top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-07

Apple introduces M4 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/

2 years ago

Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyIEGRw4-U

2 years ago

Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/05/Ultrasonic_cold_brew_coffee_ready_under_three_minutes

2 years ago

LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops

https://www.ifixit.com/News/95078/lpcamm2-memory-is-finally-here

2 years ago

Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/can-turning-office-towers-into-apartments-save-downtowns

2 years ago

Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet

https://pyspread.gitlab.io/

2 years ago

Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/hackers-discover-how-to-reprogram-nes-tetris-from-within-the-game/

2 years ago

How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch

https://jacobpadilla.com/articles/recreating-asyncio

2 years ago

Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

https://news.mit.edu/2024/sound-suppressing-silk-can-create-quiet-spaces-0507

2 years ago

Decker: A reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics

https://www.beyondloom.com/decker/index.html

2 years ago

The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)

https://audioacademy.in/the-grateful-deads-wall-of-sound/

2 years ago

Gradient descent visualization

https://github.com/lilipads/gradient_descent_viz

2 years ago

Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/07/boeing-us-investigation-787-inspections-faa

2 years ago

IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence

https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-code-models

2 years ago

SecureDrop Protocol

https://securedrop.org/news/introducing-securedrop-protocol/

2 years ago

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

https://stateline.org/2024/03/29/vets-fret-as-private-equity-snaps-up-clinics-pet-care-companies/

2 years ago

Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?"

https://www.core77.com/posts/132088/Fantastic-Industrial-Design-Student-Work-How-Long-Should-Objects-Last

2 years ago

Linux When?

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-linux-when

2 years ago

Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

https://dotfiles.github.io/

2 years ago

Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS

https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop-extension-bootc

2 years ago

Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios

https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-closes-redfall-developer-arkane-austin-hifi-rush-developer-tango-gameworks-and-more-in-devastating-cuts-at-bethesda

2 years ago

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi Connect

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-connect/

2 years ago

Caniwebview.com – Like Caniuse but for Webviews

https://caniwebview.com/

2 years ago

Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)

https://temporal.io/blog/durable-distributed-asyncio-event-loop

2 years ago

ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic

https://scrapegraph-doc.onrender.com/

2 years ago

Using AirPods as a Morse Transmitter

https://github.com/EtherDream/headphone-morse-transmitter

2 years ago

We've been put in the vibe space

https://vickiboykis.com/2024/05/06/weve-been-put-in-the-vibe-space/

2 years ago

GCC 14.1

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/

2 years ago

The Rise of the Forever Renter Class

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-forever-renter-class/

2 years ago

The Birth of Parquet

https://sympathetic.ink/2024/01/24/Chapter-1-The-birth-of-Parquet.html

2 years ago

New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-black-hole-visualization-viewers-brink.html

2 years ago

Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/07/climate/battery-electricity-solar-california-texas.html

2 years ago

Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-viking-age-hunters-took-down-the-biggest-animal-on-earth/

2 years ago

The Waning Reign of the Muskrat

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-magnificent-lives-and-quiet-loss-of-muskrats/

2 years ago

Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components

https://www.mux.com/blog/facebook-just-updated-it-s-relationship-status-with-web-components

2 years ago

Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/boeing-starliners-first-crewed-mission-scrubbed/

2 years ago

Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/

2 years ago

Show HN: Visual debugger for Rails system tests

https://github.com/stepful/cyperful

2 years ago

J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)

https://www.openculture.com/2016/03/j-g-ballard-predicted-the-rise-of-social-media-and-youtube-celebrity-in-1977.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Seeking ideas for preschool/school projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40292537

2 years ago

Jolie, the service-oriented programming language

https://www.jolie-lang.org/index.html

2 years ago

New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-unveils-stunning-new-ipad-pro-with-m4-chip-and-apple-pencil-pro/

2 years ago

Google, Meta 'break' Apple's device fingerprinting rules

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/apple_fingerprinting_rules/

2 years ago

Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe

https://gizmodo.com/cybertruck-video-breaks-finger-safe-stick-elon-musk-1851460112

2 years ago

Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-defense-against-ai-guided-traffic-analysis-daita

2 years ago

Redesigned 11-inch and new 13-inch iPad Air

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-unveils-the-redesigned-11-inch-and-all-new-13-inch-ipad-air-with-m2/

2 years ago

How not to change PostgreSQL column type

https://notso.boringsql.com/posts/how-not-to-change-postgresql-column-type/

2 years ago

AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-doesnt-threaten-humanity-its-owners-do/

2 years ago

Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy

https://searchengineland.com/google-begins-enforcement-of-site-reputation-abuse-policy-with-portions-of-sites-being-delisted-440294

2 years ago

An operating system for the web

https://jasongullickson.com/an-operating-system-for-the-web.html

2 years ago

Japanese Trade Publications Helped Japan Form a New Graphic Identity (2023)

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-a-rare-set-of-japanese-trade-publications-helped-japan-form-a-new-graphic-identity/

2 years ago

The greatest resume I've ever seen

https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-greatest-resume-ive-ever-seen

2 years ago

Homemade liquid nitrogen generator Joule Thomson throttle (2013)

http://homemadeliquidnitrogen.com/

2 years ago

My husband has become a Vim peasant – please advise

https://reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ck8w2g/my_husband_has_become_a_vim_peasant_please_advise/

2 years ago

Use Rails

https://jmduke.com/posts/microblog/rails/

2 years ago

Meta String: A more space-efficient string encoding than UTF-8 in Fury

https://fury.apache.org/blog/fury_meta_string_37_5_percent_space_efficient_encoding_than_utf8/

2 years ago

Faster XML Stream Processing in Go (2019)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/faster-xml-stream-processing-in-go/

2 years ago

How rich is too rich? Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01276-1

2 years ago

Instructlab AI CLI

https://github.com/instructlab/instructlab

2 years ago

Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/do-you-need-a-dentist-visit-every-6-months-that-filling-the-data-is-weak/

2 years ago

Final Cut Pro transforms video creation with Live Multicam, new AI features

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/final-cut-pro-transforms-video-creation-with-live-multicam-on-ipad-and-new-ai-features-on-mac/

2 years ago

Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape

https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacecraft-close-up-video-sun

2 years ago

SteerMouse

https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/index.html

2 years ago