top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-18

YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI

https://blog.google/intl/en-in/products/platforms/how-were-helping-creators-disclose-altered-or-synthetic-content/

2 years ago

Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D

https://stability.ai/news/introducing-stable-video-3d

2 years ago

Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law

https://www.amazingcto.com/cookie-banners-are-not-needed/

2 years ago

900 Sites, 125M accounts, 1 Vulnerability

https://env.fail/posts/firewreck-1/

2 years ago

WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport

https://rxdb.info/articles/websockets-sse-polling-webrtc-webtransport.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39740518

2 years ago

Cranelift code generation comes to Rust

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/964735/8b795f23495af1d4/

2 years ago

EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after partial ban

https://apnews.com/article/epa-asbestos-cancer-brakes-biden-72b0fa8b36adedaff6000034d35c2acd

2 years ago

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/18/nvidia-announces-gb200-blackwell-ai-chip-launching-later-this-year.html

2 years ago

Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted

https://github.com/plankanban/planka

2 years ago

Unconventional Uses of FPGAs

https://voltagedivide.com/2024/03/18/unconventional-uses-of-fpgas/

2 years ago

I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL

https://www.pinaraf.info/2024/03/look-ma-i-wrote-a-new-jit-compiler-for-postgresql/

2 years ago

Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility

https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/oh-sht-my-app-is-successful-and-i

2 years ago

Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/tick-killing-pill-shows-promising-results-in-human-trial/

2 years ago

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment

https://momentummag.com/paris-cycling-numbers-double/

2 years ago

How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)

https://www.truetex.com/garage.htm

2 years ago

Thoughts on the Future of Software Development

https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/thoughts-on-the-future-of-software-development/

2 years ago

Show HN: Extend Zigbee sensor range with LoRaWAN

https://github.com/lorabridge

2 years ago

On limitations that hide in your blindspot

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/limitatons

2 years ago

How do neural networks learn?

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-neural-networks-mathematical-formula-relevant.html

2 years ago

Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)

https://hbr.org/2020/08/take-ownership-of-your-future-self

2 years ago

Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf]

https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf

2 years ago

Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect

https://gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate

2 years ago

macOS Sonoma 14.4 might break Java on your machine

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/16/oracle-advises-users-delay-sonoma-update-due-to-java-issue

2 years ago

RP2040 Boot Sequence

https://vanhunteradams.com/Pico/Bootloader/Boot_sequence.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Let's Build AI

https://letsbuild.ai

2 years ago

Waffle House's Magic Marker System

https://kottke.org/24/03/waffle-houses-magic-marker-system

2 years ago

Optimizing the Particle Life: From 400 to 4M particles

https://programmingattack.com/articles/optimizing-the-article-life-from-a-thousand-to-a-milion-particles

2 years ago

Story of Vitamin D Toxicity (2022)

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-story

2 years ago

Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-again-bothers-chrome-users-with-bing-popup-ads-in-windows/

2 years ago

Suno, an AI music generator

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/suno-ai-chatgpt-for-music-1234982307/

2 years ago

Nomadic Identity Is Coming to ActivityPub

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/

2 years ago

5-year study finds no brain abnormalities in 'Havana Syndrome' patients

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/havana-syndrome-nih-study-1.7147124

2 years ago

Interviewing at Canonical

https://hachyderm.io/@sara/112117125241735836

2 years ago

Compiling with Constraints

https://www.philipzucker.com/compile_constraints/

2 years ago

Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)

https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-on-stack-overflow-inclusion-and-how-he-broke-it-recruiting/

2 years ago

Building a streaming SQL engine with Arrow and DataFusion

https://www.arroyo.dev/blog/why-arrow-and-datafusion

2 years ago

First-in-class MKK4 inhibitors enhance liver regeneration, prevent liver failure

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00225-3

2 years ago

Inversion: Fast, Reliable Structured LLMs

https://rysana.com/inversion

2 years ago

Apple Is in Talks to Let Google's Gemini Power iPhone Generative AI Features

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-tools

2 years ago

In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows disenchanted

https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-economics-do-we-know-what-were-doing

2 years ago

Spent brewer's yeast as a biosorbent for metal recovery from polymetallic waste

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2024.1345112/full

2 years ago

Tata joins hands with PSMC to build India's first 12-inch fab

https://www.powerchip.com/en-global/insights/press-releases/content/20240229

2 years ago

I Turned 72 Today

https://old.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/1bgw44k/i_turned_72_today/

2 years ago

Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers

https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi

2 years ago

We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong

https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/concussion-symptoms-signs-treatment-advice.html

2 years ago

Intermittent fasting linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1037544

2 years ago

Turning Points: A meeting with Enrico Fermi (2004)

https://lilith.fisica.ufmg.br/~dsoares/fdyson.htm

2 years ago

Don't upgrade to macOS Sonoma 14.4 yet: plug-in compatibility issues

https://cdm.link/2024/03/ffs-pace/

2 years ago

Implementation of mixture of experts language model in a single file of PyTorch

https://github.com/AviSoori1x/makeMoE

2 years ago

Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method (2023)

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/actinide-research-quarterly/first-quarter-2023/hitting-the-jackpot-the-birth-of-the-monte-carlo-method/

2 years ago

Experience with an Uncommon Lisp (1986) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319849

2 years ago

Hypothesis That Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is 27B Years Old

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicist-claims-universe-has-no-dark-matter-and-is-27-billion-years-old

2 years ago

LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit

https://commutative.xyz/~miguelmurca/blog/x/autoref.html

2 years ago

Car is spying on you, leading to higher insurance rates

https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/business/your-car-is-spying-on-you-and-upping-your-insurance-rates-report/

2 years ago

TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation

https://www.ft.com/content/e873b98a-9623-45b3-b97c-444a2fde5874

2 years ago

Cisco Acquires Splunk

https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/about/corporate-strategy-office/acquisitions/splunk/index.html

2 years ago

Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/WriteBufferingAndSyncs

2 years ago

"3 Body Problem" Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/3-body-problem-tv-review-netflix

2 years ago

From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up

https://text.npr.org/1238939706

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to change jobs with almost no interviewing experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39741230

2 years ago

C++ creator rebuts White House warning

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714401/c-plus-plus-creator-rebuts-white-house-warning.amp.html

2 years ago

Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions

https://docs.sweep.dev/blogs/file-cache

2 years ago

Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts

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

2 years ago

The Brewintosh, a 3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9oz4Ylzm4

2 years ago

Upside-Down-Ternet

http://pete.ex-parrot.com/upside-down-ternet.html

2 years ago

Irish names you're probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them

https://www.cnn.com/travel/irish-names-pronunciation/index.html

2 years ago

Migration out of Africa may have been driven by first glaciation of Pleistocene

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-migration-hominins-africa-driven-major.html

2 years ago

Waking My Computer from Afar

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/wakeonlan/

2 years ago

Encyclopaedia Britannica Seeking $1B Valuation in IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/encyclopaedia-britannica-seeking-1-billion-valuation-in-ipo

2 years ago