top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-06

Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker

https://wealthfolio.app

2 years ago

2M users but no money in the bank

https://exercism.org/blog/september-2024-restructure

2 years ago

Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2024/09/04/did-sandia-use-a-thermonuclear-secondary-in-a-product-logo/

2 years ago

Show HN: Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41467704

2 years ago

What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/what-happens-when-you-touch-pickle-am-radio-tower

2 years ago

Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4945566

2 years ago

Nginx has moved to GitHub

https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2024/ITL3AOQSAJANFJXMM3VOVOIGOUADWFFK.html

2 years ago

Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03384

2 years ago

Swift is a more convenient Rust

http://blog.namangoel.com/swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust

2 years ago

The expected value of the game is positive regardless of Ballmer’s strategy

https://gukov.dev/puzzles/math/2024/09/05/steve-ballmer-was-wrong.html

2 years ago

Study: Playing D&D helps autistic players in social interactions

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/study-playing-dungeons-dragons-helps-autistic-players-in-social-interactions/

2 years ago

LwIP – Lightweight IP Stack

https://www.nongnu.org/lwip/2_1_x/index.html

2 years ago

Intent to unship: HTTP/2 Push

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/vU9hJg343U8/m/4cZsHz7TAQAJ

2 years ago

QtCS2024: Compile once, Run everywhere

https://wiki.qt.io/QtCS2024_Compile_once._Run_everywhere

2 years ago

Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?

https://www.goethena.com/post/why-dont-tech-companies-pay-engineers-more-to-stay/

2 years ago

Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Breast Cancer

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/9/958#

2 years ago

Every webpage deserves to be a place

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/05/cursor-party

2 years ago

Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/godot-founders-had-desperately-hoped-unity-wouldn-t-blow-up-

2 years ago

Inertia.js – Build React, Vue, or Svelte apps with server-side routing

https://inertiajs.com/

2 years ago

DevHub.app – Developer Utilities for macOS

https://github.com/jaywcjlove/DevHub

2 years ago

Tomato64: A port of Tomato Firmware to x86_64

https://tomato64.org/

2 years ago

Groups underpin modern math

https://www.quantamagazine.org/groups-underpin-modern-math-heres-how-they-work-20240906/

2 years ago

SQLToy

https://github.com/weinberg/SQLToy/wiki

2 years ago

Oxygene: A modern language built on the foundation of Object Pascal

https://www.remobjects.com/elements/oxygene/

2 years ago

I use Nim instead of Python for data processing (2021)

https://benjamindlee.com/posts/2021/why-i-use-nim-instead-of-python-for-data-processing/

2 years ago

Parkinson's may begin in the gut, study says, adding to growing evidence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/09/05/parkinsons-disease-gut-study/

2 years ago

Oxford commercializes its 20% more powerful solar panels in the US

https://electrek.co/2024/09/05/oxford-commercializes-its-20-more-powerful-solar-panels-in-the-us/

2 years ago

"it's nothing to do with solder. it's capacitors"

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/113084315488845513

2 years ago

Memorizing the first 100 perfect squares (2022)

https://dzhu.page/mathematics/memorizing-100-perfect-squares/

2 years ago

PHP is the new JavaScript?

https://www.mux.com/blog/php-is-the-new-javascript

2 years ago

How to wrap a C compiler and preprocessor, really

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2024/08/27/#how-to-wrap-cc-really

2 years ago

The Founder Mode Tradeoff – By Kent Beck

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-founder-mode-tradeoff

2 years ago

YouTube deletes LTT video for teaching people how to live without Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwP6S_jf7g

2 years ago

Against Rereading

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/09/04/against-rereading/

2 years ago

SAMA – open-source Chat server

https://github.com/SAMA-Communications

2 years ago

Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/06/meta-will-let-third-party-apps-place-calls-to-whatsapp-and-messenger-users-in-2027/

2 years ago

Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury demand disappear

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/09/04/swiss-watchmakers-put-employees-on-state-funded-furlough-as-luxury-demand-disappears/

2 years ago

Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/want-to-watch-every-nfl-game-this-season-its-going-to-cost-you-nearly-2-500-31c4d300

2 years ago

Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tabs-organize-websites-single-window

2 years ago

A Word, Please: Coffee-shop prompt stirs ChatGPT to brew up bland copy

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/story/2024-04-09/a-word-please-coffee-shop-prompt-stirs-chatgpt-to-brew-up-bland-copy

2 years ago

Frustrations with the OCaml ecosystem while developing a synthesizer library

https://www.gridbugs.org/frustrating-interactions-with-the-ocaml-ecosystem-while-developing-a-synthesizer-library/

2 years ago

Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman

https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/

2 years ago

Work with people who tell you when you're stupid

https://www.gkogan.co/stupid/

2 years ago

Adding algebraic data types to Nickel

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2024-09-05-algebraic-data-types-nickel/

2 years ago

Europe Surpasses 900,000 Public EV Charge Points

https://evmarketsreports.com/europe-surpasses-900-000-public-ev-charge-points/

2 years ago

Visa to launch pay-by-bank payments, an alternative to credit cards

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/05/visa-to-launch-pay-by-bank-payments-an-alternative-to-credit-cards.html

2 years ago

Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in proper lighting conditions

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027721000627

2 years ago

My most downvoted StackOverflow answer

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2024-09-yells-at-cloud/

2 years ago

Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx29wzk4r19o

2 years ago

Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/disney-made-2-4-billion-in-revenue-in-3-months-leak-claims/

2 years ago

KDE Again Operated at a Loss During 2023

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-2023-Report

2 years ago

Changes to `impl Trait` in Rust 2024

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/impl-trait-capture-rules.html

2 years ago

Why Login Security Sucks

https://matduggan.com/why-login-security-sucks/

2 years ago

Dell and Palantir to join S&P 500; shares of both jump

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/06/dell-and-palantir-to-join-sp-500-shares-of-both-jump.html

2 years ago