top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-09

I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-01/

2 years ago

Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers

https://github.com/piku/piku

2 years ago

Designing a Lego orrery

https://marian42.de/article/orrery/

2 years ago

Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/economic-termites-are-everywhere

2 years ago

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-weird-nerd-comes-with-trade-offs

2 years ago

A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k

https://asim.bearblog.dev/how-a-single-chatgpt-mistake-cost-us-10000/

2 years ago

Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

https://www.windytan.com/2024/06/ultrasonic-investigations-in-shopping.html

2 years ago

Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not

https://github.com/haampie/libtree

2 years ago

Keylogger discovered in image generator extension

https://old.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1dbls5n/psa_if_youve_used_the_comfyui_llmvision_node_from/

2 years ago

A Revolution in Biology?

https://www.bitsofwonder.co/p/a-revolution-in-biology

2 years ago

Scratchapixel 4.0, Learn Computer Graphics Programming

https://www.scratchapixel.com/index.html

2 years ago

Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale

https://twitter.com/revjaydub/status/1799212814646796648

2 years ago

So you want to build a browser engine

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html

2 years ago

Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-censorship-circumvention-extension-has-disappeared-from-the-russian-version-of-mozilla-addons/130914

2 years ago

Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02528

2 years ago

Show HN: We've open-sourced our LLM attention visualization library

https://github.com/labmlai/inspectus

2 years ago

Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627395

2 years ago

Högertrafikomläggningen

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

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a web game that makes practicing basic arithmetic fun

https://www.worchle.com/mathic/

2 years ago

"Confidential" 988 conversation records shared with corporations

https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/06/988-records-shared/

2 years ago

Dmv.org

https://computer.rip/2024-06-08-dmv.org.html

2 years ago

Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web

https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/

2 years ago

Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/06/fixing-a-knockoff-altera-usb-blaster-that-never-worked/

2 years ago

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges

https://www.techradar.com/pro/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-elite-prototype-that-runs-linux-emerges-from-a-brand-youve-probably-never-heard-of-schenker-tuxedo-has-12-core-cpu-with-32gb-ram-and-surprise-surprise-debian

2 years ago

PiDP-10 – a modern replica of the PDP-10

https://obsolescence.dev/pidp10.html

2 years ago

On being brought up by libertarian economists

https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/on-being-brought-up-by-libertarian

2 years ago

No one should use the AT&T syntax (2021)

https://outerproduct.net/2021-02-13_att-asm.html

2 years ago

A new world of DIY medical testing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/09/home-health-tests-doctors-fda/

2 years ago

The Functional Programming Hiring Problem

https://blog.janissary.xyz/posts/hiring-functional-programming

2 years ago

How many High Streets are there in London?

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/06/londons-high-streets.html

2 years ago

Teams of LLM Agents Can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01637

2 years ago

With congestion pricing stop, New York City enters new era of economic gridlock

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/09/with-congestion-pricing-stop-nyc-enters-new-economic-gridlock-era.html

2 years ago

Cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

2 years ago

A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

https://github.com/dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need

2 years ago

200ms Voice LLM

https://github.com/fixie-ai/ultravox

2 years ago

The Mere Presence of One's Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/691462

2 years ago

Next-generation web framework Teo, supports Node.js, Python and Rust

https://teodev.io

2 years ago

British Nuclear Warning System

http://www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/Page211.htm

2 years ago

Your Phone, Minus the Distractions

https://getbrick.app/

2 years ago

A DSL for Implementing Math Functions

https://blog.sigplan.org/2024/06/03/a-dsl-for-implementing-math-functions/

2 years ago

Everything about Mars is the worst (2017)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everything-about-mars-is-the-worst/

2 years ago

ChatGPT Is Bullshit

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

2 years ago

Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico [video]

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1799458854067118450

2 years ago

Synapse bankruptcy trustee says $85M of customer savings is missing

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/synapse-bankruptcy-trustee-85-million-of-customer-savings-is-missing.html

2 years ago

A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

2 years ago

Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-gravity-mass-mitigating-hypothetical-dark.html

2 years ago

Interview with Ton Roosendaal, the man behind Blender (2018) [video]

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

2 years ago

Fingerprinting VPNs with Custom Router Firmware [pdf]

https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Almutairi2024a.pdf

2 years ago

KickC is a C-compiler for 6502-based platforms creating readable assembler code

https://gitlab.com/camelot/kickc

2 years ago