top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-06

How to think in writing

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/writing-to-think

2 years ago

First anode-free sodium solid-state battery

https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/uchicago-prof-shirley-mengs-laboratory-energy-storage-and-conversion-creates-worlds-first

2 years ago

Radio Garden

https://radio.garden/

2 years ago

Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)

https://www.ams.org/notices/201010/rtx101001303p.pdf

2 years ago

Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

https://kivy.org

2 years ago

Properly testing concurrent data structures

https://matklad.github.io/2024/07/05/properly-testing-concurrent-data-structures.html

2 years ago

Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)

https://robindoherty.com/2016/01/06/nothing-to-hide.html

2 years ago

Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/amazon-is-bricking-2350-astro-robots-10-months-after-release/

2 years ago

How to implement a hash table in C (2021)

https://benhoyt.com/writings/hash-table-in-c/

2 years ago

Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe

https://www.reuters.com/technology/epic-games-says-apple-stalling-launch-its-game-store-europe-2024-07-05/

2 years ago

Show HN: Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell

https://github.com/wolandark/bash-dungeon

2 years ago

Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892812

2 years ago

Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker

https://rdht.vercel.app/

2 years ago

The Invention of Zero

https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/02/zero-robert-kaplan/

2 years ago

Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads

https://www.pcmag.com/news/hands-on-apple-final-cut-camera-final-cut-pro-2-multicam

2 years ago

Build and train GPT-2 from scratch using PyTorch

https://differ.blog/p/here-s-how-you-can-build-and-train-gpt-2-from-scratch-using-pytorch-ace4ba

2 years ago

Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI

https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric

2 years ago

Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq

https://github.com/wader/jqjq

2 years ago

Inline previous result in Emacs Lisp

https://xenodium.com/inline-previous-result-and-why-you-should-edebug/

2 years ago

Crystal Fragment Turns Everything You See into 8-Bit Pixel Art

https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/07/04/this-crystal-fragment-turns-everything-you-see-into-8-bit-pixel-art-and-its-fascinating/

2 years ago

Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids

https://matija.eu/posts/anxious-generation-safetyism-social-media/

2 years ago

Against the burden of knowledge

https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/against-the-burden-of-knowledge

2 years ago

Using the 5S Principle in Coding

https://santhoshsundar.medium.com/using-the-5s-principle-in-coding-6237a1614a02

2 years ago

Compile-time JSON deserialization in C++

https://medium.com/@abdulgh/compile-time-json-deserialization-in-c-1e3d41a73628

2 years ago

Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable

https://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/preserving-a-floppy-disk-with-a-logic-analyzer/

2 years ago

RadioSide turns your spare device into a radio

https://radioside.com

2 years ago

Extraverted People Talk More Abstractly, Introverts Are More Concrete (2012)

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/introverts-use-more-concrete-language-extraverts

2 years ago

What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02222-x

2 years ago

Replicating D3 Charts with Swift Charts

https://github.com/raheelahmad/Swift-D3-Charts

2 years ago

Ford Dabney might have been the first jazz star

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/he-might-have-been-the-first-jazz

2 years ago

OpenAI was hacked year-old breach wasn't reported to the public

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-was-hacked-revealing-internal-secrets-and-raising-national-security-concerns-year-old-breach-wasnt-reported-to-the-public

2 years ago

When the CIA turned writers into operatives

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/when-the-cia-turned-writers-into-operatives

2 years ago

London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-02/london-paris-seoul-show-commuting-power-of-fast-regional-rail

2 years ago

Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions

https://www.nicholashairs.com/posts/major-changes-between-python-versions/

2 years ago

New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google

https://decrypt.co/238730/new-ai-training-technique-is-drastically-faster-says-google

2 years ago

Why haven't biologists cured cancer?

