top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-16

Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

2 years ago

A forged Apple employee badge

https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

2 years ago

Slack AI Training with Customer Data

https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles?nojsmode=1

2 years ago

VCs aren’t your friends

https://www.openvc.app/blog/vcs-arent-your-friends

2 years ago

Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy

https://docs.likejazz.com/llama3.np/

2 years ago

Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting

https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms

2 years ago

Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/21/the-higher-states-of-bromine

2 years ago

D3 in Depth

https://www.d3indepth.com/

2 years ago

Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/15/utah-locals-are-getting-cheap-10-gbps-fiber-thanks-to-local-governments/

2 years ago

Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/312681.html

2 years ago

Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01449-y

2 years ago

Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code

2 years ago

Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"

https://www.railtarget.eu/technologies-and-infrastructure/deutsche-bahn-introduces-metawindow-a-gamechanger-in-noise-reduction-for-railways-8449.html

2 years ago

ChatGPT-4o vs. Math

https://www.sabrina.dev/p/chatgpt4o-vs-math

2 years ago

Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/16/report-sprint-t-mobile-merger-immediately-killed-wireless-price-competition-in-u-s/

2 years ago

What's New in Neovim 0.10

https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0.10/

2 years ago

The Downfall of DeviantArt

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

2 years ago

Students invent quieter leaf blower

https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/05/14/quieter-leaf-blower/

2 years ago

Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

https://github.com/google/wuffs

2 years ago

F* – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language

https://www.fstar-lang.org/

2 years ago