top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-11

Lynn Conway has died

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

2 years ago

I like the RP2040

https://dgroshev.com/blog/rp2040/

2 years ago

ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress

https://arcprize.org/blog/launch

2 years ago

Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pprpd3x96o

2 years ago

Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/noam-chomsky-health-update-tributes-b2559831.html

2 years ago

Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software

https://flameshot.org/

2 years ago

Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/112594910070716090

2 years ago

Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce

https://twenty.com

2 years ago

Swift Static Linux SDK

https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/static-linux-getting-started.html

2 years ago

Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-will-become-mathematicians-co-pilot/

2 years ago

POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)

http://www.povray.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code

https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo

2 years ago

Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/some-people-with-insomnia-think-theyre-awake-when-theyre-asleep/

2 years ago

Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted

https://unforget.computing-den.com/demo

2 years ago

How to get the most out of Postgres memory settings

https://tembo.io/blog/optimizing-memory-usage

2 years ago

A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/style/ai-search-slop.html

2 years ago

Self-Serve Dashboards

https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/self-serve-bi-myth/

2 years ago

When Water Flows Uphill [video] (2013)

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

2 years ago

Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/norway-discovers-europes-largest-deposit-of-rare-earth-metals.html

2 years ago

Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/06/08/scan-html-faster-with-simd-instructions-chrome-edition/

2 years ago

Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library

https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor

2 years ago

How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)

https://twobithistory.org/2019/11/06/doom-bsp.html

2 years ago

British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/two_arrested_in_uk_over/

2 years ago

Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/medieval-game-pieces-emerge-from-the-ruins-of-a-mysterious-german-castle-2497815

2 years ago

Author Clock: a novel way to tell time

https://www.authorclock.com/

2 years ago

Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/elon-musk-drops-suit-against-openai-and-sam-altman.html

2 years ago

London–Calcutta Bus Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%E2%80%93Calcutta_bus_service

2 years ago

Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech

https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

2 years ago

Ship Something Every Day

https://maxleiter.com/blog/ship-every-day

2 years ago

Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM

https://christopher.engineering/en/blog/gleam-overview/

2 years ago

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/3/1225/5435538

2 years ago

Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/11/west-texas-orphan-wells-water-bursts/

2 years ago

Jgs Font

https://adelfaure.net/tools/jgs/

2 years ago

Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/science/mushroom-hunters-dna.html

2 years ago

Researchers make a supercapacitor from water, cement, and carbon black

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240610-how-the-concrete-in-your-house-could-be-turned-into-a-battery

2 years ago

Firefox 127

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/127.0/releasenotes/

2 years ago

FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging

https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fda-responds-petition-phthalates-food-packaging-and-food-contact-applications

2 years ago

Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US

https://9to5google.com/2024/06/09/gpay-us/

2 years ago

Siberia's 'mammoth graveyard' reveals 800-year human interactions with mammoths

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-siberia-mammoth-graveyard-reveals-year.html

2 years ago

Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

https://clipbook.app/

2 years ago

Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe

https://louisabraham.github.io/articles/probabilistic-tic-tac-toe

2 years ago

macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported

2 years ago

Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/11/1093465/battery-swap-gogoro-taiwan-earthquake/

2 years ago

Decade of the Battery

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/decade-of-the-battery-334

2 years ago

Gruen transfer

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

2 years ago

macOS Sequoia to Allow iCloud Logins in Virtual Machines on ARM Macs

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/using_icloud_with_macos_virtual_machines?language=objc

2 years ago

Borges on Chaos Theory

https://aethermug.com/posts/borges-on-chaos-theory

2 years ago

Biodiversity enhances immune regulation among daycare children (2020)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba2578

2 years ago

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Phishing

https://mrd0x.com/progressive-web-apps-pwa-phishing/

2 years ago

Meta Open-Sources Megalodon LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/06/meta-llm-megalodon/

2 years ago

Pgvector Is Now Faster Than Pinecone at 75% Less Cost

https://www.timescale.com/blog/pgvector-is-now-as-fast-as-pinecone-at-75-less-cost/

2 years ago

All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24175932/nintendo-switch-console-x-twitter-integration-removed

2 years ago

The Titan Submersible Disaster. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing

https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/

2 years ago

Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers

https://nautil.us/the-boy-who-was-king-of-vanilla-522772/

2 years ago

US proposes banning medical debt from credit reports

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-proposes-banning-medical-debt-credit-reports-vp-harris-says-2024-06-11/

2 years ago

The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html

2 years ago

Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation

https://www.generalcatalyst.com/perspectives/tripling-down-on-mistral-ai

2 years ago

NanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training medium-sized GPTs

https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

2 years ago

Designing a website without 404s

https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-06-10-website-without-404s

2 years ago

DuckDB Isn't Just Fast

https://csvbase.com/blog/6

2 years ago

Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/11/australian-border-force-abf-searching-phones-travellers-data

2 years ago

Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/edward-stone-1936-2024

2 years ago

Blackmagic Cine Immersive Capture for Vision Pro 8160x7200 Resolution per Eye

https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/06/10/blackmagic-ursa-cine-immersive-capture-content-for-apple-vision-pro-with-8160-x-7200-resolution-per-eye/

2 years ago

Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/spotify-droppin-some-fake-beats

2 years ago

Mexico’s anti-avocado militias

https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/11/inside-mexico-anti-avocado-militias

2 years ago

Making iron gall ink from oak galls

https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/iron-gall-ink/

2 years ago

Stoke Space ignites its ambitious main engine

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/stoke-space-ignites-its-ambitious-main-engine-for-the-first-time/

2 years ago

Metaflora

https://flora.metazooa.com

2 years ago

Centuries of Childhood

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/centuries-of-childhood

2 years ago

Why curl closes PRs on GitHub

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11/why-curl-closes-prs-on-github/

2 years ago

The Light Phone III

https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

2 years ago

Canada's extremist attack on free speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/canada-online-harms-act/678605/

2 years ago