top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-04-28

A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)

http://www.lathes.co.uk/bradley-pow-lathe/

2 years ago

Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone

https://github.com/rejunity/z80-open-silicon

2 years ago

★ 735 Verilog Apache-2.0

Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres

https://postgres.ai/blog/20220525-common-db-schema-change-mistakes

2 years ago

The Myth of the Second Chance

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/282557318242321

2 years ago

Did we lose our way in making efficient software?

https://rufatmammadli.medium.com/did-we-lose-our-way-in-making-efficient-software-30-mb-doc-file-vs-browser-fed12dd866a4

2 years ago

Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility

https://github.com/gyf304/dotenv

2 years ago

★ 325 C

The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

https://nhigham.com/the-princeton-companion-to-applied-mathematics/

2 years ago

TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-tfls-simple-pop-up-message-led-to-a-significant-drop-in-paper-ticket-sales-71920/

2 years ago

Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA'

https://www.scrippsnews.com/business/company-news/williams-sonoma-fined-3-18-million-dollars-for-falsely-labeling-products-as-made-in-usa

2 years ago

Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-sumtree

2 years ago

Personal computing paves the way for personal library science

https://www.bramadams.dev/issue-55/

2 years ago

Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.33-rc5

2 years ago

★ 170k Go MIT

Google Quantum AI

https://quantumai.google/

2 years ago

LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12354

2 years ago

The unstallable plane that stalled

https://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/the-unstallable-plane-that-stalled/

2 years ago

Pdf.tocgen

https://krasjet.com/voice/pdf.tocgen/

2 years ago

Flow Field Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-04-27-flow-field-pathfinding/

2 years ago

Mise: a polyglot tool version manager

https://mise.jdx.dev/

2 years ago

How to improve the RISC-V specification

https://alastairreid.github.io/riscv-spec-issues/

2 years ago

Reentry – An Orbital Simulator

https://reentrygame.com/

2 years ago

Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act

https://www.affuture.org/post/9-context/

2 years ago

Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands

https://curingaddiction.substack.com/p/growing-concerns-that-ozempic-will

2 years ago

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

2 years ago

Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

https://iss.matteason.co.uk

2 years ago

Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%C3%89mile_Jean-Baptiste_Litre

2 years ago

Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments

https://jdsalaro.com/tutorial/asdf-single-package-manager-multiple-dev-environments

2 years ago

Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?

https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/support/eaton-answers/daisy-chain-ups.html

2 years ago

6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf]

https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Electronics/Reverse%20Engineering/6502%20-%20Guideline%20to%20Reverse%20Engineering%20v1.0.pdf

2 years ago

Google layoffs hit Flutter team

https://old.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1cduhra/more_layoffs_for_the_flutter_team/

2 years ago

Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

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

2 years ago

The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve (2022)

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

2 years ago

Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187881

2 years ago

The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/the-seven-lies-of-the-ai-expert-who-cited-himself-thousands-of-times-on-scientific-papers.html

2 years ago

Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine

http://www.righto.com/2024/04/intel-8088-bus-state-machine.html

2 years ago

44% Unicorn Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers

https://twitter.com/IlyaStrebulaev/status/1481662020659257349

2 years ago

DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game

https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/index.html

2 years ago

Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022)

https://anniecherkaev.com/principles-for-keyboard-layouts

2 years ago

How to Write Computer Programs (2015) [pdf]

https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/documents/Papers/declarative_prog.pdf

2 years ago

The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/173262.155113

2 years ago

Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap

https://github.com/remorses/docker-phobia

2 years ago

★ 631 JavaScript

Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-new-use-for-wegovy-opens-the-door-to-medicare-coverage-for-millions-of-people-with-obesity/

2 years ago

Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs (2023)

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/03/25/llm-end-user-programming

2 years ago

Google surpasses $2T market cap

https://qz.com/google-alphabet-stock-market-cap-ai-earnings-1851439308

2 years ago

My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/on_call/

2 years ago

Microsoft must stop selling security as a premium offering

https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/members/blog/2024-04-23/microsoft-must-stop-selling-security-premium-offering

2 years ago

OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers

https://os-world.github.io/

2 years ago

Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/life-and-land-anglo-saxon-england

2 years ago

Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7r76V_gWQ8

2 years ago

FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression (2016)

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/05/06/fc8-faster-68k-decompression/

2 years ago

Show HN: LazyVim for Ambitious Developers

https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/

2 years ago

Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

2 years ago

Three ways of handling user input (2022)

https://dubroy.com/blog/three-ways-of-handling-user-input/

2 years ago

Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default

https://github.com/carsonpo/haystackdb

2 years ago

★ 166 Rust Apache-2.0

AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable

https://www.fastcompany.com/91113437/ai-making-meta-apps-basically-unusable

2 years ago

Why I Don't Invest in Real Estate

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-i-dont-invest-in-real-estate

2 years ago