top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-02

1M Users

https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1245177

2 years ago

The Art of Finishing

https://www.bytedrum.com/posts/art-of-finishing/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425910

2 years ago

Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'

https://news.yale.edu/2024/08/14/sleep-it-how-brain-processes-many-experiences-even-when-offline

2 years ago

Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive

https://blancas.io/blog/ai-web-scraper/

2 years ago

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods

https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/

2 years ago

Show HN: Defrag the Game

https://defrag-game.com

2 years ago

OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

https://orbstack.dev/

2 years ago

Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency

https://github.com/Glimesh/broadcast-box

2 years ago

Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years

https://www.openculture.com/2024/08/how-the-oldest-company-in-the-world-has-survived-nearly-1500-years.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System

https://govukvue.org/

2 years ago

Tbsp – treesitter-based source processing language

https://git.peppe.rs/languages/tbsp/

2 years ago

Telephone Line Rural Outside Plant

http://cityinfrastructure.com/single.php?d=RuralOutsidePlant&t=Rural%20Outside%20Plant

2 years ago

People can read their manager's mind (2015)

https://yosefk.com/blog/people-can-read-their-managers-mind.html

2 years ago

My Blog Engine Is the Erlang Build Tool

https://ferd.ca/my-blog-engine-is-the-erlang-build-tool.html

2 years ago

DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound

https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS

2 years ago

Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages

https://github.com/pythonbrad/afrim

2 years ago

Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/owners-of-1-time-passcode-theft-service-plead-guilty/

2 years ago

Playdate Game Zero Zero: Perfect Stop

https://play.date/games/zero-zero/

2 years ago

Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux

https://syscall.eu/blog/2024/08/28/toshiba_hdd_firmware/

2 years ago

Dawarich: Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History

https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

2 years ago

They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket

https://kevinboone.me/headphonejack.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41425908

2 years ago

Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

https://www.dogesec.com/blog/full_text_rss_atom_blog_feeds/

2 years ago

NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/30/health/nih-havana-syndrome-study/index.html

2 years ago

Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/02/g-s1-20579/iran-sentenced-12-years-tweet-supreme-leader

2 years ago

What Does It Mean to Learn?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-does-it-really-mean-to-learn

2 years ago

Open Mathematics Depository

https://openmathdep.tuxfamily.org/

2 years ago

Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image (2014)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2014/jun/13/photoshop-first-image-jennifer-in-paradise-photography-artefact-knoll-dullaart

2 years ago

HIDman Adapting USB devices to work on old computers

https://github.com/rasteri/HIDman

2 years ago

Achieving high Python performance with code generation (2022)

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/advanced-python-achieving-high-performance-with-code-generation-796b177ec79

2 years ago

Light-based technique shows 90% accuracy in early prostate cancer detection

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-based-technique-accuracy-early-prostate.html

2 years ago

Understanding the Y Combinator

https://8dcc.github.io/programming/understanding-y-combinator.html

2 years ago

Long-term unemployment leads to disengagement and apathy

https://www.psypost.org/long-term-unemployment-leads-to-disengagement-and-apathy-rather-than-efforts-to-regain-control/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for multi-tenant SaaS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426998

2 years ago

How the Hourglass Won

https://systemsapproach.org/2024/08/19/how-the-hourglass-won/

2 years ago

Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, etc.

https://news.itsfoss.com/ad-company-listening-to-microphone/

2 years ago

The work you do, the person you are (2017)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/toni-morrison-the-work-you-do-the-person-you-are

2 years ago

Parsing Awk Is Tricky

https://www.raygard.net/awkdoc/pages/awk_parsing_is_tricky.html

2 years ago

AI-Implanted False Memories

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/ai-false-memories/overview/

2 years ago

Inductive or deductive? Rethinking the fundamental reasoning abilities of LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00114

2 years ago

China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/China-s-chip-capabilities-just-3-years-behind-TSMC-teardown-shows

2 years ago

Mother's gut microbiome during pregnancy shapes baby's brain development

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-mother-gut-microbiome-pregnancy-baby.html

2 years ago

'Dancing' raisins − a simple kitchen experiment

https://theconversation.com/dancing-raisins-a-simple-kitchen-experiment-reveals-how-objects-can-extract-energy-from-their-environment-and-come-to-life-223255

2 years ago

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone's Microphone to S

https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

2 years ago

I hate Stripe, so I'm going to build my own payment processor

https://old.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1f762xf/i_hate_stripe_so_im_going_to_build_my_own_payment/

2 years ago

Big Tech Sees Like a State (2020)

https://www.thediff.co/archive/big-tech-sees-like-a-state/

2 years ago

Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company

https://old.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1f79vk6/former_sonos_engineer_here_heartbroken_by_the_app/

2 years ago

'Amazing' Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/01/amazing-viking-age-treasure-travelled-half-the-world-to-scotland-analysis-finds

2 years ago

Understanding Pgvector's HNSW Index Storage in Postgres

https://lantern.dev/blog/pgvector-storage

2 years ago

Meta data center electricity consumption hits 14,975GWh

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-data-center-electricity-consumption-hits-14975gwh-leased-data-center-use-nearly-doubles/

2 years ago

We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/we-can-now-watch-grace-hoppers-famed-1982-lecture-on-youtube/

2 years ago

Cosy Computing

https://www.datagubbe.se/cosy/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Resources for GPU Compilers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428118

2 years ago

Show HN: Replicate App-Embedded DuckDBs into PostgreSQL with SyncLite OSS

https://github.com/syncliteio/SyncLite

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source Software for Designing 3D-Printable Luneburg Lenses for RF

https://github.com/jboirazian/LuneForge

2 years ago

Here a Bee, There a Bee, Everywhere a Wild Bee

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/here-a-bee-there-a-bee-everywhere-a-wild-bee/

2 years ago

Procreate defies AI trend, pledges "no generative AI" in its illustration app

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/procreate-defies-ai-trend-pledges-no-generative-ai-in-its-illustration-app/

2 years ago

Brazil to Fine Anyone Using a VPN to Access X $8,874 per Day; Elon Musk Responds

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/treyalston/brazil-x-elon-musk-fine

2 years ago

In the beginning, there was computation

https://nautil.us/in-the-beginning-there-was-computation-787023/

2 years ago

Tech firms were fighting a war for talent. Now they are waging war on talent

http://www.rosspettit.com/2024/08/for-years-tech-was-fighting-war-for.html

2 years ago

We must break tech monopolies before they break us

https://thenextweb.com/news/break-tech-monopolies-before-break-us

2 years ago

Code Smarter, Not Harder: Developing with Cursor and Claude Sonnet

https://jstoppa.com/posts/artificial-intelligence/fundamentals/code-smarter-not-harder-developing-with-cursor-and-claude-sonnet/post/

2 years ago

Show HN: A YouTube videos course generator

https://coursely.ai

2 years ago