top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-16

VanillaJSX.com

https://vanillajsx.com/

2 years ago

Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition

https://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi4.html

2 years ago

CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/starbucks-victoria-s-secret-are-part-of-broader-trend-of-remote-ceos

2 years ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk

https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford_ECON295%E2%A7%B8CS323_I_2024_I_The_Age_of_AI%2C_Eric_Schmidt.txt

2 years ago

CSS Grid Areas

https://ishadeed.com/article/css-grid-area/

2 years ago

Games People Play with Cash Flow (2020)

https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/

2 years ago

PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser

https://pyscript.net/

2 years ago

Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)

https://boz.com/articles/advice-not-permission

2 years ago

Aristotle – How to live a good life

https://ralphammer.com/aristotle-how-to-live-a-good-life/

2 years ago

MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1275.pdf

2 years ago

Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1etko9h/family_poisoned_after_using_aigenerated_mushroom/

2 years ago

A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard

https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/curtis-eckerman-photographer-moth-man/

2 years ago

Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/163185/torvalds-quote-about-good-programmer

2 years ago

Renderings Created with Only a Pencil

https://www.core77.com/posts/133324/Fighting-Through-Mental-Struggles-Incredible-Renderings-Created-with-Only-a-Pencil

2 years ago

Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

https://frankforce.com/space-huggers-how-i-made-a-game-in-13-kilobytes/

2 years ago

Seven basic rules for causal inference

https://pedermisager.org/blog/seven_basic_rules_for_causal_inference/

2 years ago

The future of Deep Learning frameworks

https://neel04.github.io/my-website/blog/pytorch_rant/

2 years ago

The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth

https://www.userlandia.com/home/iigs-mhz-myth

2 years ago

What Is a Knowledge Graph?

https://neo4j.com/blog/what-is-knowledge-graph/

2 years ago

Yesterday's Pixels, Today

https://nas.sr/text/yesterdays-pixels-today/

2 years ago

FUTO

https://www.futo.org/

2 years ago

Better Living Through Algorithms (2023)

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/

2 years ago

Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos

https://hollisbrown.github.io/blendershortcuts/

2 years ago

Does Reasoning Emerge? Probabilities of Causation in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08210

2 years ago

LLM and Bug Finding: Insights from a $2M Winning Team in the White House's AIxCC

https://team-atlanta.github.io/blog/post-atl/

2 years ago

There Is No Website

https://www.thereisnoweb.site/

2 years ago

Zngur: A C++/Rust interop tool

https://hkalbasi.github.io/zngur/

2 years ago

Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions

https://franknez.com/massive-banks-are-now-accused-of-cheating-customers-billions/

2 years ago

Ditch banks – Go with money market funds and treasuries

https://thefinancebuff.com/goodbye-banks-credit-unions.html

2 years ago

ThreadPlotter – toolkit for punch needle embroidery with X-Y plotters (2020)

https://github.com/LiciaHe/threadPlotter

2 years ago

Spine – 2D skeletal animation for games, with physical secondary motions

https://en.esotericsoftware.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: A ninja's Handbook: A book on privacy, security, and anonymity online

https://zolagonano.github.io/a-ninjas-handbook/

2 years ago

Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Pixel-smartphones-delivered-with-secret-but-inactive-remote-maintenance-9836887.html

2 years ago

Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-a-covert-iranian-influence-operation/

2 years ago

Show HN: Wikipedia Browser a La Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes

https://steezeburger.com/wikipedia-browser/

2 years ago

The LMAX Architecture (2011)

https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html

2 years ago

Abel, the Mozart of Mathematics

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/abel-the-mozart-of-mathematics

2 years ago

When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)

https://teresaelsey.medium.com/when-nothing-ever-goes-out-of-print-maintaining-backlist-ebooks-fcd63e680667

2 years ago

How high speed fiber optic internet cables are made

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/fiber-optic-cables-made-materials-high-speed-internet/

2 years ago

Automating My /Now Page

https://akashgoswami.dev/posts/automating-my-now-page/

2 years ago

MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-engineers-design-tiny-batteries-powering-cell-sized-robots-0815

2 years ago

JPlag – Detecting Software Plagiarism

https://github.com/jplag/JPlag

2 years ago

Military sexual assaults far exceed DoD estimates, new report finds

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-08-15/military-sexual-assault-numbers-14871731.html

2 years ago

Py5, a Python version of Processing for your creative coding projects

http://py5coding.org/index.html

2 years ago

ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn't have to disconnect users accused of piracy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/isp-to-supreme-court-we-shouldnt-have-to-disconnect-users-accused-of-piracy/

2 years ago

Show HN: Cleed – Simple feed reader for the command line

https://github.com/radulucut/cleed

2 years ago

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done

https://bluepnume.medium.com/the-shortest-strangest-engineering-interview-ive-ever-done-950e8fa95f4e

2 years ago

Fun times with energy-based models

https://mpmisko.github.io/2024/ai-fundamentals-energy-based-models/

2 years ago

A web scraping CLI made for AI that is idempotent

https://github.com/clemlesne/scrape-it-now

2 years ago

Soft Deletes with Ecto and PostgreSQL

https://dashbit.co/blog/soft-deletes-with-ecto

2 years ago

Postgres feature you're not using – CTEs a.k.a. WITH clauses

https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/11/18/best-postgres-feature-youre-not-using/

2 years ago

The Untold Story of SQLite (2021)

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

2 years ago

Apple's Hold on the App Store Is Loosening, at Least in Europe

https://www.wsj.com/tech/epic-games-apple-app-store-europe-44ceda50

2 years ago

Vaseline and Uranium Glass (ca. 1930s)

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/glass/vaseline-uranium-glass.html

2 years ago

The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time

https://tomeraberba.ch/the-1-hour-per-year-bug

2 years ago

Supporting game design with evolutionary algorithms

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/supporting-game-design-with-evolutionary-algorithms

2 years ago

SREBench Competition

https://sreben.ch/

2 years ago

Disney's not alone in saying your clicks means you can't sue

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/16/politics/arbitration-signing-away-rights-disney-plus-wrongful-death-lawsuit/index.html

2 years ago

Can Large Language Models Understand Symbolic Graphics Programs?

https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.08313

2 years ago

The first mass-produced DRAM of the Soviet Union

https://www.cpushack.com/2023/12/21/the-first-mass-produced-dram-of-the-soviet-union/

2 years ago

The Bare Minimum Beats: Panasonic's RD-9844 Rhythm Machine

https://nicole.express/2024/panasonic-the-hedgehog.html

2 years ago

the US government has to start paying for things again

https://www.vox.com/policy/367278/us-national-debt-gdp-government-inflation-solutions-recession

2 years ago

Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder

https://github.com/tryglow/glow

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why are AI generated images so shiny/glossy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41262547

2 years ago

A New Theory of Distraction (2015)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-new-theory-of-distraction

2 years ago

Epic Games Store Launches on iPhone in EU, Brings Fortnite Back to iOS

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/16/epic-games-store-launches-ios-eu/

2 years ago

.kkrieger – An FPS game from 2004 in 96kb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

2 years ago

The Flywheel Effect

https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-flywheel.html

2 years ago