top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-06-30

Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/navy-seals-brain-damage-suicide.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite

https://github.com/poundifdef/SmoothMQ

2 years ago

Inside a $1 radar motion sensor

https://10maurycy10.github.io/projects/motion_sensor_hacking/

2 years ago

Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

https://tulach.cc/writing-gui-apps-for-windows-is-painful/

2 years ago

How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed

https://dillan.org/articles/how-to-get-root-access-to-your-sleep-number-bed

2 years ago

Postzegelcode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postzegelcode

2 years ago

Weekend projects: getting silly with C

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/weekend-projects-getting-silly-with

2 years ago

Convolutions, Fast Fourier Transform and polynomials (2022)

https://www.alvarorevuelta.com/posts/fft-polynomials

2 years ago

Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1806385778064564622

2 years ago

Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/29/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai/

2 years ago

Reflection for C++26

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2996R4.html

2 years ago

Unification in Elixir

https://www.ericpfahl.com/from-pattern-matching-to-unification/

2 years ago

Coffee helped the Union in the Civil War

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-coffee-helped-the-union-caffeinate-their-way-victory-civil-war-180984502/

2 years ago

An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender's signature World

https://retooling.io/blog/an-unexpected-journey-into-microsoft-defenders-signature-world

2 years ago

The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)

https://mental-reverb.com/blog.php?id=29

2 years ago

The physics of airplane flight

https://10maurycy10.github.io/misc/the_physics_of_flight/

2 years ago

Newswire: A large-scale structured database of a century of historical news

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490

2 years ago

Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed

https://artsandculture.google.com/

2 years ago

Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-sleepwalking-into-cashless-society-consumer-advocates-warn-1.7248846

2 years ago

Goodwatch – A Ham Radio Wristwatch (2020)

https://kk4vcz.com/goodwatch/

2 years ago

A simplified Python simulation of diffusion

https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/python-diffusion-simulation-demo-turtle

2 years ago

OpenDNS Suspends Service in France Due to Canal+ Piracy Blocking Order

https://torrentfreak.com/opendns-suspends-service-in-france-due-to-canal-piracy-blocking-order-240629/

2 years ago

The cutest monopoly: Koala Kare

https://thehustle.co/originals/the-worlds-cutest-monopoly

2 years ago

Weavers and Concluders: Two communication styles (2021)

https://neuroclastic.com/weavers-and-concluders-two-communication-styles-no-one-knows-exist/

2 years ago

Show HN: ViperIDE – MicroPython IDE for web and mobile

https://github.com/vshymanskyy/ViperIDE

2 years ago

Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-rejects-cve-severity-makes-his-github-repo-read-only/

2 years ago

A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing

https://luggagelosers.com/

2 years ago

The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries

https://twitter.com/mingchikuo/status/1807432542934732953

2 years ago

Figma defaults to train AI models on personal data

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/17725942479127-Control-AI-features-and-content-training-settings

2 years ago

Advice to Young Mathematicians [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8RkQq-1_ZU

2 years ago

The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

https://www.twz.com/news-features/the-story-of-the-monster-mi-6-helicopter-airliner

2 years ago

Python programming for Nintendo 8 bits (2018)

https://github.com/gutomaia/pyNES

2 years ago

An Analog Network of Resistors Promises Machine Learning Without a Processor

https://www.hackster.io/news/an-analog-network-of-resistors-promises-machine-learning-without-a-processor-researchers-say-d9cb0655b7a0

2 years ago

Below MI – IBM i for hackers

https://silentsignal.github.io/BelowMI/

2 years ago

Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-return-investment-disappointing-goldman-sachs-report-2024-6

2 years ago

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

2 years ago

The Byte Order Fiasco (2021)

https://justine.lol/endian.html

2 years ago

California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/california-high-speed-rail-19542125.php

2 years ago

Patagonia gave its staff 3 days to decide to relocate or quit

https://www.businessinsider.com/patagonia-cx-staff-told-to-relocate-or-leave-california-2024-6

2 years ago

The depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer in Western Kansas

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/06/30/hoping-for-a-miracle-to-save-the-ogallala-aquifer-prepare-for-the-new-dust-bowl/

2 years ago

Nyquest NY8A051H – 1.5 cent microcontroller: weekend die-shot

https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Nyquest-Technology-NY8A051H-8051-smallest-microcontroller

2 years ago

Automating my gate door via a smart relay

https://arslan.io/2024/06/30/automating-my-gate-door-with-zigbee-relay/

2 years ago

Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/appeals-court-seems-lost-on-how-internet-archive-harms-publishers/

2 years ago

Microsoft 1998 = Apple 2024

https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/06/27/microsoft-1998-apple-2024/

2 years ago

The 1904 Olympic Marathon (2012)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-1904-marathon-became-one-of-the-weirdest-olympic-events-of-all-time-14910747/

2 years ago

Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/06/17/this-well-known-paradox-of-r-squared-is-still-buggin-me-can-you-help-me-out/

2 years ago

HB100 Doppler Radar Module Teardown

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/teardown-tuesday-hb100-doppler-radar-module/

2 years ago

What's in my location history?

https://zdimension.fr/whats-in-my-location-history/

2 years ago

The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/magazine/earth-geomicrobiology-microbes.html

2 years ago

Combine multiple RSS feeds into a single feed, as a service

https://github.com/chase-seibert/rsscombine

2 years ago

US to Criminally Charge Boeing, Seek Guilty Plea, Sources Say

https://www.reuters.com./legal/us-pushes-boeing-plead-guilty-connection-with-fatal-crashes-sources-say-2024-06-30/

2 years ago

Will sending `kill -11` to Java process raises a NullPointerException?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77485058/will-sending-kill-11-to-java-process-raises-a-nullpointerexception

2 years ago