top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-25

Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474716

2 years ago

Abusing Go's Infrastructure

https://reverse.put.as/2024/05/24/abusing-go-infrastructure/

2 years ago

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/24/24164119/google-ai-overview-mistakes-search-race-openai

2 years ago

The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/05/world/hikikomori-asia-personal-stories-wellness/

2 years ago

Tmux is worse-is-better

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/tmux-is-worse-is-better/

2 years ago

Optimizing your talking points (2018)

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/

2 years ago

Mistral Fine-Tune

https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-finetune

2 years ago

Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

2 years ago

Last hours of an organ donor

https://aeon.co/essays/the-tenderness-of-medical-care-in-an-organ-donors-last-hours

2 years ago

Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)

https://sre.google/sre-book/simplicity/

2 years ago

The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought (2014) [pdf]

http://gjgreenberg.bol.ucla.edu/docs/rpp/04_tversky.pdf

2 years ago

Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?

https://arunmani.in/articles/highest-two-power-to-divide-a-number/

2 years ago

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

https://zellij.dev/

2 years ago

JetBrains releases RustRover IDE for Rust development

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715317/jetbrains-releases-rustrover-ide-for-rust-development.html

2 years ago

People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)

https://kenthendricks.com/99-cent-prices/

2 years ago

Email.ml – Minimalist Temporary Email

https://email.ml/

2 years ago

Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/24/publishing-ai-slop-is-a-choice

2 years ago

Japan's clothes-drying bathrooms

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/laundry-lessons-from-japanese-bathroom-technology

2 years ago

Lapis: A Web Framework for Lua

https://leafo.net/lapis/

2 years ago

You are lucky, full moon tonight

https://twitter.com/cupiabart/status/1793930355617259811

2 years ago

A simple core.async job system in Clojure

https://blog.janetacarr.com/creating-a-dead-simple-asynchronous-job-system-in-clojure/

2 years ago

Chickens in Trees

https://suziepetryk.com/blog/chickens.html

2 years ago

Taming floating-point sums

https://orlp.net/blog/taming-float-sums/

2 years ago

Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings

https://electrek.co/2024/05/24/bladeless-rooftop-wind-turbines-box-buildings/

2 years ago

Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all (2012)

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2012/05/16/majorana-demonstrator/

2 years ago

The Fall of the House of Etsy

https://spy.com/articles/lifestyle/gifts/etsy-downfall-1203000173/

2 years ago

Two B.C. companies ordered to shut down on national security grounds

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/two-b-c-companies-ordered-to-cease-all-operations-over-national-security-concerns

2 years ago

Show HN: Sum (algebraic) types for C in one 100 line header

https://github.com/grego/sumtype.h

2 years ago

Where are the builders?

https://near.blog/where-are-the-builders/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What sites are similar to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478422

2 years ago

The Prophet Who Failed

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/06/the-prophet-who-wasnt-after-the-apocalypse-that-failed-emily-harnett/

2 years ago

US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt (2022)

https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/US-EPA-sets-health-advisory-6-PFAS/100/i22

2 years ago

The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules (2023)

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good.html

2 years ago

Goodix Fingerprint Drivers for Linux (Or at Least Debian)

https://github.com/tcsenpai/goodix-debian-linux-drivers-fingerprint-by-dell

2 years ago

Extend your battery life with scx_rustland

http://arighi.blogspot.com/2024/05/extend-your-battery-life-with.html

2 years ago

The deskilling of web dev is harming us all

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/

2 years ago

Don Knuth's MIP, 64 years later

https://nathanbrixius.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/don-knuths-mip-64-years-later/

2 years ago

Recently increased prevalence of human forearm median artery: Microevolution

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.13224

2 years ago

Talos – An Immutable OS for Kubernetes

https://a-cup-of.coffee/blog/talos/

2 years ago

Depression (2014)

https://archive.fo/2014.12.18-152806/https://byuu.org/

2 years ago

Signalfd Is Useless (2015)

https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless

2 years ago

The new visa fees for foreign artists are out. This is not good

https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-new-visa-fees-for-foreign-artists-are-out-this-is-not-good/

2 years ago

Rootless Docker in a multi-user environment

https://www.cmtops.dev/posts/rootless-docker-in-multiuser-environment/

2 years ago

Cannabis use linked to epigenetic changes, study reveals

https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-study-reveals

2 years ago

The solar industrial revolution is the biggest investment opportunity in history

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/the-solar-industrial-revolution-is-the-biggest-investment-opportunity-in-history/

2 years ago

The Route of a Text Message (2019)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210301230703/http://scottbot.net/the-route-of-a-text-message/

2 years ago

Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/24/signals-meredith-whittaker-on-the-telegram-security-clash-and-the-edge-lords-at-openai/

2 years ago

Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while

https://newatlas.com/medical/male-birth-control-stk333/

2 years ago

EU Approves AI Act

https://vcsi.org/eu-ai-act-comprehensive-regulation/

2 years ago