top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-19

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

https://ssi.inc

2 years ago

Please don't mention AI again

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

2 years ago

Fast Crimes at Lambda School

https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/

2 years ago

Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"

https://github.com/dylanaraps

2 years ago

1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch

http://www.chrisfenton.com/1-25-scale-cray-c90-wristwatch/

2 years ago

X debut 40 years ago (1984)

https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

2 years ago

EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

2 years ago

NASA releases Hubble image taken in new pointing mode

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-releases-hubble-image-taken-in-new-pointing-mode/

2 years ago

EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution

https://easyos.org/

2 years ago

Arvind has died

https://news.mit.edu/2024/computer-science-professor-arvind-dies-0618

2 years ago

The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)

https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic

2 years ago

Hypermedia Systems

https://hypermedia.systems/

2 years ago

Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed

https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/6/18/this-bridge-should-have-been-closed-years-before-it-collapsed

2 years ago

ExectOS – brand new operating system which derives from NT architecture

https://exectos.eu.org/

2 years ago

Open Source Python ETL

https://amphi.ai/

2 years ago

Astronomers see a black hole awaken in real time

https://www.eso.org/public/germany/news/eso2409/

2 years ago

Software design gets worse before it gets better

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-trough-of-despair

2 years ago

Monitoring marine litter from space

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Monitoring_marine_litter_from_space_is_now_a_reality

2 years ago

Google Gemini tried to kill me

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1diljf2/google_gemini_tried_to_kill_me/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726735

2 years ago

There's more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/

2 years ago

Agilent 2000a / 3000a Oscilloscope NAND Recovery

https://salvagedcircuitry.com/2000a-nand-recovery.html

2 years ago

Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/37/6/065008

2 years ago

U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-senate-passes-bill-support-advanced-nuclear-energy-deployment-2024-06-19/

2 years ago

AI-powered conversion from Enzyme to React Testing Library

https://slack.engineering/balancing-old-tricks-with-new-feats-ai-powered-conversion-from-enzyme-to-react-testing-library-at-slack/

2 years ago

I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1divlp3/im_the_hacker_that_brought_down_north_koreas/

2 years ago

The hacking of culture and the creation of socio-technical debt

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/the-hacking-of-culture-and-the-creation-of-socio-technical-debt.html

2 years ago

F (2006)

http://www.nsl.com/k/f/f.htm

2 years ago

The return of pneumatic tubes

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/19/1093446/pneumatic-tubes-hospitals/

2 years ago

Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/06/two-ways-to-use-led-as-light-sensor.html

2 years ago

Unique3D: Image-to-3D Generation from a Single Image

https://github.com/AiuniAI/Unique3D

2 years ago

Willie Mays, SF Giants baseball player, has died

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/willie-mays-dead-obituary-17815215.php

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724774

2 years ago

Boeing CEO admits company has retaliated against whistleblowers

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boeing-ceo-senate-testimony-whistleblower-news-b2564778.html

2 years ago

Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/algorithmic-fitting-of-japanese-candy

2 years ago

Ask HN: What does RISC-V custom chips for under $100K mean?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726555

2 years ago

Ask HN: Create audio software akin to physics engines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725949

2 years ago

NodeSwift: Bridge Node.js and Swift

https://github.com/kabiroberai/node-swift

2 years ago

Can men live without war? (1956)

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/56feb/5602bush.htm

2 years ago

One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_107_nlnext/

2 years ago

The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2020.1727519

2 years ago

2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties

https://torrentfreak.com/2-6m-piracy-reports-against-french-users-resulted-in-234-financial-penalties-2240618/

2 years ago

Rethinking Open Source Generative AI: Open-Washing and the EU AI Act

https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io/

2 years ago

Chasing a Bug in a SAT Solver

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/chasing-a-bug-in-a-sat-solver/

2 years ago

Linux China, which supported the Chinese open source community, has ended

https://linux.cn/article-16602-1.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Modular Pi Cam

https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/modular-pi-cam/tree/master/cameras/pi-zero/large-display

2 years ago

Perplexity is a bullshit machine

https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/

2 years ago

Boeing sent two astronauts into space, now it needs to get them home

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/boeing-sent-two-astronauts-into-space-now-it-needs-to-get-them-home-99d96633

2 years ago

Show HN: Pomoglorbo, a TUI Pomodoro timer for your terminal

https://codeberg.org/justusw/Pomoglorbo

2 years ago

Why Dolphin Isn't Coming to the App Store

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/18/dolphin-jit-apple

2 years ago

Even Apple cannot explain why we need AI in our lives

https://www.ft.com/content/1355ccd9-4a2d-49d2-9e42-250aab0c38aa

2 years ago

SUSE Offers Lifeline to Stranded CentOS Users with Liberty Linux Lite

https://techstrongitsm.com/itsm-news/suse-offers-lifeline-to-stranded-centos-users-with-liberty-linux-lite/

2 years ago

Running "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" will delete /home in systemd 256

https://mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/112615591101488528

2 years ago