top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-23

Single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temp

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-atom-defect-2d-material.amp

2 years ago

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/

2 years ago

Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.24051

2 years ago

Google says no "African countries beginning with K" but Kenya has a "K sound"

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1793751541394145771

2 years ago

Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460528

2 years ago

CSharpRepl: C# REPL with syntax highlighting and intellisense

https://fuqua.io/CSharpRepl/

2 years ago

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic

https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/

2 years ago

Golden Gate Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

2 years ago

Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR: The Best All-Purpose Lens I've Ever Used

https://petapixel.com/2024/05/19/nikon-z-28-400mm-f-4-8-vr-the-best-all-purpose-lens-ive-ever-used/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

https://github.com/akopdev/obsidian-bibtex-manager

2 years ago

Google promised better search – now it's telling us to put glue on pizza

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162896/google-ai-overview-hallucinations-glue-in-pizza

2 years ago

FTX bankruptcy examiner's report [pdf]

https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=MzExMDk4OQ==&id2=-1

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source real time data framework for LLM applications

https://getindexify.ai

2 years ago

US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)

https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/13170

2 years ago

Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/05/23/retired-detective-we-got-it-wrong-in-robert-robersons-death-penalty-case/

2 years ago

Act on Press

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1787850053912064005

2 years ago

Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago

https://timharford.com/2024/05/fossil-fuels-could-have-been-left-in-the-dust-25-years-ago/

2 years ago

iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470#note_1917647951

2 years ago

Crows "count" the number of self-generated vocalizations

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0984

2 years ago

Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163383/spotify-car-thing-discontinued-december-2024

2 years ago

Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cement-recycling

2 years ago

Show HN: Excel to Python Compiler

https://pyoneer.ai?source=hn&utm_campaign=shn1

2 years ago

The iOS bug that made deleted photos reappear

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/inside-the-ios-bug-that-made-deleted-photos-reappear

2 years ago

Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography

https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/advancing-our-amazing-bet-on-asymmetric.html

2 years ago

DNS glitch that threatened Internet stability fixed; cause remains unclear

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/dns-glitch-that-threatened-internet-stability-fixed-cause-remains-unclear/

2 years ago

Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly

https://wasmer.io/posts/running-php-blazingly-fast-at-the-edge-with-wasm

2 years ago

Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9xxd8w57kjo

2 years ago

Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456959

2 years ago

Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

https://daylightcomputer.com/product

2 years ago

Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/car-thing-discontinued/

2 years ago

So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)

https://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm

2 years ago

Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product

https://github.com/Dataherald/dataherald

2 years ago

We're ending our Samsung collaboration

https://www.ifixit.com/News/96162/were-ending-our-samsung-collaboration

2 years ago

Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456064

2 years ago

Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS

https://matcha.mizu.sh/

2 years ago

The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder

https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

2 years ago

Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free

https://thejournal.com/Articles/2024/05/21/Microsoft-Khan-Academy-Partner-to-Make-Khanmigo-Teaching-Tool-Free.aspx

2 years ago

Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

https://www.papertalk.xyz/research/home

2 years ago

Amber: A code search and replace tool

https://github.com/dalance/amber

2 years ago

Bytehound: Memory Profiler for Linux

https://github.com/koute/bytehound

2 years ago

Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights

https://viewfromthewing.com/game-changer-southwest-airlines-now-available-on-google-flights/

2 years ago

Making EC2 boot time faster

https://depot.dev/blog/faster-ec2-boot-time

2 years ago

How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/05/23/l2exec.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40454933

2 years ago

Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2019/animating-the-equant/

2 years ago

First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/first-pictures-from-euclid-satellite-reveal-billions-of-orphan-stars

2 years ago

Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not endless shrimp

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

2 years ago

300k airplanes in five years

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in

2 years ago

Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again

https://the-decoder.com/ex-googler-says-companys-ai-panic-is-like-google-fiasco-all-over-again/

2 years ago

Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/why-medieval-bologna-was-full-of-tall-towers-and-what-happened-to-them.html

2 years ago

The Strangeness of Grief (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/the-strangeness-of-grief

2 years ago

Hacker News Best

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

2 years ago

BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)

https://www.sligocki.com//2024/05/22/bb-3-4-a14.html

2 years ago

Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-and-chatgpt-internet-search/

2 years ago

"My boss says we don't need any engineering managers"

https://charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/

2 years ago

Disappointment

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202309/noti2782/noti2782.html

2 years ago

CompilerFax: Sending C source code via telefax to a compiler-as-a-service

https://chaos.social/@LaF0rge/112486079122303420

2 years ago

Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)

http://tomwaitslibrary.info/biography/copyright/frito-lay/

2 years ago

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/computershare_vm_migration_project/

2 years ago

M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy

https://bitfehler.srht.site/posts/2024-04-15_m2dir-treating-mails-as-files-without-going-crazy.html

2 years ago

DuckDuckGo broken: "Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news&t=ffab&ia=web

2 years ago

What Happened to DuckDuckGo?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search+not+working

2 years ago

DuckDuckGo was down

https://duckduckgo.com

2 years ago

One of the most unusual heists in America seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/taco-bell-ebay-mark-smith-paintings-19464177.php

2 years ago

&udm=14 – easy access to an AI-free Google search

https://udm14.com/

2 years ago

Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

https://magicui.design/

2 years ago

WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

https://windirstat.net/

2 years ago

Lessons learned from studying 4k YC companies

https://amvizion.org/blog/lessons-learned-from-yc.html

2 years ago

Drone Flying 101 – An interactive tutorial for beginners

https://fpvsim.com/drone-flying-101

2 years ago

Epic's proposed remedies are bad for everyone but Epic

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/epics-proposed-remedies-are-bad-for-everyone-but-epic/

2 years ago