top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-25

AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level/

2 years ago

1370 upvotes – 525 comments

Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/53725

2 years ago

1204 upvotes – 554 comments

Every company should be owned by its employees

https://www.elysian.press/p/employee-ownership

2 years ago

986 upvotes – 1054 comments

Reverse Engineering for Everyone

https://0xinfection.github.io/reversing/

2 years ago

621 upvotes – 66 comments

Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted-skins/

2 years ago

615 upvotes – 145 comments

Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

https://haystackeditor.com/

2 years ago

546 upvotes – 214 comments

Apple Maps on the web launches in beta

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/07/apple-maps-on-the-web-launches-in-beta/

2 years ago

465 upvotes – 533 comments

Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

https://github.com/igrek51/wat

2 years ago

393 upvotes – 92 comments

Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community

https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse-2/#

2 years ago

379 upvotes – 213 comments

My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)

https://rcoh.me/posts/linear-time-median-finding/

2 years ago

371 upvotes – 181 comments

OpenAI Announces SearchGPT

https://chatgpt.com/search

2 years ago

345 upvotes – 190 comments

CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent

https://thehftguy.com/2024/07/25/crowdstrike-will-be-liable-for-damages-in-france-based-on-the-ovh-precedent/

2 years ago

336 upvotes – 279 comments

Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

https://culture.pl/en/article/jacek-karpinski-the-computer-genius-the-communists-couldnt-stand

2 years ago

312 upvotes – 139 comments

EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

https://twitter.com/moo9000/status/1816352054425829420

2 years ago

311 upvotes – 167 comments

Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs

https://blog.thinkst.com/2024/07/unfashionably-secure-why-we-use-isolated-vms.html

2 years ago

305 upvotes – 243 comments

Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41069909

2 years ago

292 upvotes – 126 comments

Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control

https://jamesbvaughan.com/volume-controller-1/

2 years ago

287 upvotes – 138 comments

SVG Triangle of Compromise

https://me.micahrl.com/blog/svg-triangle-of-compromise/

2 years ago

267 upvotes – 118 comments

A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee

https://theconversation.com/retaining-flavor-while-removing-caffeine-a-chemist-explains-the-chemistry-behind-decaf-coffee-233196

2 years ago

265 upvotes – 172 comments

Defense of Lisp macros: The automotive field as a case in point

https://mihaiolteanu.me/defense-of-lisp-macros

2 years ago

227 upvotes – 210 comments

AI crawlers need to be more respectful

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/

2 years ago

226 upvotes – 118 comments

Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41070703

2 years ago

224 upvotes – 99 comments

Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)

https://rein.pk/startup-finance-for-founders-part-i-accounting

2 years ago

209 upvotes – 20 comments

Small neural network enables realistic rendering of woven fabrics in real-time

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-lightweight-neural-network-enables-realistic.html

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 65 comments

Secure Boot is broken on 200 models from 5 big device makers

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

2 years ago

177 upvotes – 141 comments

A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in Python

https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

2 years ago

174 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072632

2 years ago

163 upvotes – 94 comments

Memory Mapping an FPGA from an STM32

https://serd.es/2024/07/24/Memory-mapping-an-FPGA-from-a-STM32.html

2 years ago

157 upvotes – 64 comments

Google Search: Roboto Mono

https://www.google.com/search?q=roboto+mono+font

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 61 comments

Applied Machine Learning for Tabular Data

https://aml4td.org/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 20 comments

A User’s Guide to Statistical Inference and Regression

https://mattblackwell.github.io/gov2002-book/

2 years ago

148 upvotes – 7 comments

Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory for Public Sector

https://news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-open-source/

2 years ago

143 upvotes – 58 comments

Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/07/25/cap-again.html

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 151 comments

SearchGPT Prototype

https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/

2 years ago

134 upvotes – 28 comments

Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/switzerland-mandates-government-agencies-use-open-source-software

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 32 comments

U.S. Department of Defense – Detecting Agile BS [pdf] (2018)

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 40 comments

Dual action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-dual-action-antibiotic-bacterial-resistance.html

2 years ago

122 upvotes – 75 comments

What is Toybox?

http://landley.net/toybox/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 23 comments

Versioned finite-state machines with Postgres (2019)

https://raphael.medaer.me/2019/06/12/pgfsm.html

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Tiny Moon – Swift library to calculate the moon phase

https://github.com/mannylopez/TinyMoon

2 years ago

106 upvotes – 35 comments

A cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/25/crowdstrike_remediation_with_barcode_scanner/

2 years ago

103 upvotes – 29 comments

The Many Lives of Null Island

https://stamen.com/the-many-lives-of-null-island/

2 years ago

99 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Levittown didn't revolutionize homebuilding

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-levittown-didnt-revolutionize

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 174 comments

AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-deepfake-porn-bill-senate-1235067061/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 89 comments

Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation

https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/imagine-yourself-tuning-free-personalized-image-generation/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 45 comments

What's so hard about constexpr allocation?

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2024/07/24/constexpr-alloc/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 35 comments

We just caught our first "BANANA "

https://twitter.com/karinemellata/status/1805429294841446815

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 77 comments

Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-pongamia-trees-citrus-flourished-renewable.html

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 102 comments

One-dose nasal spray clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins to improve memory

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/nasal-spray-tau-proteins-alzheimers/

2 years ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court

https://apnews.com/article/boneless-chicken-wings-lawsuit-ohio-supreme-court-231002ea50d8157aeadf093223d539f8

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 83 comments

The Infinity Machine

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/infinity.html

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 40 comments
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