top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-28

Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-ruling

2 years ago

Software galaxies

https://anvaka.github.io/pm/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818809

2 years ago

The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]

https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-true-story-as-best-i-can-remember

2 years ago

Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common?

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/is-cat-more-common/

2 years ago

A Eulogy for DevOps

https://matduggan.com/a-eulogy-for-devops/

2 years ago

Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler

https://twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/1806361623831171318/photo/1

2 years ago

New ways to catch gravitational waves

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02003-6

2 years ago

Butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic without stopping

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-stunning-butterflies-flew-2600-miles-across-the-atlantic-ocean-without-stopping-180984602/

2 years ago

Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/06/27/eclipse-theia-ide.aspx

2 years ago

Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

https://community.frame.work/t/now-available-in-denmark-finland-and-sweden/53690

2 years ago

That Editor

https://github.com/bisqwit/that_editor

2 years ago

The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing

https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-death-of-nyc-congestion-pricing

2 years ago

Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know

https://nicole.express/2024/phasing-in-and-out-of-existence.html

2 years ago

Klára Dán von Neumann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

2 years ago

Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers

https://lwn.net/Articles/977987/

2 years ago

Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108

2 years ago

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment

https://www.sciencealert.com/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-unexpected-simple-treatment

2 years ago

The Rhisotope Project: Insertion of radioisotopes into live rhinoceros

https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/general-news/2024/2024-06/a-novel-way-to-save-rhinos-.html

2 years ago

Microsoft informs customers that Russian hackers spied on emails

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/microsoft-tells-clients-russian-hackers-viewed-emails-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-06-27/

2 years ago

Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

https://twomillioncheckboxes.com

2 years ago

US Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj774nxrpy7o

2 years ago

Llama-agents: an async-first framework for building production ready agents

https://github.com/run-llama/llama-agents

2 years ago

Understanding React Compiler

https://tonyalicea.dev/blog/understanding-react-compiler/

2 years ago

Everything I Knew About Stretching Was Wrong

https://tylertringas.com/mobility/

2 years ago

Discovered June 16th, large asteroid to pass between Earth and moon on Saturday

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/asteroid-2024mk-1.7247336

2 years ago

Quaternion Differentiation (2012)

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/quaternion-differentiation/

2 years ago

Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference [pdf]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf

2 years ago

Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240619-why-albert-einstein-rejected-black-holes-singularities-illustrated-story

2 years ago

Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters

https://px.neocities.org/life#

2 years ago

James Joyce was a complicated man

https://www.thefitzwilliam.com/p/james-joyce-was-a-complicated-man

2 years ago

Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/surprising-phosphate-finding-in-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample/

2 years ago

Paper Trails

https://aeon.co/essays/how-archives-can-make-or-break-a-philosophers-reputation

2 years ago

The Dream of an Alpine Waterway

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2024/06/the-dream-of-an-alpine-waterway/

2 years ago

What Happened to People Magazine?

https://annehelen.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-people-magazine

2 years ago

Category theory using string diagrams (2014)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7220

2 years ago

Windows: Insecure by Design

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/windows_insecure_by_design/

2 years ago

The History of "The Rule of Thirds"

https://www.neomodern.com/rot

2 years ago

WA man set up fake free WiFi at airports and on flights, police allege

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/28/wa-man-fake-free-wifi-airports-data-theft-ntwnfb

2 years ago

Pompeii fixed potholes with molten iron (2019)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pompeii-fixed-potholes-molten-iron-180972203/

2 years ago

Hack Your Way to Scientific Glory (2016)

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/

2 years ago

Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason

https://huth.me/checkbox-life/

2 years ago

Paramount Wipes South Park, Daily Show Clips, and More from Websites

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/paramount-wipes-south-park-daily-show-clips-and-more-from-websites/1100-6524578/

2 years ago

The Origins of Yiddish (2014)

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/yiddishland

2 years ago

The Dinner Party That Served Up 50k-Year-Old Bison Stew (2018)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska

2 years ago

Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/26/google_begs_court_for_relief/

2 years ago

CPS in Hoot

https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/27/cps-in-hoot

2 years ago

Elixir Anti-Patterns

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/code-anti-patterns.html

2 years ago

Sci-Fi Interfaces

https://scifiinterfaces.com

2 years ago

T-Mobile users enraged as "Un-carrier" breaks promise to never raise prices

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/t-mobile-users-enraged-as-un-carrier-breaks-promise-to-never-raise-prices/

2 years ago

Hardware FPGA DPS-8M Mainframe and FNP Project

https://dps8m.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20240622_FPGA/

2 years ago

Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira

https://lwn.net/Articles/979912/

2 years ago

Microsoft forgot to renew their Office CDN certificate

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1dqf332/microsoft_ssl_cert_expired/

2 years ago

Investigating SSMEC's (State Micro) 486s with the UCA

https://x86.fr/investigating-ssmecs-state-micro-486s-with-the-uca/

2 years ago

Mapping the Red Planet with the Power of Open Science

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mapping-the-red-planet-with-the-power-of-open-science

2 years ago

Canonical's 'distroless' Linux images are a game-changer for enterprises

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonicals-distroless-linux-images-are-a-game-changer-for-enterprises/

2 years ago

I would have shit in that alley, too

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sCWe5RRvSHQMccd2Q/i-would-have-shit-in-that-alley-too

2 years ago

The NSA Wants Carte Blanche for Warrantless Surveillance

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nsa-warrantless-surveillance/

2 years ago

you should probably have a kid

https://benexdict.io/p/you-should-probably-have-a-kid

2 years ago

Serving a billion web requests with boring code

https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/06/Serving_a_billion_web_requests_with_boring_code.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Thermion, an open source 3D rendering toolkit for Flutter and/or Dart

https://thermion.dev

2 years ago

Bébé Bibliophile

https://www.ymeskhout.com/p/bebe-bibliophile

2 years ago

ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners' biggest investigations

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/chatgpt-is-hallucinating-fake-links-to-its-news-partners-biggest-investigations/

2 years ago

Notes on implementing dark mode

https://brandur.org/fragments/dark-mode-notes

2 years ago

Our great database migration

https://shepherdinsurance.com/blog/the-great-database-migration

2 years ago

What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/30261/what-actual-purpose-do-accent-characters-in-iso-8859-1-and-windows-1252-serve

2 years ago

I rebuilt my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I'm filled with regret

https://medium.com/@austin-starks/i-spent-18-months-rebuilding-my-algorithmic-trading-in-rust-im-filled-with-regret-d300dcc147e0

2 years ago

Show HN: Focal, a Pomodoro App

https://aabiji.github.io/focal/

2 years ago

Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

https://adu.autonomy.work/posts/2024_06_28_reform/

2 years ago

Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-stigma-benefits-devastating-poverty-britain.html

2 years ago

Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and the Birth of the Weird (2016)

https://www.vulture.com/2016/10/space-ghost-coast-to-coast-and-the-birth-of-the-weird.html

2 years ago

You Need a Backup Bank

https://lifehacker.com/money/you-should-have-a-backup-bank

2 years ago

El Niño forecasts extended to 18 months with physics-based model

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-el-nio-months-physics-based.html

2 years ago