top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-03

Is My Blue Your Blue?

https://ismy.blue/

2 years ago

Greppability is an underrated code metric

https://morizbuesing.com/blog/greppability-code-metric/

2 years ago

EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series

https://ninjalab.io/eucleak/

2 years ago

The Engineering of Landfills

https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/9/3/the-hidden-engineering-of-landfills

2 years ago

Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41d4bd6029044afbb1b9ad805a4731d8

2 years ago

Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization

https://victortao.substack.com/p/song-pong

2 years ago

LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly

https://www.michaelpj.com/blog/2024/09/03/lsp-good-bad-ugly.html

2 years ago

IPMI

https://computer.rip/2024-08-31-ipmi.html

2 years ago

Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/steve-ballmers-binary-search-interview.html

2 years ago

Mondragon as the new city-state

https://www.elysian.press/p/mondragon-as-the-new-city-state

2 years ago

Why bother with argv[0]?

https://www.wietzebeukema.nl/blog/why-bother-with-argv0

2 years ago

Chromatone – Visual Music Language

https://chromatone.center/

2 years ago

Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder

https://repaint.com

2 years ago

Your Name in Landsat

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD

https://www.hestus.co/

2 years ago

Diffusion Is Spectral Autoregression

https://sander.ai/2024/09/02/spectral-autoregression.html

2 years ago

Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all

https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-recall-feature-cant-be-uninstalled

2 years ago

Llms.txt

https://llmstxt.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: Pulsar, micro creative coding playground

https://muffinman.io/pulsar/

2 years ago

Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores, Part I: The Silicon

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/zen-cuda-and-tensor-cores-part-i

2 years ago

How the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-higgs-field-actually-gives-mass-to-elementary-particles-20240903/

2 years ago

Wizardry Co-Creator Andrew Greenberg Has Passed Away

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/09/wizardry-co-creator-andrew-greenberg-has-passed-away

2 years ago

Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs

https://github.com/Emacs101/howm-manual

2 years ago

The Elements of APIs (2021)

https://johnholdun.com/apis/

2 years ago

Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality

https://www.ft.com/content/ec06fe06-6150-4f39-8175-37b9b61a5520

2 years ago

A photographer captures life in America's last remaining old-growth forests

https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2024/09/03/g-s1-5057/photographer-captures-life-in-old-growth-forests

2 years ago

Apache Zeppelin

https://zeppelin.apache.org/

2 years ago

Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01930

2 years ago

Writing a book in the age of open source

https://blog.incrementalforgetting.tech/p/sculpting-a-book-the-chisel

2 years ago

OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament

2 years ago

Graph Language Models

https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.245/

2 years ago

The Fourier Uncertainty Principles [pdf] (2021)

https://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2021/REUPapers/Dubey.pdf

2 years ago

Feds killed 2014 plan to curb Medicare Advantage overbilling

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicare-advantage-overbilling-diagnostic-codes-cms-killed-rule/

2 years ago

Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid

https://climate.benjames.io/solar-will-get-too-cheap-to-connect-to-the-power-grid/

2 years ago

For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-psychiatric-narrative-hinders-those-who-hear-voices

2 years ago

gRPC: The Ugly Parts

https://kmcd.dev/posts/grpc-the-ugly-parts/

2 years ago

QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know

https://nick-gravgaard.com/qwerty-flip/

2 years ago

The Memory Wall: Past, Present, and Future of DRAM

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-memory-wall

2 years ago

Vue 3.5 released

https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-3-5

2 years ago

The origins of the steam engine (2023)

https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/steam-engine-origins

2 years ago

Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox

https://fetchfoxai.com/

2 years ago

Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid

https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/

2 years ago

Show HN: PlasCAD: Open-source plasmid editor

https://github.com/David-OConnor/plascad

2 years ago

I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me

https://www.businessinsider.com/asked-leave-event-female-founders-y-combinator-because-baby-2024-9

2 years ago

Sony shutting down Concord, refunds after 2 week launch. 8 year dev, 25k sales

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/two-weeks-after-launch-sony-shooter-concord-goes-offline-and-offers-refunds/

2 years ago

Oya, I've heard of mega-ROMs

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2024/09/03/msx-megarom-oyanami.html

2 years ago

IBM 305 RAMAC and the 1960 Winter Olympics

https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/ibm-ramac-and-1960-winter-olympics.html

2 years ago

Clearview AI faces $45.6M fine in the Netherlands for 'illegal database of faces

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/clearview-ai-netherlands-1.7311631

2 years ago

Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happiest resort (2023)

https://www.netincome.co/p/getting-price-gouged-by-private-equity

2 years ago

GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

https://twitter.com/adguard/status/1831040130641252839

2 years ago

Natural Piezoelectric Effect May Build Gold Deposits

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/natural-piezoelectric-effect-may-build-gold-deposits/

2 years ago

Software Rasterizing Hair

https://www.sctheblog.com/blog/hair-software-rasterize/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Where are the part-time remote coding jobs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41435656

2 years ago

Unveiling Mac Security: Comprehensive Exploration of Sandboxing and AppData TCC

https://imlzq.com/apple/macos/2024/08/24/Unveiling-Mac-Security-A-Comprehensive-Exploration-of-TCC-Sandboxing-and-App-Data-TCC.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Epistolary – Respond to your emails in handwriting

https://github.com/j6k4m8/epistolary

2 years ago

Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/sep/02/amazon-is-trying-to-trick-me-into-signing-up-for-prime-services

2 years ago

Will open science change chemistry?

https://www.chemistryworld.com/careers/will-open-science-change-chemistry/4020023.article

2 years ago

Canva Hikes Pices by 300pc as It Readies for IPO

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/canva-hikes-prices-by-300pc-as-it-readies-for-ipo.html

2 years ago

Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/03/make-your-own-cdn-netbsd/

2 years ago

gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It?

https://kostyay.com/grpc-5-years-later-is-it-still-worth-it-b181a3b2b73b

2 years ago

A picture of the sun, taken with a neutrino detector, at night through the Earth

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/2402/the-sun-at-night

2 years ago

Whistleblower who warned about Florida state parks fired by state agency

https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2024/09/03/florida-state-parks-whistleblower-james-gaddis-leaked-plans/

2 years ago

Smaller, Weaker, yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16737

2 years ago

Doom on a Volumetric Display [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na7pvihXhYs

2 years ago