top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-29

FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

https://fastht.ml/

2 years ago

After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days

http://www.observationalhazard.com/2024/07/after-10-years-yelp-gave-my-app-4-days_29.html

2 years ago

One-man SaaS, 9 Years In

https://blog.healthchecks.io/2024/07/running-one-man-saas-9-years-in/

2 years ago

SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos

https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything-2

2 years ago

CrowdStrike's impact on aviation

https://heavymeta.org/2024/07/28/crowdstrikes-impact-on-aviation.html

2 years ago

MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

https://github.com/alexta69/metube

2 years ago

Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU

https://davidar.io/post/sim-glsl

2 years ago

Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazons-exabyte-scale-migration-from-apache-spark-to-ray-on-amazon-ec2/

2 years ago

The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/07/29/g-s1-13519/alzheimers-protein-reelin-brain-aging-amyloid-tau-memory

2 years ago

Movable tree CRDTs and Loro's implementation

https://loro.dev/blog/movable-tree

2 years ago

Understanding the design of the the Super Nintendo video system

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_video/index.html

2 years ago

Attribution is dying, clicks are dying

https://sparktoro.com/blog/attribution-is-dying-clicks-are-dying-marketing-is-going-back-to-the-20th-century/

2 years ago

ps aux written in bash without forking

https://github.com/izabera/ps

2 years ago

LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear

https://spectrum.ieee.org/transparent-tv

2 years ago

Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41100094

2 years ago

Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?

http://jpetazzo.github.io/2024/07/26/cloudflare-images-overcharge-billing/

2 years ago

How to save $13.27 on your SaaS bill

https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-to-save-13-27-on-your-saas-bill

2 years ago

Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-21895704

2 years ago

Artificial intelligence gives weather forecasters a new edge

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/science/ai-weather-forecast-hurricane.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Tea-tasting, a Python package for the statistical analysis of A/B tests

https://e10v.me/tea-tasting-analysis-of-experiments/

2 years ago

DigiCert Revocation Incident (CNAME Domain Validation)

https://www.digicert.com/support/certificate-revocation-incident

2 years ago

Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for Docker containers

https://trayce.dev

2 years ago

New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive

https://www.aei.mpg.de/1171367/what-no-one-has-seen-before-new-study-simulates-gravitational-waves-from-failing-warp-drive

2 years ago

Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)

https://www.penguinsinternational.org/do-penguins-have-knees-and-other-frequently-asked-questions/

2 years ago

The weird and wonderful world of DNS LOC records (2014)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-dns-loc-records

2 years ago

Yark: YouTube Archiver with Offline UI

https://github.com/Owez/yark

2 years ago

An Open Course on LLMs, Led by Practitioners

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/course/

2 years ago

Polylith

https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith

2 years ago

TreeSeg: Hierarchical Topic Segmentation of Large Transcripts

https://augmend.com/blog/TreeSeg

2 years ago

Show HN: Vdm, a sane alternative to e.g. Git submodules

https://github.com/opensourcecorp/vdm

2 years ago

The Tech of Planetary Annihilation: ChronoCam (2013)

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/tech_of_planetary_annihilation_chrono_cam/

2 years ago

Debugging distributed database mysteries with Rust, packet capture and Polars

https://questdb.io/blog/debugging-distributed-database-mysteries-with-rust-pcap-and-polars/

2 years ago

Sam 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model

https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-2/

2 years ago

Over 900 artifacts recovered from Ming dynasty shipwreck

https://mymodernmet.com/ming-dynasty-shipwreck/

2 years ago

Why Navajo is one of the most difficult languages (2023)

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/navajo-language/

2 years ago

Scientists uncover the ancient origins of baobab trees

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-uncover-the-ancient-origins-of-baobab-trees-in-genetic-study-180984384/

2 years ago

Pallene: A statically compiled companion language for Lua

https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene/blob/master/doc/manual.md

2 years ago

Deno: What we got wrong about HTTP imports

https://deno.com/blog/http-imports

2 years ago

Critical Bug in Docker Engine Allowed Attackers to Bypass Authorization Plugins

https://securityaffairs.com/166160/hacking/docker-engine-critical-flaw.html

2 years ago

Planet eBook: free literature for your device

https://www.planetebook.com/

2 years ago

Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/low-income-homes-drop-internet-service-after-congress-kills-discount-program/

2 years ago

Hidden flaws behind expert-level accuracy of multimodal GPT-4 vision in medicine

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-024-01185-7

2 years ago

Let's release Rust-based fish

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/10633

2 years ago

Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

2 years ago

Investors are suddenly getting concerned that AI isn't making any serious money

https://futurism.com/investors-concerned-ai-making-money

2 years ago

Some packages are no longer installable after test command is removed

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4519

2 years ago