top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-21

Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/07/974534021/remembering-allan-mcdonald-he-refused-to-approve-challenger-launch-exposed-cover

2 years ago

Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/

2 years ago

Ladybird browser spreads its wings

https://lwn.net/Articles/976822/

2 years ago

Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code

https://lemmy.world/post/16763534

2 years ago

Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design

https://blog.jitx.com/jitx-corporate-blog/testing-generative-ai-for-circuit-board-design

2 years ago

Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization

https://steveblank.substack.com/p/why-innovation-heroes-are-a-sign

2 years ago

MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes

https://buaacyw.github.io/mesh-anything/

2 years ago

Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/self-driving-cars-waymo-sf-19523750.php

2 years ago

Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

https://github.com/mayneyao/eidos

2 years ago

Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/06/21/breaking-barcelona-will-remove-all-tourist-apartments-in-2028-in-huge-win-for-anti-tourism-activists/

2 years ago

OpenAI Acquires Rockset

https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-rockset/

2 years ago

Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112653640999819867

2 years ago

The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/

2 years ago

Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955

https://navyhistory.au/aster-shootdown-over-sydney-in-1955/

2 years ago

CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux

https://criu.org/Main_Page

2 years ago

From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/from-infocom-to-80-days-an-oral-history-of-text-games-and-interactive-fiction/

2 years ago

Formal methods: Just good engineering practice?

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/17/formal.html

2 years ago

How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms?

https://zachartrand.github.io/SoME-3-Living/

2 years ago

Test firing of a 3D-printed rocket engine designed through computational model

https://leap71.com/2024/06/18/leap-71-hot-fires-3d-printed-liquid-fuel-rocket-engine-designed-through-noyron-computational-model/

2 years ago

The plan-execute pattern

https://mmapped.blog/posts/29-plan-execute

2 years ago

Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples

https://github.com/nkaz001/hftbacktest/tree/master/rust

2 years ago

How to prolong lithium based batteries

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries

2 years ago

Show HN: Lady Deirdre 2 – Rust Framework for Compilers and LSP Servers

https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/lady-deirdre

2 years ago

How the square root of 2 became a number

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-square-root-of-2-became-a-number-20240621/

2 years ago

TSMC experimenting with rectangular wafers vs. round for more chips per wafer

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-explores-radical-new-chip-packaging-approach-to-feed-AI-boom

2 years ago

Exploring How Cache Memory Works

https://pikuma.com/blog/understanding-computer-cache

2 years ago

Simple ways to find exposed sensitive information

https://www.trickster.dev/post/simple-ways-to-find-exposed-sensitive-information/

2 years ago

A Rant about Front-end Development

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a-rant-about-front-end-development/

2 years ago

Bomb Jack display hardware

https://github.com/martinpiper/BombJack/blob/master/README.md

2 years ago

Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge

https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/twitter-and-the-spread-of-academic

2 years ago

Tesla owners file class-action alleging repair, parts monopoly

https://driving.ca/auto-news/industry/tesla-class-action-lawsuite-parts-repairs-monopoly

2 years ago

What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?

https://motherduck.com/blog/olap-database-in-browser/

2 years ago

Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible

https://biggieblog.com/solving-puzzles-faster-than-humanly-possible/

2 years ago

Bessemer Venture Partners' Anti-Portfolio

https://www.bvp.com/anti-portfolio

2 years ago

Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/apple-won-t-roll-out-ai-tech-in-eu-market-over-regulatory-concerns

2 years ago

SVG: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2021)

https://www.eisfunke.com/posts/2021/svg-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Online OPML editor to manage subscription lists

https://github.com/imdj/opml-editor

2 years ago

Google Search is indexing has halted

https://twitter.com/rustybrick/status/1803925912720642536

2 years ago

Climate Zones

https://pudding.cool/2024/06/climate-zones/

2 years ago

Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age of 105

https://ed.stanford.edu/news/lifelong-learning-stanford-gse-student-collects-her-master-s-degree-after-80-years-education

2 years ago

Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares

https://lichess.org/@/jk_182/blog/using-stockfish-to-identify-ideal-squares/x3U2g3NP

2 years ago

Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history

https://snackstack.net/2024/05/25/uh-oh-a-story-of-spaghettios-and-forgotten-history/

2 years ago

More evidence against the "ecocide" theory of Easter Island

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/we-now-have-even-more-evidence-against-the-ecocide-theory-of-easter-island/

2 years ago

Documentation Driven Development (2022)

https://unicorn-utterances.com/posts/documentation-driven-development

2 years ago

Amazon retaliated after employee walkout over the return-to-office policyholders

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183203/amazon-nlrb-alleged-retaliation-return-to-work

2 years ago

Babylon's Mystery Goddess

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/babylons-mystery-goddess

2 years ago

US Bans Kaspersky Software

https://www.wired.com/story/us-bans-kaspersky-software/

2 years ago

FDA, Industry Actions End Sales of PFAS Used in Food Packaging

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-industry-actions-end-sales-pfas-used-us-food-packaging

2 years ago

NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16

https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system

2 years ago

Advanced text features and PDF

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2024/06/advanced-text-features-and-pdf.html

2 years ago

Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Guide to New Features

https://igorstechnoclub.com/upgrading-to-java-17-a-comprehensive-guide-to-new-features/

2 years ago

Ontario Science Centre to close immediately due to risk of roof collapse

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-science-centre-closing-roof-1.7242810

2 years ago

Hope without optimism – transcription of a talk by Dave Snowden (2022)

https://gist.github.com/owulveryck/4ac8c96c16f5a48de24f8a0e949ad9a5

2 years ago

Daylight Computer tablet review

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1804217931557171612

2 years ago

The Pre-Scheme Restoration project is now underway

https://prescheme.org/posts/announcing-the-pre-scheme-restoration.html

2 years ago

GitHub – Karpathy/LLM101n: LLM101n: Let's Build a Storyteller

https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n

2 years ago

Do not confuse a random variable with its distribution

https://bookdown.org/kevin_davisross/probsim-book/distribution.html

2 years ago

Show HN: A collection of front end Learning Resources

https://github.com/requestly/awesome-frontend-resources

2 years ago

Run the strongest open-source LLM model: Llama3 70B with just a single 4GB GPU

https://ai.gopubby.com/run-the-strongest-open-source-llm-model-llama3-70b-with-just-a-single-4gb-gpu-7e0ea2ad8ba2

2 years ago

Walking to combat back pain

https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/june-2024/walking-away-from-pain-world-first-study-shows-dramatic-improvement-in-lower-back-trouble

2 years ago

Nickel Modules

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2024-06-20-nickel-modules/

2 years ago

Seven Conversation Hacks

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/seven-conversation-hacks/

2 years ago

Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/adult-sites-blocking-more-states-this-summer-to-protest-age-verification-laws/

2 years ago

Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24182970/starlink-mini-usb-power-specs-price

2 years ago

Is Kotlin Multiplatform Replacing Flutter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746826

2 years ago

Reference Counting with Linear Types

https://github.com/alt-romes/reference-counting

2 years ago

500k Books Have Been Deleted from the Internet Archive's Lending Library

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/

2 years ago

Chimpanzees 'self-medicate' with healing plants

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce994dv9q4eo

2 years ago