top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-08-28

Diffusion models are real-time game engines

https://gamengen.github.io

2 years ago

Maker Skill Trees

https://github.com/sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree

2 years ago

Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa

https://catonmat.net/fibonacci-miles-kilometers

2 years ago

Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase

https://skip.tools/

2 years ago

The 4-chan Go programmer

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-08-23-the-4-chan-go-programmer/

2 years ago

COSMIC Alpha Released

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-released-heres-what-people-are-saying/

2 years ago

Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1f30ku4/youtube_sabotaging_on_firefox/

2 years ago

Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs

https://github.com/seekbytes/IPA

2 years ago

FCast: Casting Made Open Source

https://fcast.org/

2 years ago

Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI

https://www.windowmaker.org/

2 years ago

A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines

https://discuss.python.org/t/should-we-consider-ranked-choice-voting-for-sc-elections/61880

2 years ago

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

https://www.developer-tech.com/news/judge-dismisses-majority-github-copilot-copyright-claims/

2 years ago

Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair

https://www.404media.co/appliance-and-tractor-companies-lobby-against-giving-the-military-the-right-to-repair/

2 years ago

Typing lists and tuples in Elixir

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/08/28/typing-lists-and-tuples/

2 years ago

Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022)

https://nnethercote.github.io/2022/07/27/twenty-years-of-valgrind.html

2 years ago

Panasonic Toughbook 40

https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/rugged-computers/toughbook-40

2 years ago

Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft

https://stepchange.work/blog/scaling-rails-postgres-to-millions-of-users-at-microsoft-lessons-takeaways

2 years ago

Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/08/27/game-changing-needle-free-covid-19-intranasal-vaccine/

2 years ago

The Future of TLA+ [pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/future.pdf

2 years ago

Show HN: Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps

https://gptengineer.app

2 years ago

Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe

https://departuremono.com

2 years ago

Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files

https://github.com/queer/boxxy

2 years ago

Deterministic Replay of QEMU Emulation

https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/replay.html

2 years ago

Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/27/teslas-ttpoe-at-hot-chips-2024-replacing-tcp-for-low-latency-applications/

2 years ago

Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker

https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

2 years ago

Kotlin for data analysis

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/data-analysis-overview.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread

https://github.com/getomni-ai/datasets/blob/main/hn_projects.md

2 years ago

Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

2 years ago

Micrograd.jl

https://liorsinai.github.io/machine-learning/2024/07/27/micrograd-1-chainrules.html

2 years ago

Home Assistant Presence Simulation

https://github.com/slashback100/presence_simulation

2 years ago

Thoughts on the Durov Arrest

https://prestonbyrne.com/2024/08/24/thoughts-on-the-durov-arrest/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Where to find domain experts for 1:1 tutoring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41384590

2 years ago

The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/

2 years ago

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

https://lwn.net/Articles/987524/

2 years ago

Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355242503_Final_Two_Communications_from_MH370_Supports_Controlled_Eastward_Descent_Scenario

2 years ago

Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem

https://prospect.org/power/2024-08-28-amazon-counterfeit-problem-ink-cartridges/

2 years ago

French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court

https://apnews.com/article/france-telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-6e213d227458f330ed16e7fe221a696c

2 years ago

Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/tumblr-to-move-its-half-a-billion-blogs-to-wordpress/

2 years ago

MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap

https://maproulette.org/

2 years ago

Formal CHERI: design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties (2022)

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/07/22/formal-cheri/

2 years ago

Regex Crossword

https://mathspp.com/blog/problems/regex-crossword

2 years ago

Wp2hugo: Best WordPress to Hugo migrator (written in Go)

https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo

2 years ago

New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2024-anti-toxicity-features

2 years ago

After 12 years at Google, I have decided it is time to move on

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-sproat-3a182411_after-12-years-at-google-18-years-if-you-activity-7233986579529089024--CZW

2 years ago

Show HN: Repo2vec – an open-source library for chatting with any codebase

https://github.com/Storia-AI/repo2vec

2 years ago

The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis

https://pdftranslate.ai/blog/stackoverflow-fall

2 years ago

US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/us-appeals-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-unconstitutional/

2 years ago

We created a new account in Telegram and started looking for a job in Estonia

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1828526705306411410.html

2 years ago

Portraits of insects reveal the intricacies of a world

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-stunning-portraits-of-insects-reveal-the-intricacies-of-an-amazing-world-180984926/

2 years ago

Show HN: Shed Light on Your Go Binary Bloat with Go Size Analyzer

https://github.com/Zxilly/go-size-analyzer

2 years ago

Many small queries are efficient in SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html

2 years ago

Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing

https://img.ly/blog/designing-a-timeline-for-mobile-video-editing/

2 years ago

High-temperature Gibbs states are unentangled and efficiently preparable

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16850

2 years ago

Fermilab is 'doomed' without management overhaul claims whistleblower report

https://physicsworld.com/a/fermilab-is-doomed-without-management-overhaul-claims-whistleblower-report/

2 years ago

Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/human-brain-organoid-bioprocessors-now-available-to-rent-for-dollar500-per-month

2 years ago

Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2025

2 years ago

Tesla drivers say new FSD update is repeatedly running red lights

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-fsd-update-red-lights

2 years ago

Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41379097

2 years ago

What is the longest known sequence that repeats in Pi? (homelab)

https://sponaugle.com/wp/math_pi_repeat/

2 years ago

Jack Welch Screwed Up GE and Boeing, and with Them Much US Climate Action

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/26/jack-welch-screwed-up-ge-boeing-and-with-them-much-us-climate-action/

2 years ago

Telegram boss banned from leaving France in criminal probe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c985ppy0znyo

2 years ago

There is only one amphibian emoji

https://wonger.dev/posts/emoji-animals

2 years ago

Rust Dylib Rabbit Holes

https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2024/08/27/rust-dylib-rabbit-holes.html

2 years ago

State and time are the same thing

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/state-and-time-are-the-same-thing/

2 years ago

Purism Domain Puri.sm Suspended?

https://whois.marcaria.com/en/result?SearchDomain=puri.sm

2 years ago

Meta is accused of "bullying" the open-source community

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/08/28/meta-is-accused-of-bullying-the-open-source-community

2 years ago

OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100B

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-in-talks-for-funding-round-valuing-it-above-100-billion-4f0550c5

2 years ago

Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12569

2 years ago

RunCVM: An open-source Docker runtime for launching container images in VMs

https://github.com/newsnowlabs/runcvm

2 years ago

The Atari 7800

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/inside-the-atari-7800

2 years ago