top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-02

Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1796508893822238881

2 years ago

An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)

https://photonlines.substack.com/p/an-intuitive-guide-to-maxwells-equations

2 years ago

Parable of the Sofa

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/06/01/Parable-of-the-Sofa

2 years ago

Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40555435

2 years ago

Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing

https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/FMP/C0/C0.html

2 years ago

How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/third-thumb

2 years ago

Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/05/31/camera

2 years ago

Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire

https://hotwired.dev/

2 years ago

New head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-05-31/internal-messages-show-how-the-new-head-of-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-universities-organized-a-citation-cartel.html

2 years ago

HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client

https://github.com/piqoni/hn-text

2 years ago

ht: Headless Terminal

https://github.com/andyk/ht

2 years ago

SPI Flash

https://trmm.net/SPI_flash/

2 years ago

PyCon US 2024 Recap

https://katherinemichel.github.io/portfolio/pycon-us-2024-recap.html

2 years ago

Copy-and-Patch: Fast compilation for high-level languages and bytecode (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13127

2 years ago

Workmanship standard for crimping, interconnecting cables, harnesses, and wiring

https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/NASA/NASA-STD-87394

2 years ago

Circle C++ with memory safety

https://www.circle-lang.org/site/intro/

2 years ago

Show HN: Tunnelling TCP through a file

https://github.com/fiddyschmitt/File-Tunnel

2 years ago

The Sword of Kumdor

https://lynn.github.io/kumdor/

2 years ago

Formlabs Form 4 Teardown

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/formlabs-form-4-teardown/

2 years ago

Lord Kelvin and his analog computer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tide-predictions

2 years ago

84–24

https://84-24.org/

2 years ago

Eight years of organizing tech meetups (2023)

https://notes.eatonphil.com/eight-years-of-tech-meetups.html

2 years ago

Unlocking the Duron and Athlon using the pencil (2007)

http://computer-communication.blogspot.com/2007/06/unlocking-duron-and-athlon-using-pencil_08.html

2 years ago

FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1

2 years ago

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/06/upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-10-rtc/

2 years ago

Nuclear material left in "Swap Shop" at UK Hacker camp emfcamp

https://meow.social/@tryst/112546598851850261

2 years ago

China lands Chang'e 6 sample-return probe on far side of the moon

https://www.space.com/china-change-6-lands-on-moon-far-side-sample-return-mission

2 years ago

A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers

https://tockos.org/

2 years ago

Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon

https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6759533/c10541660/content.html

2 years ago

If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/if-a-i-can-do-your-job-maybe-it-can-also-replace-your-c-e-o/ar-BB1nbdAX

2 years ago

Monads are like burritos (2009)

https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html

2 years ago

CSS written in pure Go

https://github.com/AccentDesign/gcss

2 years ago

cuDF – GPU DataFrame Library

https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf

2 years ago

How to make a great government website

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/how-to-make-a-great-government-website

2 years ago

Seoul authorities find Shein products contain high levels of toxic chemicals

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/05/28/seoul-government-finds-shein-products-contain-high-levels-of-toxic-chemicals_6672910_19.html

2 years ago

Ganjifa

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

2 years ago

How it feels to get an AI email from a friend

https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/

2 years ago

The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning

https://www.wired.com/story/snowflake-breach-ticketmaster-santander-ticketek-hacked/

2 years ago

Psychological tricks rich people use to look generous without spending more

https://billmei.net/blog/shopping

2 years ago

How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know (2023) [pdf]

https://kk.org/thetechnium/files/2023/12/howtowalkandtalk.pdf

2 years ago

Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)

https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html

2 years ago

Will we have a negative leap second? [pdf] (2022)

https://www.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2022/matsakis.pdf

2 years ago

Udio – AI Music Generator

https://www.udio.com/

2 years ago

Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts

https://github.com/Jana-Marie/ligra

2 years ago

Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice (2020)

https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/

2 years ago

A Brief Look at the 3DS Cartridge Protocol

https://blog.winter-software.com/2024/06/02/ctr-cart-protocol

2 years ago

New material looks like frosted glass but lets in more light than a window

https://www.popsci.com/technology/glass-coating-privacy/

2 years ago

PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform

https://peps.python.org/pep-0730/

2 years ago

The impossibility of translating Franz Kafka (1999)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/01/11/the-impossibility-of-being-kafka

2 years ago

Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd

https://rgoswami.me/posts/lowering-resource-usage-foot-systemd/

2 years ago

Homeschooling (2021)

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/homeschooling.html

2 years ago

The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-nsa-advises-you-to-turn-your-phone-off-and-back-on-once-a-week-heres-why/

2 years ago

Protecting sensitive data in Elixir GenServers (2023)

https://gabrielpereira.dev/en/posts/protecting-sensitive-data-in-elixir-gen-servers/

2 years ago

Optimizing 128-bit Division (2020)

https://danlark.org/2020/06/14/128-bit-division/

2 years ago