top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-20

Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/gps-jamming-map/

2 years ago

Suspicious discontinuities (2020)

https://danluu.com/discontinuities/

2 years ago

Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"

https://sethmlarson.dev/regex-$-matches-end-of-string-or-newline

2 years ago

Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source

https://rive.app/blog/rive-renderer-now-open-source-and-available-on-all-platforms

2 years ago

Google Scholar PDF Reader

https://scholar.googleblog.com/2024/03/supercharge-your-pdf-reading-follow.html

2 years ago

Redis adopts dual source-available licensing

https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/

2 years ago

The Google employees who created transformers

https://www.wired.com/story/eight-google-employees-invented-modern-ai-transformers-paper/

2 years ago

Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/politics/chips-act-grant-intel.html

2 years ago

Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/03/20/parrots-playing-tablet-games/

2 years ago

Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/realestate/paris-france-housing-costs.html

2 years ago

Study puts fermented foods, not fire, as pivotal moment in human brain growth

https://plantbasednews.org/news/science/fermented-foods-human-brain-growth/

2 years ago

Show HN: GritQL, a Rust CLI for rewriting source code

https://github.com/getgrit/gritql

2 years ago

Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness

https://www.quantamagazine.org/michel-talagrand-wins-abel-prize-for-work-wrangling-randomness-20240320/

2 years ago

Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment

https://anchor.dev/blog/introducing-lcl-host

2 years ago

Bug hunting in Btrfs

https://tavianator.com/2024/btrfs_bug.html

2 years ago

OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/openais-chatbot-store-is-filling-up-with-spam/

2 years ago

Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?

https://mtlynch.io/zig-extraneous-build/

2 years ago

Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/long-covid-brain-fog-blood-brain-barrier-damage

2 years ago

Indonesia's e-bike shops are building their own batteries

https://restofworld.org/2024/homemade-ebike-battery-indonesia/

2 years ago

Red Hat to author new Linux driver for Nvidia GPUs in Rust

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions

2 years ago

Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar

https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/03/19/lets_create_a_tree-sitter_grammar/

2 years ago

So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?

https://antithesis.com/blog/deterministic_hypervisor/

2 years ago

Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview

https://twitter.com/neuralink/status/1770563939413496146

2 years ago

Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4118051100641390121

2 years ago

JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards

https://www.jitx.com

2 years ago

Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset

https://post.lurk.org/@emenel/112111014479288871

2 years ago

People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one

https://www.wired.com/story/car-free-cities-opposition/

2 years ago

Micrograd-CUDA: adapting Karpathy's tiny autodiff engine for GPU acceleration

https://github.com/mlecauchois/micrograd-cuda

2 years ago

Ethereum Foundation removes their canary

https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-foundation-website/commit/769b30603504b4b5e8f601f8014691a8d1821390

2 years ago

Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server

https://thevahidal.github.io/soul/

2 years ago

Jim Ward has died

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-jim-ward-dungeons-dragons-designer-died-at-age-72

2 years ago

If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1bii6h4/if_gravity_isnt_a_force_then_why_does_it_need_a/

2 years ago

Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

2 years ago

Multiple Stability AI researchers are departing, CEO says

https://twitter.com/kenrickcai/status/1770474370278035775

2 years ago

Show HN: Personal Knowledge Base Visualization

https://github.com/raphaelsty/knowledge

2 years ago

Launch HN: CamelQA (YC W24) – AI that tests mobile apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39769412

2 years ago

EFF: Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents

2 years ago

I Improved My Rust Compile Times

https://benw.is/posts/how-i-improved-my-rust-compile-times-by-seventy-five-percent

2 years ago

A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl (2011)

https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/6778945711/a-surprising-advantage-of-vinyl

2 years ago

Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023)

https://jcarroll.com.au/2023/07/07/array-languages-r-vs-apl/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How did you get yourself out of a rut?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39761808

2 years ago

First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes live

https://overkill.wtf/nintendo-switch-emulator-suyu-beta/

2 years ago

Focus by Automation

https://myme.no/posts/2024-03-19-focus-by-automation.html

2 years ago

Google fined €250M in France for breaching intellectual property deal

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/20/google-fined-250m-euros-in-france-for-breaching-intellectual-property-rules

