top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-07

Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

https://eloquentjavascript.net/

2 years ago

Fine tune a 70B language model at home

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-03-06-fsdp-qlora.html

2 years ago

Nikon to acquire RED

https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0307_01.html

2 years ago

Sweden Is a NATO Member

https://www.government.se/press-releases/2024/03/sweden-is-a-nato-member/

2 years ago

Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/cystic-fibrosis-trikafta-breakthrough-treatment/677471/

2 years ago

You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?

https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/security-tools/soar/urlscan/hybrid-analysis/data-leaks/urlscan.io/cloudflare-radar%22/2024/03/07/url-database-leaks-private-urls.html

2 years ago

Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years

https://v21.io/blog/downpour

2 years ago

Leadership is a hell of a drug

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/leadership-is-a-hell-of-a-drug/

2 years ago

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

https://apnews.com/article/china-google-justice-department-63156ade1e564d15d92adbef91e9c5da

2 years ago

The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020)

https://pile.eleuther.ai/

2 years ago

Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language

https://github.com/flydelabs/flyde

2 years ago

How to become a pirate archivist (2022)

https://annas-blog.org/blog-how-to-become-a-pirate-archivist.html

2 years ago

PFAS 'forever chemicals' to officially be removed from food packaging, FDA says

https://www.livescience.com/health/food-diet/pfas-forever-chemicals-to-officially-be-removed-from-food-packaging-fda-says

2 years ago

Sky lapse in two tone

https://blog.datadesk.eco/p/sky-lapse-in-two-tone

2 years ago

Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking

https://worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com/2024/03/hurried-thoughts-youre-wrong-about.html

2 years ago

How do computers calculate sine?

https://androidcalculator.com/how-do-calculators-compute-sine/

2 years ago

Fractional scales, fonts and hinting

https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

2 years ago

The Berkeley Software Distribution

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution

2 years ago

Source Code for Area 51 (2005) by Midway Studios Austin Found at Garage Sale

https://github.com/ProjectDreamland/area51

2 years ago

New breakthrough brings matrix multiplication closer to ideal

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-breakthrough-brings-matrix-multiplication-closer-to-ideal-20240307/

2 years ago

Good News: Cars Will Need Buttons to Get Perfect Safety Ratings in Europe

https://www.thedrive.com/news/good-news-cars-will-need-buttons-to-get-perfect-safety-ratings-in-europe

2 years ago

WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability/

2 years ago

Show HN: TinyWasm – A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust

https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm

2 years ago

Sea Kit

https://www.sea-kit.com

2 years ago

Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635486

2 years ago

Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68488756.amp

2 years ago

Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)

https://yolken.net/blog/youre-about-to-be-acquired

2 years ago

ECJ finds IAB Europe responsible for TCF consent spam popups across the Internet

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/european-court-of-justice-finds-iab-europe-responsible-for-tcf-consent-spam-popups-across-the-internet/

2 years ago

"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/ai-no-ads-please-4-words-to-wipe

2 years ago

How the Great Green Wall is holding back the Sahara desert

https://kottke.org/24/03/how-the-great-green-wall-is-holding-back-the-sahara-desert

2 years ago

The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock

https://ironicsans.beehiiv.com/p/life-death-bulbdial-clock

2 years ago

The Magic of Bird Brains

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-magic-of-bird-brains

2 years ago

In Mongolia, a killer winter is ravaging herds and a way of life

https://e360.yale.edu/features/mongolia-dzud-climate-change

2 years ago

Launch HN: SiLogy (YC W24) – Chip design and verification in the cloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39632872

2 years ago

HP Tries Desperately to Make 'Printer as a Subscription' a Thing

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/07/hp-tries-desperately-to-make-printer-as-a-subscription-a-thing/

2 years ago

Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39627895

2 years ago

EU Probes Apple's Decision to Shut Down Epic's Developer Account

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/07/eu-probes-apple-termination-epic-account/

2 years ago

The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly

https://blog.dtornow.com/the-cap-theorem.-the-bad-the-bad-the-ugly/

2 years ago

Single dose of LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, study say

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/health/lsd-anxiety-fda-breakthrough-therapy-wellness/index.html

