top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-06-23

I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

https://dropofahat.zone/

7 months ago

1347 upvotes – 440 comments

The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

http://www.righto.com/2024/06/montreal-mifare-ultralight-nfc.html

7 months ago

930 upvotes – 508 comments

Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

7 months ago

608 upvotes – 154 comments

Liquid Layers

https://grantkot.com/ll/

7 months ago

524 upvotes – 53 comments

Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-06-17-ruby-shellscript/

7 months ago

442 upvotes – 353 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

7 months ago

411 upvotes – 165 comments

I've stopped using box plots (2021)

https://nightingaledvs.com/ive-stopped-using-box-plots-should-you/

7 months ago

371 upvotes – 247 comments

LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

https://www.linqpad.net/

7 months ago

308 upvotes – 130 comments

Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0

7 months ago

254 upvotes – 179 comments

Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC

https://quic.video/blog/never-use-datagrams/

7 months ago

224 upvotes – 209 comments

Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv58aPvIonw

7 months ago

223 upvotes – 40 comments

Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data

https://theconversation.com/traffic-engineers-build-roads-that-invite-crashes-because-they-rely-on-outdated-research-and-faulty-data-223710

7 months ago

193 upvotes – 234 comments

B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/06/b-trees-require-fewer-comparisons-than.html

7 months ago

191 upvotes – 74 comments

The economics of the Birkin handbag

https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/hermes-birkin-bag-investment-031c215c

7 months ago

190 upvotes – 352 comments

Remembering the LAN (2020)

https://tailscale.com/blog/remembering-the-lan

7 months ago

180 upvotes – 50 comments

Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)

https://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/offsite_content/Calculator_spelling.txt

7 months ago

174 upvotes – 81 comments

Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06707

7 months ago

172 upvotes – 18 comments

Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off

https://restofworld.org/2024/lab-grown-meat-singapore/

7 months ago

171 upvotes – 154 comments

Of Psion and Symbian

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian

7 months ago

171 upvotes – 60 comments

Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128985/why-not-parse-ls-and-what-to-do-instead

7 months ago

170 upvotes – 205 comments
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