top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-16

I am starting an AI+Education company

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1813263734707790301

2 years ago

For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

https://www.heise.de/en/news/For-advertising-Firefox-now-collects-user-data-by-default-9801345.html

2 years ago

Codestral Mamba

https://mistral.ai/news/codestral-mamba/

2 years ago

Exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

2 years ago

Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me-by-adding-a-postfix-header/

2 years ago

10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video]

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

2 years ago

Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications

https://automerge.org/

2 years ago

The Engineer’s Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the Transformer Model

https://www.interdb.jp/dl/

2 years ago

Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, has died

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/peter-buxtun-tuskegee-whistleblower-dies

2 years ago

XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10240

2 years ago

Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools

https://thenewstack.io/devs-need-system-design-tools-not-diagramming-tools/

2 years ago

A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4

https://www.binwang.me/2024-07-12-A-Review-of-Linux-on-Surface-Pro-4.html

2 years ago

The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing

https://www.mailgun.com/blog/email/ai-phishing/

2 years ago

We created a fake delivery company to get a job

https://blog.kashevko.com/we-created-a-fake-delivery-company-3/

2 years ago

Private Browsing 2.0

https://webkit.org/blog/15697/private-browsing-2-0/

2 years ago

Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08790

2 years ago

Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission

https://www.science.org/content/article/vulnerable-transistors-threaten-upend-europa-clipper-mission

2 years ago

Darwin Machines

https://vedgie.net/writing/darwin_machines.md

2 years ago

Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40972596

2 years ago

OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/13/openai-safety-risks-whistleblower-sec/

2 years ago

Show HN: Magic-cli – A copilot for your command line

https://github.com/guywaldman/magic-cli

2 years ago

Mangrove trees are on the move, taking the tropics with them

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mangrove-trees-are-on-the-move-taking-the-tropics-with-them/

2 years ago

DevRel at HuggingFace

https://dx.tips/huggingface

2 years ago

After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/dining/pete-wells-steps-down-food-critic.html

2 years ago

The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011)

https://franklambert.net/secondlaw.com/

2 years ago

Optimizing a bignum library for fun

https://austinhenley.com/blog/bignum2.html

2 years ago

Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game

https://olano.dev/blog/deconstructing-the-role-playing-videogame/

2 years ago

NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing

https://wadetregaskis.com/nscopyobject-the-griefer-that-keeps-on-griefing/

2 years ago

Show HN: I quit my job and made an automatic time tracker

https://taimapp.io

2 years ago

Godotcaml for Godot 4.2

https://fizzixnerd.com/blog/2024-06-24-announcing-godotcaml/

2 years ago

Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

http://www.righto.com/2024/07/ibm-3274-keystone-chip.html

2 years ago

Decoding DME aircraft radio navigation system with the LimeSDR

https://destevez.net/2024/07/recording-dme-with-the-limesdr/

2 years ago

New Gaussian Splatting viewer that allows code modification during runtime

https://github.com/Florian-Barthel/splatviz

2 years ago

OpenStreetMap's 20th Anniversary Celebration is August 9

https://birthday20.openstreetmap.org/

2 years ago

Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/inkbase/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974768

2 years ago

Building a Galaksija

https://blog.vladovince.com/building-a-galaksija-the-1980s-yugoslav-8-bit-microcomputer-part-i-the-tech/

2 years ago

Xwax Is an Open-Source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux

https://xwax.org/

2 years ago

Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read

http://elizabethandrama.org/

2 years ago

Ly: Display Manager with Console UI

https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

2 years ago

I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything

https://gavinhoward.com/2024/07/why-i-hope-rust-does-not-oxidize-everything/

2 years ago

Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cydvn07d7vdo

2 years ago

The Resilience of Internet Infrastructures in Pacific Northwest to Earthquakes [pdf]

https://pages.uoregon.edu/vjs/files/Mayer_Sahakian_etal2021.pdf

2 years ago

Blender 4.2

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-2/

2 years ago

Anna’s Archive approaching 1 petabyte

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

2 years ago

UK has almost 1M EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/15/electric-vehicle-ev-chargers-uk-installations

2 years ago

Craig Wright's claim of inventing Bitcoin may get him arrested for perjury

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/craig-wrights-claim-of-inventing-bitcoin-may-get-him-arrested-for-perjury/

2 years ago

Hacking the Mac OS X Kernel for Unsupported Machines (2005) [pdf]

https://papers.put.as/papers/macosx/2005/Hacking-Mac-OS-X-Kernel-for-unsupported-machines.pdf

2 years ago

Convex Architecture Handbook 1984 [pdf]

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/convex/080-000120-000_CONVEX_Architecture_Handbook_1984.pdf

2 years ago

He secretly changed this freeway sign, helped millions of drivers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26-4oARwfF4

2 years ago

A hard look at AWS GuardDuty shortcomings

https://tracebit.com/blog/a-hard-look-at-guardduty-shortcomings

2 years ago

'Sensational' Proof Delivers New Insights into Prime Numbers

https://www.quantamagazine.org/sensational-proof-delivers-new-insights-into-prime-numbers-20240715/

2 years ago

Parametric Matrix Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11694

2 years ago

Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10555

2 years ago

PS-HTTPD: A web server written in PostScript (2010)

https://www.pugo.org/projects/pshttpd/

2 years ago

Is Mars Habitable? (1907)

https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S730.htm

2 years ago

People person: the greatness of Andrey Platonov

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/67208/people-person-the-greatness-of-andrey-platonov

2 years ago

Math is running out of problems

https://medium.com/@jpolak/math-is-running-out-of-problems-14f2911fa46b

2 years ago

The effect of daily usage of Mouthwash on the oropharyngeal microbiome

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.001830

2 years ago

The science behind an iPhone dumb phone

https://dumbph.com/the-science-behind-an-iphone-dumb-phone/

2 years ago

Schrödinger's cat among biology's pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06034-8

2 years ago

It's never been easier for the cops to break into your phone

https://www.theverge.com/24199357/fbi-trump-rally-shooter-phone-thomas-matthew-crooks-quantico-mdtf

2 years ago