top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-03-11

Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

a year ago

1335 upvotes – 556 comments

JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data

https://jsoncanvas.org/

a year ago

841 upvotes – 164 comments

Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_Hubble_confirm_Universe_s_expansion_rate

a year ago

670 upvotes – 357 comments

gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/116338

a year ago

470 upvotes – 247 comments

Diffusion models from scratch, from a new theoretical perspective

https://www.chenyang.co/diffusion.html

a year ago

379 upvotes – 40 comments

Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]

https://www.sdfo.org/gj/stories/flowersforalgernon.pdf

a year ago

379 upvotes – 262 comments

Simpson's paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

a year ago

365 upvotes – 106 comments

Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/11/24097107/airbnb-indoor-security-camera-ban

a year ago

341 upvotes – 505 comments

GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112066872276203917

a year ago

328 upvotes – 199 comments

Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

https://github.com/OnedocLabs/react-print-pdf

a year ago

293 upvotes – 185 comments

Building an Open Source Decentralized E-Book Search Engine

https://github.com/j2qk3b/ebook-demo/blob/main/tutorial.md

a year ago

291 upvotes – 37 comments

Kdenlive 24.02 open source video editor released

https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/03/kdenlive-24-02-0-released/

a year ago

288 upvotes – 56 comments

The later we meet someone in a sequence, the more negatively we describe them

https://suchscience.org/people-encountered-later-in-a-sequence-described-more-negatively/

a year ago

286 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Teable – Open-Source No-Code Database Fusion of Postgres and Airtable

https://github.com/teableio/teable

a year ago

279 upvotes – 94 comments

Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behavior with insurance companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

a year ago

272 upvotes – 324 comments

Google's threat model for post-quantum cryptography

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5108747984306176/google-s-threat-model-for-post-quantum-cryptography

a year ago

255 upvotes – 73 comments

Speedometer 3.0: A shared browser benchmark for web application responsiveness

https://browserbench.org/announcements/speedometer3/

a year ago

241 upvotes – 168 comments

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

a year ago

214 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Prompts as WASM Programs

https://github.com/microsoft/aici

a year ago

209 upvotes – 35 comments

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)

https://www.norvig.com/lispy.html

a year ago

193 upvotes – 91 comments
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