top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-22

Equinox.space

https://equinox.space/

2 years ago

Krazam OS

https://www.krazam.tv/

2 years ago

Meta Horizon OS

https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/meta-horizon-os-open-hardware-ecosystem-asus-republic-gamers-lenovo-xbox/

2 years ago

NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

2 years ago

No one buys books

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

2 years ago

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/index.html

2 years ago

Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

https://restofworld.org/2024/zoho-google-workspace-alternative-africa/

2 years ago

Bottle Plotter

https://vgnotepad.blogspot.com/2024/04/bottle-plotter.html

2 years ago

Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds

https://openorb.idiot.sh/search

2 years ago

The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword

https://16bpp.net/blog/post/the-performance-impact-of-cpp-final-keyword/

2 years ago

North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series

https://www.38north.org/2024/04/what-we-learned-inside-a-north-korean-internet-server-how-well-do-you-know-your-partners/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40119417

2 years ago

Curl is just the hobby

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22/curl-is-just-the-hobby/

2 years ago

Infinitown

https://demos.littleworkshop.fr/infinitown

2 years ago

HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI

https://www.franken-ui.dev/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118778

2 years ago

Py2wasm – A Python to WASM Compiler

https://wasmer.io/posts/py2wasm-a-python-to-wasm-compiler

2 years ago

A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/planets_webgl/GottPlanets.html

2 years ago

Dify, a visual workflow to build/test LLM applications

https://github.com/langgenius/dify

2 years ago

Pico.sh – Hacker Labs

https://github.com/picosh/pico

2 years ago

How a photographer captured his eclipse photo

https://petapixel.com/2024/04/21/how-a-photographer-captured-his-spectacular-dream-eclipse-photo/

2 years ago

Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data

https://github.com/kylebarron/parquet-wasm

2 years ago

Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2021/11/12/ruby-vs-python-for-loop.html

2 years ago

AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/17/ai-for-data-journalism/

2 years ago

Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/22/apple-startup-acquire-ai-compression-and-computer-vision/

2 years ago

Espressif Acquires Majority Stake in M5Stack

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Acquires_M5Stack

2 years ago

Intel Gaudi 3 the New 128GB HBM2e AI Chip in the Wild

https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-intel-gaudi-3-the-new-128gb-hbm2e-ai-chip-in-the-wild-intel-vision-2024/

2 years ago

JEDEC Extends DDR5 Memory Spec to 8800 MT/S, Adds Anti-Rowhammer Features

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21363/jedec-extends-ddr5-specification-to-8800-mts-adds-anti-rowhammer-features

2 years ago

An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)

https://simonsafar.com/2020/sbcl/

2 years ago

FPGA Architecture for Deep Learning: Survey and Future Directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10076

2 years ago

Fifty years of the personal computer operating system

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system/

2 years ago

The problem with invariants is that they change over time

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/03/26/the-problem-with-invariants-is-that-they-change-over-time/

2 years ago

The emotional trial of clinical trials: like online dating with death risk

https://jakeseliger.com/2024/04/22/the-emotional-trial-of-clinical-trials-part-1-its-like-online-dating-except-if-you-choose-wrong-you-die/

2 years ago

It's OK to feed wild birds – here are some tips for doing it the right way

https://worldsensorium.com/its-ok-to-feed-wild-birds-here-are-some-tips-for-doing-it-the-right-way/

2 years ago

Gitlab Duo

https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo/

2 years ago

The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

https://realdougwilson.com/writing/san-serriffe

2 years ago

When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1998)

https://www.jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.htm

2 years ago

Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40112169

2 years ago

Modal is a matrioshka language based on pattern-matching to rewrite trees

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/modal

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a multiple runtime version manager that can be used on Windows

https://github.com/version-fox/vfox

2 years ago

The dangers of single line regular expressions

https://greg.molnar.io/blog/the-dangers-of-single-line-regular-expressions/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Outstanding Programmers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40113488

2 years ago

How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-15/amazon-electric-vans-powered-by-17-000-ev-chargers

2 years ago

Meta Horizon OS

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-open-mixed-reality-ecosystem/

2 years ago

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

https://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

2 years ago

Internet of Desks: How I Connected My Standing Desk to the Internet

https://kn100.me/desksniffer/

2 years ago

Anthropic: Prompt Library

https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/page/prompts

2 years ago

Survey Study on AI Agent Architectures (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11584

2 years ago

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/

2 years ago

The Moon brings a wild but precarious fish orgy to California's beaches

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240419-californias-beaches-are-home-to-wild-fish-orgies-during-the-grunion-run

2 years ago

A 100-year-old railway Mexico hopes will rival the Panama Canal (2023)

https://theweek.com/transport/the-100-year-old-railway-mexico-hopes-will-rival-the-panama-canal

2 years ago

Petoi Bittle – a programmable robot dog

https://www.petoi.com/products/petoi-bittle-robot-dog

2 years ago

AI Is Smoke and Mirrors

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-really-is-smoke-and-mirrors

2 years ago

El Niño to flip to La Niña in what could be the hottest year on record

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/uncharted-territory-el-nino-to-flip-to-la-nina-in-what-could-be-the-hottest-year-on-record

2 years ago

Paying for it doesn't make it a market

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

2 years ago