top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-05

European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/

2 years ago

Kagi and Wolfram

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-wolfram

2 years ago

Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative

https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.garden/rad:z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5

2 years ago

Meta outage

https://metastatus.com/

2 years ago

Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper

https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3-research-paper

2 years ago

Cracking Meta's Messenger Certificate Pinning on macOS

https://texts.blog/2024/02/20/cracking-metas-messenger-certificate-pinning-on-macos/

2 years ago

Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor

https://papereditor.app/internals

2 years ago

Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

https://cpj.org/2024/03/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict

2 years ago

Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup

https://www.yitay.net/blog/training-great-llms-entirely-from-ground-zero-in-the-wilderness

2 years ago

I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/03/spend-8-500-a-year-live-a-train-20388001/

2 years ago

Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs

https://www.cgchannel.com/2024/02/open-source-project-zluda-lets-cuda-apps-run-on-amd-gpus/

2 years ago

Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)

https://www.fundablestartups.com/blog/half-a-billion

2 years ago

Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-eu-and-tech/

2 years ago

The "missing" graph datatype already exists. It was invented in the '70s

https://tylerhou.com/posts/datalog-go-brrr/

2 years ago

Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

2 years ago

Elliptic curve 'murmurations' found with AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/elliptic-curve-murmurations-found-with-ai-take-flight-20240305/

2 years ago

Cloudflare Announces Firewall for AI

https://blog.cloudflare.com/firewall-for-ai

2 years ago

A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled Copyleft Trolls (2022)

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299

2 years ago

European court favors strong encryption, calling it key to privacy rights

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/05/encryption-eu-human-rights-privacy-ruling/

2 years ago

Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling

https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_like_macbook_2023_update_smooth_scroll

2 years ago

Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604961

2 years ago

The Shen Programming Language

https://shenlanguage.org/

2 years ago

New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-update-march-2024/

2 years ago

New Federal Rule Caps Credit Card Late Fees at $8

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/business/credit-card-late-fees.html

2 years ago

Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer

https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2024/03/02/ace-of-aces-or-why-you-should-do-maths-as-a-game-designer/

2 years ago

Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815

2 years ago

Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide

https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/

2 years ago

Linkers and Loaders (1999) [pdf]

https://www.wh0rd.org/books/linkers-and-loaders/linkers_and_loaders.pdf

2 years ago

Facebook Is Not Working

https://metastatus.com/

2 years ago

How to generate uniformly random points on n-spheres and in n-balls

https://extremelearning.com.au/how-to-generate-uniformly-random-points-on-n-spheres-and-n-balls/

2 years ago

The Lost Universe: NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe/

2 years ago

JEDEC publishes GDDR7 graphics memory standard

https://www.jedec.org/news/pressreleases/jedec-publishes-gddr7-graphics-memory-standard

2 years ago

Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/04/does-children-toddlers-kids-watching-tv-impact-development-learning

2 years ago

This Is Knuth 3:16 (2002)

http://www.larry.denenberg.com/Knuth-3-16/

2 years ago

Array languages vs. the curse of the spreadsheet

https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/array-languages-vs

2 years ago

France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/03/04/france-enshrines-freedom-to-abortion-in-constitution-in-world-first_6584252_5.html

2 years ago

Library of Juggling

http://libraryofjuggling.com/

2 years ago

The Future That Never Was

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-future-that-never-was/

2 years ago

Interactive SQLite Documentation: Experiment with Queries in Real-Time

https://blog.sqlitecloud.io/interactive-sqlite-documentation-experiment-with-queries-in-real-time

2 years ago

Google Demands That We Censor Our Content

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/google-demands-that-we-censor-our-content.html

2 years ago

My talk on CSS runtime performance

https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/17/my-talk-on-css-runtime-performance/

2 years ago

Natron: Open-source alternative to Adobe After Effects

https://www.linuxtechmore.com/2024/03/linux-apps-tour-unveiling-natron-your-open-source-alternative-to-adobe-after-effects.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Workout Tracker PWA

https://workout.olzhasar.com/

2 years ago

LibraryBox

https://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/

2 years ago

Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-exploited-windows-0-day-for-6-months-after-microsoft-knew-of-it/

2 years ago

JPEG XL Is a Stupid Name

https://www.mark-pekala.dev/posts/jpeg-xl

2 years ago

EU aims to shift European arms industry to 'war economy mode'

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-aims-shift-european-arms-industry-war-economy-mode-2024-03-04/

2 years ago

Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song

https://www.needledrop.me/

2 years ago

Why are there so many methane satellites?

https://heatmap.news/technology/methanesat-edf-satellite-gosat

2 years ago

Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/05/rapid7_jetbrains_vuln_disclosure_dispute/

2 years ago

Tell HN: Pivotal Tracker removes non-enterprise price tiers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607630

2 years ago

The Beauty of Roots (2023)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/

2 years ago

A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry

https://lithub.com/a-vanishing-world-on-europes-disappearing-peasantry/

2 years ago

Nuke: A memory arena implementation for Go

https://github.com/ortuman/nuke

2 years ago

Academish Voice (2022)

https://inkandswitch.notion.site/Academish-Voice-0d8126b3be5545d2a21705ceedb5dd45

2 years ago

The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes

https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2335

2 years ago

Investigating immune response of a man who received 217 Covid vaccines

https://www.fau.eu/2024/03/05/news/research/researchers-investigate-immune-response-of-a-man-who-received-217-covid-vaccinations/

2 years ago

Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-gpu/

2 years ago

Tax return is secret by law. TurboTax wants you to give up your privacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/turbotax-privacy-tax-return-2024/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605588

2 years ago

WebKit Features in Safari 17.4

https://webkit.org/blog/15063/webkit-features-in-safari-17-4/

2 years ago

Ultra-processed foods: largest ever review shows many ill effects on health

https://theconversation.com/ultra-processed-foods-largest-ever-review-shows-many-ill-effects-on-health-how-to-understand-the-evidence-224806

2 years ago

Tell HN: Facebook, Instagram authentication looks down worldwide

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604598

2 years ago

Ubicloud: Open, Free, and Portable Cloud

https://www.ubicloud.com/

2 years ago