top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-25

Radios, how do they work?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/radios-how-do-they-work

11 months ago

641 upvotes – 107 comments

Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689

11 months ago

579 upvotes – 621 comments

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/travel/sagrada-familia-barcelona-completion-scli-intl/index.html

11 months ago

501 upvotes – 329 comments

Why choose async/await over threads?

https://notgull.net/why-not-threads/

11 months ago

430 upvotes – 458 comments

Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)

https://rtwolf.github.io/Everyone-is-John/

11 months ago

382 upvotes – 44 comments

Two open source projects with great architecture documentation

https://johnjago.com/great-docs/

11 months ago

378 upvotes – 36 comments

Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story

https://cliffle.com/blog/who-killed-the-network-switch/

11 months ago

363 upvotes – 128 comments

Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture

11 months ago

354 upvotes – 187 comments

ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/zenhammer/

11 months ago

330 upvotes – 134 comments

Show HN: Jampack – Optimizes static websites as a post-processing step

https://github.com/divriots/jampack

11 months ago

328 upvotes – 58 comments

Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

https://www.starlinkmap.org/

11 months ago

322 upvotes – 240 comments

Ugly Avatar

https://txstc55.github.io/ugly-avatar/

11 months ago

304 upvotes – 73 comments

Martin Scorsese's secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/25/martin-scorsese-vhs-video-collection-archive

11 months ago

273 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: Tracecat – Open-source security alert automation / SOAR alternative

https://github.com/TracecatHQ/tracecat

11 months ago

264 upvotes – 65 comments

Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

11 months ago

259 upvotes – 332 comments

Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1772350918534582525.html

11 months ago

257 upvotes – 197 comments

In B-Flat (2009)

http://www.inbflat.net/

11 months ago

248 upvotes – 48 comments

Friends don't let friends export to CSV

https://kaveland.no/friends-dont-let-friends-export-to-csv.html

11 months ago

245 upvotes – 440 comments

Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision

https://github.com/roboflow/supervision

11 months ago

236 upvotes – 44 comments

For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/for-brilliant-color-packaging-the-first-lsd-blotter/

11 months ago

226 upvotes – 217 comments

Windows 98 Icons (2015)

https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/

11 months ago

214 upvotes – 111 comments

How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)

https://tomlingham.com/articles/how-do-mri-headphones-work/

11 months ago

212 upvotes – 194 comments

Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down at end of 2024

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-ceo-calhoun-step-down-2024-03-25/

11 months ago

205 upvotes – 191 comments

Best engineering interview question I've gotten

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/01/06/memcached-interview/

11 months ago

186 upvotes – 180 comments

SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL

https://github.com/pg-sharding/spqr/discussions/569

11 months ago

185 upvotes – 71 comments

Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost

https://github.com/Adawg4/openapi-autospec

11 months ago

178 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Invertornot.com – API to enhance your images in dark-mode

https://invertornot.com

11 months ago

175 upvotes – 38 comments

Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom

https://tidbyt.com/blogs/tidbyt/meta-takes-40k-holds-our-business-ransom

11 months ago

174 upvotes – 68 comments

Inkjets are for more than just printing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/inkjet-printer

11 months ago

171 upvotes – 140 comments

Thoughts on Vision Pro

https://andrewhart.me/vision-pro/

11 months ago

161 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Nano-web – a low latency one binary webserver designed for serving SPAs

https://github.com/radiosilence/nano-web

11 months ago

157 upvotes – 115 comments

Broadcasting LoRa packets wihout a radio [video]

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

11 months ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

Debt-related driver’s license suspensions in Ohio

https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/cd-reports/2024/20240228-debt-related-drivers-license-suspensions

11 months ago

145 upvotes – 373 comments

Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/netherlands-agriculture-technology/

11 months ago

131 upvotes – 115 comments

The semiconductor industry hinges on a quartz factory in North Carolina

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/the-worlds-semiconductor-industry-hinges-on-a-quartz-factory-in-north-carolina

11 months ago

130 upvotes – 97 comments

Northern lights forecasted to be visible into upper United States tonight

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental

11 months ago

130 upvotes – 28 comments

Building an email-to-calendar LLM

https://ngacho.com/blog/emaillm/

11 months ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

Manipulating Chess-GPT's World Model

https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/03/20/chess-gpt-interventions.html

