top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-23

The man who killed Google Search?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

2 years ago

FTC announces rule banning noncompetes

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

2 years ago

Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout

https://webkit.org/blog/15269/help-us-invent-masonry-layouts-for-css-grid-level-3/

2 years ago

ESPHome

https://esphome.io/index.html

2 years ago

Phi-3 Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14219

2 years ago

Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]

https://github.com/rabbitscam/rabbitr1

2 years ago

The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language

https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-the-japanese-language

2 years ago

New Foundations is consistent – a difficult mathematical proof proved using Lean

https://leanprover-community.github.io/con-nf//

2 years ago

Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty

https://www.balanc3dgame.com/

2 years ago

VideoGigaGAN: Towards detail-rich video super-resolution

https://videogigagan.github.io/

2 years ago

AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40131597

2 years ago

Apple's risky bet on CarPlay

https://www.theturnsignalblog.com/apples-risky-bet-on-carplay/

2 years ago

Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

https://gajus.com/blog/avoiding-visually-ambiguous-characters-in-ids

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127400

2 years ago

American flag sort

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/americanFlagSort.html

2 years ago

Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles

https://apnews.com/article/high-speed-train-vegas-los-angeles-brightline-595913ff2fa3d9001fb89bfab4e6c4d2

2 years ago

Network visualization of 50k blogs and links

https://graph.henryn.ca

2 years ago

Reverse engineering a software crack

https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1782656618015904103

2 years ago

Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager

https://getada.dev

2 years ago

IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ibm-nearing-buyout-deal-hashicorp-wsj-reports-2024-04-23/

2 years ago

GPU compute in the browser at the speed of native: WebGPU marching cubes

https://www.willusher.io/graphics/2024/04/22/webgpu-marching-cubes

2 years ago

Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023SW003807

2 years ago

Fallout1-ce: Fallout for modern operating systems

https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout1-ce

2 years ago

Mathematicians marvel at 'crazy' cuts through four dimensions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-marvel-at-crazy-cuts-through-four-dimensions-20240422/

2 years ago

The Seattle Public Library is reducing maximum digital holds

https://shelftalkblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/the-seattle-public-library-is-reducing-our-maximum-digital-holds-heres-why/

2 years ago

EURISKO Lives

https://blog.funcall.org/lisp/2024/03/22/eurisko-lives/

2 years ago

Claude 3 beats Google Translate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13813

2 years ago

Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/music-is-now-illegal-in-chechnyaif-it-doesnt-meet-authorities-tempo-restrictions-180984159/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How does deploying a fine-tuned model work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40129225

2 years ago

Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/22/ghaderi_v_amazon/

2 years ago

Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists

https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist

2 years ago

NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

2 years ago

Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/22/google-nimbus-israel-protest-fired-workers/

2 years ago

Jsfxr: 8-Bit sound maker and sfx generator

https://sfxr.me/

2 years ago

Akaunting is free, open-source online accounting software for small businesses

https://akaunting.com

2 years ago

Dafny is a verification-aware programming language

https://github.com/dafny-lang/dafny

2 years ago

Intel Meteor Lake's NPU

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/22/intel-meteor-lakes-npu/

2 years ago

Most dating apps sell and share users' personal data

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/data-hungry-dating-apps-are-worse-than-ever-for-your-privacy/

2 years ago

Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2024/04/12/nuking-the-moon/

2 years ago

Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments as demand falls 'sharply beyond expectations'

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-cuts-vision-pro-shipments/

2 years ago

Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary

https://carapace.sh/

2 years ago

EU Police Chiefs want an end to end-to-end encryption

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/european-police-chiefs-call-for-industry-and-governments-to-take-action-against-end-to-end-encryption-roll-out

2 years ago

Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies (2022)

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-only-a-dozen

2 years ago

TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers

https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/

2 years ago

Generative A.I. arrives in the gene editing world of CRISPR

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/generative-ai-gene-editing-crispr.html

2 years ago

Web Game Engines and Libraries

https://www.webgamedev.com/engines-libraries/web-game-engines-libraries

2 years ago

Linus Torvalds, the famous embroidery file converter developer

http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/01/embroidery-gaah.html

2 years ago

Electron 30.0.0

https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-30-0

2 years ago

Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000)

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loopsnoop.html

2 years ago

Waymo illegal overtake into wrong-way driving

https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1ca1z8m/longer_video_of_the_wrong_way_incident/

2 years ago

Llama3 running locally on iPhone 15 Pro

https://imgur.com/a/FRiBYSE

2 years ago

FTC votes to ban non-compete agreements

https://thehill.com/business/4615452-ftc-votes-to-ban-non-compete-agreements/

2 years ago

The last days of my type checker for JavaScript

https://jsmonk.github.io/2024-01-29-last-days-of-hegel/

2 years ago

Hackers Broke into Change Healthcare's Systems 9 Days Before Cyberattack

https://www.wsj.com/articles/change-healthcare-hackers-broke-in-nine-days-before-ransomware-attack-7119fdc6

2 years ago

Automated Stitching of Chip Images

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/automated-stitching-of-chip-images/

2 years ago

Open Source Community Unites to Build EU CRA-Compliant Cybersecurity Processes

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes

2 years ago

Fedora Linux 40

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

2 years ago

Microplastics make their way from the gut to other organs, researchers find

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-microplastics-gut.html

2 years ago

Memory-mapped IO registers in zig (2021)

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/mmio-in-zig/

2 years ago

How to Juggle Priorities (2023)

https://ashleyjanssen.com/how-to-juggle-priorities-decide-which-balls-are-glass-and-which-are-plastic/

2 years ago

Length and thickness of bamboo internodes: a beautiful curve

https://www.elegantexperiments.net/en/post/length-and-thickness-of-bamboo-internodes-a-beautiful-curve/

2 years ago

Show HN: Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis

https://hashquery.dev/

2 years ago

Deep Diving into the Erlang Scheduler

https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/04/23/deep-diving-into-the-erlang-scheduler.html

2 years ago

LLMs and the Harry Potter problem

https://www.pyqai.com/blog/llms-and-the-harry-potter-problem

2 years ago

U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246655366/ftc-bans-noncompete-agreements-lina-khan

2 years ago