices in Linux and QEMU

https://stefano-garzarella.github.io/posts/2024-02-12-vdpa-blk/

2 years ago

Analyzing Spotify Stream History

https://ericchiang.github.io/post/spotify/

2 years ago

Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/09/18/security-flaws-in-an-sso-plugin-for-caddy/

2 years ago

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/

2 years ago

My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)

https://www.harrisonbarnes.com/do-not-trust-appearances-my-visit-to-deep-springs-college/

2 years ago

"Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/tech-strikes-back

2 years ago

Mornington Crescent

https://www.isihac.net/mornington_crescent.php

2 years ago

6 months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/six-months-in-journalist-owned-tech-publication-404-media-is-profitable/

2 years ago

The Annotated S4

https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4/

2 years ago

GeneGPT, a tool-augmented LLM for bioinformatics

https://github.com/ncbi/GeneGPT

2 years ago

PEP 701 – Syntactic formalization of f-strings

https://peps.python.org/pep-0701/

2 years ago

Spotify's layoffs put an end to Every Noise at Once

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/every-noise-shut-down-spotify-layoffs/

2 years ago

Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/lies-damned-lies-and-manometer-readings

2 years ago

Brazil Hits 92% Renewable Energy Milestone

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1aoe9so/brazil_hits_92_renewable_energy_milestone/

2 years ago

The Perun2 Programming Language

https://perun2.org/

2 years ago

The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing)

https://seths.blog/2009/03/the-myth-of-big-salaries-its-all-marketing/

2 years ago

We need to talk about parentheses (2020)

https://andreyor.st/posts/2020-12-03-we-need-to-talk-about-parentheses/

2 years ago

Glowdust is a new kind of database management system

https://codeberg.org/glowdust/glowdust

2 years ago

Where did DNA come from?

https://geneticsunzipped.com/transcripts/2021/8/26/where-did-dna-come-from

2 years ago

The idea that AI will just augment jobs never replace them

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2024/02/this-is-why-idea-that-ai-will-just.html

2 years ago

When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-heinz-ketchup

2 years ago

WoWMIPS – MIPS Emulator for Windows, Part 1: Introduction

https://www.x86matthew.com/view_post?id=mips_1

2 years ago

Acoustic cameras can see sound (2023) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtMTvsi-4Hw

2 years ago

Evolution: Fast or slow? Lizards help resolve a paradox

https://www.quantamagazine.org/evolution-fast-or-slow-lizards-help-resolve-a-paradox-20240102/

2 years ago

You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/you-can-call-super-bowl-super-bowl

2 years ago

Contents of Charles Darwin's entire personal library revealed for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/11/charles-darwin-entire-personal-library-revealed-first-time

2 years ago

A gentle introduction to automated reasoning

https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-gentle-introduction-to-automated-reasoning

2 years ago

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-is-starting-to-threaten-white-collar-jobs-few-industries-are-immune-9cdbcb90

2 years ago

A custom Zigbee doorbell (2023)

https://www.stevestreeting.com/2023/03/26/a-custom-zigbee-doorbell/

2 years ago

The story of Signature Plastics

https://kbd.news/The-story-of-Signature-Plastics-2271.html

2 years ago

Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1229891045/police-crime-baltimore-san-francisco-minneapolis-murder-statistics

2 years ago

A journalist has his account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/02/12/journalist-says-he-finds-it-surreal-to-have-account-on-x-suspended-after-writing-critique-of-platform/

2 years ago

Deluge, a portable sequencer, synthesizer and sampler

https://github.com/SynthstromAudible/DelugeFirmware

2 years ago