2 years ago

The C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)

https://wordsandbuttons.online/the_real_cpp_killers.html

2 years ago

Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"

https://release.gnome.org/46/

2 years ago

The Photo Behind the Iconic Columbia Pictures 'Torch Lady' Logo (2022)

https://petapixel.com/2022/02/20/the-photo-behind-the-iconic-columbia-pictures-torch-lady-logo/

2 years ago

Nvidia Unveils Blackwell, Its Next GPU

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-blackwell

2 years ago

Space Shuttle teleprinter reverse engineering

https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1770188240777044079

2 years ago

Arch Linux minimal container userland 100% reproducible – now what?

https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2024-March/003301.html

2 years ago

Build systems a la carte: theory and practice (2020)

https://simon.peytonjones.org/build-systems-a-la-carte-theory-and-practice/

2 years ago

Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Company Flounders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/03/20/key-stable-diffusion-researchers-leave-stability-ai-as-company-flounders

2 years ago

Neolithic boats found in the Mediterranean reveal advanced nautical technology

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-neolithic-boats-excavated-mediterranean-reveal.html

2 years ago

US Gov announces $8.5B preliminary CHIPS investment agreement with Intel

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2024/03/biden-harris-administration-announces-preliminary-terms-intel-support

2 years ago

RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R

https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio

2 years ago

Job boards are still rife with 'ghost jobs'. What's the point?

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-digital-job-boards

2 years ago

Sequential and parallel execution of long-running shell commands

https://github.com/Nukesor/pueue

2 years ago

Apple removed Alexei Navalny's app after Kremlin demand

https://twitter.com/ioannZH/status/1770508878901280821

2 years ago

Dissent – A GTK4 Discord client written in Go

https://github.com/diamondburned/dissent

2 years ago

Unending bubble wrap: a pointless activity to spend a few satisfying minutes

https://brainteaser.top/bubblespop.html

2 years ago

'Britain's Pompeii' reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/20/europe/must-farm-bronze-age-britain-pompeii-scn/index.html

2 years ago

Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Glassdoor-is-now-adding-real-names-and-personal-info-to-user-profiles-without-consent-Delete-your-account-ASAP-TGx0k5mo

2 years ago

They Praised AI at SXSW–and the Audience Started Booing

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/they-praised-ai-at-sxswand-the-audience

2 years ago

How OpenAI's Sora Model Works

https://www.factorialfunds.com/blog/under-the-hood-how-openai-s-sora-model-works

2 years ago

European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/20/esa_1_millimeter/

2 years ago

Rare eleventh-century astrolabe discovery shows Islamic–Jewish sci. exchange

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-rare-eleventh-century-astrolabe-discovery.html

2 years ago

Blocklist that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

2 years ago

Unpowered cargo gliders on tow ropes promise 65% cheaper air freight

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/towed-cargo-gliders/

2 years ago

Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-electric-vehicles-charging-stations-8f240084670b7b210d162f83b22168d9

2 years ago

Crookes Radiometer

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

2 years ago

I'm Begging the Courts to Stop Citing My Work on Bite Mark Identification

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/courts-junk-science-forensics-evidence/677739/

2 years ago

The Starship or the Canoe: Where will our future adaptations be? (2017)

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2017-adaptation/starship-or-canoe-where-will-our-future-adaptations-be/

2 years ago

rustup in official apt repositories: starting from Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04

https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/installation/other.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Nebula – A network agnostic DHT crawler

https://github.com/dennis-tra/nebula

2 years ago

Lenovo announced ThinkPads for 'better sustainability and extended repairabilty'

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/unleashing-innovation-and-better-sustainability-of-lenovos-latest-thinkpad-l-series-and-x-series-laptops/

2 years ago

The Virtue of Slow Writers

https://themillions.com/2024/03/the-virtue-of-slow-writers.html

2 years ago

Unbounded Recursion

https://wiki.secretgeek.net/unbounded-recursion#jokes-featuring-unbounded-recursion

2 years ago

Universities Have a Computer Science Problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/computing-college-cs-majors/677792/

2 years ago

Memories from when you were a baby might not be gone

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00844-9

2 years ago