top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-06

OpenAI and Elon Musk

https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk

2 years ago

Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/apple-terminates-epic-games-developer-account-calling-it-a-threat-to-the-ios-ecosystem/

2 years ago

FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clears-first-over-counter-continuous-glucose-monitor

2 years ago

Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners

https://github.com/classvsoftware/under-new-management

2 years ago

NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236277058/boeing-737-max-9-alaska-airlines-door-plug-removed-ntsb-commerce-cantwell-cruz

2 years ago

Bob_cassette_rewinder

https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder

2 years ago

Leaving LinkedIn

https://corecursive.com/leaving-linkedin-with-chris-krycho/

2 years ago

The end of Airplane.dev

https://yolken.net/blog/end-of-airplanedev

2 years ago

Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages

https://benkettle.xyz/posts/message-book/

2 years ago

Dada, an experimental new programming language

https://dada-lang.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"

https://github.com/NilsIrl/dockerc

2 years ago

Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZQ7x0-MZcI

2 years ago

Pg_vectorize: Vector search and RAG on Postgres

https://github.com/tembo-io/pg_vectorize

2 years ago

YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network

https://yacy.net/

2 years ago

We hacked Google A.I.

https://www.landh.tech/blog/20240304-google-hack-50000/

2 years ago

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/

2 years ago

Medellín's Green Corridors

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-colombia-urban-heat/

2 years ago

Show HN: Fructose – LLM calls as strongly typed functions

https://github.com/bananaml/fructose

2 years ago

Pikachu Volleyball

https://github.com/gorisanson/pikachu-volleyball

2 years ago

Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem

https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/fonts-are-still-a-helvetica-of-a-problem/

2 years ago

A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XWindowsAllTheWayDown

2 years ago

Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4-alpha

2 years ago

Network Tunneling with QEMU

https://securelist.com/network-tunneling-with-qemu/111803/

2 years ago

Tell HN: "Default" FileZilla download bundled with adware

https://filezilla-project.org/

2 years ago

Sugar: An activity-focused, open-source software learning platform for children

https://www.sugarlabs.org/

2 years ago

How to Structure C Projects: These Best Practices Worked for Me

https://www.lucavall.in/blog/how-to-structure-c-projects-my-experience-best-practices

2 years ago

U.S. students will take the SAT online

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235891530/sat-online-digital-test-college

2 years ago

Show HN: Elodin – A better framework for physics simulation

https://github.com/elodin-sys/elodin

2 years ago

Realtime telemetry from ISS internal components

https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/

2 years ago

World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/world-war-ii-rumor-clinics-helped-america-battle-wild-gossip-180983883/

2 years ago

Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account

2 years ago

Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/worldcoin-spain-ban/

2 years ago

Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/shared-dictionary-compression

2 years ago

Reverse engineering a cable modem and turning it into an SDR

https://stdw.github.io/cm-sdr/

2 years ago

Thousand Character Classic

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

2 years ago

'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/06/oracle_audits/

2 years ago

The Cell Programming Language

https://www.cell-lang.net/

2 years ago

Show HN: Piping logs, visualizing in a web app – just suffix "| npx logscreen"

https://github.com/soorajshankar/logScreen

2 years ago

The art and history of lettering comics

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art-and-history-of-lettering-comics/

2 years ago

Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC

http://antirez.com/news/143

2 years ago

Prolly Trees

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-03-03-prolly-trees/

2 years ago

EU Court finds overriding public interest in free access to European standards [pdf]

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-03/cp240041en.pdf

2 years ago

Worldcoin is now banned in Spain

https://www.elmundo.es/economia/empresas/2024/03/06/65e86b14e9cf4a11128b456f.html

2 years ago

The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/

2 years ago

PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability

https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever

2 years ago

Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster

https://theconversation.com/how-birmingham-city-councils-equal-pay-bankruptcy-provided-cover-for-ongoing-oracle-it-disaster-224416

2 years ago

Orthogonal Persistence

https://github.com/mighty-gerbils/gerbil-persist/blob/master/persist.md

2 years ago

The extraordinary lives of coast redwoods

https://www.noemamag.com/the-extraordinary-lives-of-coast-redwoods/

2 years ago

NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones

https://github.com/cwackerfuss/reactle/issues/765

2 years ago

Dr. Dobb's Journal – Vol 1 (1976)

https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01/page/n316/mode/1up

2 years ago

Kaist develops next-generation ultra-low power LLM accelerator

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240306003700320

2 years ago

Minuteman Weapon System History and Description (2001) [pdf]

https://minutemanmissile.com/documents/MinutemanWeaponSystemHistoryAndDescription.pdf

2 years ago

Google engineer indicted for stealing AI secrets to aid Chinese companies

https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-google-engineer-indicted-stealing-ai-secrets-aid-chinese-companies-2024-03-06/

2 years ago

Writing a Postgres logical replication system in Golang

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-03-08-postgres-logical-replication/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Circleback (YC W24) – Tooling to make meetings more efficient

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618640

2 years ago

Show HN: My first programming project – userscripts to change forum UIs

https://github.com/wkrouse/My-first-programming-project---userscripts-to-change-forum-UIs

2 years ago

The propagation of error in classical geometry constructions (2018)

https://jdh.hamkins.org/propagation-of-error-in-classical-geometry-constructions/

2 years ago

GPS antenna mods make Starlink terminal immune to jammers

https://hackaday.com/2024/03/06/gps-antenna-mods-make-starlink-terminal-immune-to-jammers/

2 years ago

Optimizing technical docs for LLMs

https://docs.kapa.ai/blog/optimizing-technical-documentation-for-llms

2 years ago

Take a break: Error-detecting codes in credit card numbers, ISBNs etc. (2000)

https://plus.maths.org/content/take-break

2 years ago

Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner's Guide (2022)

https://two-wrongs.com/statistical-process-control-a-practitioners-guide.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615097

2 years ago

70 years ago, an H-bomb test went awry. We must never forget the fallout

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/05/fallout-nuclear-test-70-years-marshall-islands/

2 years ago

Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs

2 years ago

The Institute for Illegal Images

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/04/the-institute-for-illegal-images/

2 years ago

SpaceX just showed us what every day could be like in spaceflight

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/in-less-than-24-hours-spacex-launched-3-rockets-and-tested-another/

2 years ago

You Don't Need a Dedicated Cache Service – PostgreSQL as a Cache (2023)

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/105

2 years ago

Show HN: Daytona – Open-source dev env manager from a 15-year journey

https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona

2 years ago

Show HN: Forest Watch

https://koenvangilst.nl/labs/forest-watch

2 years ago

How likely are chance resemblances between languages? (2002)

https://www.zompist.com/chance.htm

2 years ago

AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead

https://spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-engineering-is-dead

2 years ago