top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-02-27

Airfoil

https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

2 years ago

Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/

2 years ago

Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu

https://overkill.wtf/nintendo-sue-yuzu-emulator/

2 years ago

Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai

2 years ago

Testcontainers

https://testcontainers.com/

2 years ago

I turned my open-source project into a full-time business

https://docs.emailengine.app/how-i-turned-my-open-source-project-into/

2 years ago

U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/u-s-launches-antitrust-investigation-of-healthcare-giant-unitedhealth-ff5a00d2

2 years ago

Testing the F-35C Tailhook

https://the-engi-nerd.github.io/posts/welcome/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39522734

2 years ago

Why time seems to pass faster as we age

https://invertedpassion.com/why-time-seems-to-pass-faster-as-we-age/

2 years ago

Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C

https://newatlas.com/environment/surrey-cooling-effects-green-spaces-waterways/

2 years ago

Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2024-02-26/boeing-missing-key-elements-safety-culture-faa-report

2 years ago

Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust

https://rapier.rs/docs/

2 years ago

Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game do anything?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/29565/does-this-8088-code-in-the-leisure-suit-larry-2-game-actually-do-anything

2 years ago

Ant Geopolitics

https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-and-turbulent-global-world-of-ant-geopolitics

2 years ago

SuperTux

https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux

2 years ago

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics

2 years ago

SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/faa-closes-starship-inquiry-and-spacex-details-causes-of-november-accidents/

2 years ago

Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html

2 years ago

Blazer: Business intelligence made simple

https://github.com/ankane/blazer

2 years ago

Blender Open Movies. Featuring all the production files, assets, and artwork

https://studio.blender.org/films/

2 years ago

Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021)

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/swiss-maps/

2 years ago

Dad died in 2022. Since 2023, things he selfhosted have slowly begun breaking

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1b0rdft/dad_died_in_2022_since_2023_things_he_selfhosted/

2 years ago

One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/27/smallest-fish-sounds-loud-danionella-cerebrum

2 years ago

Open Letter to Tim Cook, Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible

https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

2 years ago

The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service

https://www.browserless.io/blog/2024/02/26/unblock-api/?apcid=00620de59ffc742367908900&utm_campaign=unblock-api-announcement&utm_content=unblock-api-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ortto

2 years ago

Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39519692

2 years ago

JEP 467: Markdown Documentation Comments

https://openjdk.org/jeps/467

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr

https://github.com/bruin-data/ingestr

2 years ago

Berlin TYPE: The official type for the city of Berlin (2020)

https://www.hvdfonts.com/custom-cases/berlin-type

2 years ago

Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people

https://www.fastcompany.com/91039401/klarna-ai-virtual-assistant-does-the-work-of-700-humans-after-layoffs

2 years ago

The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta

https://interviewing.io/blog/how-to-negotiate-with-meta

2 years ago

Is Tableau Dead?

https://www.mergeyourdata.com/blog/is-tableau-dead-the-future-of-tableau

2 years ago

Show HN: Mountaineer – Webapps in Python and React

https://github.com/piercefreeman/mountaineer

2 years ago

The Pure Programming Language

https://agraef.github.io/pure-lang/

2 years ago

Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/02/22/companies/fast-fashion-shein-temu-global-cargo/

2 years ago

The creator economy can't rely on Patreon

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-creator-economy-cant-rely-on-patreon

2 years ago

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by

2 years ago

Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-houthis-hit-underwater-communications-cables-1001472165

2 years ago

How Netflix really uses Java

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-java/

2 years ago

The Second Golden Age of Emacs

https://batsov.com/articles/2024/02/27/m-x-reloaded-the-second-golden-age-of-emacs/

2 years ago

Shittier: Code formatting tool that makes your code look terrible

https://github.com/rohitdhas/shittier

2 years ago

Apollo calls AI a 'bubble' worse than even the dotcom era

https://fortune.com/2024/02/26/nvidia-ai-bubble-apollo-asset-manager-dotcom-artificial-intelligence/

2 years ago

How I Backup

https://sive.rs/backup

2 years ago

React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024

https://react.dev/blog/2024/02/15/react-labs-what-we-have-been-working-on-february-2024

2 years ago

Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off 900 people

https://sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/difficult-news-about-our-workforce/

2 years ago

Universal domain types

https://mmapped.blog/posts/25-domain-types.html

2 years ago

Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist (2021)

https://erikbern.com/2021/04/19/software-infrastructure-2.0-a-wishlist.html

2 years ago

The lumbar puncture that changed my life

https://www.legalnomads.com/lumbar-puncture/

2 years ago

Micron Kicks Off Production of HBM3E Memory

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21277/micron-kicks-off-production-of-hbm3e-memory

2 years ago

Consider the Pawpaw

https://beltmag.com/consider-the-pawpaw/

2 years ago

Montage fallacy

https://herbertlui.net/montage-fallacy/

2 years ago

Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/02/26/googles-gemini-headaches-spur-90-billion-selloff/

2 years ago

Sweden to Join NATO

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-to-join-nato/

2 years ago