top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-15

Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcoms-extradition-to-the-u-s-given-green-light-by-new-zealand-240815/

2 years ago

Galois Theory

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2024/08/galois_theory.html

2 years ago

Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/stripe-dev-environment/

2 years ago

CockroachDB license change

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/enterprise-license-update/

2 years ago

Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy

https://github.com/markqvist/NomadNet

2 years ago

Let's Write a Reverb (2021)

https://signalsmith-audio.co.uk/writing/2021/lets-write-a-reverb/

2 years ago

Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite

https://antonz.org/sqlean-time/

2 years ago

Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/15/google_monopoly_fix/

2 years ago

One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-air-force-one

2 years ago

ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library

https://github.com/tpecholt/imrad

2 years ago

Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/03/05/snell-ios-markdown-editors

2 years ago

Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240815124156.htm

2 years ago

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/google-pulls-the-plug-on-ublock-origin

2 years ago

RP2350 PicoDVI Preview

https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI/commit/ca941baf37e3f04738b8e641896d85feb3430385

2 years ago

Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green's Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing

https://jonathanolson.net/exact-polygonal-filtering

2 years ago

WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web

https://writefreely.org/

2 years ago

Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool

https://mermaid.js.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: An online 2D MMO game, written in Rust and JavaScript

https://polyfight.io/

2 years ago

We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency

https://hardcover.app/blog/how-we-survived-10k-requests-second-switching-to-signed-urls

2 years ago

Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model

https://lambdalabs.com/blog/unveiling-hermes-3-the-first-fine-tuned-llama-3.1-405b-model-is-on-lambdas-cloud

2 years ago

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs' efficiency secret

https://www.navyseal.com/slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast/

2 years ago

It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-the-land-stupid-how-the-homebuilder

2 years ago

YouTube Video to Tabs and Lyrics

https://github.com/JoinMusic/fish

2 years ago

Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41257369

2 years ago

Show HN: Denormalized – Embeddable Stream Processing in Rust and DataFusion

https://github.com/probably-nothing-labs/denormalized

2 years ago

Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/artists-score-major-win-copyright-case-against-ai-art-generators-1235973601/

2 years ago

Apple vs. the "Free Market"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/15/private-law/#thirty-percent-vig

2 years ago

The Open Source Computer Science Degree

https://github.com/ForrestKnight/open-source-cs

2 years ago

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/crypto-right-answers-pq/

2 years ago

Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh (2022)

https://unsigned.io/private-messaging-over-lora/

2 years ago

MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems

https://news.mit.edu/2024/researchers-use-large-language-models-to-flag-problems-0814

2 years ago

Show HN: COBOL-REKT, a toolkit for analysing and reverse-engineering COBOL

https://github.com/avishek-sen-gupta/cobol-rekt

2 years ago

10 Years of Dear ImGui

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892

2 years ago

The Quantum Butterfly Effect

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/1663/2021-august/the-quantum-butterfly-effect/

2 years ago

Nu-Klear Fallout Detector (ca. 1962-1968)

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/citizens/nuklear.html

2 years ago

A pedantic review of the Las Vegas loop

https://computer.rip/2024-08-12-a-pedantic-review-of-the-las-vegas-loop.html

2 years ago

Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 Workstation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PP--lVTPCQ

2 years ago

The official Elixir Language Server team

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/08/15/welcome-elixir-language-server-team/

2 years ago

Against the advice of my superintelligence

https://taylor.town/my-superintelligence

2 years ago

Cisco slashes thousands of workers as it announces yearly profit of $10.3B

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/cisco-layoffs-second-this-year-19657267.php

2 years ago

Reticulum Is Unstoppable Networks for the People

https://reticulum.network/

2 years ago

Iranian banks hit by major cyber attack

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/iran-eastern-states/artc-iranian-banks-hit-by-major-cyber-attack-reportedly-one-of-largest-in-history

2 years ago

Looking Glass' new lineup includes a $300 phone-sized holographic display

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/08/looking-glass-new-lineup-includes-a-300-phone-sized-holographic-display/

2 years ago

Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand

https://www.reuters.com/world/kim-dotcom-be-extradited-new-zealand-after-12-year-fight-with-us-2024-08-15/

2 years ago

Unix file access rwx permissions are simple but tricky

https://igoro.pro/a-reminder-unix-file-access-rwx-permissions-are-simple-but-tricky/

2 years ago

Godot 4.3

https://godotengine.org/releases/4.3/

2 years ago

How we migrated Gov.uk notify to AWS elastic container service

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2024/08/14/how-we-migrated-gov-uk-notify-to-aws-elastic-container-service/

2 years ago

Black Mesa

https://blackmesa.com/

2 years ago

The Key to Bizarro's Symbols

https://www.bizarro.com/secret-symbols

2 years ago

No tax on tips: Why politicians love it, and economists don't

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5071144/no-tax-on-tips-campaigns-trump-harris

2 years ago

Launch HN: Manaflow (YC S24) – Automate repetitive office work in tables

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41259754

2 years ago

Searching a Codebase in English

https://www.greptile.com/blog/semantic

2 years ago

Genghis Khan, trade warrior (2021)

https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2021/q4_economic_history

2 years ago

When something that was working, suddenly doesn't work when demoing to others

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vorf%C3%BChreffekt

2 years ago

ONNX: The Open Standard for Seamless Machine Learning Interoperability

https://github.com/onnx/onnx

2 years ago

Keep uBlock Origin in Chrome for another year by enabling Enterprise policy

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/15/google-is-killing-ublock-origin-in-chrome-but-this-trick-lets-you-keep-it-for-another-year/

2 years ago

So the Department of Energy emailed me

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/14/so-the-department-of-energy-emailed-me/

2 years ago

Nationalpublicdata.com hack exposes a nation's data

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/nationalpublicdata-com-hack-exposes-a-nations-data/

2 years ago

The real story about the Nord Stream pipeline explosion

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-real-story-da24839c

2 years ago

We have discovered antibiotics in the global microbiome with AI

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1ess914/askscience_ama_series_we_have_discovered/

2 years ago

Mini imported Japanese vehicles may soon be banned on Massachusetts roads

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-08-14/these-mini-imported-japanese-vehicles-may-soon-be-banned-on-massachusetts-roads

2 years ago

Gemlite: Towards Building Custom Low-Bit Fused CUDA Kernels

https://mobiusml.github.io/gemlite_blogpost/

2 years ago