top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-01

CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

https://clownstrike.lol/crowdmad/

2 years ago

How I got my laser eye injury

https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-i-got-my-laser-eye-injury/

2 years ago

Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

https://100r.co/site/about_us.html

2 years ago

Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/0OqBkS2RzWw

2 years ago

Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters

https://blog.fal.ai/flux-the-largest-open-sourced-text2img-model-now-available-on-fal/

2 years ago

I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go

https://github.com/cgzirim/not-shazam

2 years ago

Just disconnect the internet

https://computer.rip/2024-07-31-just-disconnect-the-internet.html

2 years ago

Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers

https://www.science.org/content/article/sensational-breakthrough-marks-step-toward-revealing-hidden-structure-prime-numbers

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41129813

2 years ago

Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

2 years ago

Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images

https://stability.ai/news/introducing-stable-fast-3d

2 years ago

Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans

https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/threat-actor-abuses-cloudflare-tunnels-deliver-rats

2 years ago

Torchchat: Chat with LLMs Everywhere

https://github.com/pytorch/torchchat

2 years ago

Don’t let your domain name become a sitting duck

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/dont-let-your-domain-name-become-a-sitting-duck/

2 years ago

Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty

https://hackerone.com/coinbase/hacktivity

2 years ago

How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process

https://vercel.com/blog/how-google-handles-javascript-throughout-the-indexing-process

2 years ago

Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/parasites-are-everywhere-so-why-do-so-few-researchers-study-them-180984753/

2 years ago

Study: Consumers Actively Turned Off by AI

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai

2 years ago

I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code (2019)

https://djharper.dev/post/2019/05/21/i-dont-know-how-cpus-work-so-i-simulated-one-in-code/

2 years ago

Space is a latent sequence: A theory of the hippocampus

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm8470

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41129811

2 years ago

The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908

2 years ago

A rare disorder makes people see monsters

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-rare-disorder-makes-people-see-monsters

2 years ago

How Does OpenAI Survive?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/

2 years ago

This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2024/07/31/this-month-in-servo/

2 years ago

Intel is laying off over 10k employees

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210656/intel-is-laying-off-over-10000-employees-and-will-cut-10-billion-in-costs

2 years ago

GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes

https://github.com/miekg/gitopper

2 years ago

Building a Local Perplexity Alternative with Perplexica, Ollama, and SearXNG

https://jointerminus.medium.com/building-a-local-perplexity-alternative-with-perplexica-ollama-and-searxng-71602523e256

2 years ago

Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132095

2 years ago

xdg-override: change default application temporarily on Linux

https://github.com/koiuo/xdg-override

2 years ago

Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00156-7/fulltext

2 years ago

Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1704/intel-reports-second-quarter-2024-financial-results

2 years ago

Why CSV is still king

https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king

2 years ago

Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/31/vanilla_os_friendly_radical/

2 years ago

Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/how-keplers-400-year-old-sunspot-sketches-helped-solve-a-modern-mystery/

2 years ago

GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/introducing-github-models/

2 years ago

A network engineer in search of greener pastures

https://cropp.blog/2024/08/job-searching-in-2024-is-horribly-broken

2 years ago

Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-ai-project-greenlight/

2 years ago

Show HN: I am using AI to measure how well cats sit like bread

https://rateloaf.com

2 years ago

InstantSplat: Sparse-View SfM-Free Gaussian Splatting in Seconds

https://instantsplat.github.io/

2 years ago

DIY, 8mm film scanner Kotokino Mark IV (2020)

https://www.sabulo.com/sb/3d-printing-2/8mm-film-scanner-kotokino-mark-iv/

2 years ago

Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?

https://daily.jstor.org/who-took-the-cocaine-out-of-coca-cola/

2 years ago

Intel to cut 15% of headcount, reports quarterly guidance miss

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/01/intel-intc-q2-earnings-report-2024.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Anyma V, a hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument

https://aodyo.com/anyma-v/

2 years ago

Rapidly build efficient sites with Neat, the minimalist CSS framework

https://neat.joeldare.com/

2 years ago

I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/

2 years ago

New EU rules promoting repair of goods enter into force

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/consumer-contract-law/directive-repair-goods_en

2 years ago

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

2 years ago

Pharma CIO cancels AI enhanced Office 365 deal as "it doesn't add value"

https://hardforum.com/threads/pharma-cio-cancels-ai-enhanced-office-365-deal-as-it-doesnt-add-value.2036205/

2 years ago

India's $45B Startup Implosion Puts Tech Future in Doubt

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-01/india-s-tech-startup-struggles-spark-vc-funding-retreat

2 years ago

D&D will release its 2024 ruleset under a Creative Commons licence

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/news/dungeons-and-dragons-2024-srd-wont-be-another-ogl-fiasco

2 years ago

Proposed rule would ban airlines from charging parents to sit with children

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/01/proposed-rule-would-ban-airlines-from-charging-parents-to-sit-with-their-children.html

2 years ago

Show HN: I cloned HN to make a simple portfolio page

https://www.guycombinator.net

2 years ago

Baidu's Improving Retrieval Augmented Language Model with Self-Reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19813

2 years ago

'Weird and Daunting': 7k Readers Told Us How It Felt to Focus

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/upshot/experiment-focus-painting-art.html

2 years ago

Rosalind Franklin's Methods of Discovery

https://daily.jstor.org/rosalind-franklins-methods-of-discovery/

2 years ago