top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-05-31

Engineering for Slow Internet

https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet

2 years ago

This Message Does Not Exist

https://www.kmjn.org/notes/message_existence.html

2 years ago

UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look

https://wiredjs.com/

2 years ago

Japan's push to make all research open access

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01493-8

2 years ago

Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]

https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/snowflake-massive-breach-access-through-infostealer-infection

2 years ago

Repairing my mug with Kintsugi

https://fellerts.no/projects/kintsugi.php

2 years ago

How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop

https://www.unterminated.com/random-fun/how-to-copy-a-file-from-a-30-year-old-laptop

2 years ago

IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program

2 years ago

A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fence-boat-painting-artist-hanif-panni-2487875

2 years ago

Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC

https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e

2 years ago

What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-lessons/

2 years ago

Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any time

https://shademap.app

2 years ago

Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/james-joyce/ulysses

2 years ago

Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3

https://blog.plerion.com/things-you-wish-you-didnt-need-to-know-about-s3/

2 years ago

What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code

https://blog.luden.io/what-do-i-think-about-lua-after-shipping-a-project-with-60-000-lines-of-code-bf72a1328733?gi=8385ed7c6379

2 years ago

Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/31/intels-anti-upgrade-tricks-defeated-with-kapton-tape/

2 years ago

Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-023-02739-x

2 years ago

Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide

2 years ago

Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/31/police-theft-thousands-power-tools/

2 years ago

Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/spotify-wont-open-source-car-thing-but-starts-refund-process/

2 years ago

In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/headway/highways-colorado-transportation.html

2 years ago

Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

2 years ago

Stop Using Discord

https://malenfant.net/@didier/112528487189999791

2 years ago

25 Years of Krita

https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/krita-25-years/

2 years ago

Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos

https://www.warpstream.com/blog/announcing-bento-the-open-source-fork-of-the-project-formerly-known-as-benthos

2 years ago

Legal models hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or more) benchmarking queries

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-trial-legal-models-hallucinate-1-out-6-or-more-benchmarking-queries

2 years ago

Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora

https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-postgres-essential-launch

2 years ago

EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/05/30/circular-economy-council-gives-final-approval-to-right-to-repair-directive/

2 years ago

Show HN: CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only

https://www.commitasync.com/

2 years ago

Trial results for new lung cancer drug are 'off the charts'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/31/trial-results-for-new-lung-cancer-drug-are-off-the-charts-say-doctors

2 years ago

De-googling, so far

https://blog.nradk.com/posts/degoogling/

2 years ago

Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/vista-equity-pluralsight

2 years ago

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition

https://levjj.github.io/thinkcspy/

2 years ago

Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code down by 3000%

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-05-31-benchmarking-go-error-handling/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40530719

2 years ago

'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/its-better-for-humans-in-general-the-four-day-workweek-is-closer-than-you-think-b85cc39e

2 years ago

Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware

https://www.accessnow.org/publication/civil-society-in-exile-pegasus/

2 years ago

Data allegedly stolen from 560M Ticketmaster users

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c899pz84d8zo

2 years ago

YOLOv5 on FPGA with Hailo-8 and 4 Pi Cameras

https://www.fpgadeveloper.com/multi-camera-yolov5-on-zynq-ultrascale-with-hailo-8-ai-acceleration/

2 years ago

Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video]

https://tmp.tonybox.net/hexgoog.mp4

2 years ago

Maybe This Is Too Cool

https://radarblog.substack.com/p/maybe-this-is-too-cool

2 years ago

The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinese-keyboard

2 years ago

Show HN: I built a directory about big life decisions/regrets

https://www.didyouregretit.com/

2 years ago

The Scully Effect

https://theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2018/08/21/the-scully-effect/

2 years ago

Windrecorder – Personal Memory Search Engine

https://github.com/yuka-friends/Windrecorder

2 years ago

Apple Silicon MacBook batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third party

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/7.html

2 years ago

DataFusion Comet: Apache Spark Accelerator

https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet

2 years ago

I created the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources

https://cybersectools.com

2 years ago

Multi-Array Queue

https://github.com/MultiArrayQueue/MultiArrayQueue

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an interactive cloth solver for Apple Vision Pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpD2J85WjzM

2 years ago

Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup signs major data center contract

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Sam-Altman-Backed-Nuclear-Startup-Signs-Major-Data-Center-Contract.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Explore Websites by Chosen Color

https://themefinder.io

2 years ago

Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork

https://github.com/scottvr/wadzilla/wiki

2 years ago

Manifest V2 phase-out begins

https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html

2 years ago