2 years ago

OpenAI's "Own Goal"

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-own-goal

2 years ago

Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1765857050188259374

2 years ago

The Dumber Side of Smart People

https://collabfund.com/blog/the-dumber-side-of-smart-people/

2 years ago

Dear Linux Kernel CNA, what have you done?

https://amanitasecurity.com/posts/dear-linux-kernel-cna-what-have-you-done/

2 years ago

Japan to revise official romanization rules for first time in 70 years

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/02/japan/society/japan-romanization-rules-revise/

2 years ago

Towards zero-downtime upgrades of stateful systems

https://stevana.github.io/towards_zero-downtime_upgrades_of_stateful_systems.html

2 years ago

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1's iGPU: Adreno Gets Big

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/03/05/inside-snapdragon-8-gen-1s-igpu-adreno-gets-big/

2 years ago

FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240306.html

2 years ago

Total Functional Programming (2004) [pdf]

https://ncatlab.org/ufias2012/files/turner.pdf

2 years ago

Working with Tilt/Shift Lenses (2022)

https://phillipreeve.net/blog/working-with-tilt-shift-lenses/

2 years ago

The Race to 2nm: RISC-V Chips in Japan – By Dr. Ian Cutress

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/the-race-to-2nm-risc-v-chips-in-japan

2 years ago

On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/on-dma-eve-google-whines-apple-sounds-alarms-and-tiktok-wants-out/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633626

2 years ago

Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries

https://www.sciencealert.com/plastic-found-inside-more-than-50-of-plaques-from-clogged-arteries

2 years ago

Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models

https://blog.research.google/2024/03/social-learning-collaborative-learning.html?m=1

2 years ago

Jetbrains unbundles AI Assistant and is now available as a separate plugin

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/03/intellij-idea-2024-1-beta/

2 years ago

Chiplet IP Standards Are Just the Beginning

https://semiengineering.com/chiplet-ip-standards-are-just-the-beginning/

2 years ago

How I Learned to Concentrate

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/how-i-learned-to-concentrate

2 years ago

On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)

https://www.wolframphysics.org/bulletins/2020/08/a-short-note-on-the-double-slit-experiment-and-other-quantum-interference-effects-in-the-wolfram-model/

2 years ago

Mandala: A little plaground for testing pixel logic patterns

https://github.com/gingerbeardman/mandala

2 years ago

Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers

https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/grats/

2 years ago

Optimizing Rabin-Karp Hashing

https://mattsills.github.io/2024/03/02/rabin-karp/

2 years ago

Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare

https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-job-interviews-became-such-a-nightmare/

2 years ago

Inflection-2.5: meet the best personal AI

https://inflection.ai/inflection-2-5

2 years ago

Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns

2 years ago

Calm Company Fund: Five Years In

https://calmfund.com/writing/five-years

2 years ago

New Bounds for Matrix Multiplication: From Alpha to Omega

https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1.9781611977912.134

2 years ago

Breakthrough in nanostructure technology for real-time color display

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-breakthrough-nanostructure-technology-real-display.html

2 years ago

Intentionally Blank Page

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

2 years ago

What if AGI is not coming?

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/what-if-agi-is-not-coming

2 years ago

My co-founder wants to bring his wife as a late joining co-founder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39630722

2 years ago

S.3819 – Shrinkflation Prevention Act of 2024

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3819/text

2 years ago

The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-is-in-force-what-happens-now/

2 years ago

Gemini won't return C++ coding help if you're under 18 "to preserve your safety"

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1765515930556072312

2 years ago

House committee votes 50-0 to force TikTok to divest from Chinese owner

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/house-committee-votes-50-0-to-force-tiktok-to-divest-from-chinese-owner/

2 years ago

Sweden Officially Joins NATO

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_223446.htm

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39630137

2 years ago

Apple's exclusionary app store scheme: An existential moment for the DMA

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/apples-exclusionary-app-store-scheme-existential-moment-digital-markets-act

2 years ago