top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-08

Akira Toriyama has died

https://noisypixel.net/dragon-ball-creator-akira-toriyama-has-passed-away/

2 years ago

Don't fuck with paste

https://github.com/aaronraimist/DontFuckWithPaste

2 years ago

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/programming/2023/02/21/exponential-smoothing.html

2 years ago

Home Lab Beginners guide

https://linuxblog.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/

2 years ago

Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue

https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet

2 years ago

Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/

2 years ago

The Man in Seat 61

https://www.seat61.com

2 years ago

A UK college student explaining congressional procedure to Washington

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/08/the-uk-college-student-explaining-congressional-procedure-to-washington-00145314

2 years ago

Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies

https://github.com/bruhbruhroblox/wallstreetlocal

2 years ago

OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altman-return-openais-board-information-reports-2024-03-08/

2 years ago

Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9121

2 years ago

Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion

https://news.mit.edu/2024/tests-show-high-temperature-superconducting-magnets-fusion-ready-0304

2 years ago

Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children

https://usrtk.org/pesticides/chlorpyrifos/

2 years ago

Piano on Paper

https://github.com/Mayuresh1611/Paper-Piano

2 years ago

Self-control signals and affords power

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/having-self-control-leads-to-power

2 years ago

Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust

https://rolldown.rs/

2 years ago

Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/Reentry_of_International_Space_Station_ISS_batteries_into_Earth_s_atmosphere

2 years ago

Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/08/google-fires-employee-who-protested-israel-tech-event-shuts-forum.html

2 years ago

New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094234/ny-times-wordle-clones-files-dmca-copyright-takedowns-knockoffs

2 years ago

More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/doctor-medical-bills-email-37005e32

2 years ago

Apple restores Epic's account in the EU

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1766158416093798866

2 years ago

Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

https://openalternative.co

2 years ago

Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00716-2

2 years ago

OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall

https://github.com/apernet/OpenGFW

2 years ago

Airbnb's Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing

https://thewalrus.ca/airbnbs-canadian-housing/

2 years ago

A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-fear-of-regret-influences-our-decisions/

2 years ago

Thierry Breton: Under DMA, there is no room for threats by gatekeepers

https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1765793776692326891

2 years ago

Why Tolkien Hated Dune

https://whitherthewest.com/2024/03/08/why-tolkien-hated-dune/

2 years ago

Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices

https://blog.cloudflare.com/harnessing-office-chaos

2 years ago

Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/7ed1d601-ea6b-43e9-9ca0-bfc84c016af2

2 years ago

Companies continue to export chlorpyrifos from the EU to poorer countries

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2023/03/28/eu-banned-pesticide-global-south/

2 years ago

British Library cyber incident review [pdf]

https://www.bl.uk/home/british-library-cyber-incident-review-8-march-2024.pdf

2 years ago

Build Initramfs Rootless

https://blog.izissise.net/posts/initramfs/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Relari (YC W24) – Identify the root cause of problems in LLM apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641105

2 years ago

"Disgraceful": Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/disgraceful-messy-tos-update-allegedly-locks-roku-devices-until-users-give-in/

2 years ago

Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/boeing-plane-off-runway-houston-texas

2 years ago

Plasticity: CAD for Artists

https://www.plasticity.xyz/

2 years ago

AIConfig Extension for VS Code

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lastmile-ai.vscode-aiconfig

2 years ago

Fasting-mimicking diet causes markers indicating reduced age and disease risk

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45260-9

2 years ago

Coroutines in JavaScript for web components

https://lorenzofox.dev/posts/component-as-infinite-loop/

2 years ago

iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores

https://www.imore.com/iphone/apple-confirms-iphone-owners-can-travel-outside-the-eu-for-30-days-before-they-lose-access-to-third-party-app-stores

2 years ago

The Ruin of Mumbai

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/the-ruin-of-mumbai

2 years ago

Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?

https://jalopnik.com/can-we-just-throw-in-the-towel-on-airport-security-thea-1851317340

2 years ago

Show HN: Manta – A tool for FPGA Debugging and Rapid Prototyping

https://fischermoseley.github.io/manta/

2 years ago

After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/after-astra-loses-99-percent-of-its-value-founders-take-rocket-firm-private/

2 years ago

Why does the `reset` command include a delay? (2017)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/335648/why-does-the-reset-command-include-a-delay

2 years ago

WWII: Failed novelist becomes a spy for Germany, makes up a fake spy network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa

2 years ago

Show HN: My AI writing assistant for Chinese

https://unscrambler.dpw.me/

2 years ago

NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-unveils-design-for-message-heading-to-jupiters-moon-europa

2 years ago

Airbus electric air taxi makes its debut

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-03-cityairbus-nextgen-makes-its-debut

2 years ago

Stations and transfers (2022)

http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/

2 years ago

Four new models that are benchmarking near or above GPT-4

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/gpt-4-barrier/

2 years ago