top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-03

CSS for printing to paper

https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing

2 years ago

The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions

https://benhoyt.com/writings/go-1brc/

2 years ago

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2023fa/self-guided/

2 years ago

Interesting ideas in Observable Framework

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/3/interesting-ideas-in-observable-framework/

2 years ago

Enough with the dead butterflies (2017)

https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

2 years ago

I'll refrain from providing code that involve concepts as you're under 18

https://gemini.google.com/share/238032386438?hl=en

2 years ago

The hater's guide to Kubernetes

https://paulbutler.org/2024/the-haters-guide-to-kubernetes/

2 years ago

Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API

https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1b55686/maybe_possible_bug_in_stdshared_mutex_on_windows/

2 years ago

A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)

https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/dame-stephanie-steve-shirley-computer-pioneer

2 years ago

Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana

https://calbryant.uk/blog/better-pc-cooling-with-python/

2 years ago

How to be a good listener

https://tomblog.rip/the-myth-of-the-good-listener/

2 years ago

French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000

https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/how-french-artists-in-1899-envisioned-what-life-would-look-like-in-the-year-2000.html

2 years ago

An Unbelievable Demo (2021)

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html

2 years ago

World Server Throwing Championship

https://www.cloudfest.com/world-server-throwing-championship

2 years ago

Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer

https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/

2 years ago

Generating transparent images using Stable Diffusion XL

https://github.com/layerdiffusion/sd-forge-layerdiffusion

2 years ago

Joplin is an open source note-taking app

https://joplinapp.org/

2 years ago

US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/us-prescription-market-hamstrung-for-9-days-so-far-by-ransomware-attack/

2 years ago

Sampling: What Nyquist didn't say, and what to do about it (2018) [pdf]

https://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/Sampling/sampling.pdf

2 years ago

Using a solar oven as a radiant refrigerator at night

http://solarcooking.org/radiant-fridge.htm

2 years ago

Google's SRE Book (2017)

https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

2 years ago

David Holladay, blindness technology pioneer, has died

https://www.braillists.org/uncategorised/a-message-from-duxbury-systems-in-loving-memory-of-our-dear-friend-and-colleague/

2 years ago

SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764032892663906313

2 years ago

Scaleway launches RISC-V servers

https://labs.scaleway.com/en/em-rv1/

2 years ago

Algorithmic Thinking (2nd Edition)

https://nostarch.com/algorithmic-thinking-2nd-edition

2 years ago

Show HN: Hancho – A simple and pleasant build system in ~500 lines of Python

https://github.com/aappleby/hancho

2 years ago

Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi

https://mostre.museogalileo.it/framauro/en/interactive-exploration/explore.html

2 years ago

"AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine

https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-02-20-ai-medicine/

2 years ago

DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy

https://dust3r.europe.naverlabs.com/

2 years ago

Commerce Department Proposes Imposing "Know Your Customer" on IaaS Providers

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-department-commerce-publishes-proposed-rule-imposing-know-your-customer-and

2 years ago

What Is WebTV?

https://goblin-heart.net/sadgrl/shrines/webtv/

2 years ago

Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/28/laurie-anderson-ai-chatbot-lou-reed-ill-be-your-mirror-exhibition-adelaide-festival

2 years ago

U.S. seeks to revive idled shipyards with help of Japan, South Korea

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/U.S.-seeks-to-revive-idled-shipyards-with-help-of-Japan-South-Korea

2 years ago

Why do east Asian firms value drinking?

https://www.ggd.world/p/why-do-east-asian-firms-value-drinking

2 years ago

California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/01/death-valley-lake-california-rain/

2 years ago

The Black-Scholes/Merton equation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5w-dEgIU1M

2 years ago

An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/03/an-apple-district-managers-macintosh.html

2 years ago

I'm going to keep opting out

https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/im-going-to-keep-opting-out/

2 years ago

Velato: A programming language where source code must be a valid MIDI music file

http://www.velato.net/

2 years ago

USB in a Nutshell (2010)

https://www.beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/usb1.shtml

2 years ago

Amiga's final days as chronicled by the Village Voice 30 years ago

https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2697

2 years ago

Combating olive oil fraud with nuclear innovations

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/combating-olive-oil-fraud-with-nuclear-innovations

2 years ago

Mustard

https://chloelist.substack.com/p/issue-12-mustard

2 years ago

AI-generated content, other unfavorable practices get CNET on Wikipedia banlist

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-content-and-other-unfavorable-practices-have-put-longtime-staple-cnet-on-wikipedias-blacklisted-sources

2 years ago

Repair shops where subway cars go for a makeover

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/nyregion/subway-repair-shop-new-york.html

2 years ago

Known Meta Sites

https://gitlab.com/J4YC33/metablock/-/blob/main/Meta.txt

2 years ago

Surrealism Is 100

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/arts/design/surrealism-centennial-pompidou-brussels.html

2 years ago

AI startups require new strategies: This time it's different

https://longform.asmartbear.com/ai-startups/

2 years ago

A kids' novel inspired me to simulate a gene drive on 86M genealogy profiles

https://worthdoingbadly.com/familytree/

2 years ago

Show HN: Alpine Ajax – If Htmx and Alpine.js Had a Baby

https://alpine-ajax.js.org

2 years ago

The largest climatized reading space

https://www.snohetta.com/projects/beijing-city-library

2 years ago

Filament – A Language for Fearless Hardware Design

https://filamenthdl.com/

2 years ago

Bugs I've filed on browsers

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/03/03/bugs-ive-filed-on-browsers/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577198

2 years ago

Large solar farms could trigger rain in the desert

https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-solar-farms-could-provoke-rainclouds-desert

2 years ago

What was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/29/heads-nailed-trees-roman-legionnaires-british-museum-legion

2 years ago

Cold Chemistry Is Different

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/37

2 years ago

The 'banned' Star Trek episode that promised a united Ireland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68342135

2 years ago

Organic Maps is a free Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps

2 years ago

3D printed titanium structure shows supernatural strength

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/feb/titanium-lattice

2 years ago

Intel Previews Sierra Forest with 288 E-Cores, Announces Granite Rapids-D

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21276/intel-previews-sierra-forest-with-288-e-cores-announces-granite-rapids-d-for-2025-launch-at-mwc-2024

2 years ago