top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-12

Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/12/apple-announces-app-downloads-from-websites/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

https://www.trangram.com

2 years ago

Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/data-center-engineering/building-metas-genai-infrastructure/

2 years ago

Devin: AI Software Engineer

https://www.cognition-labs.com/blog

2 years ago

The NYPD sent a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's Twitter account

https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-warrantless-subpoena-copwatcher-social-media

2 years ago

Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP

https://copyninja.in/blog/clone_laptop_nvmet.html

2 years ago

Weather forecasts have become more accurate

https://ourworldindata.org/weather-forecasts

2 years ago

OpenAI – transformer debugger release

https://github.com/openai/transformer-debugger

2 years ago

Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation

2 years ago

Breaking down tasks

https://jacobian.org/2024/mar/11/breaking-down-tasks/

2 years ago

More options for apps distributed in the European Union

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=8c1m8hqt

2 years ago

How Mandelbrot set images are affected by floating point precision

https://github.com/ProfJski/FloatCompMandelbrot

2 years ago

Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/australia/latam-airlines-flight-injuries-new-zealand-tuesday-intl-hnk/index.html

2 years ago

40 Years of Programming

https://liw.fi/40/

2 years ago

Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272

2 years ago

A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/2/13/24070864/samotsvety-forecasting-superforecasters-tetlock

2 years ago

The Bevy Foundation

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-foundation/

2 years ago

Stealing Part of a Production Language Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06634

2 years ago

Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate

https://www.swift.org/blog/byte-sized-swift-tiny-games-playdate/

2 years ago

Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440

2 years ago

Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)

https://crates.io/crates/csv-to-usv

2 years ago

Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study

https://news.uci.edu/2024/03/12/uc-irvine-study-vehicle-brakes-produce-charged-particles-that-may-harm-public-health/

2 years ago

Deterministic simulation testing for our entire SaaS

https://www.warpstream.com/blog/deterministic-simulation-testing-for-our-entire-saas

2 years ago

On the new Dutch intelligence and security law

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intelligence-and-security-law/

2 years ago

Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/shields-up-new-ideas-might-make-active-shielding-viable/

2 years ago

Vulkan Foliage rendering using GPU Instancing

https://www.thegeeko.me/blog/foliage-rendering

2 years ago

I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut

https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-01-27-sourcehut-no-more/

2 years ago

Astro DB

https://astro.build/db/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Glide (YC W24) – AI-assisted technical design docs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682183

2 years ago

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-dead

2 years ago

A formula for responsive font-size

https://jameshfisher.com/2024/03/12/a-formula-for-responsive-font-size/

2 years ago

Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/4524968-boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide/

2 years ago

Create More, Consume Less (2021)

https://www.omaritani.com/blog/create-more-consume-less

2 years ago

Fig is sunsetting

https://fig.io/blog/post/fig-is-sunsetting

2 years ago

C++ Safety, in Context

https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/safety-in-context/

2 years ago

The internet is slipping out of our reach

https://injuly.in/blog/darker-internet/index.html

2 years ago

Chyrp Lite – An Ultra-Lightweight Tumblelogging Engine Using PHP and SQLite

https://chyrplite.net/

2 years ago

Performance-Aware Programming Series

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/table-of-contents

2 years ago

Identifying Software

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/identifying-software/

2 years ago

Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model

https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1767384751269150828

2 years ago

YX Problem

https://www.sicpers.info/2024/03/yx-problem/

2 years ago

No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00725-1

2 years ago

Open Policy Agent

https://www.openpolicyagent.org/

2 years ago

Large Language Models Are Neurosymbolic Reasoners

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09334

2 years ago

The new science on what ultra-processed food does to the brain

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/ultra-processed-food-brain-health-7a3f9827

2 years ago

Crypto 'mixer' convicted of money laundering on Bitcoin Fog

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/crypto-mixer-convicted-of-money-laundering-on-bitcoin-fog

2 years ago

Differential storage: A key building block for a DuckDB-based data warehouse

https://motherduck.com/blog/differential-storage-building-block-for-data-warehouse/

2 years ago

I'm excited about Darklang

https://stachu.net/im-really-excited-about-darklang/

2 years ago

Estimating Software Projects: So you messed up. Now what? (2021)

https://jacobian.org/2021/jun/8/incorrect-estimates/

2 years ago

Major medical provider drops patient for not having a Android or iOS device

https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/112079059323905912

2 years ago

Apple's hysterics over new EU antitrust law have led to two climbdowns already

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-hysterics-over-eu-antitrust-153713345.html

2 years ago

For polyglots, there's something special about their native tongue

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-polyglots-brain-processing-native-language-0310

2 years ago

The spreadsheet is a simulation machine

https://arbesman.substack.com/p/the-spreadsheet-is-a-simulation-machine

2 years ago

Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action

https://blog.frankel.ch/raspberry-pi-github-action/

2 years ago

Multi-Threading and Mutation

https://www.rfleury.com/p/multi-threading-and-mutation

2 years ago

WebTunnel

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-censorship-by-hiding-in-plain-sight/

2 years ago

Screen Space Reflection

https://zznewclear13.github.io/posts/screen-space-reflection-en/

2 years ago

FAA Audit of Boeing's 737 MAX Production Found Dozens of Issues

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/faa-audit-boeing-737-max.html

2 years ago

LOCS: Language developed at age 9 in Z80 machine code (1988)

https://nanochess.org/locs.html

2 years ago

DMCA Notices Took Down 20,517 GitHub Projects Last Year

https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-notices-took-down-20517-github-projects-last-year-240308/

2 years ago

Howard Hughes modified a 1925 Doble steam car to reach 133 MPH (2022)

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/steaming-sensation-1925-doble

2 years ago

Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language

https://github.com/veryl-lang/veryl

2 years ago

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring03/cs333/thompson

2 years ago

Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/biden-budget-2025-tax-proposals/

2 years ago

Quantum Soccer (2009)

https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Soccer/Soccer.html

2 years ago

On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas

https://clairelevans.substack.com/p/brighter-than-a-cloud

2 years ago

An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs

https://textmine.com/post/an-introduction-to-knowledge-graphs

2 years ago