top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-05

Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41461499

2 years ago

742 upvotes – 327 comments

UE5 Nanite in WebGPU

https://github.com/Scthe/nanite-webgpu

2 years ago

★ 1k TypeScript MIT
394 upvotes – 111 comments

Clojure 1.12.0 is now available

https://clojure.org/news/2024/09/05/clojure-1-12-0

2 years ago

391 upvotes – 113 comments

Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent

2 years ago

369 upvotes – 159 comments

Show HN: AnythingLLM – Open-Source, All-in-One Desktop AI Assistant

https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

2 years ago

★ 59k JavaScript MIT
368 upvotes – 77 comments

My job is to watch dreams die (2011)

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/k3zrz/by_request_from_the_jobs_thread_why_my_job_is_to/

2 years ago

361 upvotes – 176 comments

Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-405b-and-better-faster-searches

2 years ago

361 upvotes – 153 comments

AlphaProteo generates novel proteins for biology and health research

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaproteo-generates-novel-proteins-for-biology-and-health-research/

2 years ago

306 upvotes – 98 comments

Yi-Coder: A Small but Mighty LLM for Code

https://01-ai.github.io/blog.html?post=en/2024-09-05-A-Small-but-Mighty-LLM-for-Code.md

2 years ago

285 upvotes – 115 comments

The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside

https://medium.com/@monicah428/the-early-days-of-valve-from-a-woman-inside-bf80c6b47961

2 years ago

240 upvotes – 51 comments

Reflection 70B, the top open-source model

https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1831767014341538166

2 years ago

234 upvotes – 95 comments

Deploying Rust in existing firmware codebases

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/deploying-rust-in-existing-firmware.html

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 109 comments

How a 16th Century Explorer's Sailing Ship Works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pYqXrFx6S8

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 62 comments

Tinystatus: A tiny status page generated by a Python script

https://github.com/harsxv/tinystatus

2 years ago

★ 1.5k Python MIT
205 upvotes – 47 comments

Asking the wrong questions (2017)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/01/11/wrongquestions

2 years ago

203 upvotes – 134 comments

2.7-meters Telescope mirror shot 7 times (1970)

http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/02200/02209.html#Item1

2 years ago

201 upvotes – 86 comments

A Pipeline Made of Airbags

https://ferd.ca/a-pipeline-made-of-airbags.html

2 years ago

198 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Hacker League – Open-Source Rocket League on Linux

https://github.com/moritztng/hacker-league

2 years ago

★ 204 C++ MIT
192 upvotes – 93 comments

Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux

https://catfox.life/2024/09/05/porting-systemd-to-musl-libc-powered-linux/

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 200 comments

Accelerando (2005)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html

2 years ago

192 upvotes – 115 comments

Building a WoW (World of Warcraft) Server in Elixir

https://pikdum.dev/posts/thistle-tea/

2 years ago

186 upvotes – 43 comments

Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests

https://hechingerreport.org/kids-chatgpt-worse-on-tests/

2 years ago

176 upvotes – 157 comments

Serverless-registry: A Docker registry backed by Workers and R2

https://github.com/cloudflare/serverless-registry

2 years ago

★ 1.3k TypeScript Apache-2.0
169 upvotes – 71 comments

Desed: Demystify and debug your sed scripts

https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed

2 years ago

★ 1.2k Rust GPL-3.0
168 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: We built a FOSS documentation CMS with a pretty GUI

https://kalmia.difuse.io/doc/

2 years ago

165 upvotes – 35 comments

Better Dotfiles

https://iamdan.me/better-dotfiles

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 107 comments

Minifying HTML for GPT-4o: Remove all the HTML tags

https://blancas.io/blog/html-minify-for-llm/

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 49 comments

Launch HN: Maitai (YC S24) – Self-Optimizing LLM Platform

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456552

2 years ago

149 upvotes – 75 comments

Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours

https://aethermug.com/posts/boxed

2 years ago

142 upvotes – 112 comments

Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents

https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-mega-landlord-ai-pricing-scheme-hikes-rents/

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 154 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/08/pc-floppy-copy-protection-softguard.html

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Node.js ORM to query SQL database through an array-like API

https://github.com/tilyupo/qustar

2 years ago

★ 324 TypeScript MIT
123 upvotes – 87 comments

A tiny self-remaking C program

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2024/09/05/

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-paper-likelihood.html

2 years ago

119 upvotes – 28 comments

Libations: Tailscale on the Rocks

https://jnsgr.uk/2024/08/tailscale-on-the-rocks

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 30 comments

Giving C++ std:regex a C makeover

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/09/04/

2 years ago

98 upvotes – 73 comments

The Ultra-Selfish Gene

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ultra-selfish-gene/

2 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Nomadic – Minimize RAG Hallucinations with 1 Hyperparameter Experiment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41459121

