top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-02

Timeline of the xz open source attack

https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

2 years ago

The xz attack shell script

https://research.swtch.com/xz-script

2 years ago

3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907845

2 years ago

Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

2 years ago

CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians

https://dekuliutesla.github.io/citygs/

2 years ago

Low Cost Robot Arm

https://github.com/AlexanderKoch-Koch/low_cost_robot

2 years ago

Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

https://longform.asmartbear.com/avoid-blundering/

2 years ago

Anonymous public voicemail inbox

https://afterthebeep.tel/

2 years ago

Python Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers

2 years ago

You won't find a technical co-founder

https://www.breakneck.dev/blog/no-tech-cofounder

2 years ago

A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics

https://giam.southernct.edu/GIAM/

2 years ago

Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12% fix rate for GitHub issues

https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent

2 years ago

Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/canoo-spent-double-its-annual-revenue-on-the-ceos-private-jet-in-2023/

2 years ago

A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

https://frankzliu.com/blog/a16z-blogs-are-just-glorified-marketing

2 years ago

Tonal.js: Functional music theory lib

https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal

2 years ago

Los Alamos Chess

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

2 years ago

A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/08/the-brazilian-special-forces-unit-fighting-to-save-the-amazon

2 years ago

Banning open weight models would be a disaster

https://rbren.substack.com/p/banning-open-weight-models-would

2 years ago

Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

https://github.com/OneUptime/oneuptime

2 years ago

Debian Git Monorepo

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/monorepo/

2 years ago

A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem

https://github.com/achristmascarl/three_body

2 years ago

Everything I know about SSDs (2019)

https://kcall.co.uk/ssd/index.html

2 years ago

How the XZ Backdoor Works

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/967192/6c39d47b5f299a23/

2 years ago

From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/01/1

2 years ago

Bradford pear trees banned in few states – More are looking to eradicate them

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/25/bradford-pear-trees-smell-invasive-species-banned/73040722007/

2 years ago

Recreating the Flying Toasters screen saver for the Vision Pro

https://abhipray.com/posts/flying_toasters/

2 years ago

Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results

https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/tesla-releases-q1-2024-deliveries-disastrous-results/

2 years ago

Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency

https://news.utexas.edu/2024/04/01/move-more-sleep-better-ut-study-finds/

2 years ago

Letting go of the idea of keeping up

https://reactormag.com/on-letting-go-of-the-idea-of-keeping-up/

2 years ago

XZ: Repo maintainer Lasse Collin responding on LKML

https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/3/30/188

2 years ago

ReALM: Reference Resolution as Language Modeling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20329

2 years ago

Science fiction and the death of the sun

https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/science-fiction-and-the-death-of-the-sun/

2 years ago

Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his show

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/jon-stewart-apple-ftc-chair-interview

2 years ago

I am not a supplier (2022)

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

2 years ago

KraftCloud

https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft

2 years ago

Show HN: FizzBee – Formal methods in Python

https://fizzbee.io/

2 years ago

Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition

2 years ago

Stop Killing Games

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

2 years ago

Receive push notifications from your rice cooker

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/receive-push-notifications-from-your-rice-cooker/

2 years ago

Inspectopedia: Analyze code against inspections in your IDE or CI pipeline

https://www.jetbrains.com/pages/inspectopedia-by-jetbrains/

2 years ago

Lumos: Learning Agents with Unified Data, Modular Design, and Open-Source LLMs

https://allenai.github.io/lumos/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Creo (YC W24) – Build internal tools with NextJS and AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907073

2 years ago

Starbucks is raising prices almost every month now

https://old.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/1bta4eh/starbucks_raising_price_almost_every_month_now/

2 years ago

Artificio de Juanelo

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

2 years ago

Calling Haskell from Swift

https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2024-04-02-calling-haskell-from-swift.html

2 years ago

Our tools shape our selves

https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world

2 years ago

Stop using the Internet Archive as the sole host for preservation projects

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bswhdj/if_there_is_a_book_on_internet_archive_your/

2 years ago

DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/posts/dect-nr-a-technical-dive-into-non-cellular-5g

2 years ago

AltStore to offer iPhone apps backed by Patreon in the EU

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/01/altstore-iphone-apps-patreon-eu/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is AngelList Legit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903773

2 years ago

Konrad Zuse (1994)

http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de

2 years ago

Unikraft Launches KraftCloud: Never Pay for Idle Again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902949

2 years ago

Google Podcasts is gone – and so is my faith in Google

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118873/google-podcasts-shutdown-graveyard

2 years ago

Microchess for the Kim-1 (2006)

http://www.benlo.com/microchess/index.html

2 years ago

Building GCC 1.27 (first GCC with x86 support) (2019)

http://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/01/building-gcc-127.html

2 years ago

The Wide Awakes: A 19th century club of cape-wearing anti-slavery activists

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/club-cape-wearing-activists-helped-elect-lincoln-spark-civil-war-180984000/

2 years ago

Discord to start showing ads in the coming week

https://www.neowin.net/news/discord-to-start-showing-ads-in-the-coming-week-after-resisting-for-almost-a-decade/

2 years ago

Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/redis-license-change-and-forking-are-a-mess-that-everybody-can-feel-bad-about/

2 years ago

Living human brain images of "unrivaled clarity" from new 11.7 teslas MRI

https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/Iseult-MRI-Magnet-Record.aspx

2 years ago

Easy Mode Rust

https://llogiq.github.io/2024/03/28/easy.html

2 years ago

Vision Transformers Are Overrated

https://frankzliu.com/blog/vision-transformers-are-overrated

2 years ago

Competitive Bass Fishing Cheaters (2014)

https://grantland.com/features/bass-fishing-cheaters/

2 years ago

The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US

https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/end-google-podcast-rest-of-world/

2 years ago

Male archetypes in fairy tales

https://sharonblackie.substack.com/p/so-what-about-the-men

2 years ago

What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_is_the_Fourth_Dimension%3F

2 years ago

Myscaledb: Open-source SQL vector database to build AI apps using SQL

https://github.com/myscale/myscaledb

2 years ago

Snottite

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

2 years ago

A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/linux_built_for_a_vm/

2 years ago

How to stream PostgreSQL CDC to Kafka and use Propel to get an instant API

https://www.propeldata.com/blog/postgresql-cdc-to-kafka

2 years ago