11 months ago

119 upvotes – 36 comments

Scripts should be written using the project main language

https://joaomagfreitas.link/scripts-should-be-written-using-the-project-main-language/

11 months ago

118 upvotes – 167 comments

How to criticize computer scientists (2001)

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/comer/essay.criticize.html

11 months ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

EU rejects Apple's changes: Company could be fined 10% of global turnover

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/25/app-store-proposals-rejected/

11 months ago

114 upvotes – 97 comments

A lavish lifestyle strains credibility (1985)

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/12/02/a-lavish-lifestyle-strains-credibility/

11 months ago

114 upvotes – 108 comments

EVGA power supply kills 22TB of customer storage then denies responsibility

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies/evga-power-supply-allegedly-blows-up-22tb-of-customer-storage-revised-model-from-rma-had-a-different-pin-layout-and-killed-all-sata-powered-devices

11 months ago

113 upvotes – 95 comments

Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses

https://github.com/Mechazawa/103-early-anti-adblock

11 months ago

108 upvotes – 199 comments

Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software (2019)

https://medium.com/@jayphelps/backpressure-explained-the-flow-of-data-through-software-2350b3e77ce7

11 months ago

107 upvotes – 45 comments

Interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

11 months ago

105 upvotes – 72 comments

Things I Learned from René Girard

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/12-things-i-learned-from-rene-girard

11 months ago

105 upvotes – 75 comments

Bump Allocation: Up or Down?

https://coredumped.dev/2024/03/25/bump-allocation-up-or-down/

11 months ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

GM stops sharing driver data with brokers amid backlash

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/gm-stops-sharing-driver-data-with-brokers-amid-backlash/

11 months ago

101 upvotes – 73 comments

Opera sees big jump in EU users on iOS, Android after DMA update

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/opera-sees-big-jump-in-eu-users-on-ios-android-after-dma-update/

11 months ago

101 upvotes – 69 comments

Mutt on Windows Without WSL

https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/mutt-on-windows-without-wsl/

11 months ago

101 upvotes – 74 comments

United States vs. Apple

https://stratechery.com/2024/united-states-v-apple/

11 months ago

100 upvotes – 116 comments

Hidden Files in C64 OS

https://www.c64os.com/post/hiddenfiles

11 months ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Exosuit muscle control steps closer to reality

https://spectrum.ieee.org/functional-electrical-stimulation-exosuit-project

11 months ago

96 upvotes – 25 comments

Germany's solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/business/germany-solar-panels-china-protectionism.html

11 months ago

91 upvotes – 133 comments

Turbocall – Just-in-time compiler for Deno FFI

https://divy.work/turbocall.html

11 months ago

91 upvotes – 13 comments

OpenAI: Sora: First Impressions

https://openai.com/blog/sora-first-impressions

11 months ago

90 upvotes – 25 comments

The Lost Worlds of Telnet (2019)

https://thenewstack.io/the-lost-worlds-of-telnet/

11 months ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

Twitter/X has lost its lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate

https://twitter.com/esqueer_/status/1772266794377478351

11 months ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages

https://medium.com/source-and-buggy/context-the-missing-feature-of-programming-languages-7c1095fe8d32

11 months ago

84 upvotes – 44 comments

Illness Impacting Dairy Cattle Is Confirmed as Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/dairy/breaking-mystery-illness-impacting-texas-kansas-dairy-cattle-confirmed-highly

11 months ago

83 upvotes – 73 comments

GDPR Enforcement Tracker – list of GDPR fines

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

11 months ago

83 upvotes – 36 comments

Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm (2017)

https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2017/07/14/writing-x86-simd-using-x86inc-asm/

11 months ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform

https://nitric.io/blog/terraform-comparison-demo

11 months ago

76 upvotes – 85 comments

Sexualized culture on livestreaming platforms: a content analysis of Twitch.tv

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-02724-z

11 months ago

74 upvotes – 56 comments

The case of a leaky goroutine

https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/03/the-case-of-a-leaky-goroutine/

11 months ago

74 upvotes – 84 comments

X Corp vs. Center for Countering Digital Hate, Order Granting Motion to Dismiss [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.416212/gov.uscourts.cand.416212.75.0.pdf

11 months ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Hacker fakes German minister's fingerprints using photos of her hands (2014)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/30/hacker-fakes-german-ministers-fingerprints-using-photos-of-her-hands

11 months ago

70 upvotes – 21 comments
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