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/

2 years ago

The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

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

2 years ago

Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

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

2 years ago

Liquid Layers

https://grantkot.com/ll/

2 years ago

Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

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

2 years ago

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

2 years ago

I've stopped using box plots (2021)

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

2 years ago

LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

https://www.linqpad.net/

2 years ago

Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy

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

2 years ago

Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC

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

2 years ago

Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video]

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

2 years ago

Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data

https://theconversation.com/traffic-engineers-build-roads-that-invite-crashes-because-they-rely-on-outdated-research-and-faulty-data-223710

2 years ago

B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees

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

2 years ago

The economics of the Birkin handbag

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

2 years ago

Remembering the LAN (2020)

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

2 years ago

Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)

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

2 years ago

Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06707

2 years ago

Of Psion and Symbian

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

2 years ago

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

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

2 years ago

Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead

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

2 years ago