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Feature Flags Backed by Git

https://www.flipt.io/

2 years ago

93 upvotes – 44 comments

NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2024

https://nsa-codebreaker.org/home

2 years ago

92 upvotes – 85 comments

Cron Jobs on Linux – Comprehensive Guide with Examples

https://ittavern.com/cron-jobs-on-linux-comprehensive-guide/

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 50 comments

Flight engineer reveals what it was like to operate Concorde

https://www.cnn.com/travel/flight-engineers-concorde-warren-hazelby/index.html

2 years ago

86 upvotes – 40 comments

A SpamAssassin Surprise

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/987566/3be928f6e483853d/

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 88 comments

I sold all my Tesla shares (TSLA), here's why

https://electrek.co/2024/09/05/i-sold-all-my-tesla-shares-tsla-why/

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 21 comments

The 'Freakish Radio Writings' of 1924

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/09/05/the-freakish-radio-writings-of-1924/

2 years ago

82 upvotes – 7 comments

Why OpenStack and Kata Containers are both seeing a resurgence of adoption

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-openstack-and-kata-containers-are-both-seeing-a-resurgence-of-adoption/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Claude Memory – Long-term memory for Claude

https://github.com/deshraj/claude-memory

2 years ago

★ 672 TypeScript MIT
76 upvotes – 23 comments

How to Read Deep Learning Paper as a Software Engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7lAo95D-o

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 37 comments

Debugging a memory leak in a Clojure service

https://charanvasu.com/posts/debugging-a-memory-leak-in-a-clojure-service/

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 21 comments

Hacker trap: Fake OnlyFans tool backstabs cybercriminals, steals passwords

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-trap-fake-onlyfans-tool-backstabs-cybercriminals-steals-passwords/

2 years ago

72 upvotes – 29 comments

Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)

http://www.tecr.com/galactica/

2 years ago

69 upvotes – 59 comments

Bringing insights into TCP resets and timeouts to Cloudflare Radar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tcp-resets-timeouts/

2 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Creating a Git commit the hard way

https://avestura.dev/blog/creating-a-git-commit-the-hard-way

2 years ago

67 upvotes – 0 comments

Toyota confirms third-party data breach impacting customers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/toyota-confirms-third-party-data-breach-impacting-customers/

2 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Arduino PLC IDE

https://www.arduino.cc/pro/software-plc-ide

2 years ago

65 upvotes – 86 comments

What to do about America's killer cars

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/09/05/what-to-do-about-americas-killer-cars

2 years ago

64 upvotes – 97 comments

Understanding the Layout Process in Qt Widgets

https://felipefarinon.com/articles/qt-widgets-layout/

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 45 comments

Analysis of adversarial binary search game

https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/analysis-of-adversarial-binary-search-game/

2 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

The Decline of Usability (2020)

https://www.datagubbe.se/decusab/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 45 comments

AI-powered music scam nets musician $10M in royalties–and federal charges

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/fbi-busts-musicians-elaborate-ai-powered-10m-streaming-royalty-heist/

2 years ago

60 upvotes – 89 comments

Newly discovered antibody protects against all Covid-19 variants

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-newly-antibody-covid-variants.html

2 years ago

59 upvotes – 2 comments

Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process

https://github.com/RaisinTen/electron-snapshot-experiment

2 years ago

★ 88 JavaScript
58 upvotes – 55 comments

AT&T Sues Broadcom over VMware Contracts 'Bullying'

https://www.channelfutures.com/channel-business/att-sues-broadcom-over-vmware-contracts-bullying

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 21 comments

The Santander UK iOS app is 613 MB and 35% of it does nothing

https://twitter.com/emergetools/status/1831772650685018352

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 88 comments

Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control

https://www.inkandswitch.com/beehive/notebook/

2 years ago

57 upvotes – 8 comments

Using rsync to create a limited ability to write remote files

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RsyncForLimitedRemoteWrite

2 years ago

55 upvotes – 15 comments

Stop Using Serial in Postgres

https://www.naiyerasif.com/post/2024/09/04/stop-using-serial-in-postgres/

2 years ago

54 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: Assertly – scriptable monitoring for infosec, IT, compliance, DevOps

https://www.assertly.com

2 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

The Many SHAs of a GitHub Pull Request

https://www.kenmuse.com/blog/the-many-shas-of-a-github-pull-request/

2 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments
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