Top 50% Hacker News Stories for 2024-05-11

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Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)

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

a year ago

876 upvotes – 71 comments

461

91

Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head

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

a year ago

461 upvotes – 91 comments

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141

Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?

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

a year ago

415 upvotes – 141 comments

346

89

PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software

https://peazip.github.io/

a year ago

346 upvotes – 89 comments

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

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

a year ago

218 upvotes – 177 comments

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The Emacs Window Management Almanac

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

a year ago

198 upvotes – 37 comments

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Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins

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

a year ago

171 upvotes – 333 comments

171

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Vision Transformers Need Registers

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

a year ago

171 upvotes – 23 comments

153

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

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

a year ago

153 upvotes – 56 comments

149

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Show HN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard

https://github.com/NHAS/wag

a year ago

149 upvotes – 58 comments

133

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

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

a year ago

133 upvotes – 29 comments

133

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The derivative of a number (2014)

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

a year ago

133 upvotes – 89 comments

120

18

Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext

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

a year ago

120 upvotes – 18 comments

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

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

a year ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

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Lessons learned reinventing the Python notebook

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

a year ago

106 upvotes – 36 comments

101

4

Unix Viruses 25th Anniversary Edition

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

a year ago

101 upvotes – 4 comments

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Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest Airports

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

a year ago

95 upvotes – 88 comments

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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

a year ago

92 upvotes – 43 comments

89

5

Tool to statically recompile N64 games into native executables

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

a year ago

89 upvotes – 5 comments

88

17

Assembly

https://assembly.louve.systems/

a year ago

88 upvotes – 17 comments

86

18

Binius: Highly efficient proofs over binary fields

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

a year ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

81

5

System Analysis and Programming (1966)

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

a year ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

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The Software Behind Silicon

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

a year ago

72 upvotes – 9 comments

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Mouse Support for Playdate

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

a year ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

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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/

a year ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

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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

a year ago

64 upvotes – 86 comments

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Solving Recurrence Relations

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