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

I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=11.%20RP2350

2 years ago

Do quests, not goals

https://www.raptitude.com/2024/08/do-quests-not-goals/

2 years ago

LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime

https://github.com/mikex86/LibreCuda

2 years ago

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/08/07/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly-firefox-labs-131/

2 years ago

Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

https://www.ft.com/content/b3bb80f4-4e01-4ce6-8358-f4f8638790f8

2 years ago

USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

https://blog.smithsecurity.biz/hacking-the-scammers

2 years ago

RLHF is just barely RL

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1821277264996352246

2 years ago

Isometric Projection in Game Development

https://pikuma.com/blog/isometric-projection-in-games

2 years ago

How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months

https://www.figma.com/blog/migrating-onto-kubernetes/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

https://github.com/stack-auth/stack

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-our-new-5-microcontroller-board-on-sale-now/

2 years ago

How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux kernel vulnerability

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6303226026131456/a-deep-dive-into-cve-2023-2163-how-we-found-and-fixed-an-ebpf-linux-kernel-vulnerability

2 years ago

Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment

https://system76.com/cosmic

2 years ago

FlexAttention: The Flexibility of PyTorch with the Performance of FlashAttention

https://pytorch.org/blog/flexattention/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41196237

2 years ago

Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/are-function-calls-still-slow-in-python

2 years ago

Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils

https://blog.robertelder.org/gnu-coreutils-package-guide/

2 years ago

Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4800828-office-mandates-cause-attrition/

2 years ago

Hacking a Virtual Power Plant

https://rya.nc/vpp-hack.html

2 years ago

Intel's Immiseration

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intels-immiseration

2 years ago

How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-long-does-music-stardom-last

2 years ago

Apple is America's semiconductor problem

https://www.semiconductor-digest.com/apple-is-americas-semiconductor-problem/

2 years ago

Mouse Pong: play a game from mouse's firmware with persistence of vision cursor

https://github.com/dupontgu/pov_pong_mouse

2 years ago

The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)

https://chuck.is/news/

2 years ago

More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/more-and-more-german-trains-are-not-allowed-to-enter-switzerland-2304207.html

2 years ago

Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web

https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/

2 years ago

Show HN: Orbit – A CSS radial UI composer framework

https://zumerlab.github.io/orbit-docs/

2 years ago

Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water to shut down California pipeline

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-07/arrowhead-bottled-water-permit

2 years ago

Jepsen: Jetcd 0.8.2

https://jepsen.io/analyses/jetcd-0.8.2

2 years ago

Molecule restores cognition, memory in Alzheimer's disease model mice

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/molecule-restores-cognition-memory-alzheimers-disease-model

2 years ago

National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails

https://jalopnik.com/national-park-service-will-cite-drivers-of-awd-cars-for-1851617315

2 years ago

Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations

https://nuclearstations.com/map

2 years ago

Qwen2-Math

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2-math/

2 years ago

Three month suspension for Python core developer

https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-core-developer/60250

2 years ago

After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less adept of providing care

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/private-equity-takes-over-hospitals-less-able-care-patients-jama-rcna164497

2 years ago

GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1M FPS

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01584

2 years ago

Show HN: The First Non-Smart AI Pendant (NotFriend)

https://notfriend.org/

2 years ago

Using the Moon as an Echo [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxBC6XzuMPs

2 years ago

Tsunami Alert Issued for Japan

https://tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2024/08/08/24221000/2/WEPA40//WEPA40.txt

2 years ago

Is it time to version observability?

https://charity.wtf/2024/08/07/is-it-time-to-version-observability-signs-point-to-yes/

2 years ago

Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-07/over-90-of-us-population-growth-since-2020-came-from-hispanics

2 years ago

rePalm: Towards the first unauthorized PalmOS port

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm

2 years ago

Queues invert control flow but require flow control

https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ramblings/queues_flow_control.html

2 years ago

IRC Will Never Die (2021)

https://hackaday.com/2021/05/22/irc-will-never-die/

2 years ago

Digital Tools I Wish Existed (2019)

https://jon.bo/posts/digital-tools/

2 years ago

What is the ideal chapter length? (2023)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2023/03/what-is-the-ideal-chapter-length

2 years ago

A heck of a wild bug chase

https://georgemauer.net/2024/08/01/a-heck-of-a-wild-bug-chase.html

2 years ago

Features I'd like to see in future IDEs

https://mordenstar.com/blog/how-to-build-a-better-ide

2 years ago

Cloudflare Introduces Automatic SSL/TLS

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-automatic-ssl-tls-securing-and-simplifying-origin-connectivity

2 years ago

What I Saw in the Darién Gap

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/09/darien-gap-route-migrants-panama/679156/

2 years ago

Engineering the First Fitbit: The Inside Story

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fitbit

2 years ago

Unsurprisingly, workers who are able to work from home are happier at their jobs

https://www.techradar.com/pro/unsurprisingly-workers-who-are-able-to-work-from-home-are-happier-at-their-jobs

2 years ago