top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-15

Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs

https://docs.scale-lang.com/

2 years ago

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

https://github.com/veggiedefender/open-and-shut

2 years ago

Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

https://horizon.pics

2 years ago

Story points are pointless, measure queues

https://www.brightball.com/articles/story-points-are-pointless-measure-queues

2 years ago

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/gemini-ai-caught-scanning-google-drive-hosted-pdf-files-without-permission-user-complains-feature-cant-be-disabled

2 years ago

Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/cancer-treatment-immunotherapy-oncology-tcells-brain-tumor.html

2 years ago

The Mafia of Pharma Pricing

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/inside-the-mafia-of-pharma-pricing

2 years ago

The Delusion of the Polygraph

https://lithub.com/what-the-all-american-delusion-of-the-polygraph-says-about-our-relationship-to-fact-and-fiction/

2 years ago

Rust for Filesystems

https://lwn.net/Articles/978738/

2 years ago

Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default

https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214

2 years ago

Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)

https://tabloid.vercel.app/

2 years ago

The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-rise-of-the-camera-launched-a-fight-to-protect-gilded-age-americans-privacy-180984656/

2 years ago

Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1149185.html

2 years ago

I'm not a fan of strlcpy(3)

https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/not-a-fan-of-strlcpy

2 years ago

Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/hemp-marijuana-legal-thc/678988/

2 years ago

Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/researchers-weak-security-defaults-enabled-squarespace-domains-hijacks/

2 years ago

How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)

https://www.ft.com/content/0512638c-b7c2-11e6-961e-a1acd97f622d

2 years ago

The Open Collaboration Tools

https://www.typefox.io/blog/open-collaboration-tools-announcement/

2 years ago

Guide to Machine Learning with Geometric, Topological, and Algebraic Structures

https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2407.09468

2 years ago

The oldest known recording of a human voice [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0j7x5f7/listen-to-the-oldest-known-recording-of-a-human-voice

2 years ago

KUtrace: Low-overhead Linux kernel tracing facility

https://github.com/dicksites/KUtrace

2 years ago

The fascinating and complicated sex lives of white-throated sparrows

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-fascinating-and-complicated-sex-lives-white-throated-sparrows

2 years ago

Win your fantasy league using operations research

https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/07/15/fantasy-knapsack.html

2 years ago

HTML Tags Memory Test

https://codepen.io/plfstr/full/zYqQeRw

2 years ago

Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984

https://www.namokimods.com/en-ca/blogs/namokitimes/seiko-originals-the-uc-2000-a-smartwatch-from-1984

2 years ago

Radar evidence of accessible Moon cave conduit below Mare Tranquillitatis pit

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02302-y

2 years ago

Google now defaults to not indexing your content

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-defaults-to-not-indexing-your-content/

2 years ago

Creature that washed up on New Zealand beach may be rarest whale

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/creature-that-washed-up-on-new-zealand-beach-may-be-worlds-rarest-whale-a-spade-toothed-whale/

2 years ago

Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go

https://coder.com/blog/introducing-quartz

2 years ago

Visual programming should start in the debugger

https://interjectedfuture.com/visual-programming-should-start-in-the-debugger/

2 years ago

Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract (2021)

https://retrohax.net/amiga-2000-codename-tesseract/

2 years ago

Shapeshift: Semantically map JSON objects using key-level vector embeddings

https://github.com/rectanglehq/Shapeshift

2 years ago

Tech, Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way

https://keepgoingpod.com/p/tech-crunched-how-the-go-to-site

2 years ago

Automated Test-Case Reduction

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/autoreduction.html

2 years ago

Transformer Layers as Painters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09298

2 years ago

ZeroMQ: High-Performance Concurrency Framework

https://zeromq.org/

2 years ago

"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us yet Again

https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoints-us-yet-again-2/

2 years ago

A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth

https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/erica-picked-up-a-rock-10-years-ago-it-might-hold-the-oldest-form-of-complex-life-on-earth

2 years ago

IQM achieves 99.9% 2-qubit gate fidelity and 1 millisecond coherence time

https://www.meetiqm.com/newsroom/press-releases/iqm-achieves-new-technology-milestones

2 years ago

What Happened to Ancient Megafauna?

https://nautil.us/what-happened-to-ancient-megafauna-713371/

2 years ago

Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/gemini-ai-caught-scanning-google-drive-hosted-pdf-files-without-permission-user-complains-feature-cant-be-disabled

2 years ago

Lessons learned in 35 years of making software

https://dev.jimgrey.net/2024/07/03/lessons-learned-in-35-years-of-making-software/

2 years ago

A word about private attribution in Firefox

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/

2 years ago

Tlsd: Generate (message) sequence diagrams from TLA+ state traces

https://github.com/eras/tlsd

2 years ago

Human history in the very long run (2021)

https://www.slowboring.com/p/human-history-in-the-very-long-run-1d4

2 years ago

Virginia Woolf's list-making

https://www.ft.com/content/6c7e3cc3-f66b-4998-ad55-5f58d151a761

2 years ago

The AMD Zen 5 Microarcitecure

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21469/amd-details-ryzen-ai-300-series-for-mobile-strix-point-with-rdna-35-igpu-xdna-2-npu

2 years ago

L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure

https://l402.org/

2 years ago

Google and Microsoft now each consume more power than some fairly big countries

https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-and-microsoft-now-each-consume-more-power-than-some-fairly-big-countries

2 years ago

Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/cosmic-simulation-reveals-how-black-holes-grow-and-evolve

2 years ago

Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales

https://wyofile.com/wyoming-bans-conservation-bidders-from-oil-and-gas-lease-sales/

2 years ago

Lagrange: LAser GRavitational-wave ANtenna at GEo-lunar Lagrange points (2011)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5264

2 years ago

Leap – Chemistry Through a Computational Lens

https://ambermd.org/tutorials/pengfei/index.php

2 years ago