top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-12

Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon

https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon

2 years ago

There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

https://qntm.org/scp

2 years ago

SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

2 years ago

Repair and Remain (2022)

https://comment.org/repair-and-remain/

2 years ago

Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-finds-geofence-warrants-are-categorically-unconstitutional

2 years ago

Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync

https://pglite.dev/

2 years ago

Okay, I Like WezTerm

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2024/08/10/wezterm/

2 years ago

Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

https://www.maragu.dev/blog/go-is-my-hammer-and-everything-is-a-nail

2 years ago

NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon

https://www.flyingmag.com/modern/nasa-investigation-finds-boeing-hindering-americans-return-to-moon/

2 years ago

US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button

https://apnews.com/article/consumer-protection-ftc-fcc-biden-250f6eece6e2665535019128e8fa38da

2 years ago

Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz

2 years ago

Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig

https://github.com/judofyr/spice

2 years ago

Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-new

2 years ago

Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch

https://nostarch.com/writing-c-compiler

2 years ago

AMD records its highest server market share in decades

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-records-its-highest-server-market-share-in-decades-but-intel-fights-back-in-client-pcs

2 years ago

Why we picked AGPL

https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/agpl

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks

https://github.com/mawise/bookshelf

2 years ago

Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1823027135784558842

2 years ago

Firedancer: Language for 2D shmups bullet-hell patterns

https://firedancer-lang.com/

2 years ago

Postgres.new

https://postgres.new/

2 years ago

Deals with the devil aren't what they used to be

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/devils-contract-the-history-of-the-faustian-bargain-ed-simon-book-review

2 years ago

FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-776A1.txt

2 years ago

Workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-job-market-recession-outlook-workers-quitting-hiring-trends-2024-8

2 years ago

Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic

https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/08/12/Approximating-sum-types-in-Python-with-Pydantic

2 years ago

"Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1822663687145972105.html

2 years ago

Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++

https://twitter.com/bitfield/status/1020632237493112833

2 years ago

Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth

https://blog.comma.ai/refactoring-for-growth/

2 years ago

MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images

https://donydchen.github.io/mvsplat/

2 years ago

History of Hacker News Search from 2007 to 2024

https://trieve.ai/history-of-hnsearch/

2 years ago

SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/12/smuggling-queries-at-the-protocol-level/

2 years ago

GIL Become Optional in Python 3.13

https://geekpython.in/gil-become-optional-in-python

2 years ago

How does it feel to test a compiler?

https://medium.com/@zakharenko/how-does-it-feel-to-test-a-compiler-fa1ff5d86065

2 years ago

Transformer Explainer

https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/

2 years ago

Quote-unquote "macros"

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/quote-unquote-macros/

2 years ago

Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2423294/google-is-killing-one-of-chromes-biggest-ad-blockers.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone been able to contact Cloudflare Support in the last 5 days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41230500

2 years ago

How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?

https://danluu.com/codenames/

2 years ago

Damn Vulnerable UEFI

https://github.com/hacking-support/DVUEFI

2 years ago

An approach to optimizing TypeScript type checking performance

https://www.edgedb.com/blog/an-approach-to-optimizing-typescript-type-checking-performance#how-do-we-quantify-the-type-checker-s-workload

2 years ago

Sublime Text 4 Build 4180

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4180

2 years ago

Gaussian Splatting SLAM

https://rmurai.co.uk/projects/GaussianSplattingSLAM/

2 years ago

Entangled Photons Maintained Under New York Streets

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/125

2 years ago

Don't rely on IF NOT EXISTS for concurrent index creation in PostgreSQL

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2024/225/stop-relying-on-if-not-exists-for-concurrent-index-creation-in-postgresql/

2 years ago

Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing (2020)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240511

2 years ago

Ancient calendar, recently discovered, may document a long-ago disaster

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/world/asia/worlds-oldest-calendar-gobekli-tepe.html

2 years ago

Paris Agreement thresholds crossed

https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/08/paris-agreement-thresholds-crossed.html

2 years ago

Tensors, the geometric tool that solved Einstein's relativity problem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-geometric-tool-that-solved-einsteins-relativity-problem-20240812/

2 years ago

Safe curves for Elliptic Curve Cryptography [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1265.pdf

2 years ago

I Quit Spotify

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-i-finally-quit-spotify

2 years ago

Cancer rates are rising in young people

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cancer-rates-are-rising-in-young-people-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

2 years ago

How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-create-the-best-support-for-web-apps-on-the/td-p/60561

2 years ago

How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41226035

2 years ago

Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/nx-s1-5046225/work-from-home-philadelphia-order

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are some "toy" projects you used to learn neural networks hands-on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227515

2 years ago

National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)

https://www.ni.com/en/perspectives/letter-to-customers.html

2 years ago

A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar (2021)

https://jenson.org/tesla/

2 years ago

TP-Link GPL Code Center

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/gpl-code/

2 years ago

San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-01/san-francisco-seeks-ban-of-software-critics-say-is-used-to-artificially-inflate-rents

2 years ago