top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-19

Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

https://leanrada.com/htmz/

2 years ago

Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

https://groq.com/

2 years ago

Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

2 years ago

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/

2 years ago

The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/goodbye_spotify

2 years ago

I broke IKEA (2023)

https://cohost.org/sirocyl/post/2891449-i-broke-ikea

2 years ago

How to make a better default Firefox UI

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/%5BArticle%5D-1.-How-to-make-a-better-default-Firefox-UI

2 years ago

AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer

https://www.ft.com/content/b845e8ab-9cbc-482c-aa22-0b5c020be099

2 years ago

Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCRZkSQ1CE

2 years ago

Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal

https://castle-engine.io/

2 years ago

Show HN: PRQL in PostgreSQL

https://github.com/kaspermarstal/plprql

2 years ago

OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-17/openai-deal-lets-employees-sell-shares-at-86-billion-valuation

2 years ago

Show HN: RAM Prices

https://ramstickprices.com/

2 years ago

Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

https://overkill.wtf/sony-playstation-portal-hacked-emulate-psp-games/

2 years ago

Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

https://github.com/XboxDev/endgame-exploit

2 years ago

The boundary of neural network trainability is fractal

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06184

2 years ago

OTP at a High Level (2019)

https://adoptingerlang.org/docs/development/otp_high_level/

2 years ago

Biologists discover four new octopus species

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/biologists-discover-four-new-octopus-species-deep-ocean-costa-rica-180983631/

2 years ago

GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf4Ux4SlyT4

2 years ago

Gemini 1.5 outshines GPT-4-Turbo-128K on long code prompts, HVM author

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1atjz9v/ive_put_a_complex_codebase_into_a_single/

2 years ago

Wyze security incident update

https://forums.wyze.com/t/update-on-investigation-of-2-16-24-security-issue/291002

2 years ago

GlobalFoundries wins $3.1B in CHIPS Act subsidies for NY, Vermont

https://www.syracuse.com/business/2024/02/globalfoundries-wins-31-billion-in-chips-act-subsidies-for-upstate-ny-vermont-expansion.html

2 years ago

Tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything

https://news.mit.edu/2024/tiny-tamper-proof-id-tag-can-authenticate-almost-anything-0218

2 years ago

Floats Are Weird

https://a.exozy.me/posts/floats-weird/

2 years ago

Porting to GCC 14: C language issues

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/porting_to.html#c

2 years ago

The case against caffeine

https://zantafakari.substack.com/p/the-case-against-caffeine

2 years ago

FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-proposes-new-protections-combat-ai-impersonation-individuals

2 years ago

Show HN: CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview

https://coderev.app

2 years ago

A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html

2 years ago

Extreme video compression with prediction using pre-trainded diffusion models

https://github.com/ElesionKyrie/Extreme-Video-Compression-With-Prediction-Using-Pre-trainded-Diffusion-Models-

2 years ago

Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

https://borgremastered.com/

2 years ago

Ethernet: The Basics

https://hackaday.com/2024/02/12/ethernet-for-hackers-the-very-basics/

2 years ago

AMD Zen 5 CPUs Reportedly Made on TSMC's 3nm Process, Mass Production in Q3

https://wccftech.com/amd-zen-5-cpus-reportedly-made-on-tsmc-3nm-process-q2-mass-production-q3-2024/amp/

2 years ago

"Rabbit Test" Unwins the Hugo

https://samtasticbooks.com/2024/02/17/rabbit-test-unwins-the-hugo/

2 years ago

Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs Railway vs Render

https://www.openstatus.dev/blog/monitoring-latency-cf-workers-fly-koyeb-raylway-render

2 years ago

Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van (2017)

https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/culture/hip-square-70-years-citroen-h-van/

2 years ago

Union, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets

https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/union-intersection-difference-javascript-sets/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a simple daily word puzzle

https://triword.net

2 years ago

My PHP Problems

https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/02/18/my-php-problems/

2 years ago

Serving a website from a Git repo without cloning it

https://mediocregopher.com/posts/git-proxy

2 years ago

The Namingless Programming Language

https://github.com/akalenuk/the_namingless_programming_language

2 years ago

Reverse graffiti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_graffiti

2 years ago

Death Valley National Park now offering a rare opportunity – kayaking

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/death-valley-national-park-kayaking-temporary-lake/index.html

2 years ago

Building a hybrid native application with Gleam and Tauri

https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/gleam-tauri/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a vector database API on Cloudflare

https://github.com/TimeSurgeLabs/athenadb

2 years ago

E2EE on the web: is the web that bad?

https://emilymstark.com/2024/02/09/e2ee-on-the-web-is-the-web-really-that-bad.html

2 years ago

Oxide reimagines private cloud as a 3k-pound blade server

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/oxide_3000lb_blade_server/

2 years ago

VPP on FreeBSD

https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/02/17/vpp-freebsd-2.html

2 years ago

EU opens formal investigation into TikTok over possible online content breaches

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-formal-proceedings-against-tiktok-under-digital-services-act-2024-02-19/

2 years ago

Josh: Just One Single History

https://josh-project.github.io/josh/

2 years ago

Latest GPT-4 training data updated to December 2023

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-and-gpt-4-turbo

2 years ago

French telecom company Orange fined €650k for violation of GPL license

https://web.archive.org/web/20240216164701/https://www.legalis.net/actualite/orange-condamne-a-650-000-e-pour-non-respect-de-la-licence-gpl/

2 years ago

Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/

2 years ago

First satellite imagery of the Feb-13, 2024 landslide at Çöpler Mine in Turkey

https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/copler-mine-3

2 years ago

Why are shopping carts always broken?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/17/business/shopping-carts-wonky-wheel-explained/index.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: My company went bankrupt today and I have 2 options

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39429299

2 years ago

Bach’s Cantata Calendar

https://whichbachcantata.be/

2 years ago

Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0

https://www.winuae.net/2024/02/19/winuae-5-2-0/

2 years ago

Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/19/job-posts-for-workers-without-degrees-are-booming-but-not-the-hiring.html

2 years ago

AI Determines Sex of Person from Brain Scans

https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-gender-identification-25631/

2 years ago

Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography

https://www.daviddegner.com/blog/a-birds-eye-view/

2 years ago