top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-10

Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio

https://illuminate.google.com/home

2 years ago

A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time

https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-saving-compute-1-percent-at-a-time/

2 years ago

Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/10/apple-loses-eu-court-battle-over-13-billion-euro-tax-bill-in-ireland.html

2 years ago

New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/10/nyt-tech-union-strike-vote

2 years ago

Another police raid in Germany

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-artikel-5-e-v-another-police-raid-in-germany-general-assembly-on-sep-21st-2024/14533

2 years ago

What you can get out of a high-quality font

https://sinja.io/blog/get-maximum-out-of-your-font

2 years ago

Just for Fun (2022)

https://justforfunnoreally.dev

2 years ago

Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end

https://github.com/yournextstore/yournextstore

2 years ago

Some of us like "interdiff" code review

https://gist.github.com/thoughtpolice/9c45287550a56b2047c6311fbadebed2

2 years ago

Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life

https://www.chaidiscovery.com/blog/introducing-chai-1

2 years ago

Why Not Comments

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-not-comments/

2 years ago

DOJ claims Google has "trifecta of monopolies" on Day 1 of ad tech trial

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/doj-claims-google-has-trifecta-of-monopolies-on-day-1-of-ad-tech-trial/

2 years ago

Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies

https://www.pcmag.com/news/flipper-zero-gets-major-firmware-update

2 years ago

Satellites Spotting Aircraft

https://tech.marksblogg.com/ai-sar-satellites-umbra-aircraft-detection.html

2 years ago

Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell

https://www.ii.com/git-bash-is-my-preferred-windows-shell/

2 years ago

Tutorial on diffusion models for imaging and vision

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18103

2 years ago

Lottery Simulator (2023)

https://perthirtysix.com/tool/lottery-simulator

2 years ago

Debugging in the Multiverse

https://antithesis.com/blog/multiverse_debugging/

2 years ago

Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives

https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives

2 years ago

Exploring the scalable matrix extension of the Apple M4 processor

https://github.com/tzakharko/m4-sme-exploration

2 years ago

Radiology-specific foundation model

https://harrison.ai/harrison-rad-1/

2 years ago

Google loses EU court battle over €2.4B antitrust fine

https://www.politico.eu/article/google-loses-court-battle-over-first-eu-antitrust-fine/

2 years ago

Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database

https://visualdb.com/

2 years ago

Our Git Hash Bug

https://tmendez.dev/posts/rng-git-hash-bug/

2 years ago

Going open-source as a VC-Backed company

https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/open-source-strategy/

2 years ago

How we made Jupyter notebooks load faster

https://www.singlestore.com/blog/how-we-made-notebooks-load-10-times-faster/

2 years ago

The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience

http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-disunity-of-consciousness-in.html

2 years ago

Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads

https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

2 years ago

Show HN: Free tool to find RSS feeds, even if not linked on the page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41499905

2 years ago

Rust in illumos

https://wegmueller.it/blog/posts/2024-09-02-rust-on-illumos

2 years ago

We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/10/brute_force_ai_era_gartner/

2 years ago

Arvo Pärt's Journey

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/arvo-parts-journey

2 years ago

GPTs and Hallucination

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3688007

2 years ago

Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript

https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/multispectral-imaging-and-the-voynich-manuscript/

2 years ago

Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter

https://reactionwheel.net/2024/09/resignation-letter.html

2 years ago

Making progress on side projects with content-driven development

https://ntietz.com/blog/making-progress-with-content-driven-development/

2 years ago

Affordable DE10-Nano compatible boards for MiSTer FPGA retro platform

https://www.retrorgb.com/mister-pi-de-10-nano-clone-up-for-sale-today.html

2 years ago

K1 Buys MariaDB

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/k1-acquires-mariadb-a-leading-database-software-company-and-appoints-new-ceo-302243508.html

2 years ago

My Homelab Setup

https://arslan.io/2024/09/10/my-homelab-setup/

2 years ago

Do Animals Know That They Will Die?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/09/grieving-death-chimpanzees-thanatology/679750/

2 years ago

EU top court confirms Apple's €13 billion tax bill in the EU

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-top-court-rules-against-apple-google/a-70175532

2 years ago

On over-engineering; finding the right balance

https://www.16elt.com/2024/09/07/future-proof-code/

2 years ago

Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2245/tesla-updates-fsd-package-can-now-only-buy-fsd-supervised

2 years ago

Irish museum solves mystery of Bronze Age axe heads delivered in porridge box

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/25/irish-museum-solves-mystery-of-bronze-age-axe-heads-delivered-in-porridge-box

2 years ago

Show HN: DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py

2 years ago

Show HN: GitOps Template for Kubernetes

https://github.com/glasskube/gitops-template/

2 years ago

Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page

https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1833253001668268242

2 years ago

Playstation 5 Pro

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/10/welcome-playstation-5-pro-the-most-visually-impressive-way-to-play-games-on-playstation/

2 years ago

ClickHouse Data Modeling for Postgres Users

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-to-clickhouse-data-modeling-tips

2 years ago

Deductive Verification for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03872

2 years ago

Pixhell Attack: Leaking Info from Air-Gap Computers via 'Singing Pixels'

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04930

2 years ago

Sail – Unify stream processing, batch processing and compute-intensive workloads

https://github.com/lakehq/sail

2 years ago

Don't Take Advice from a Habsburg

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-20/eduard-habsburg-the-habsburg-way-review

2 years ago

Who uses Accept-Language header?

https://serpapi.com/blog/who-uses-accept-language-header/

2 years ago

SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval

https://www.spacex.com/updates/#starships-fly

2 years ago

Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-source-control-scalable/

2 years ago

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tardigrade/

2 years ago

EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf]

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-09/cp240133en.pdf

2 years ago

Critical Resources and the First 14 KB (2022)

https://www.tunetheweb.com/blog/critical-resources-and-the-first-14kb/

2 years ago

The Spellbinding Life of Koji Kashin: Japan's Legendary Wandering Magician

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/japanese-culture/the-spellbinding-life-of-koji-kashin-japans-legendary-wandering-magician/

2 years ago

Hypermedia Controls: Feral to Formal (PDF: ACM HT'24)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3648188.3675127

2 years ago

SQLite is not a toy database

https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/

2 years ago

Google and Apple Face Billions in Penalties After Losing E.U. Appeals

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/technology/european-union-apple-google-antitrust.html

2 years ago

How to Monetize a Blog (Satire)

https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

2 years ago

Strtod Is Wild

https://festina-lente-productions.com/articles/strtod-is-wild/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How can I monetise an open source app of mine that has become popular?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41501470

2 years ago

People who are colorblind are less likely to be picky eaters

https://theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-that-people-who-are-colorblind-are-less-likely-to-be-picky-eaters-232438

2 years ago

Flipper Zero Firmware 1.0 Release

https://blog.flipper.net/released-firmware-1/

2 years ago

Fman Build System

https://build-system.fman.io/

2 years ago

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics

https://github.com/osquery/osquery

2 years ago

Haskell Postgres Stored Procedures

https://github.com/ed-o-saurus/PLHaskell

2 years ago

Nearly 40 states back surgeon general's social media warning labels

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24240920/state-ags-back-surgeon-general-social-media-warning-labels

2 years ago

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/voyager-program/voyager-1/voyager-1-team-accomplishes-tricky-thruster-swap/

2 years ago

The US finally takes aim at truck bloat

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design

2 years ago