top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-13

Use a work journal

https://fev.al/posts/work-journal/

2 years ago

1083 upvotes – 293 comments

Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game

https://wheybags.com/blog/emperor.html

2 years ago

485 upvotes – 100 comments

Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-does-nevadas-35-billion-fund-manager-do-all-day-nothing-1476887420

2 years ago

348 upvotes – 464 comments

Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data

https://hackread.com/disneys-internal-slack-breached-nullbulge-leak-data/

2 years ago

331 upvotes – 232 comments

Give people something to link to

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/13/give-people-something-to-link-to/

2 years ago

326 upvotes – 72 comments

Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

https://www.unihertz.com/en-de/products/jelly-star

2 years ago

315 upvotes – 268 comments

The Illustrated AlphaFold

https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2024/the-illustrated-alphafold/

2 years ago

308 upvotes – 10 comments

Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/weather/beryl-houston-texas-power-outages-heat-saturday/index.html

2 years ago

300 upvotes – 444 comments

Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)

http://timhulsizer.com/cwords/cintro.html

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 127 comments

Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally

https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5

2 years ago

268 upvotes – 492 comments

Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator

https://cssgridgenerator.io/

2 years ago

262 upvotes – 44 comments

"Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112775362045378963

2 years ago

259 upvotes – 171 comments

Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-07-11--gpu-cpp.html

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 52 comments

Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

https://gladtech.social/@cuchaz/112775302929069283

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 197 comments

Disruptor-rs: better latency and throughput than crossbeam

https://github.com/nicholassm/disruptor-rs

2 years ago

204 upvotes – 35 comments

Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again

https://lucvandonkersgoed.com/2024/07/13/dear-aws-please-let-me-be-a-cloud-engineer-again/

2 years ago

197 upvotes – 136 comments

Talos: Secure, immutable, and minimal Linux OS for running Kubernetes

https://www.talos.dev

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 75 comments

Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures

https://www.justinmath.com/individualized-spaced-repetition-in-hierarchical-knowledge-structures/

2 years ago

178 upvotes – 81 comments

For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

https://kottke.org/16/08/for-the-colonel-it-was-fingerlickin-bad

2 years ago

161 upvotes – 168 comments

STEMFIE, a 3D-printable construction set toy

https://www.stemfie.org/

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 31 comments

The Birth of Standard Error (2013)

https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20131211/index.html

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 49 comments

Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally; walked off-stage

https://news.sky.com/story/shots-fired-at-donald-trump-rally-as-former-president-rushed-off-stage-13177651

2 years ago

156 upvotes – 104 comments

Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers

https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/modular-synthesizer-notation

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 69 comments

WebContainers: Dev environments. In your web app

https://webcontainers.io/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 63 comments

Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951324

2 years ago

130 upvotes – 137 comments

A Philosophy Professor's Final Class (2023)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/a-philosophy-professors-final-class

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 36 comments

Wireless Amiga Tank Mouse

https://lyonsden.net/wireless-tank-mouse/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

A Motherfucking Website

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

2 years ago

117 upvotes – 72 comments

Johannes Hartlieb's Book of Herbs (1462)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hartlieb-book-of-herbs/

2 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

Firing Myself

https://backintyme.substack.com/p/firing-myself

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 67 comments

Increasing Google and Alphabet VRP rewards

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5400513950908416/increasing-google-alphabet-vrp-rewards-up-to-151-515

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 99 comments

YouTube lets you request removal of AI content that simulates your face or voice

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/01/youtube-now-lets-you-request-removal-of-ai-generated-content-that-simulates-your-face-or-voice/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 50 comments

Writing an MP4 Muxer for Fun and Profit

https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-hybrid-mp4

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 28 comments

Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig

https://github.com/cryptocode/bio

2 years ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2024/07/someone-is-wrong-on-internet-agi-doom.html

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 101 comments

The Threads Creator Paradox

https://www.augment.ink/the-threads-creator-paradox/

2 years ago

81 upvotes – 47 comments

Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0634/1535/3575/files/Puzzle_Robot_-_Technical_Writeup-compressed.pdf?v=1720839813

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 21 comments

Analog GPS: Scrolling Wrist and Car-Mounted Maps of the 20s and 30s (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/analog-gps-scrolling-wrist-car-mounted-maps-roaring-20s-30s/

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

Java's Megalithic Mountain

https://archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2024/features/javas-megalithic-mountain/

2 years ago

77 upvotes – 17 comments

CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility

https://www.denver7.com/news/state-news/3-colorado-poultry-workers-identified-as-potential-bird-flu-cases-after-outbreak-at-commercial-egg-facility

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 72 comments

Authelia and Lldap: Authentication, SSO, User Management for Home Networks

https://helgeklein.com/blog/authelia-lldap-authentication-sso-user-management-password-reset-for-home-networks/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water vapor

https://www.popsci.com/technology/hydrogen-power-air-taxi/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 87 comments

The NSA Is Defeated by a 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them?

https://hackaday.com/2024/07/13/the-nsa-is-defeated-by-a-1950s-tape-recorder-can-you-help-them/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Intel's woes with Core i9 CPUs crashing look worse than we thought

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/intels-woes-with-core-i9-cpus-crashing-look-worse-than-we-thought-team-blue-really-needs-to-act-now-to-fix-this-mess

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Do dead YC companies sell their brands/IP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954573

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: I accidentally crated a infinite level for a wolf 3D clone

https://victorribeiro.com/raycast2/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 24 comments

Mathematical Sculpture

http://zacharyabel.com/sculpture/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

Houston Is on a Path to an All-Out Power Crisis

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/houston-power-outage-beryl/678990/

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 98 comments

Temple and theater 3,500 years older than Machu Picchu discovered in Peru

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/science/ancient-temple-theater-peru-intl-scli-scn/index.html

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 2 comments

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do. (2019)

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/who-owns-your-wireless-service-crooks-do/

2 years ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America's pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96

https://apnews.com/article/ruth-westheimer-dies-6d4af57b5f034bf9a90977de41b88735

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 11 comments
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