top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-15

Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

2 years ago

Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/expected-intention-to-float/16470316

2 years ago

Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075

https://jepsen.io/analyses/datomic-pro-1.0.7075

2 years ago

The Worst Website in the Entire World

https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/

2 years ago

Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nearly-all-nintendo-64-games-can-now-be-recompiled-into-native-pc-ports-to-add-proper-ray-tracing-ultrawide-high-fps-and-more

2 years ago

New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/7154

2 years ago

Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/15/proteins-blood-cancer-warning-seven-years-study

2 years ago

Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/14/boeing-department-of-justice-criminal-liability/73692655007/

2 years ago

Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification

https://formal.land/blog/2024/04/26/translation-core-alloc-crates

2 years ago

A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)

https://ha.cking.ch/s8_data_line_locator/

2 years ago

Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter

https://nondeterministic.computer/@martin/112444389342113780

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers

https://github.com/quarylabs/quary

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features

https://teachyourselfmath.app/?page=1

2 years ago

Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu

https://www.thestack.technology/oracle-dumps-terraform-for-opentofu/

2 years ago

What’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? (1986)

https://www.straightdope.com/21341781/in-medicine-what-s-the-difference-between-an-ectomy-an-ostomy-and-an-otomy

2 years ago

Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years

https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/researchers-identify-fastest-rate-natural-carbon-dioxide-rise-over-last-50000-years

2 years ago

Making a Postgres query 1k times faster

https://mattermost.com/blog/making-a-postgres-query-1000-times-faster/

2 years ago

Context caching guide

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/caching

2 years ago

Dragonfly: An optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lens

https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/instrumentation/dragonfly/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML

https://desktopdocs.com

2 years ago

A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/a-plague-comes-before-the-fall-lessons-from-roman-history/

2 years ago

Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1790603862132596961

2 years ago

How to get 7th graders to smoke

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/how-to-get-7th-graders-to-smoke

2 years ago

Android's theft protection features

https://blog.google/products/android/android-theft-protection/

2 years ago

Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic

https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/please-dont-take-luminas-anticavity

2 years ago

Show HN: Tarsier – Vision utilities for web interaction agents

https://github.com/reworkd/tarsier

2 years ago

Project Gameface launches on Android

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/project-gameface-launches-on-android/

2 years ago

SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic?

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/15/ro/

2 years ago

Arch Linux RISC-V

https://archriscv.felixc.at/

2 years ago

I coded something dumb and I'm proud of it

https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-coded-something-dumb-and-im-proud-of-it-en/

2 years ago

URLhaus: A database of malicious URLs used for malware distribution

https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/

2 years ago

The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020)

https://erkin.party/blog/200715/evolution/

2 years ago

Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure

https://tonsky.me/blog/allekinos/

2 years ago

Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture

https://www.quantamagazine.org/strangely-curved-shapes-break-50-year-old-geometry-conjecture-20240514/

2 years ago

How the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches (2016)

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-the-soviets-revolutionized-wristwatches/

2 years ago

Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle

https://www.hidden-mirrors.com

2 years ago

Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-researchers-discover-universes-oldest-stars-in-galactic-backyard-0514

2 years ago

PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google

https://blog.roboflow.com/paligemma-multimodal-vision/

2 years ago

What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?

https://danielcompton.net/google-cloud-unisuper

2 years ago

LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email

https://github.com/ldapjs/node-ldapjs

2 years ago

Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content

https://www.dexerto.com/tech/romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs-for-inappropriate-content-2713004/

2 years ago

Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)

https://www.sightline.org/2023/04/13/parking-reform-legalized-most-of-the-new-homes-in-buffalo-and-seattle/

2 years ago

Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs

https://www.silo.ai//blog/viking-7b-the-first-open-llm-for-the-nordic-languages

2 years ago

Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI

https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1790603862132596961

2 years ago

Merging Remix and React Router

https://remix.run/blog/merging-remix-and-react-router

2 years ago

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/why-do-cpus-have-multiple-cache-levels/

2 years ago

Make a game with Hoot for the Lisp Game Jam

https://spritely.institute/news/make-a-game-with-hoot-for-the-lisp-game-jam.html

2 years ago

Brain biopsies on 'vulnerable' patients at Mt Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/brain-biopsies-mount-sinai-fda-review/

2 years ago

Å tar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp

https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2024/05/15/an-iteration-construct-for-common-lisp/

2 years ago

Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More

https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally

https://www.inboxpurge.com/

2 years ago

Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs. Purple Air

https://www.airgradient.com/blog/airgradient-vs-purple-air/

2 years ago

High-Quality Software Engineering (2007)

https://www.lurklurk.org/hqse/hqse.html

2 years ago

We gotta stop ignoring AI's hallucination problem

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong

2 years ago

Some lithium could come from wastewater

https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/gas-well-wastewater-lithium

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi prepares for London listing

https://www.ft.com/content/6d846a93-030a-4106-b045-d74a216493b0

2 years ago

Localization in .NET console and desktop apps

https://blog.axantum.com/2024/05/localizing-net-console-or-desktop.html

2 years ago

"Is This Project Still Maintained?"

https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/05/14/is-this-project-still-maintained.html

2 years ago

React Compiler

https://react.dev/learn/react-compiler

2 years ago

An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p148-zeng.pdf

2 years ago

iOS 17.5 is allegedly resurfacing pictures that were deleted years ago

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/15/ios-17-5-deleted-photos-app-bug/

2 years ago

Optimizing Linux for an AMD Xiaomi/Framework Laptop

https://jdecourval.com/ArchLinux/Xiaomi-RedmiBook-Pro-15-2023

2 years ago

AI is the reason interviews are harder now

https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/ai-is-the-reason-interviews-are-harder-now

2 years ago

Swiss vs. American parenting: Differences according to a US mom

https://www.businessinsider.com/swiss-vs-american-parenting-differences-independence-freedom-culture-shock-2024-5

2 years ago

SMTP 550-5.7.1 Rejected Because of Virginia Redistricting

https://www.khanna.law/blog/smtp-550-571-redistricting

2 years ago

LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming

https://piaoyang0.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/llms-are-not-suitable-for-brainstorming/

2 years ago

Abstract Interpretation as a Programming Language (2013)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5133

2 years ago

A Man with an Impossible Memory

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-mystery-of-s-the-man-with-an-impossible-memory

2 years ago

Plane, open-source Jira alternative, got to 100K+ Docker and 44K+ K8s deploys

https://plane.so/blog/streamlining-self-hosting-managing-100k-docker-44000-kubernetes-deploys-ease

2 years ago

Notes on Japan

https://alexanderweichart.de/5_Archive/1.-Projects/Notes/Notes-on-Japan

2 years ago

iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157284/apple-iphone-ios-17-5-update-deleted-photos-voicemails

2 years ago

PHYS771 Lecture 17: Fun with the Anthropic Principle (2006)

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec17.html

2 years ago

MicroSD cards' SBC days are numbered

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/microsd-cards-sbc-days-are-numbered

2 years ago

Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40373653

2 years ago

Gaussian Blue Noise (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07798

2 years ago