top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-22

Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation

https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

2 years ago

Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft

https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/inaugural-first-flight-xb1-supersonic-demonstrator

2 years ago

Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia

https://umarbutler.com/mapping-almost-every-law-regulation-and-case-in-australia/

2 years ago

Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/

2 years ago

Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards

https://css.winterveil.net

2 years ago

How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-chain-of-thought-reasoning-helps-neural-networks-compute-20240321/

2 years ago

OpenCat: Open-source robotic pet quadruped framework

https://www.petoi.com/pages/opencat-open-source-robot-pet-framework

2 years ago

Why is it so hard to build an airport?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-build-an-airport

2 years ago

Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2023/09/04/why-the-2-inflation-target/

2 years ago

Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/glassdoor-added-real-names-profiles-without-consent/

2 years ago

Pure CSS Website

https://pure-css-site.netlify.app/

2 years ago

The Bulma CSS framework reaches 1.0

https://github.com/jgthms/bulma/releases/tag/1.0.0

2 years ago

Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07815

2 years ago

Pack: A new container format for compressed files

https://pack.ac/note/pack

2 years ago

New vuln in Apple M-series allowing secret keys extraction can't be patched

https://twitter.com/kimzetter/status/1770869722760061195

2 years ago

VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media

https://nfraprado.net/post/vcard-rss-as-an-alternative-to-social-media.html

2 years ago

Launch HN: DryMerge (YC W24) – Automate Workflows with Plain English

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39792136

2 years ago

Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24108191/gitlab-suyu-nintendo-switch-emulator-takedown

2 years ago

Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

https://webtag.io

2 years ago

RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: 'It's mind-blowing how it inspired me'

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/mar/22/rollercoaster-tycoon-at-25-its-mind-blowing-how-it-inspired-me

2 years ago

When did dogs become our best friends?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-did-dogs-become-our-best-friends

2 years ago

2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earthquakes/2000-earthquakes-in-1-day-off-canada-coast-suggest-the-ocean-floor-is-ripping-apart-scientists-say

2 years ago

The Elements of Differentiable Programming

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14606

2 years ago

Hacker News Rankings. Graphs of HN posts rank on timeline

https://hnrankings.info

2 years ago

DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02622

2 years ago

Show HN: Leaping – Debug Python tests instantly with an LLM debugger

https://github.com/leapingio/leaping

2 years ago

Designing a Pure Python Web Framework

https://reflex.dev/blog/2024-03-21-reflex-architecture/

2 years ago

EU Parliament commitee approves cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-cash-cap-and-ban-on-anonymous-crypto-payments-results-in-financial-paternalism/

2 years ago

My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian

https://aeon.co/essays/my-grandfather-paul-tillich-the-unbelieving-theologian

2 years ago

OpenAI GPT-4 vs. Groq Mistral-8x7B

https://serpapi.com/blog/openai-gpt-4-vs-groq-mistral/

2 years ago

Micron Samples 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCR DIMMs: Modules for Servers

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21320/micron-samples-256-gb-ddr58800-mcr-dimms-massive-modules-for-massive-servers

2 years ago

Allegations of criminality by Boeing in deceased whistleblower complaint

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/21/dbis-m21.html

2 years ago

Hexagons and Hilbert curves – The headaches of distributed spatial indices

https://hivekit.io/blog/the-headaches-of-distributed-spatial-indices/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Success stories from McKinsey (et al.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793614

2 years ago

Empty “backpacks” activate the immune system against cancer in mice

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-backpacks-neutrophils-immune-cancer.html

2 years ago

How to actually use the notes you take

https://dannb.org/blog/2024/obsidian-use-your-notes/

2 years ago

A cargo ship's 'WindWing' sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

https://www.ajot.com/news/a-cargo-ships-windwing-sails-saved-it-up-to-12-tons-of-fuel-per-day

2 years ago

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/gm-onstar-driver-data.html

2 years ago

Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10

https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2024/03/21/introducing-surface-pro-10-for-business-and-surface-laptop-6-for-business/

2 years ago

Cable ISP fined $10k for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/cable-isp-fined-10000-for-lying-to-fcc-about-where-it-offers-broadband/

2 years ago

Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC

https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg

2 years ago

Plain Text Email

https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/plain-text-email/

2 years ago

Abstrusegoose.com Is Gone for Good

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39791086

2 years ago

'Gen X has had to learn or die': Mid-career workers are facing ageism

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240320-gen-x-workplace-ageism

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788649

2 years ago

Greece, Argentina and India are the fastest improving business environments

https://www.eiu.com/n/greece-argentina-and-india-are-the-fastest-improving-business-environments/

2 years ago

Germany just legalized recreational marijuana

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/cannabis-bundesrat-billigt-legalisierung-a-86ed2890-c788-4ce7-877a-21dced023219

2 years ago

The IRS Has an Answer to TurboTax

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/irs-direct-file/677818/

2 years ago

The Enchanting Blossom Explosion of Jacaranda Trees in Mexico City

https://worldsensorium.com/purple-spring-the-enchanting-blossom-explosion-of-jacaranda-trees-in-mexico-city/

2 years ago

Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/21/apple-watch-android-apple-work/

2 years ago

Apple Turned on 'Discoverable by Others'. You Might Want It Off

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-iphone-discoverable-by-others-journaling-suggestions-9d63086d

2 years ago

The Origins of the Generic Mapping Tools

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023CN000231

2 years ago

Ask HN: Anyone looking for contributors for their open source projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39787165

2 years ago

Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis

https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-fork/

2 years ago

Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science to Decide 911 Callers Were Liars (2022)

https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts

2 years ago

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft (2004)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39789250

2 years ago

Navigating the World of Large Language Models

https://www.bentoml.com/blog/navigating-the-world-of-large-language-models

2 years ago

A new way Ebola replicates

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/03/15/ebola-scientists-reveal-a-new-way-it-replicates/

2 years ago

Show HN: Kafbat UI for Apache Kafka v1.0 is out

https://github.com/kafbat/kafka-ui/releases/tag/v1.0.0

2 years ago