top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-17

Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/

2 months ago

1076 upvotes – 2528 comments

Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured as devices explode

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/dozens-of-hezbollah-members-said-serious-injured-in-beirut-as-devices-explode-in-alleged-israeli-op/

2 months ago

708 upvotes – 23 comments

Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board

https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-details/independent-directors-23andme-resign-board/

2 months ago

633 upvotes – 350 comments

Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail

https://www.obdev.at/blog/warning-macos-sequoia-15-may-bypass-dns-encryption/

2 months ago

535 upvotes – 206 comments

Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

2 months ago

516 upvotes – 57 comments

Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/09/fixing-an-elgato-hd60-s-hdmi-capture-device-with-the-help-of-ghidra/

2 months ago

510 upvotes – 96 comments

Swift 6

https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-6/

2 months ago

397 upvotes – 354 comments

Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

https://github.com/voideditor/void

2 months ago

347 upvotes – 155 comments

GraalPy – A high-performance embeddable Python 3 runtime for Java

https://www.graalvm.org/python/

2 months ago

325 upvotes – 141 comments

Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2024/08/13/california-jewelry-business-sues-indiana-over-seized-cash-fedex-henry-minh-inc/74788610007/

2 months ago

297 upvotes – 243 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers

https://shikaan.github.io/assembly/x86/guide/2024/09/08/x86-64-introduction-hello.html

2 months ago

286 upvotes – 60 comments

The centrality of stupidity in mathematics

https://mathforlove.com/2024/09/the-centrality-of-stupidity-in-mathematics/

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 173 comments

Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTUqPue9sQ

2 months ago

279 upvotes – 56 comments

Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/09/16/hot-sf/

2 months ago

276 upvotes – 131 comments

Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone

https://github.com/pencilresearch/OpenScanner

2 months ago

264 upvotes – 81 comments

Chain of Thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12875

2 months ago

261 upvotes – 184 comments

Why to Not Write a Book

https://gwern.net/book-writing

2 months ago

252 upvotes – 209 comments

OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/minimal-js-tracing/

2 months ago

251 upvotes – 36 comments

The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy

https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/09/12/the-double-irish-dutch-sandwich-end-of-a-tax-evasion-strategy/

2 months ago

241 upvotes – 238 comments

Rio: Web apps in pure Python

https://github.com/rio-labs/rio

2 months ago

200 upvotes – 192 comments

Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-technology/reports-death-dental-cavities-are-greatly-exaggerated

2 months ago

196 upvotes – 163 comments

Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres

https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog

2 months ago

192 upvotes – 49 comments

What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563621

2 months ago

190 upvotes – 190 comments

WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image

https://kovenyu.com/wonderworld/

2 months ago

188 upvotes – 18 comments

Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021)

https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book

2 months ago

177 upvotes – 54 comments

Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization

https://twitter.com/bradneuberg/status/1835680235049869495

2 months ago

177 upvotes – 114 comments

Things you should know about Windows Input, but would rather not

https://ph3at.github.io/posts/Windows-Input/

2 months ago

176 upvotes – 107 comments

47-year-old Voyager 1 fired up thrusters it hasn't used in decades

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/science/voyager-1-thruster-issue/index.html

2 months ago

166 upvotes – 83 comments

FreeBSD 13.4-Release

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.4R/announce/

2 months ago

162 upvotes – 52 comments

Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/

2 months ago

159 upvotes – 118 comments

Scientists find new blood group after 50-year mystery

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmgg493ek8o

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations

https://github.com/finic-ai/finic

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 77 comments

A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class

https://longreads.com/2024/09/05/spin-masculinity-loneliness-friendship/

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 200 comments

Launch HN: Marblism (YC W24) – Generate full-stack web apps from a prompt

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41568343

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 91 comments

Pixtral 12B

https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-12b/

2 months ago

131 upvotes – 25 comments

TexTube: Chat with any YouTube video transcript in ChatGPT fast

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-2KencLm4f-textube

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 88 comments

In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

https://spectrum.ieee.org/first-tv

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'

https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/amazon-andy-jassy-rto-mandate-employees-angry/

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 145 comments

Cold war spy satellites and AI detect ancient underground aqueducts

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2448049-cold-war-spy-satellites-and-ai-detect-ancient-underground-aqueducts/

2 months ago

119 upvotes – 20 comments

Signatures of gravitational atoms from black hole mergers

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/133

2 months ago

116 upvotes – 85 comments

Rustpad is an efficient and minimal open-source collaborative text editor

https://github.com/ekzhang/rustpad

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 17 comments

Leaked internal documents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center

https://vsquare.org/leaked-files-putin-troll-factory-russia-european-elections-factory-of-fakes/

2 months ago

108 upvotes – 49 comments

GPU Debug Scopes

https://wunkolo.github.io/post/2024/09/gpu-debug-scopes/

2 months ago

102 upvotes – 7 comments

Why is it so hard to go back to the moon?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-it-so-much-harder-for-nasa-to-send-people-to-the-moon-now-than-it-was-during-the-apollo-era/

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 143 comments

A Curried Composition Puzzle

https://franklin.dyer.me/post/212

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 15 comments

Exploding pagers injure hundreds in attack targeting Hezbollah members

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Opik, an open source LLM evaluation framework

https://github.com/comet-ml/opik

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Race conditions in Linux Kernel perf events

https://binarygecko.com/race-conditions-in-linux-kernel-perf-events/

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 12 comments

Titan Submersible Marine Board of Investigation

https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 36 comments

Casio FW-91 replaced with smart internals

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 19 comments

Chain of thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems

https://twitter.com/denny_zhou/status/1835761801453306089

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 2 comments

Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 84 comments

An interactive core memory electronic kit

https://www.core64.io

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments

IBM acquires Kubecost

https://newsroom.ibm.com/blog-ibm-acquires-kubecost-to-broaden-hybrid-cloud-cost-management-capabilities

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 56 comments

Advice on Reading Homer in Translation

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/09/15/advice-on-reading-homer-in-translation/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 52 comments
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