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

Radios, how do they work?

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Why choose async/await over threads?

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Two open source projects with great architecture documentation

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

2 years ago

Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story

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

2 years ago

Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture

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

2 years ago

ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms

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

2 years ago

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

https://github.com/divriots/jampack

2 years ago

Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

https://www.starlinkmap.org/

2 years ago

Ugly Avatar

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

2 years ago

Martin Scorsese's secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist

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

2 years ago

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

https://github.com/TracecatHQ/tracecat

2 years ago

Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

2 years ago

Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?

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

2 years ago

In B-Flat (2009)

http://www.inbflat.net/

2 years ago

Friends don't let friends export to CSV

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

2 years ago

Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision

https://github.com/roboflow/supervision

2 years ago

For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

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

2 years ago

Windows 98 Icons (2015)

https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/

2 years ago

How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Best engineering interview question I've gotten

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

https://invertornot.com

2 years ago

Meta takes $40K, holds our business ransom

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

2 years ago

Inkjets are for more than just printing

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

2 years ago

Thoughts on Vision Pro

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Broadcasting LoRa packets wihout a radio [video]

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

2 years ago

Debt-related driver’s license suspensions in Ohio

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

2 years ago

Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products

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

2 years ago

Northern lights forecasted to be visible into upper United States tonight

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Building an email-to-calendar LLM

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

2 years ago

Manipulating Chess-GPT's World Model

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

2 years ago

Scripts should be written using the project main language

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

2 years ago

How to criticize computer scientists (2001)

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

A lavish lifestyle strains credibility (1985)

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Things I Learned from René Girard

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

2 years ago

Interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

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

2 years ago

Bump Allocation: Up or Down?

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

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Mutt on Windows Without WSL

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

2 years ago

GM stops sharing driver data with brokers amid backlash

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

2 years ago

United States vs. Apple

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

2 years ago

Exosuit muscle control steps closer to reality

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

2 years ago

Hidden Files in C64 OS

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Turbocall – Just-in-time compiler for Deno FFI

https://divy.work/turbocall.html

2 years ago

OpenAI: Sora: First Impressions

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

2 years ago

The Lost Worlds of Telnet (2019)

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

GDPR Enforcement Tracker – list of GDPR fines

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

2 years ago

Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm (2017)

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

2 years ago

Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform

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

2 years ago

The case of a leaky goroutine

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Solving Crew Battle Strategy with Math

https://www.alexirpan.com/2024/03/23/crew-battle.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Flatito, grep for YAML and JSON files

https://github.com/ceritium/flatito

2 years ago

How Couples Meet

https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_how_hetero_couples_met_through2021v4.JPG

2 years ago

Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability

https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans

2 years ago