top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-19

How to Start Google

https://paulgraham.com/google.html

2 years ago

Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq

https://github.com/ynqa/jnv

2 years ago

Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research

https://github.com/microsoft/garnet

2 years ago

Lego price per part over the years

https://brickinsights.com/statistics/ppp

2 years ago

Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-root-alzheimer-fat-buildup-brain.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac

https://godspeedapp.com/

2 years ago

HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CRISPR-Cas gene editing [pdf]

https://www.escmid.org/fileadmin/src/media/PDFs/2News_Discussions/Press_activities/2024/HIVCRISPRV4_1_.pdf

2 years ago

Java 22 Released

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2024-March/008827.html

2 years ago

Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8

https://github.blog/2024-03-18-gaining-kernel-code-execution-on-an-mte-enabled-pixel-8/

2 years ago

20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13864

2 years ago

Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups

https://causal.app

2 years ago

Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show

https://nanochess.org/emulator.html

2 years ago

The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/the-super-mario-maker-community-faces-its-final-boss/

2 years ago

Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-massive-alleged-att-data-breach/

2 years ago

BootLogo: Logo language in 508 bytes of x86 machine code

https://github.com/nanochess/bootLogo

2 years ago

SQL is syntactic sugar for relational algebra

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sql-is-syntactic-sugar-for-relational-algebra/

2 years ago

Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)

https://softwareengineeringstandard.com/2024/03/19/ngrok-alternative-open-source/

2 years ago

Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go

https://github.com/failsafe-go/failsafe-go

2 years ago

The New Inflection

https://inflection.ai/the-new-inflection

2 years ago

A star system 3,000 light-years away is predicted to become visible soon

https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2024/02/27/view-nova-explosion-new-star-in-northern-crown/

2 years ago

Natural language instructions induce generalization in networks of neurons

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01607-5

2 years ago

What does Alan Kay think about LLMs?

https://www.quora.com/What-does-Alan-Kay-think-about-programming-and-teaching-programming-with-copilots-and-LLMs-of-today

2 years ago

New algorithm unlocks high-resolution insights for computer vision

https://news.mit.edu/2024/featup-algorithm-unlocks-high-resolution-insights-computer-vision-0318

2 years ago

Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check

https://r-u-human.com/

2 years ago

USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/usb-hubs-printers-java-and-more-seemingly-broken-by-macos-14-4-update/

2 years ago

Implementing Vertical Form Controls

https://webkit.org/blog/15190/implementing-vertical-form-controls/

2 years ago

Retina – eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes

https://github.com/microsoft/retina

2 years ago

Astronaut Thomas Stafford has died

https://apnews.com/article/apollo-10-astronaut-tom-stafford-18600e218bd145ce99a3605b35df7b8c

2 years ago

It's official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/its-official-europe-turns-to-the-falcon-9-to-launch-its-navigation-satellites/

2 years ago

New Intermediate Certificates

https://letsencrypt.org/2024/03/19/new-intermediate-certificates.html

2 years ago

Atari Falcon030

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/atari-falcon030

2 years ago

Understanding Google's File System (2020)

https://www.micahlerner.com/2020/03/22/understanding-googles-file-system.html

2 years ago

Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/business/japan-boj-negative-interest-rate-ended-intl-hnk/index.html

2 years ago

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/

2 years ago

The Mechanics of Proof

https://hrmacbeth.github.io/math2001/index.html

2 years ago

Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/he-spoke-of-computers-with-some-awe

2 years ago

Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39755927

2 years ago

Dead Air on the Incident Call

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2024/03/18/dead-air-on-the-incident-call/

2 years ago

Draft Paper Discovered in Which Joseph Weizenbaum Envisions ELIZA's Applications

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/news#h.ykbzq5nuiccs

2 years ago

Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale

https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-0.8

2 years ago

Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/19/swedish-composer-johan-rohr-becomes-spotifys-most-famous-musician-youve-never-heard-of

2 years ago

PostgreSQL is eating the database world

https://pigsty.io/blog/pg/pg-eat-db-world/

2 years ago

FlipperZero: Our Response to the Canadian Government

https://blog.flipper.net/response-to-canadian-government/

2 years ago

Stardew Valley 1.6 Changelog

https://www.stardewvalley.net/stardew-valley-1-6-update-full-changelog/

2 years ago

A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts

https://www.core77.com/posts/130277/Industrial-Design-Student-Work-A-Stabilizing-Robotic-Tail-for-Floating-Astronauts

2 years ago

Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today

https://forum.figma.com/t/figma-removed-window-figma-on-view-only-pages-today/67292

2 years ago

How to write a QML effect for KWin

https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2024/03/18/how-to-write-a-qml-effect-for-kwin/

2 years ago

The Timeless Parable of Mr. Market

https://fs.blog/mr-market/

2 years ago

Project GR00T by Nvidia

https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1769860044324319658

2 years ago

Operations begin to de-ice Euclid’s vision

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Operations_begin_to_de-ice_Euclid_s_vision

2 years ago

Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems

https://yzena.com/2024/03/build-system-schism-the-curse-of-meta-build-systems/

2 years ago

8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo

https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/8-years-later-a-world-go-champions-reflections-on-alphago/

2 years ago

Fast Virtual Functions: Hacking the VTable for Fun and Profit

https://medium.com/@calebleak/fast-virtual-functions-hacking-the-vtable-for-fun-and-profit-25c36409c5e0

2 years ago

Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up to IPO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-19/nokia-tells-reddit-it-infringes-some-patents-in-lead-up-to-ipo

2 years ago

MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11207

2 years ago

The driest place on Earth

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/the-driest-place-on-earth/

2 years ago

MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)

https://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html

2 years ago

Loneliness in Midlife: A Growing Gap Between US and Europe

https://neurosciencenews.com/loneliness-midlife-psychology-25768/

2 years ago

Practical Railway-Oriented Pipelines in Ruby

https://ismaelcelis.com/posts/practical-railway-oriented-pipelines-in-ruby/

2 years ago

Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report

https://gizmodo.com/dell-remote-employees-eligible-promotions-1851347699

2 years ago

Using axis lines for good or evil

https://dynomight.net/axes/

2 years ago

Show HN: Hypersplit – Like Infinite Craft but in reverse

https://lantto.github.io/hypersplit/

2 years ago

A new kind of MD5 collision

https://twitter.com/realhashbreaker/status/1770161965006008570

2 years ago

Internals of the async/await pattern from first principles

https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/internals_of_the_async_await_pattern_from_first_principles.md

2 years ago

Chicken Sexing and Knowing

https://adadithya.medium.com/chicken-sexing-and-knowing-279af624b499

2 years ago

Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/19/social_media_sites_headed_to/

2 years ago

The rise and fall of a Halifax man's illegal TV streaming empire

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-man-illegal-streaming-empire-1.7112573

2 years ago

Mustafa Suleyman of Inflection AI Joins Microsoft

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/03/19/mustafa-suleyman-deepmind-and-inflection-co-founder-joins-microsoft-to-lead-copilot/

2 years ago

If you are using LLM RAG – you should be doing RAFT

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-ai-platform-blog/raft-a-new-way-to-teach-llms-to-be-better-at-rag/ba-p/4084674

2 years ago

Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4541638-supreme-court-no-fly-list-case/

2 years ago