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

Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

https://satyrn.app/

2 years ago

YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/youtube-embeds-are-bananas-heavy-and-its-fixable/

2 years ago

A reawakening of systems programming meetups

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-07-07-systems-meetups.html

2 years ago

Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits

https://github.com/event-driven-io/Pongo

2 years ago

Pyxel: A retro game engine for Python

https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

2 years ago

I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2024/07/06/im_funding_ladybird_because_i_cant_fund_firefox/

2 years ago

The internet is already over (2022)

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over

2 years ago

Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services

https://beacondb.net/

2 years ago

Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)

https://sin-ack.github.io/posts/jpg-loader-bork/

2 years ago

Guide to attending a space launch in person

https://countdowntoignition.com/guide-to-attending-launch

2 years ago

Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02678

2 years ago

Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

http://www.righto.com/2024/07/pentium-standard-cells.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Execute JavaScript in a WebAssembly QuickJS sandbox

https://github.com/sebastianwessel/quickjs

2 years ago

TUI for Managing WiFi on Linux

https://github.com/pythops/impala

2 years ago

Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2024/07/01/sometimes-the-old-ways-of-espionage-are-the-best

2 years ago

Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-italian-herbs

2 years ago

ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registry-agreement-termination-2015-10-09-en

2 years ago

Managing Oneself (2005)

https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself

2 years ago

Unit is a general purpose visual programming system

https://unit.software/

2 years ago

Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte

https://www.otherbranch.com/blog/rebooting-something-like-triplebyte

2 years ago

Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop

https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

2 years ago

"Out of Band" network management is not trivial

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OutOfBandManagementNotTrivial

2 years ago

Scientists re-emerge after a year in Mars simulation project

https://www.dw.com/en/scientists-re-emerge-after-a-year-in-mars-simulation-project/a-69585838

2 years ago

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks (1994)

https://theculture.adactio.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made an open source Mailchimp RSS-to-Email alternative

https://github.com/ElliotKillick/rss2newsletter

2 years ago

Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf]

https://community.ams.org/journals/notices/201909/rnoti-p1471.pdf

2 years ago

Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030

https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-peter-thiel-millennials

2 years ago

From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course

https://github.com/geohot/fromthetransistor

2 years ago

VDEv2: Virtual Distributed Ethernet

https://github.com/virtualsquare/vde-2

2 years ago

"AI", students, and epistemic crisis

https://miniver.blogspot.com/2024/07/ai-students-and-epistemic-crisis.html

2 years ago

The Planets Today

https://www.theplanetstoday.com/

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

Show HN: Hi.Events – Open-Source Event Management and Ticketing Platform

https://github.com/HiEventsDev/Hi.Events

2 years ago

Tim Doucette, a blind astronomer who built the Deep Sky Eye Observatory

https://www.amiplus.ca/m/eCGPTwFA/deep-sky-eye?seriesId=Show%2FOur+Community

2 years ago

The complete Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BC)

https://ehammurabi.org/#laws

2 years ago

OpenRailRouting

https://github.com/geofabrik/OpenRailRouting

2 years ago

The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of (2021)

https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-video-game-youve-never-heard/

2 years ago

Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate

https://www.thefp.com/p/constitutional-right-pirate-aj-jacobs

2 years ago

Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/07/04/portugal-backtracks-hostility-digital-nomads-tax-breaks-skilled-foreigners-return/

2 years ago

Synchronization Is Bad for Scale

https://wippler.dev/posts/synchronization-is-bad-for-scale

2 years ago

The Basics of How Engines Work (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqK3dCpwzxE

2 years ago

Wild new Wi-Fi routers turn your home network into a security radar

https://newatlas.com/around-the-home/gamgee-wifi-home-security-system/

2 years ago

Why Use Onion Layering?

https://garrettdbates.com/2024/07/07/why-use-onion-layering.html

2 years ago

Reddit's Robots.txt Changed

https://old.reddit.com/robots.txt

2 years ago

Read Hacker News on Kindle (2022)

https://ktool.io/hacker-news-to-kindle

2 years ago

ChatGPT is better at generating code for problems written before 2021

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10507163

2 years ago

Solving Concurrency Bugs Using Schedules and Imagination

https://ankush.dev/p/tip-concurrency-schedule

2 years ago

International Reply Coupon

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

2 years ago

Death Valley is so hot right now, rescue helicopters can't fly

https://www.12news.com/article/weather/death-valley-130-degrees/75-56c29257-af94-4caa-986f-61e2f4813db2

2 years ago

Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-copper-methane-game-changer-mitigating.html

2 years ago

Where Did RFID Come From? [video]

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

2 years ago

Ask HN: Should I remove work experience from resume?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899662

2 years ago

Judge says FTC lacks authority to issue rule banning noncompete agreements

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/judge-says-ftc-lacks-authority-to-issue-rule-banning-noncompete-agreements/

2 years ago