top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-18

Meta Llama 3

https://llama.meta.com/llama3/

2 years ago

Calculus Made Easy

https://calculusmadeeasy.org/prologue.html

2 years ago

Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

https://github.com/loopj/short-stack

2 years ago

I keep a WTF notebook (2021)

https://www.simplermachines.com/why-you-need-a-wtf-notebook/

2 years ago

Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

https://icode4.coffee/?p=738

2 years ago

Our biggest ever river catch?

https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/the-ocean-cleanup-makes-biggest-ever-river-catch-in-guatemala/

2 years ago

VASA-1: Lifelike audio-driven talking faces generated in real time

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

2 years ago

My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/my-mother-declared-my-bedroom-a-disaster

2 years ago

The Rust calling convention we deserve

https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/04/17/calling-convention/

2 years ago

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

2 years ago

Multi-tenant queues in Postgres

https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/multi-tenant-queues

2 years ago

50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

https://spectrum.ieee.org/apollo-era-antenna-voyager-2

2 years ago

Goldene: A single atom layer of gold

https://liu.se/en/news-item/ett-atomlager-guld-liu-forskare-skapar-gulden

2 years ago

Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features

https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features

2 years ago

Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-secret-operation-intel-rivals-eb82ea3c

2 years ago

A former slave who became a cowboy, a rancher, and a Texas legend

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-former-slave-who-became-a-cowboy-a-rancher-and-a-texas-legend/

2 years ago

Implementing Natural Conversational Agents with Elixir

https://seanmoriarity.com/2024/02/25/implementing-natural-conversational-agents-with-elixir/

2 years ago

I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/car-accident-brain-injury/619227/

2 years ago

The Illustrated Word2Vec (2019)

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/

2 years ago

Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit

2 years ago

Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240418-BlueHatsPrize1.html

2 years ago

Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract

https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/business/google-fires-28-employees-involved-in-sit-in-protest-over-1-2b-israel-contract/

2 years ago

El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour

https://www.museodelprado.es/visita-virtual-coleccion-2023

2 years ago

Insatiable: A life without eating

https://longreads.com/2024/04/18/crohns-life-without-eating/

2 years ago

Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code

https://blog.vapi.ai/show-hn-vapi-try-to-convince-our-voice-ai-to-give-you-the-secret-code/

2 years ago

Women Who Code Closing

https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing

2 years ago

Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable

https://trustworthy.systems/publications/papers/Heiser_24:eo.abstract

2 years ago

Thoughts on Seed Oil

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/seed-oil

2 years ago

Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078720

2 years ago

OpenBSD – Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240418050520

2 years ago

Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-will-soon-start-nagging-you-to-switch-from-local-account-to-microsoft-account/

2 years ago

Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10102

2 years ago

OpenMCT: A web based mission control framework

https://github.com/nasa/openmct

2 years ago

A mile-long lava tube where humans sheltered for thousands of years

https://gizmodo.com/humans-sheltered-lava-tube-umm-jirsan-thousands-years-1851415061

2 years ago

Measuring personal growth

https://huyenchip.com/2024/04/17/personal-growth.html

2 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg: Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, Bioweapons [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6uFV9CJGg

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40079835

2 years ago

Remake of the Windows 95 Solitaire game

https://github.com/danielricci/solitaire

2 years ago

USAF Test Pilot School, DARPA announce aerospace machine learning breakthrough

https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article-View/Article/3744695/usaf-test-pilot-school-and-darpa-announce-breakthrough-in-aerospace-machine-lea/

2 years ago

Google’s newly formed 'Platforms and Devices' team is all about AI

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24133881/google-android-pixel-teams-reorg-rick-osterloh

2 years ago

Monowheels: Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm

2 years ago

Delta City '95 – Complete pack of official updates for Microsoft Windows 95

http://deltacity.stare.pro/

2 years ago

Why Fugaku, Japan's fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/why-fugaku-japans-fastest-supercomputer-went-virtual-on-aws/

2 years ago

Hackers threatening to publish a stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/world-check-database-leaked-sanctions-financial-crimes-watchlist/

2 years ago

The Theory That There Is Only One Electron in the Universe

https://www.iflscience.com/the-strange-theory-that-there-is-only-one-electron-in-the-universe-73818

2 years ago

LLMs approach expert-level clinical knowledge and reasoning in ophthalmology

https://www.ft.com/content/5b7a76be-467c-4074-8fd0-3e297bcd91d7

2 years ago

Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/

2 years ago

Cloudflare CEO bought a newspaper to change reporting about his new house plans

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/cloudflare-billionaire-matthew-prince-fights-utah-locals-over-house-dogs-wall

2 years ago

YouTube-Commons: Audio transcripts of 2,063,066 YouTube videos, CC-By license

https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/YouTube-Commons

2 years ago

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/18/tiktok_lite_eu_info_demand/

2 years ago

Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Undefined Behaviour

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3617232.3624859?ai=&ui=&af=

2 years ago

Myths about the Anthropocene

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-myths-about-the-anthropocene-get-wrong-180984181/

2 years ago

A POI database in one line

https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/04/18/a-poi-database-in-one-line.html

2 years ago

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/18/eu_meta_subscription_privacy/

2 years ago

AI Has Made Google Search So Bad People Are Moving to TikTok and Reddit

https://medium.com/bouncin-and-behavin-blogs/ai-has-made-google-search-so-bad-people-are-moving-to-tiktok-reddit-6ac0b4801d2e

2 years ago

Parsing and all that

https://blog.jeffsmits.net/compsci/2024/04/07/parsing-and-all-that/

2 years ago

Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/17/mentally-stimulating-work-plays-key-role-in-staving-off-dementia-study-finds

2 years ago