top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-07-31

Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious-data-pattern-in-recent-venezuelan-election/

2 years ago

macOS in QEMU in Docker

https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

2 years ago

`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete

https://ogiekako.vercel.app/blog/find_mkdir_tc

2 years ago

I prefer rST to Markdown

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-i-prefer-rst-to-markdown/

2 years ago

Robot dentist performs first human procedure

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/robot-dentist-world-first/

2 years ago

Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0xj3xq5l1vo

2 years ago

The effect of CRTs on pixel art

https://www.datagubbe.se/crt/

2 years ago

Foobar2000

https://www.foobar2000.org/

2 years ago

Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2

https://ai.meta.com/sam2/

2 years ago

How great was the Great Oxidation Event?

https://eos.org/science-updates/how-great-was-the-great-oxidation-event

2 years ago

Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon

https://fortune.com/2024/07/31/amazon-leadership-principles-questions-future-jeff-bezos-departure-andy-jassy/

2 years ago

Construction of the AT&T Long Lines "Cheshire" underground site

https://coldwar-ct.com/Home_Page_S1DO.html

2 years ago

SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant

https://snowflakeos.org/

2 years ago

Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017)

https://words.filippo.io/rustgo/

2 years ago

FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)

https://github.com/mcastillof/FakeTraveler

2 years ago

Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use

https://blog.activision.com/activision/2024/activision-releases-call-of-duty-warzone-caldera-data-set

2 years ago

Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs

https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-cocaine-opioids-ads-dea8e0fc

2 years ago

Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-Efficient (2021)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-superconductor-microprocessor-yields-a-substantial-boost-in-efficiency

2 years ago

Cardie – An open source business card designer and sharing platform

https://github.com/nfoert/cardie

2 years ago

Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/crowdstrike-bug-hit-banks-hard/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41119443

2 years ago

Stop Destroying Videogames – European Citizens' Initiative

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

2 years ago

After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/ula-to-amateur-launch-photographers-work-for-me-but-not-for-thee/

2 years ago

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be)

https://www.wiisfi.com/

2 years ago

The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)

https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html

2 years ago

Cargo Cult Science (1974)

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/cargo-cult-science

2 years ago

Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/

2 years ago

An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding

https://tulip.computer/

2 years ago

WordGrinder: A simple word processor that runs on the console

https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder

2 years ago

Common side effects of not drinking

https://medium.com/@k.kozmana/common-side-effects-of-not-drinking-dd44714e619a

2 years ago

Deep-Tempest: Using Deep Learning to Eavesdrop on HDMI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09717

2 years ago

The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space (2022)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119753119

2 years ago

Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework

https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/

2 years ago

GrapheneOS may take legal action against Google regarding Play Integrity API

https://x.com/arstechnica/status/1818325952553947517

2 years ago

How I Computer in 2024

https://jnsgr.uk/2024/07/how-i-computer-in-2024/

2 years ago

How middlemen are gaming the H-1B program

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-h1b-visa-lottery-system/

2 years ago

Health industry company sues to prevent certificate revocation

https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/07/31/healthcare-company-sues-to-stop-certificate-revocation.html

2 years ago

Dunbar's Number Is Quadratic (2020)

https://generativist.falsifiable.com/metaverse/dunbars-number-is-quadratic

2 years ago

Show HN: Non SaaS – Directory of Non SaaS Apps

https://nonsaas.com

2 years ago

Fast Multidimensional Matrix Multiplication on CPU from Scratch (2022)

https://siboehm.com/articles/22/Fast-MMM-on-CPU

2 years ago

Show HN: Shadow IT Scan – Uncover SaaS Apps, Users and Risky OAuth Scopes

https://www.accessowl.io/scan

2 years ago

Tesla in Seattle-area crash that killed motorcyclist was using FSD system

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-full-self-driving-motorcyclist-killed-d3393396521c373fe5df5a44d2d9637f

2 years ago

Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41119415

2 years ago

Ampere AmpereOne Aurora 512 Core AI CPU Announced

https://www.servethehome.com/ampere-ampereone-aurora-512-core-ai-cpu-announced-arm/

2 years ago

YouTube now flooding your ad-block with "fake" ads that slow the browser

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1egk580/youtube_now_flooding_your_adblock_with_fake_ads/

2 years ago

FBI Complains About Encryption Making It Difficult to Scrape Dead Person's Phone

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/31/fbi-back-to-complaining-about-encryption-making-it-difficult-to-scrape-all-data-from-a-dead-persons-phone/

2 years ago

Apple Arcade developers say working with Apple is like in 'abusive relationship'

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/31/apple-arcade-developers-say-working-with-apple-is-like-being-in-an-abusive-relationship

2 years ago

The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61221-0

2 years ago

Carbon capture and storage is a fantasy

https://www.vox.com/climate/363076/climate-change-solution-shell-exxon-mobil-carbon-capture

2 years ago

With CO2 Levels Rising, Drylands Are Turning Green – Yale E360

https://e360.yale.edu/features/greening-drylands-carbon-dioxide-climate-change

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to go about reverse engineering and deformulating a beverage at home

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115712

2 years ago