top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-06-27

Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-wireless-hero-was-a-persistent-patient-coder-and-mentor/

2 years ago

Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC

https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc

2 years ago

25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

https://latenighter.com/news/paramount-axes-comedy-central-website-show-clips-library/

2 years ago

ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses

https://www.404media.co/id-verification-service-for-tiktok-uber-x-exposed-driver-licenses-au10tix/

2 years ago

200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown

https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-health-care-fraud-garland-24948b951896d0f265c29ba3fcacf858

2 years ago

A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves

https://www.valve.computer/

2 years ago

Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/27/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-bankruptcy/

2 years ago

The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/27/the-loneliness-of-the-low-ranking-tennis-player

2 years ago

Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf

2 years ago

Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/gemma-2-report.pdf

2 years ago

Infrastructure setup and open-source scripts to train 70B model from bare metal

https://imbue.com/research/70b-infrastructure/

2 years ago

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-claude-35-sonnet

2 years ago

Entrust Certificate Distrust

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/06/sustaining-digital-certificate-security.html

2 years ago

CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4

https://openai.com/index/finding-gpt4s-mistakes-with-gpt-4/

2 years ago

Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/979671/4fb7c1827536d1ae/

2 years ago

Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024/06/26/a-new-package-for-making-charts-in-emacs-eplot/

2 years ago

A buried ancient Egyptian port reveals connections between distant civilizations

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810986

2 years ago

6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/6-months-ago,-i-left-the-bullshit-industrial-complex

2 years ago

Making the Kinopio source code public

https://pketh.org/open-sourcing-kinopio.html

2 years ago