top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-15

Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right

https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/

2 years ago

'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024

2 years ago

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

https://ollama.com/blog/amd-preview

2 years ago

Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/nix-docker-build/

2 years ago

TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop

https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher

2 years ago

★ 1.3k Vala GPL-3.0

Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list

2 years ago

Show HN: Matrix Multiplication with Half the Multiplications

https://github.com/trevorpogue/algebraic-nnhw

2 years ago

★ 292 Python

Great ideas in theoretical computer science

https://www.cs251.com

2 years ago

FTC and DOJ want to free McDonald's ice cream machines from DMCA repair rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/ftc-and-doj-want-to-free-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines-from-dmca-repair-rules/

2 years ago

Postgres is eating the database world

https://medium.com/@fengruohang/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-157c204dcfc4

2 years ago

Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629

2 years ago

Harvard concluded that a dishonesty expert committed misconduct

https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-the-unsealed-report-showing-how-harvard-concluded-that-a-dishonesty-expert-committed-misconduct

2 years ago

IAM Is the Worst

https://matduggan.com/iam-is-the-worst/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source, browser-local data exploration using DuckDB-WASM and PRQL

https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai

2 years ago

★ 2.1k TypeScript

Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation

https://letsencrypt.org/2024/03/14/introducing-sunlight.html

2 years ago

Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-whistleblower-warning-not-suicide

2 years ago

The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come

https://apnews.com/article/orsted-offshore-wind-new-york-south-fork-climate-cbb9360388d91be1368dd91ba35aa384

2 years ago

Show HN: Richard – A CNN written in C++ and Vulkan (no ML or math libs)

https://github.com/robjinman/richard

2 years ago

★ 201 C++ GPL-3.0

Compressing chess moves for fun and profit

https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves/

2 years ago

What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 vs. 2015 (2015)

http://danluu.com/butler-lampson-1999/

2 years ago

OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03998

2 years ago

Zig, Rust, and Other Languages

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-03-15-zig-rust-and-other-languages.html

2 years ago

Boeing Whistleblower: "If Anything Happens to Me, It's Not Suicide"

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1768517997285482626

2 years ago

Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/13/dev-focused-note-taking-startup-stashpad-launches-google-docs-alternative-you-can-use-without-any-login/

2 years ago

What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck?

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2024/03/15/rustc-what-takes-so-long.html

2 years ago

Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly)

https://0x44.cc/reversing/2021/07/21/reversing-x86-and-c-code-for-beginners.html

2 years ago

A Mathematician on Creativity, Art, Logic and Language

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematician-on-creativity-art-logic-and-language-20240313/

2 years ago

GhostRace: Exploiting and mitigating speculative race conditions

https://www.vusec.net/projects/ghostrace/

2 years ago

RSS was released 25 years ago today

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

2 years ago

I figured out how DMARC works, and it almost broke me

https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmarc

2 years ago

Tiny bitfield based text renderer (2022)

https://www.onirom.fr/wiki/blog/25-09-2022_tiny_bitfield_based_text_renderer/

2 years ago

ArXiv Papers as Audiobooks

https://github.com/imelnyk/ArxivPapers

2 years ago

★ 540 Python

Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1k

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-telecom-manager-admits-to-doing-sim-swaps-for-1-000/

2 years ago

Britain's decade of Art Deco densification

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/britains-interwar-apartment-boom

2 years ago

The end of the dark universe?

https://nautil.us/the-end-of-the-dark-universe-531983/

2 years ago

The Montreal problem: Why programming languages need a style czar

https://earthly.dev/blog/language-style-czar/

2 years ago

Titanosaurs were the biggest land animals Earth's ever seen

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-titanosaurs-biggest-animals-earth-combining.html

2 years ago

Pg_hint_plan: Force PostgreSQL to execute query plans the way you want

https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan

2 years ago

★ 890 C

Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/101283/deleting-software-i-wrote-upon-leaving-employment-of-a-company

2 years ago

Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712637

2 years ago

Show HN: Making a Compiler to Prove Tmux Is Turing Complete

https://willhbr.net/2024/03/15/making-a-compiler-to-prove-tmux-is-turing-complete/

2 years ago

Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/deadly-morel-mushroom-outbreak-highlights-big-gaps-in-fungi-knowledge/

2 years ago

McDonald's Closes Amid Global IT Outage

https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-closes-amid-global-it-outage-1879528

2 years ago

FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/fcc-scraps-old-speed-benchmark-says-broadband-should-be-at-least-100mbps/

2 years ago

Leave car keys 'at front door' to avoid violent confrontations: Toronto Police

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/03/14/leave-car-keys-at-front-door-to-avoid-violent-confrontations-with-car-thieves-toronto-police/

2 years ago

Tech layoffs highest since dot-com crash

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/laid-off-techies-struggle-to-find-jobs-with-cuts-at-highest-since-2001.html

2 years ago

Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-15/software-company-hashicorp-is-said-to-weigh-potential-sale

2 years ago

How the wrong side won at Boeing

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/how-the-wrong-side-won-at-boeing

2 years ago

A developer portfolio as a 2D top-down walking simulator

https://jslegenddev.github.io/portfolio/

2 years ago

OpenAI's Lies and Half-Truths

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-lies-and-half-truths

2 years ago

"Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic" in scientific paper

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468023024002402

2 years ago

APL Quest

https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2024/03/the-apl-quest-series/

2 years ago

Google I/O '24 Puzzles

https://io.google/2024/puzzle

2 years ago

The Vicuñas and the $9k Sweater

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-lvmh-loro-piana-vicuna-sweater-labor/

2 years ago

What Every User Should Know About Mixed Precision Training in PyTorch (2022)

https://pytorch.org/blog/what-every-user-should-know-about-mixed-precision-training-in-pytorch/

2 years ago

How to Play Renju

https://www.renju.net/rules/

2 years ago

Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher

https://www.lumafield.com/article/finding-lead-in-stanleys-quencher-industrial-ct

2 years ago

Harvard Probe Finds Honesty Researcher Engaged in Scientific Misconduct

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-investigation-francesa-gino-documents-9e334ffe

2 years ago

A simple blood test can detect colorectal cancer early, study finds

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/14/1238390033/a-simple-blood-test-can-detect-colorectal-cancer-early-study-finds

2 years ago

Weak rules allow ultra-processed foods like Lunchables on school menus (2023)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/lunchables-school-lunch-ultraprocessed-foods/

2 years ago

Lyft, Uber to leave Minneapolis after city council forces higher driver pay

https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-uber-lyft-ridehailing-minimum-wage-d60db6a2e2580dc1d93c438a8cffa5ee

2 years ago

Realtors reach settlement that will change how Americans buy and sell homes

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/realtors-settlement-change-buy-sell-homes-da45eb23

2 years ago

The woman behind Strindberg's Miss Julie and her male alter ego

https://aeon.co/essays/the-woman-behind-strindbergs-miss-julie-and-her-male-alter-ego

2 years ago

The curse of the senior software engineer

https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/the-curse-of-the-senior-engineer/

2 years ago

Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi Surge on iOS Due to Europe's Digital Markets Act

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/brave_mozilla_europe_ios/

2 years ago

NPM Install Everything, and the Complete and Utter Chaos That Follows

https://boehs.org/node/npm-everything

2 years ago