top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-03-27

Daniel Kahneman has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/

2 years ago

DBRX: A new open LLM

https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm

2 years ago

Writing Gnome Apps with Swift

https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

2 years ago

FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU

https://www.furygpu.com

2 years ago

MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/nyc-congestion-pricing-tolls-mta.html

2 years ago

Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836630

2 years ago

Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/two-nights-of-broken-sleep-can-make-people-feel-years-older-finds-study

2 years ago

Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bouuv7/warning_vultr_a_major_cloud_provider_is_now/

2 years ago

The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/the-pentagons-silicon-valley-problem-andrew-cockburn/

2 years ago

The window for great-grandmothers is closing

https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/the-window-for-great-grandmothers

2 years ago

Peter principle

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

2 years ago

Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works

https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/

2 years ago

Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/new-import-wizard-available-for-migrating-vmware-esxi-based-virtual-machines.144023/

2 years ago

Infinite Mac: Turning to the dark side

https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html

2 years ago

The What, Why and How of Containers

https://www.annwan.me/computers/what-why-how-containers/

2 years ago

The last crimes of Caravaggio

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/art-design/2024/03/the-last-crimes-of-caravaggio

2 years ago

Amazon spends another $2.7B on Anthropic

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/amazon-spends-2point7b-on-startup-anthropic-in-largest-venture-investment.html

2 years ago

JetZero: Ultra-efficient blended wing body jet

https://www.jetzero.aero/why-jetzero

2 years ago

Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/sun_microsystems_insider_trading/

2 years ago

Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark

https://aider.chat/2024/03/08/claude-3.html

2 years ago

Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust

https://github.com/emilk/egui/releases/tag/0.27.0

2 years ago

Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers (2019)

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/

2 years ago

Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says

https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7b

2 years ago

MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

https://hothardware.com/news/mit-dmd-image-diffusion

2 years ago

First practical SHA-256 collision for 31 steps. fse2024

https://twitter.com/jedisct1/status/1772647350554464448

2 years ago

Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth

https://www.thefp.com/p/boeings-dead-whistleblower-spoke-the-truth

2 years ago

AMD EPYC 7C13 Is a Surprisingly Cheap and Good CPU

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7c13-is-a-surprisingly-cheap-and-good-cpu/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH

https://lostpixels.io/writings/building-interactive-plotter-art

2 years ago

How (and why) to run SQLite in production

https://fractaledmind.github.io/2023/12/23/rubyconftw/

2 years ago

Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842617

2 years ago

Richard Serra, minimalist sculptor whose steel creations awed viewers, has died

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/richard-serra-minimalist-sculptor-dead-1234701117/

2 years ago

BeagleY-AI: a 4 TOPS-capable $70 board from Beagleboard

https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beagley-ai

2 years ago

Can Xerox's PARC find new life with SRI?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/26/business/silicon-valley-tech-xerox-parc-sri.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.gE0.gM2G.ilR2kKr-h9Yf&smid=url-share

2 years ago

Why Elixir (2014)

https://www.theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir

2 years ago

Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat

https://gizmodo.com/project-ghostbusters-facebook-meta-wiretap-snapchat-1851366093

2 years ago

Serious security breach hits EU police agency

https://www.politico.eu/article/europol-internal-agency-eu-police-agency-engulfed-in-clean-up-over-missing-files/

2 years ago

Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/startup-school-east-boston/

2 years ago

Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code

https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/finding-memory-leaks-postgres-c-code

2 years ago

How Radicle Works Under the Hood

https://radicle.xyz/guides/protocol

2 years ago

Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in Social Media, by Far

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/27/why-bluesky-remains-the-most-interesting-experiment-in-social-media-by-far/

2 years ago

Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/the-king-is-dead-claude-3-surpasses-gpt-4-on-chatbot-arena-for-the-first-time/

2 years ago

Dealerships Rip You Off With The “Four-Square,” Here’s How To Beat It (2007)

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/dealerships-rip-you-off-with-the-four-square-heres-how-to-beat-it/

2 years ago

Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today

https://eclecticlight.co/2024/03/27/happy-birthday-apfs-7-years-old-today/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Patchwork (YC W24) – Team communication based on feeds, not chat

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841956

2 years ago

Winner of the SF Mistral AI Hackathon: Automated Test Driven Prompting

https://prompting.flyflow.dev

2 years ago

End of an era: Final Delta IV heavy rocket carries NROL-70 on historic mission

https://floridamedianow.com/2024/03/25/the-end-of-an-era-the-last-delta-launches-this-week/

2 years ago

Nomic

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm

2 years ago

Sunken Ships of the Second World War

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/fe88b5e18c6443c7afaf6e32f8432687

2 years ago

Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 466 bytes

https://github.com/meribold/btry

2 years ago

Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/fisker-misplaced-payments-internal-audit-bankruptcy/

2 years ago

We do not prefer chords to be perfectly in mathematical ratios: study

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pythagoras-was-wrong-there-are-no-universal-musical-harmonies-study-finds

2 years ago

Show HN: Figr Identity – Generate Design Systems in Figma Instantly

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1350743748296105581/generate-design-systems-quickly-figr-identity-free-beta

2 years ago

Why x86 doesnt need to die

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/03/27/why-x86-doesnt-need-to-die/

2 years ago

TinyMCE (also) moving from MIT to GPL

https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues/9453

2 years ago

Erasure Coding versus Tail Latency

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/01/06/erasure.html

2 years ago

Being laid off in 2023-2024 as an early-career developer

https://fpsvogel.com/posts/2024/early-career-developer-job-search-after-layoffs

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a binary enigma machine for manual encryption

https://makerworld.com/en/models/247798

2 years ago

Show HN: Manage on-prem servers from my smartphone

https://github.com/c100k/rebootx-on-prem

2 years ago

Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68657703

2 years ago

Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/cows-in-texas-and-kansas-test-positive-for-highly-pathogenic-bird-flu/

2 years ago

How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusAutomatingDNSChecks

2 years ago

NASA's Europa Clipper Survives and Thrives in 'Outer Space' on Earth

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-europa-clipper-survives-and-thrives-in-outer-space-on-earth

2 years ago

Show HN: A static site generator that prettifies the output HTML

https://github.com/jdeanwallace/jinjabread

2 years ago

Explorative Programming

https://blog.dziban.net/essays/explorative-programming/

2 years ago

Israel deploys expansive facial recognition program in Gaza

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/technology/israel-facial-recognition-gaza.html

2 years ago

Schiphol conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside

https://news.schiphol.com/schiphol-conducts-trial-with-self-driving-buses-on-airside/

2 years ago

Are We Living in the Roaring 20s?

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/03/are-we-living-in-the-roaring-20s/

2 years ago

The CIA's Cold War plan to use stray cats as spies

https://lflank.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/the-cias-cold-war-plan-to-use-stray-cats-as-spies/

2 years ago

Timekeepers may subtract a second in 2029 as planet spins slightly faster

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/timekeepers-may-subtract-a-second-from-clocks-as-soon-as-2029-as-planet-spins-slightly-faster

2 years ago

BBC chooses AI over human voiceover artist

https://twitter.com/SaraPoyzer/status/1772758518233248242

2 years ago