top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-09-08

An NFC movie library for my kids

https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-library-for-my-kids/

2 months ago

1384 upvotes – 314 comments

alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

https://www.alphaxiv.org/

2 months ago

549 upvotes – 178 comments

Reclaim the Stack

https://reclaim-the-stack.com

2 months ago

496 upvotes – 321 comments

Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money

https://newatlas.com/marine/how-to-stretch-cruise-ship/

2 months ago

346 upvotes – 347 comments

Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

2 months ago

319 upvotes – 144 comments

Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup

https://ahmadosman.com/blog/serving-ai-from-basement/

2 months ago

318 upvotes – 268 comments

FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

2 months ago

297 upvotes – 223 comments

Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]

https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/bmjph/2/1/e001000.full.pdf

2 months ago

285 upvotes – 185 comments

Core: an experimental new way to write videogames

https://github.com/damn/core

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 213 comments

Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)

https://www.joeshaw.org/dont-defer-close-on-writable-files/

2 months ago

253 upvotes – 302 comments

Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents first increases lifespan by 50%

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1056171

2 months ago

249 upvotes – 109 comments

The Fennel Programming Language

https://fennel-lang.org/

2 months ago

235 upvotes – 77 comments

Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe code

https://sqlc.dev/

2 months ago

232 upvotes – 104 comments

Microui+fenster=Small GUI

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/fenster-microui/

2 months ago

231 upvotes – 36 comments

The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want

https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/muscular-imagination/

2 months ago

231 upvotes – 258 comments

Swimmable Cities

https://www.swimmablecities.org

2 months ago

226 upvotes – 192 comments

Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/08/goodbye-tinder-hello-strava-have-hobby-apps-become-the-new-social-networks

2 months ago

225 upvotes – 251 comments

The Canary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/michael-lewis-chris-marks-the-canary-who-is-government/

2 months ago

217 upvotes – 53 comments

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

2 months ago

213 upvotes – 99 comments

Linux's Bedtime Routine

https://tookmund.com/2024/09/hibernation-preparation

2 months ago

206 upvotes – 27 comments
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