top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-10

U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/business/boeing-criminal-inquiry-alaska-airlines-flight.html

2 years ago

639 upvotes – 544 comments

S3 is files, but not a filesystem

https://calpaterson.com/s3.html

2 years ago

571 upvotes – 430 comments

DBeaver – open-source database client

https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver

2 years ago

451 upvotes – 155 comments

LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices

https://localsend.org

2 years ago

447 upvotes – 170 comments

Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles

https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo/blob/master/docs/GraphSearch.md

2 years ago

397 upvotes – 24 comments

How the Devteam Conquered the iPhone

https://fabiensanglard.net/iSummer/

2 years ago

391 upvotes – 47 comments

The Best Essay

https://paulgraham.com/best.html

2 years ago

324 upvotes – 236 comments

Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs

https://www.techradar.com/pro/firm-headed-by-legendary-chip-architect-behind-amd-zen-finally-releases-first-hardware-days-after-being-selected-to-build-the-future-of-ai-in-japan-tenstorrent-unveils-grayskull-its-risc-v-answer-to-gpus

2 years ago

278 upvotes – 126 comments

Perf Is Not Enough

https://motherduck.com/blog/perf-is-not-enough/

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 77 comments

My Clients, the Liars

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h99tRkpQGxwtb9Dpv/my-clients-the-liars

2 years ago

257 upvotes – 120 comments

Show HN: LlamaGym – fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning

https://github.com/KhoomeiK/LlamaGym

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 28 comments

Latency numbers every programmer should know

https://samwho.dev/numbers/?fo

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 128 comments

Show HN: Timelock.dev – Send a secret into the future using timelock encryption

https://timelock.dev/

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 133 comments

eBPF Documentary

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2024-03-10/ebpf-documentary.html

2 years ago

220 upvotes – 89 comments

Activision QA Workers Vote to Form Largest US Video Game Worker Union to Date

https://www.ign.com/articles/activision-qa-workers-vote-to-form-largest-us-video-game-worker-union-to-date

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 54 comments

Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04652

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 81 comments

Vegetable stock: my secret lover (2011)

https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/8092537664/vegetable-stock-my-secret-lover

2 years ago

190 upvotes – 131 comments

Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive

https://grondilu.github.io/memchess/

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 39 comments

PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server

https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 54 comments

Using PostgreSQL for military geoanalytics tasks

https://klioba.com/how-to-use-postgresql-for-military-geoanalytics-tasks

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 14 comments

When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 184 comments

Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028

2 years ago

169 upvotes – 140 comments

Kernel Hardening: Protect Linux user accounts against brute force attacks

https://github.com/Kicksecure/security-misc

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 104 comments

Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century

https://magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-france-europe-carbon-fraud-scam-vat-betrayal/

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 71 comments

Pipexec – Handling pipe of commands like a single command

https://github.com/flonatel/pipexec

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 35 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 74 comments

My Guide to Software Engineering Contracting in UK

https://codedeepdives.com/blog/guide-to-software-engineer-contracting-in-uk

2 years ago

137 upvotes – 90 comments

Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga

https://covingtonandsons.com/2022/05/22/japanese-handsaws-the-maebiki-ooga/

2 years ago

127 upvotes – 39 comments

How far are we from intelligent visual deductive reasoning?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04732

2 years ago

124 upvotes – 118 comments

A neural code for time and space in the human brain [pdf]

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(23)01250-0.pdf

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 43 comments

Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)

https://sts10.github.io/2015/09/14/bell-labs-the-idea-factory.html

2 years ago

121 upvotes – 34 comments

E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)

https://thisebikelife.com/e-bikes-overtake-buggies-for-some-amis/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 166 comments

The Fashion Police in 16th-century Italy (2014)

https://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/fashion-police-16th-century-italy/

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 37 comments

Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes

https://airlive.net/reports/2024/03/09/report-both-pilots-of-an-a320-fall-asleep-in-the-cockpit-for-28-minutes/

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 119 comments

To write a great essay, think and care deeply (2015)

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/to-write-a-great-essay-think-and-care-deeply/394628/

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Kākāpō – A web bundler for Nix strings with context

https://github.com/adisbladis/kakapo

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 41 comments

Windows 1.0 site – everything there is to know about the first Windows version

https://win1.krnl386.com/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 44 comments

Iris (Infra-Red, in Situ) Silicon Verification Project Updates

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6937

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 9 comments

Proton AG of ProtonMail can provide FBI with your account recovery email

https://fxtwitter.com/monetaryreset/status/1691446834655535105

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 91 comments

Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi

https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/03/04/controlling-3-6kw-of-solar-ev-charging-with-an-arduino-giga-r1-wifi/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 107 comments

Moore on Moore – The past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/moore-on-moore

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 49 comments

Google confirmed it 'terminated' an employee who staged a protest against Israel

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-fired-after-protesting-against-israel-2024-3

2 years ago

87 upvotes – 151 comments

Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately

https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/of-course-ai-is-extractive-everything-is-lately/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 118 comments

Refuted papers continue to be cited more than their failed replications

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/03/10/refuted-papers-continue-to-be-cited-more-than-their-failed-replications-can-a-new-search-engine-be-built-that-will-fix-this-problem/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 34 comments

Justice Dept. opens criminal probe of mid-flight blowout on 737 MAX plane

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2024/03/09/justice-department-investigation-boeing-max-accident/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 2 comments

"Let them eat cereal" How "greedflation" fueled consumer ire against Kellogg

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/10/let-them-eat-cereal-how-accusations-of-greedflation-fueled-consumer-ire-against-kelloggs/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 92 comments

SQLite on macOS: Not ACID compliant with the bundled version (2022)

https://bonsaidb.io/blog/acid-on-apple/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 7 comments

US not hiding aliens or UFO technology from the public, Pentagon says

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/pentagon-ufo-report-hiding-aliens

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 133 comments

Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude

https://www.scarletink.com/p/technical-skills-are-overrated-focus-on-your-attitude

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 72 comments
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