top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-11

Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

2 years ago

Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head

https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024/5/10/cordic.md

2 years ago

Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2024/05/10/thread/

2 years ago

PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software

https://peazip.github.io/

2 years ago

Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/adam-curtis-on-the-dangers-of-self-expression/

2 years ago

The Emacs Window Management Almanac

https://karthinks.com/software/emacs-window-management-almanac/

2 years ago

Vision Transformers Need Registers

https://openreview.net/forum?id=2dnO3LLiJ1

2 years ago

Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-metabolism-autism-reveals-developmental.html

2 years ago

Citation Needed – Wikimedia Foundation's Experimental LLM/RAG Chrome Extension

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wikipedia-citation-needed/kecnjhdipdihkibljeicopdcoinghmhj

2 years ago

Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard

https://github.com/NHAS/wag

2 years ago

The derivative of a number (2014)

https://rjlipton.com/2014/08/19/the-derivative-of-a-number/

2 years ago

Show HN: Attempt to bring a cinematic experience in 256 bytes (WASM)

https://github.com/ilmenit/sizecoding/blob/main/Encounter/Encounter.md

2 years ago

Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext

https://www.flatcar.org/blog/2024/04/os-innovation-with-systemd-sysext/

2 years ago

Apple finalizing deal with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT features to iOS 18

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/10/ios-18-chatgpt-features-apple-openai/

2 years ago

Lessons learned reinventing the Python notebook

https://marimo.io/blog/lessons-learned

2 years ago

Unix Viruses 25th Anniversary Edition

https://tmpout.sh/3/03.html

2 years ago

Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest Airports

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/heathrow-dubai-airports-billions-dirty-money-9f49cc7f

2 years ago

She was accused of faking incriminating video of cheerleaders. Nothing was fake

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/11/she-was-accused-of-faking-an-incriminating-video-of-teenage-cheerleaders-she-was-arrested-outcast-and-condemned-the-problem-nothing-was-fake-after-all

2 years ago

Tool to statically recompile N64 games into native executables

https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp

2 years ago

Assembly

https://assembly.louve.systems/

2 years ago

Binius: Highly efficient proofs over binary fields

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2024/04/29/binius.html

2 years ago

System Analysis and Programming (1966)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/system-analysis-and-programming-christopher-strachey/

2 years ago

The Software Behind Silicon

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-software-behind-silicon-with-synopsys-founder-aart-de-geus-and-ceo-sassine-ghazi

2 years ago

Mouse Support for Playdate

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/11/mouse-support-for-playdate/

2 years ago

All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites

https://sciinsider.com/2024/05/04/groundbreaking-discovery-dna-and-rna-bases-found-in-meteorites-what-this-means-for-life-beyond-earth-will-blow-your-mind/

2 years ago

Solving Recurrence Relations

https://win-vector.com/2024/05/09/solving-recurrence-relations/

2 years ago

People who won't give up floppy disks

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-floppy-disks-why-some-people-are-still-in-love-with-this-obsolete-computer-storage-technology

2 years ago

Apple Closes in on Deal with OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-11/apple-closes-in-on-deal-with-openai-to-put-chatgpt-on-iphone

2 years ago

Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern

https://www.cultured.systems/2024/04/24/Soft-delete/

2 years ago

Dymaxion Car

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

2 years ago

DIY YouTuber Builds His Own 256-Core RISC-V Megacluster at 14.7 GHz 1-Core Freq

https://wccftech.com/diy-youtuber-builds-256-core-risc-v-megacluster-14-7-ghz-single-core-frequency/

2 years ago

G5 Conditions Observed

https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/g5-conditions-observed

2 years ago

Supreme Court: There's No 'Time Limit' on Copyright Infringement Claims

https://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-theres-no-time-limit-on-copyright-infringement-claims-240510/

2 years ago

Gamers Nexus: Asus Scammed Us [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

2 years ago

A Joint Statement from UniSuper and Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian

https://www.unisuper.com.au/about-us/media-centre/2024/a-joint-statement-from-unisuper-and-google-cloud

2 years ago

An unexpected detour into partially symbolic, sparsity-expoiting autodiff

https://dansblog.netlify.app/posts/2024-05-08-laplace/laplace

2 years ago

Running CHIP-8 on an HP 48 calculator (2020)

https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/chip-8-hp-48/

2 years ago

Nvidia Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Soon Be the Default for Turing, Newer GPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R560-Open-Default

2 years ago

Billionaire Khosla Loses Bid to End California Beach Access Suit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-11/billionaire-khosla-loses-bid-to-end-california-beach-access-suit

2 years ago

Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)

https://flatkill.org/2020/

2 years ago

Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-price-increases-fast-food-cost-popeyes-wendys/

2 years ago