top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-26

Cloudflare took down our website

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

2 years ago

Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/05/google-meet-adaptive-audio.html

2 years ago

What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like

https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/this-is-what-the-damaged-svalbard-cable-looked-like-when-it-came-up-from-the-depths-1.16895904

2 years ago

The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-guinness-brewery-invented-the-most-important-statistical-method-in/

2 years ago

How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

https://denysdovhan.com/home-assistant-config/config/war/

2 years ago

Git cheat sheet [pdf]

https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf

2 years ago

Hurl, the Exceptional Language

https://hurl.wtf/

2 years ago

Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS

https://devonperoutky.super.site/blog-posts/mediocre-engineers-guide-to-https

2 years ago

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)

https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215

2 years ago

The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy

https://jakeseliger.com/2024/05/25/the-one-year-anniversary-of-my-total-glossectomy/

2 years ago

Kernel developer write a USB driver in 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXBC85SGC0Q

2 years ago

FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)

http://pcmicro.com/getdiz/file_id.html

2 years ago

Braid: Synchronization for HTTP

https://braid.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad

https://github.com/DiscoGrad/DiscoGrad

2 years ago

Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone

https://dumbph.com/turn-iphone-into-dumb-phone

2 years ago

llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3

https://github.com/iyaja/llama-fs

2 years ago

LO – simple WASM native language

https://github.com/glebbash/LO

2 years ago

Rete algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

2 years ago

The CompCert C Compiler

https://compcert.org/compcert-C.html

2 years ago

Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary

https://github.com/transcriptionstream/transcriptionstream

2 years ago

Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005)

https://elements.wlonk.com/

2 years ago

AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/26/ai-firms-mustnt-govern-themselves-say-ex-members-of-openais-board

2 years ago

Old dogs, new CSS tricks

https://mxb.dev/blog/old-dogs-new-css-tricks/

2 years ago

macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/4.html

2 years ago

'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

2 years ago

The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]

https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/courses/331/resources/papers/Evolution-of-Lisp.pdf

2 years ago

Long distance sound localization with the Raspberry Pi

https://medium.com/@kim_94237/tdoa-sound-localization-with-the-raspberry-pi-3e777469c4fa

2 years ago

Milk watcher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_watcher

2 years ago

Evolution of the ELF object file format

https://maskray.me/blog/2024-05-26-evolution-of-elf-object-file-format

2 years ago

'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945

2 years ago

Low-latency scripting for game engines

https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/an-introduction-to-low-latency-scripting-with-libriscv-ad0619edab40

2 years ago

What happens in the brain to cause depression?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-the-brain-to-cause-depression-20240523/

2 years ago

Feynman's Garden

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_108_feynman_revisited/

2 years ago

GRC SpinRite

https://computer.rip/2024-05-25-grc-spinrite.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482845

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a online free tool to enhance and auto-crop your screenshots

https://socialscreenshots.com

2 years ago

The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success

https://alchemy.substack.com/p/the-algorithm-behind-jim-simonss

2 years ago

Show HN: Offline sketch to image geneartor in a whiteboard

https://drawing.pics

2 years ago

I was at Woodstock '99 and it destroyed my innocence (2022)

https://www.kerrang.com/i-was-at-woodstock-99-and-it-destroyed-my-innocence

2 years ago

My $2.2k laptop can't drive two screens

https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-05-26-expensive-laptops-dont-pro/

2 years ago

Amiga Minimig Ported to Tang Nano 20k FPGA

https://github.com/harbaum/NanoMig

2 years ago

The Perfect Voxel Engine (2021)

https://voxely.net/blog/the-perfect-voxel-engine/

2 years ago

Show HN: I generated API documentation for all Java packages

https://docland.io

2 years ago