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/why-havent-biologists-cured-cancer

2 years ago

The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/06/mercy-anita-african-workers-ai-artificial-intelligence-exploitation-feeding-machine

2 years ago

Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

https://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

2 years ago

Constantine: modular, high-performance, zero-dependency cryptography stack

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/11935

2 years ago

Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/28/cold-shipping-might-be-the-next-industry-that-batteries-disrupt/

2 years ago

Leonard Rome's lab discovered an odd component of cells in the 1980s: Vaults

https://www.science.org/content/article/biologist-aims-solve-cell-s-biggest-mystery-could-it-help-cancer-patients-too

2 years ago

DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either

https://thenewstack.io/devops-isnt-dead-but-its-not-in-great-health-either/

2 years ago

RISC-V Emulator for Sophgo SG2000 SoC (Pine64 Oz64 / Milk-V Duo S)

https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/sg2000b.html

2 years ago

A Dramatic Reading: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

https://mccue.dev/pages/7-5-24-a-reading-i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again

2 years ago

Numeronymize

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/07/numeronymize/

2 years ago

1Password and 2FA: Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? (2023)

https://blog.1password.com/1password-2fa-passwords-codes-together/

2 years ago

Modifying the OG Xbox to have 256M of RAM [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1idSEhUT4PM

2 years ago

Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures

https://cacm.acm.org/practice/free-and-open-source-software-and-other-market-failures/

2 years ago

Show HN: YTHunt, App for recommending/discovering interesting videos

https://www.ythunt.com/

2 years ago

Police raids found Dior was using exploitative suppliers to produce luxury bags

https://www.businessinsider.com/dior-italy-labor-investigation-contractors-lvmh-armani-luxury-bags-2024-7

2 years ago

How I've Learned to Live with a Nonexistent Working Memory

https://medium.com/the-ascent/how-ive-learned-to-live-with-a-nonexistent-working-memory-5db259e7d390

2 years ago

Emergency rooms are not okay

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/emergency-rooms-are-not-okay

2 years ago

HTML5 Differences from HTML4 (2014)

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/

2 years ago

Ointment containing DNA molecules can combat allergic contact dermatitis

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-ointment-dna-molecules-combat-allergic.html

2 years ago

Unverified NPM Account Takeover Vulnerability for Sale on Dark Web Forum

https://socket.dev/blog/unverified-npm-account-takeover-vulnerability-for-sale-on-dark-web-forum

2 years ago

U.S. SEC Wins 'Shadow Insider Trading' Trial

https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/the-sec-wins-shadow-insider-trading-trial

2 years ago

The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ByoAt5gCA

2 years ago

Google is (not) bringing Fuchsia OS to Android devices

https://www.androidauthority.com/microfuchsia-on-android-3457788/

2 years ago

(Modal)

https://wryl.tech/projects/modal.html

2 years ago

Do not factory reset your Pixel until at least 15 minutes after a system update

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/283220215/issues-after-factory-resetting-pixel-6-devices?hl=en

2 years ago

With Nothing to Do

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/with-nothing-to-do

2 years ago

California to make financial literacy classes requirement graduate high school

https://abc7news.com/post/california-makes-financial-literacy-classes-graduation-requirement/15006074/

2 years ago

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-10/

2 years ago

Mineral winds down: 'We will no longer be an Alphabet company'

https://agfundernews.com/mineral-winds-down-we-will-no-longer-be-an-alphabet-company-but-our-technology-will-live-on

2 years ago

Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef from Brazil?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/montana-meat-old-salt-co-op.html

2 years ago

'Money always wins': Inside Sydney's underground tree-killing industry

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-06/trees-killed-vandalism-crime-sydney-castle-cove-council/104041534

2 years ago

The Steel Man Technique: How to Argue Better and Be More Persuasive

https://constantrenewal.com/steel-man

2 years ago

Show HN: A JavaScript UI library for imperative JSX

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@matry/dom

2 years ago

An analysis of module names inside top PyPI packages

https://joshcannon.me/2024/07/05/package-names.html

2 years ago

I've eaten a meal replacement shake twice a day for two years (2019)

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/11/11/20953750/soylent-huel-sustainable-meal-replacement-tried

2 years ago