top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-22

After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)

https://anandsanwal.me/2018/06/19/dad-company-sale/

2 years ago

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

https://www.howtogeek.com/my-windows-computer-just-doesnt-feel-like-mine-anymore/

2 years ago

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/linguistics/2024-fedorenko.pdf

2 years ago

Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website

https://v1.web-check.xyz/

2 years ago

Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award

https://vu.nl/en/news/2024/andrew-s-tanenbaum-receives-acm-software-system-award

2 years ago

Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust

https://www.farmfe.org/

2 years ago

HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma

https://www.energysingularity.cn/en/hh70-the-worlds-first-high-temperature-superconducting-tokamak-achieves-first-plasma/

2 years ago

SSH as a Sudo Replacement

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/06/13/ssh-as-a-sudo-replacement/

2 years ago

Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/feb/26/what-is-aphantasia-like

2 years ago

Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook

https://gist.github.com/HyperCrowd/edc9b461ec23cf2454ea4d1e910fd1c6

2 years ago

Arm64EC – Build and port apps for native performance on Arm

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/arm64ec

2 years ago

Own Constant Folder in C/C++

https://www.neilhenning.dev/posts/yourownconstantfolder/

2 years ago

HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering

https://haithemturki.com/hybrid-nerf/

2 years ago

Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016

2 years ago

Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/06/22/testing-amds-bergamo-zen-4c-spam/

2 years ago

Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer solstice midday peak

https://ember-climate.org/insights/in-brief/the-global-solar-revolution/

2 years ago

Tachyonfx: A library for creating shader-like effects in terminal UIs

https://github.com/junkdog/tachyonfx

2 years ago

AWS Lambda Web Adapter

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-web-adapter

2 years ago

Benjamin Thorpe translated almost all Old English texts (2016)

https://thijsporck.com/2016/04/08/benjamin-thorpe-the-man-who-translated-almost-all-old-english-texts/

2 years ago

Shape Rotation 101: An Intro to Einsum and Jax Transformers

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/einsum-new/

2 years ago

Hacking eInk Price Tags (2021)

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=29.%20eInk%20Price%20Tags

2 years ago

Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi

https://pigazing.dcford.org.uk/

2 years ago

Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/

2 years ago

Show HN: Envelope – A modern environment variable cli tool

https://github.com/mattrighetti/envelope

2 years ago

OWASP Juice Shop: Hacking a Modern Web Application

https://blog.javascripttoday.com/blog/hacking-a-web-application/

2 years ago

A Forth Story (1995)

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/ThWiGXwKqv4

2 years ago

ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968) [pdf]

https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-17_1st_edition_november_1968.pdf

2 years ago

Google is force canceling gsuite because I used unlimited storage as unlimited

https://twitter.com/warnvod/status/1804429256744706202

2 years ago

CHART: The Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope

https://astrochart.github.io/main_page

2 years ago

Greece introduces the six day work week

https://www.dw.com/en/greece-introduces-the-six-day-work-week/a-69439050

2 years ago

Ask HN: Advice for leading a software migration?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757486

2 years ago

Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees

https://www.fastcompany.com/91142992/this-impossibly-thin-fabric-could-cool-you-down-by-16-degrees

2 years ago

Waymo the Leapfrog

https://loeber.substack.com/p/20-waymo-the-leapfrog

2 years ago

Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-insiders-worry-company-has-become-just-it-for-openai-2024-3

2 years ago

Bedroom light at night increases inflammation and disrupts circadian rhythm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651324006663

2 years ago

NASA indefinitely delays return of Starliner to review propulsion data

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/nasa-indefinitely-delays-return-of-starliner-to-review-propulsion-data/

2 years ago

Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy

https://b.tuxes.uk/avoiding-emacs-bankruptcy.html

2 years ago

Why Swift's type checker is so slow

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/why-swift-is-slow/?continueFlag=7ec373c00bdf01cb02736c00eeaadcc8

2 years ago

Bringing Roman Light to Life

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731029

2 years ago

The First Spatial Computing Hack

https://www.ryanpickren.com/vision-pro-hack

2 years ago

Honoring the Legacy of Chip Design Innovator Lynn Conway

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-design-innovator-lynn-conway

2 years ago

DOS game "F15 SE II" reversing: more stories and now on GitHub

https://github.com/neuviemeporte/f15se2-re

2 years ago

Polytype: A Rosetta Stone for typesetting engines

https://polytype.dev/

2 years ago

Costco Broke into a Surprising New Market: Modular Housing

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/6/21/how-costco-broke-into-a-surprising-new-market-modular-housing

2 years ago

Colorado law bans PFAS in consumer goods

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/new-colorado-law-ban-sales-dental-floss-clothes-household-products-containing-toxic-forever-chemicals/

2 years ago

Virtually Hawaii

http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/

2 years ago

AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-replace-freelance-jobs-51807bc7

2 years ago

Feral pigeons and the London Pigeon String Foot and Rescue group

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240620-why-do-people-persecute-city-pigeons

2 years ago

Composite modding another Atari, because colors are hard

https://nicole.express/2024/have-you-hacked-atari-today.html

2 years ago

Dr. Vivek Murthy: Social media is a key driver of our youth mental health crisis

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/20/dr-vivek-murthy-social-media-is-one-of-the-key-drivers-of-our-youth-mental-health-crisis-today.html

2 years ago

Researchers describe how to tell if ChatGPT is confabulating

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/researchers-describe-how-to-tell-if-chatgpt-is-confabulating/

2 years ago

CSS Tip: An em isn't an "m", but an ex is an "x" (2012)

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2012/01/25/css-font-size-an-em-isnt-an-m-but-an-ex-is-an-x/

2 years ago

Supreme Court:U.S. Citizens Don't Have Right to Bring Noncitizen Spouses to U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-says-u-s-citizens-dont-have-right-to-bring-noncitizen-spouses-to-u-s-9ae54537

2 years ago

US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-air-conditioning-paris-0f753df91956f3fe61ad4febaff0ebb9

2 years ago

Training AI

https://lmnt.me/blog/training-ai.html

2 years ago