top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-07

How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

https://eidel.io/how-to-found-a-company-in-germany-14-easy-steps-and-lots-of-pain/

2 years ago

633 upvotes – 998 comments

Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]

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

2 years ago

442 upvotes – 111 comments

PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS

https://github.com/migueletto/PumpkinOS

2 years ago

405 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests

https://github.com/stackframe-projects/pgmock

2 years ago

379 upvotes – 79 comments

Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02258

2 years ago

281 upvotes – 83 comments

Is the frequency domain a real place?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/is-the-frequency-domain-a-real-place

2 years ago

254 upvotes – 149 comments

Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/29787/did-any-processor-implement-an-integer-square-root-instruction

2 years ago

251 upvotes – 72 comments

Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/lago-a-paris-based-open-source-billing-platform-banks-22m/

2 years ago

248 upvotes – 120 comments

Blog posts, sorted by sleep

https://breckyunits.com/sleepWriting.html

2 years ago

246 upvotes – 68 comments

What John von Neumann did at Los Alamos (2020)

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/10/what-john-von-neumann-really-did-at-los-alamos.html

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 154 comments

Glory is only 11MB/sec away (2023)

https://thmsmlr.com/cheap-infra

2 years ago

241 upvotes – 157 comments

The lifecycle of a code AI completion

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-lifecycle-of-a-code-ai-completion

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 85 comments

Google Public DNS's approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/03/google-public-dnss-approach-to-fight.html

2 years ago

212 upvotes – 69 comments

Command injection and backdoor account in D-Link NAS devices

https://github.com/netsecfish/dlink

2 years ago

207 upvotes – 106 comments

SentenceTransformers: Python framework for sentence, text and image embeddings

https://www.sbert.net/index.html

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 70 comments

It's not what the world needs right now

https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/its-not-what-the-world-needs-right-now-norman-wilson

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 165 comments

Groq CEO: 'We No Longer Sell Hardware'

https://www.eetimes.com/groq-ceo-we-no-longer-sell-hardware/

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 148 comments

How to think about HTML responsive images

https://danburzo.ro/responsive-images-html/

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 45 comments

Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/3m-pfas-drinking-water-settlement/

2 years ago

200 upvotes – 224 comments

Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ernest-shackleton-ship-discovery-antarctic-explorer-history-180979702/

2 years ago

187 upvotes – 58 comments

Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG

https://github.com/alexpinel/Dot

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 42 comments

A canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the Navier–Stokes problem

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/canonical-hamiltonian-formulation-of-the-navierstokes-problem/B3EB9389AE700867A6A3EA63A45E69C6

2 years ago

185 upvotes – 55 comments

Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator

https://xemu.app/

2 years ago

175 upvotes – 63 comments

Adventures Making Vegemite

https://daveon.design/adventures-making-vegemite.html

2 years ago

171 upvotes – 125 comments

Rpgp: Pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP

https://github.com/rpgp/rpgp

2 years ago

167 upvotes – 104 comments

ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

https://www.elephantsql.com/blog/end-of-life-announcement.html

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 119 comments

Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories

https://diffoscope.org/

2 years ago

141 upvotes – 14 comments

When a black hole and a neutron star merge

https://www.mpg.de/21778967/0404-grav-mysterious-object-in-the-gap-152520-x

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 76 comments

Xkcd 1928: Seven Years (2017)

https://xkcd.com/1928/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 13 comments

ClangQL: A tool to run SQL-like query on C/C++ Code

https://github.com/AmrDeveloper/ClangQL

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 34 comments

The Linux Command Line

https://linuxcommand.org/

2 years ago

120 upvotes – 19 comments

Greaseweazle

https://retrocmp.de/hardware/greaseweazle/greaseweazle.htm

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 36 comments

Facebook banned website that links to critical article, claims phishing

https://bsky.app/profile/mosseri.bsky.social/post/3kpimfpxjkh2r

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 51 comments

What makes housing so expensive?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-makes-housing-so-expensive

2 years ago

111 upvotes – 206 comments

Flyweight: A Node.js ORM Specifically for SQLite

https://github.com/thebinarysearchtree/flyweight

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 43 comments

AI is not your friend

https://gerrymcgovern.com/ai-is-not-your-friend/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 113 comments

The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-bulgarian-computers-global-reach-on-victor-petrovs-balkan-cyberia/

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 61 comments

SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure'

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-train-system-has-been-running-on-floppy-disks-but-city-fears-catastrophic-failure-before-upgrade/14624828/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 238 comments

PM2: Production Process Manager with a Built-In Load Balancer

https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 83 comments

Minibone: practical end-to-end encryption for web apps

https://github.com/backbone-hq/minibone

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 67 comments

Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68730891

2 years ago

84 upvotes – 96 comments

Boeing put Wall Street first, safety second ahead of Alaska Air blowout

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-long-fall-and-how-it-might-recover/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Flash Notes – Flashcards for Your Notes, LLM, iOS/macOS Sync

https://www.flashnotesapp.com

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 25 comments

The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/07/the-french-aristocrat-who-understood-evolution-100-years-before-darwin-and-even-worried-about-climate-change

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments

U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/u-s-canada-put-7-year-ban-on-all-forms-of-salmon-fishing-in-yukon-alaska/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

ActivityPub/Nostr/At-Bluesky Compared

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-01-30_microblogging-protocols/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 75 comments

Currying

https://wiki.haskell.org/Currying

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 128 comments

Best Buy Geek Squad employees report mass layoffs

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24122542/best-buy-geek-squad-layoffs-ai-restructuring

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

ReAMP, a Winamp Remake in Swift

https://re-amp.ru/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 43 comments

Autodafe: Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools

https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management

https://github.com/FascinatedBox/bonk

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 67 comments

Navy cancels ship briefings after damning internal report

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/07/navy-cancels-ship-briefings-internal-report-00150879

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 63 comments

Landfills Leak More Planet-Baking Methane Than We Thought

https://grist.org/science/us-landfills-emit-far-more-methane-than-previously-known/

2 years ago

71 upvotes – 62 comments

AI assists clinicians in responding to patient messages at Stanford Medicine

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/03/ai-patient-messages.html

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 72 comments

Nix – A One Pager

https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p/blob/master/README.md

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 40 comments

Neurons in the brain appear to follow a distinct mathematical pattern

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/neurons-in-the-brain-appear-to-follow-a-distinct-mathematical-pattern/ar-AA1mhCzO

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

NASA's LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea's Danuri Moon Orbiter

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/lro/nasas-lro-finds-photo-op-as-it-zips-past-skoreas-danuri-moon-orbiter/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 12 comments

Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids

https://www.ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-43da-a222-8ae183f53078

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 23 comments
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