top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-14

Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics

https://github.com/NVIDIA/warp

2 years ago

Start presentations on the second slide

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/start-presentations-on-the-second

2 years ago

I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game

https://martincmartin.com/2024/06/14/how-i-found-a-55-year-old-bug-in-the-first-lunar-lander-game/

2 years ago

Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/06/07/update-on-the-recall-preview-feature-for-copilot-pcs/

2 years ago

The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

https://www.space.com/sun-magnetic-field-flip-solar-maximum-2024

2 years ago

Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/land-value-tax-in-online-games-and

2 years ago

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

2 years ago

AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson

https://yellow-apartment-148.notion.site/AI-Search-The-Bitter-er-Lesson-44c11acd27294f4495c3de778cd09c8d

2 years ago

Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-delay-release-recall-ai-feature-security-concerns-2024-06-14/

2 years ago

Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)

http://thenumb.at/Exponential-Rotations/

2 years ago

Snowden: "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products"

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1801610725229498403

2 years ago

Fungus breaks down ocean plastic

https://www.nioz.nl/en/news/fungus-breaks-down-ocean-plastic

2 years ago

Sleep deprivation disrupts memory

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01732-y

2 years ago

Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct

https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3

2 years ago

FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/boeing-airbus-titanium-faa.html

2 years ago

Map of forest sounds from around the world

https://timberfestival.org.uk/soundsoftheforest-soundmap/

2 years ago

A look at Apple's technical approach to AI including core model performance etc.

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/apple-intelligence

2 years ago

Leveraging Zig's Allocators

https://www.openmymind.net/Leveraging-Zigs-Allocators/

2 years ago

How to design and manufacture your own chip [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caXwuuXSB-A

2 years ago

Posix.1-2024 is published

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555529

2 years ago

The problem with OpenTelemetry

https://cra.mr/the-problem-with-otel/

2 years ago

40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent

https://www.fr.de/politik/warnungen-milliarden-an-konzerne-gezahlt-betrugsverdacht-beim-klimaschutz-trotz-zr-93122965.html

2 years ago

Nemotron-4-340B

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-4-synthetic-data-generation-llm-training/

2 years ago

Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/14/japan-passes-law-to-allow-third-party-app-stores/

2 years ago

Serialization for C# Games

https://chickensoft.games/blog/serialization-for-csharp-games/

2 years ago

Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read

https://chrislakin.blog/p/spaced-repetition-for-teaching-two

2 years ago

Effect – Build robust apps in TypeScript

https://effect.website/

2 years ago

Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash

https://shallenge.quirino.net/

2 years ago

Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law

https://www.ft.com/content/31a996d5-b472-4357-953e-ace078494604

2 years ago

Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice

https://vercel.com/guides/can-vercel-sponsor-my-open-source-project

2 years ago

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

2 years ago

Erica Synths DIY Prototyping Breadboard

https://cdm.link/2024/06/labor-diy/

2 years ago

Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers (2009)

https://sive.rs/jadr

2 years ago

In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)

https://commonedge.org/in-praise-of-5-over-1-buildings/

2 years ago

Turning the Tables on AI

https://ia.net/topics/turning-the-tables-on-ai

2 years ago

Show HN: ESP32S3 ZXSpectrum

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40679184

2 years ago

Freenet 2024 – a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web [video]

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

2 years ago

Brain-Health Benefits of Weightlifting

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-brain/202402/the-surprising-benefits-of-weightlifting-for-brain-health

2 years ago

ASML Aims for Hyper-NA EUV, Shrinking Chip Limits

https://www.eetimes.com/asml-aims-for-hyper-na-euv-shrinking-chip-limits/

2 years ago

Driving forward in Android drivers

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/06/driving-forward-in-android-drivers.html

2 years ago

Does anybody know this fractal? (2012)

https://www.gibney.org/does_anybody_know_this_fractal

2 years ago

Is This the First Nintendo Commercial?

https://gamehistory.org/mego-time-out-commercial/

2 years ago

Boeing and Airbus may have used 'counterfeit' titanium in planes, FAA says

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/boeing-airbus-may-used-counterfeit-titanium-planes-faa-investigating-rcna157160

2 years ago

Oracle is shutting down its ad business

https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/oracle-is-shutting-down-its-ad-business/

2 years ago

Voyager 1 Returning Science Data from All Four Instruments

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/06/13/voyager-1-returning-science-data-from-all-four-instruments/

2 years ago

Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/mozilla_firefox_russia/

2 years ago

A common misunderstanding about wave-particle duality

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/a-common-misunderstanding-about-wave-particle-duality/4019585.article

2 years ago

Brew-Nix: a flake automatically packaging all homebrew casks

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/brew-nix-a-flake-automatically-packaging-all-homebrew-casks/44880

2 years ago

Using a 1965 Dutch rotary phone via VoIP

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Using_a_1965_Dutch_Rotaty_Phone_T65_via_VoIP_in_2024.html

2 years ago

Inkdown is an open source Markdown reading, editing, and sharing tool

https://github.com/1943time/bluestone

2 years ago

Unraveling the physics of knitting

https://research.gatech.edu/unraveling-physics-knitting

2 years ago

Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/technology/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-settlement.html

2 years ago

Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git (2023)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863519

2 years ago

Germany sees company bankruptcies soar

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-company-bankruptcies-soar/a-69358663

2 years ago

SoftBank's new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15300914

2 years ago

I am not yet ready to switch to Zig from Rust

https://medium.com/@penberg/why-i-am-not-yet-ready-to-switch-to-zig-from-rust-3660e02f0060

2 years ago

Orange FM Prototype – Analogue Pocket Demo

https://orangegb.com/orangefm/

2 years ago

The Costco of Housing is Costco? The retailer's plan to use CA housing laws

https://www.urbanproxima.com/p/the-costco-of-housing-iscostco

2 years ago

Ask HN: What skillsets/stacks will keep me employable over the next 5-10 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682173

2 years ago

Why are so many books listed as "Borrow Unavailable" at the Internet Archive?

https://help.archive.org/help/why-are-so-many-books-listed-as-borrow-unavailable-at-the-internet-archive/

2 years ago

Sustain Open Source, sustain the planet: A new conversation

https://opensource.net/oss-for-climate-podcast/

2 years ago

Turning away from smartphones: 'We need to go places and touch things'

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/12/young-people-turning-away-from-phones-social-media-addiction

2 years ago

OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/openai-adds-former-nsa-chief-to-its-board-paul-nakasone-sam-altman.html

2 years ago

The first 'major lunar standstill' in more than 18 years is about to occur

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/the-1st-major-lunar-standstill-in-more-than-18-years-is-about-to-occur-heres-how-to-see-it

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you find developers for open source bug bounties?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682632

2 years ago

TempleOS Reverse Engineering

https://starkeblog.com/bootsector/templeos/2024/06/13/templeos-reverse-engineering-part-i.html

2 years ago

Effect of passenger position on crash injury risk in aircraft (2015) [pdf]

https://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/techrpt/am15-17.pdf

2 years ago

Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles

https://github.com/bachmitre/hacker-news-highlighter

2 years ago

Tesla Releases Results of 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-releases-results-2024-annual-meeting-stockholders

2 years ago

Rare twin elephants born in Thailand

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8445lyjndvo

2 years ago

The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987

2 years ago

True Defamation [pdf]

https://www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/helmreich.pdf

2 years ago

YouTube embeds ads into videos to beat ad blockers

https://searchengineland.com/youtube-embeds-ads-videos-ad-blockers-443187

2 years ago