top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-17

Panic at the Job Market

https://matt.sh/panic-at-the-job-market

2 years ago

Jailbreaking RabbitOS

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html

2 years ago

TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

https://thetinypod.com/

2 years ago

NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

2 years ago

Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/07/import-and-export-markdown-in-google-docs.html

2 years ago

The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time

https://www.justinmath.com/the-greatest-educational-life-hack-learning-math-ahead-of-time/

2 years ago

Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)

https://brycemecum.com/2023/03/31/til-mermaid-tracing/

2 years ago

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/unexpected-poetry-phd-acknowledgements

2 years ago

Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07624-5

2 years ago

SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat

https://www.wiz.io/blog/sapwned-sap-ai-vulnerabilities-ai-security

2 years ago

A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)

https://pldb.io/blog/brianKernighan.html

2 years ago

Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)

https://dalpix.com/reverse-engineering-ip-camera-part-1

2 years ago

A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows

https://github.com/rscott2049/DECstation2040

2 years ago

SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09025

2 years ago

Gitlab Explores Sale

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/google-backed-software-developer-gitlab-explores-sale-sources-say-2024-07-17/

2 years ago

Little Languages (1986) [pdf]

https://staff.um.edu.mt/afra1/seminar/little-languages.pdf

2 years ago

Puerto Rico files $1B suit against fossil fuel companies

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199686/puerto-rico-fossil-fuel-industry-lawsuit-climate-change

2 years ago

Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609

2 years ago

Wide angle lens distortion correction from lines

https://hh409.user.srcf.net/blog/lens-distortion-correction-lines.html

2 years ago

Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02298-5

2 years ago

Show HN: Product Hunt for Music

https://tracklist.it/

2 years ago

Introduction to Bash Scripting

https://github.com/bobbyiliev/introduction-to-bash-scripting

2 years ago

Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager

https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/first-party/setup-guide

2 years ago

The Kimchi Masters of South Korea

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/dining/south-korea-kimchi-masters.html

2 years ago

Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs

https://openai.com/index/prover-verifier-games-improve-legibility/

2 years ago

Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool

https://github.com/seddonm1/sqlite-bench

2 years ago

What are the ways compilers recognize complex patterns?

https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/3942/what-are-the-ways-compilers-recognize-complex-patterns

2 years ago

Show HN: VisCircuit – A Note-Taking Website for Electronics and Circuits

https://viscircuit.com

2 years ago

Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks

https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/the-data-is-in-return-to-office-mandates-aren-t-worth-the-talent-risks

2 years ago

Closed form arc length parametrization is impossible for quadratic Bézier curves

https://ninjakoa.la/curly_curves/posts/quadratic_bezier_arc_length_parametrization/

2 years ago

Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-12/former-bungie-pokemon-lawyer-explains-how-they-caught-leakers

2 years ago

Launch HN: Traceloop (YC W23) – Detecting LLM Hallucinations with OpenTelemetry

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40985609

2 years ago

CSS Classes Considered Harmful

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmful/

2 years ago

Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users

https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=Libera.Chat

2 years ago

Researchers build a solar-powered hovering drone that weighs only 9 mg

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/researchers-build-ultralight-drone-that-flies-with-onboard-solar/

2 years ago

Eight Years of GraphQL

https://www.magiroux.com/eight-years-of-graphql

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost

https://lokal.so/

2 years ago

What can TypeScript learn from Zig? What can Zig learn from TypeScript?

https://effectivetypescript.com/2024/07/17/advent2023-zig/

2 years ago

"Security is our top priority" is meaningless

https://blog.waleson.com/2024/07/security-is-our-top-priority-is-bs.html

2 years ago

Axiomatic by Greg Egan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic_(book)

2 years ago

New technology could reduce the amount of energy for air conditioning

https://www.wired.com/story/cutting-edge-technology-could-massively-reduce-the-amount-of-energy-used-for-air-conditioning/

2 years ago

Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image

https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/

2 years ago

Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html

2 years ago

Can I? Tools

https://status.pointless.one/@pointlessone/112802420328494789

2 years ago

Why is Sweden paying grandparents to babysit?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-13/why-is-sweden-paying-grandparents-for-child-care-it-s-worth-a-try

2 years ago

Bhutan's first AI startup is seven college kids in a dorm

https://restofworld.org/2024/bhutan-first-ai-startup/

2 years ago

Lessons from a Private Equity Earn Out: How I Lost £550K Due to a Lowercase 'C'

https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-gb/leadership/lessons-from-a-private-equity-earn-out-how-i-lost-ps550k/475909

2 years ago

A New Specialized Train Is Ready to Haul Nuclear Waste

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-waste-train-car

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40988637

2 years ago

Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Post-Office-Horizon-scandal-explained-everything-you-need-to-know

2 years ago

Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-15/how-bad-amazon-review-destroyed-beau-belle-littles-swim-diaper-business

2 years ago

Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-reports-almost-7-percent-of-internet-traffic-is-malicious/

2 years ago

Mini PCs Database

https://minipcs.org/

2 years ago

Self Hosting 101 – A Beginner's Guide

https://ente.io/blog/self-hosting-101/

2 years ago