top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-16

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

https://danluu.com/slow-device/

2 years ago

Hackintosh is almost dead

https://aplus.rs/2024/hackintosh-almost-dead/

2 years ago

Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/fuzzing-ladybird-with-tools-from

2 years ago

Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2816616

2 years ago

Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio

https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

2 years ago

Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/cloudflare-loses-22-of-its-domains-in-freenom-tk-shutdown/

2 years ago

Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/libraries-struggle-afford-demand-books-seek-new-state-108035200

2 years ago

macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes

https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/java-on-macos-14-4

2 years ago

Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display

https://jacquesmattheij.com/refreshablebraille/BrailleDisplayProject.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA

https://github.com/tspeterkim/flash-attention-minimal

2 years ago

Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

2 years ago

IBM 360’s are searching for a new home

https://www.ibm360.co.uk/?p=911

2 years ago

Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch

https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5/blob/main/doc/FAQ.md

2 years ago

20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry

https://thenewstack.io/20-years-in-the-making-gnucobol-is-ready-for-industry/

2 years ago

MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09611

2 years ago

Parsing URLs in Python

https://tkte.ch/articles/2024/03/15/parsing-urls-in-python.html

2 years ago

U.S. is investigating Meta for role in drug sales

https://www.wsj.com/tech/u-s-is-investigating-meta-for-role-in-drug-sales-574944cb

2 years ago

AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08299

2 years ago

Telefunken Datenspeicher

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/29676/what-is-this-large-device-labelled-telefunken-datenspeicher-and-how-does-it-wo

2 years ago

Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/research-shows-people-who-bs-are-more-likely-fall-bs

2 years ago

Show HN: deptry 0.14.0 – detect unused Python dependencies up to 10 times faster

https://github.com/fpgmaas/deptry/releases/tag/0.14.0

2 years ago

Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust

https://modal.com/blog/serverless-http

2 years ago

Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation

https://www.wired.com/story/reddits-sale-user-data-ai-training-draws-ftc-investigation/

2 years ago

Y Combinator's chief startup whisperer is demoting himself

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-y-combinator-michael-seibel-startup-whisperer/

2 years ago

Mintlify GitHub read/write token leak

https://mintlify.com/blog/incident-march-13

2 years ago

The Rising Price of Power in Chips

https://semiengineering.com/the-rising-price-of-power-in-chips/

2 years ago

Is modern mass media a mind prison?

https://jasonpargin.substack.com/p/is-modern-mass-media-a-mind-prison

2 years ago

VR Powered by N64 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha3fDU-1wHk

2 years ago

Mental Health in Open Source

https://antfu.me/posts/mental-health-oss

2 years ago

What are the "worst" spelling bee pangrams?

https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/03/What_are_the__worst__spelling_bee_pangrams_.html

2 years ago

America's Last Top Models

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/americas-last-top-models

2 years ago

Loongson 3A6000: A Star Among Chinese CPUs

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/03/13/loongson-3a6000-a-star-among-chinese-cpus/

2 years ago

TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_94q9TCCDY

2 years ago

The language you speak changes your perception of time

https://www.popsci.com/language-time-perception/

2 years ago

Georg Cantor and His Heritage

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209244

2 years ago

Home buyers need 80% more income to buy than 4 years ago

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2922240/inflation-woes-home-buyers-need-80-more-income-to-buy-than-4-years-ago/

2 years ago

The Economics of Pirate Radio (2020)

https://ibhof.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-economics-of-pirate-radio.html

2 years ago

The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-plastic-industry-knowingly-pushed-recycling-myth-for-decades-new-report-finds

2 years ago

Why African startups don't always need to expand across the continent

https://restofworld.org/2024/3-minutes-with-odun-eweniyi/

2 years ago

Why Is the Sea So Hot?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot

2 years ago

Large South Korean Companies Withdrawing from China

https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=213113

2 years ago

Apple MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09611

2 years ago

Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-abnormal-brain-children-developmental-language.html

2 years ago

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/researchers-use-ascii-art-to-elicit-harmful-responses-from-5-major-ai-chatbots/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you use AI for software engineering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726632

2 years ago

DARPA to launch efforts that will bolster defenses against manipulated media

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-03-14

2 years ago

Ask HN: Non-duopoly smart phone in Sweden?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726937

2 years ago

Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud written in TypeScript

https://bewcloud.com

2 years ago

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/15/on_call/

2 years ago

The Future of the Monetary System [pdf]

https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/csri-future-of-the-monetary-system.pdf

2 years ago

Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after 'poke' from Earth

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-poke-scn/index.html

2 years ago

Dell workers can stay remote – but they're not going to get promoted

https://www.businessinsider.com/dell-remote-workers-promotion-return-office-push-flexible-work-2024-3

2 years ago

SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-building-spy-satellite-network-us-intelligence-agency-sources-2024-03-16/

2 years ago

Self-Printing Machine Code (2005)

https://susam.net/self-printing-machine-code.html

2 years ago

Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Would Rather Wait to Watch Movies on Streaming

https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/movies-on-streaming-not-in-theaters-1234964413/

2 years ago

Snapdragon X Elite Multi-Core Superiority Claims over Apple's M3 Were Right

https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-x-elite-vs-m3-single-core-multi-core-early-comparison/

2 years ago

Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27B years old

https://www.earth.com/news/dark-matter-does-not-exist-universe-27-billion-years-old-study/

2 years ago

Application.garden – a platform for hosting small web apps written in Clojure

https://application.garden/signup

2 years ago

Podman Desktop just released its own Kubernetes GUI

https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.8

2 years ago