top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-05

Starting Hospice

https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/04/starting-hospice-the-end/

2 years ago

Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/google-loses-doj-antitrust-suit-over-search

2 years ago

Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163382

2 years ago

Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41161315

2 years ago

How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/how-postgres-stores-data-on-disk/

2 years ago

Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found

https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/

2 years ago

Stop Killing Games

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/

2 years ago

Public Work: a search engine for public domain images

https://public.work

2 years ago

A new type of neural network is more interpretable

https://spectrum.ieee.org/kan-neural-network

2 years ago

How I Program in 2024

http://akkartik.name/post/programming-2024

2 years ago

Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS

https://www.pie-menu.com/

2 years ago

I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20040616091238/http://www.heiferman.com/mcd/

2 years ago

Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code

https://www.iso20022js.com/

2 years ago

Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?

https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2024/08/05/can-we-stop-the-decline-of-monarch-butterflies-and-other-pollinators/74638545007/

2 years ago

Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'

https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2024/08/01/uncovered-euripides-fragments-are-kind-big-deal

2 years ago

WebGL visual programming editor cables.gl is now open source

https://cables.gl/standalone

2 years ago

Eyechat

https://neal.fun/eyechat/

2 years ago

Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers

https://kottke.org/24/07/building-lego-machines-to-destroy-tall-lego-towers

2 years ago

Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos

https://sunshowers.io/posts/rustc-segfault-illumos/

2 years ago

Apple Intelligence beta flagged a phishing email as "Priority"

https://social.panic.com/@cabel/112905175504595751

2 years ago

A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust

https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/secure_bootloader/

2 years ago

I turned an old phone into a NAS

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-turned-old-phone-nas/

2 years ago

How the music industry learned to love piracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.html

2 years ago

Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/05/asia-markets.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Visual A* pathfinding and maze generation in Python

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/visual_astar_python

2 years ago

Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II

https://www.projectgus.com/2023/04/griffin-imate/

2 years ago

Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU

https://flemesre.github.io/posts/liquid-metal-replacement/

2 years ago

Japan's Nikkei Posts Biggest Single-Day Fall Since 1987 After Weak U.S. Data

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/japan-stocks-fall-sharply-after-weak-u-s-jobs-data-yen-strengthening-3903689f

2 years ago

How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-get-or-create

2 years ago

C++'s `noexcept` can sometimes help or hurt performance

https://16bpp.net/blog/post/noexcept-can-sometimes-help-or-hurt-performance/

2 years ago

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf]

http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf

2 years ago

Associative tools, thinking, and creativity: On augmenting creativity

https://thelastwave.substack.com/p/associative-tools-thinking-and-creativity

2 years ago

The Saucer – A DIY trackpad attachment for the Voyager

https://blog.zsa.io/diy-voyager-trackpad-saucer/

2 years ago

Single-packet race condition breaking the 65535 byte lim

https://flatt.tech/research/posts/beyond-the-limit-expanding-single-packet-race-condition-with-first-sequence-sync/

2 years ago

'Agua, Agua'

https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a43145605/sonoran-desert-survival-julian-smith-pablo-valencia-bill-broyles/

2 years ago

Schwab users are unable to log in

https://twitter.com/CharlesSchwab/status/1820460824973979956

2 years ago

Does space dust fall on the roof of my house?

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/58254/does-space-dust-fall-on-the-roof-of-my-house-and-if-so-can-i-detect-it-with-a-ch

2 years ago

Largest Geothermal Development in America Taking Shape in Utah

https://mymodernmet.com/california-geothermal-project/

2 years ago

Below the Root: A story, a computer game and my lifelong obsession (2015)

https://blog.stahlmandesign.com/below-the-root-a-story-a-computer-game-and-my-lifelong-obsession/

2 years ago

Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/business/south-korea-labor-workweek.html

2 years ago

Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-wrapup-1-2024-08-04/

2 years ago

Scheduling Model in LLVM

https://myhsu.xyz/llvm-sched-model-1/

2 years ago

Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate

https://www.wired.com/story/quantum-physicists-found-a-new-safer-way-to-navigate/

2 years ago

A RoCE network for distributed AI training at scale

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/08/05/data-center-engineering/roce-network-distributed-ai-training-at-scale/

2 years ago

California lawmakers got ticket freebies as they cracked down on Ticketmaster

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/05/california-lawmakers-free-tickets-00170882

2 years ago

The Composer Has No Clothes

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-composer-has-no-clothes-brown

2 years ago

Computer Security Is a Political Struggle

https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/computer-security-is-a-political-struggle/

2 years ago

Karpathy/Nano-Llama31

https://github.com/karpathy/nano-llama31

2 years ago

Undark and the Radium Girls (2006)

https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/

2 years ago

Knuckledragger, a Semi-Automated Python Proof Assistant

https://www.philipzucker.com/state_o_knuck/

2 years ago

Why does everyone hate Haskell, jazz, and pure math?

https://adueck.github.io/blog/on-haskell-jazz-and-pure-math/

2 years ago

Casio VZ-1 Algorithms

https://blog.jacobvosmaer.nl/0029-vz-1-algorithms/

2 years ago