top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-20

Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery

https://github.com/lds133/weather_landscape

2 years ago

Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35.%20Linux4004

2 years ago

Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

https://container-desktop.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Put this touch sensor on a robot and learn super precise tasks

https://any-skin.github.io

2 years ago

NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-spacecraft-probe-possibility-life-europa-s-salty-ocean

2 years ago

CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU

https://github.com/cupy/cupy

2 years ago

Contextual Retrieval

https://www.anthropic.com/news/contextual-retrieval

2 years ago

Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604950

2 years ago

Critical Exploit in MediaTek Wi-Fi Chipsets: Zero-Click Vulnerability

https://blog.coffinsec.com/0day/2024/08/30/exploiting-CVE-2024-20017-four-different-ways.html

2 years ago

Openpilot – Operating system for robotics

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

2 years ago

Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12917

2 years ago

Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means for Your Photos

https://petapixel.com/2024/09/18/why-apple-uses-jpeg-xl-in-the-iphone-16-and-what-it-means-for-your-photos/

2 years ago

Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/20/24249949/intel-qualcomm-rumor-takeover-acquisition-arm-x86

2 years ago

Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated

https://ukfoundations.co

2 years ago

Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition

https://therecord.media/federal-civil-rights-watchdog-facial-recognition-technology-report

2 years ago

MemoRAG – Enhance RAG with memory-based knowledge discovery for long contexts

https://github.com/qhjqhj00/MemoRAG

2 years ago

Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/constellation-inks-power-supply-deal-with-microsoft-2024-09-20/

2 years ago

Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%

https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-reduced-websocket-traffic-by-40-percent

2 years ago

Reactive Relational Algebra

https://taylor.town/reactive-relational-algebra

2 years ago

How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes

https://peelarchivesblog.com/2024/09/10/how-do-archivists-package-things-the-battle-of-the-boxes/

2 years ago

Tō Reo – A Māori Spellchecker

https://xn--treo-l3a.nz/

2 years ago

Optimizing Guile Scheme

https://dthompson.us/posts/optimizing-guile-scheme.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform

https://www.inngest.com/

2 years ago

Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps

https://hoodmaps.com

2 years ago

Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors

https://lwn.net/Articles/987548/

2 years ago

Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Dont Have 100

https://www.darrenhorrocks.co.uk/stop-designing-web-applications-for-millions/

2 years ago

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

https://aosabook.org/en/

2 years ago

Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files

https://khromov.se/dropbox-keeps-threatening-to-delete-my-files/

2 years ago

Microsoft TypeSpec

https://typespec.io/

2 years ago

We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready

https://element.io/blog/we-have-lift-off-element-x-call-and-server-suite-are-ready/

2 years ago

Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: writing shader-based chemical simulations

https://pierre-couy.dev/simulations/2024/09/gray-scott-shader.html

2 years ago

Thoughts on the New iOS Control Centre

https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts-on-the-new-ios-control-centre

2 years ago

A flight search engine that combines flights from different airlines? (2014)

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/26780/is-there-a-flight-search-engine-that-combines-flights-from-different-airlines

2 years ago

Show HN: AIQ – A no-frills CLI for embeddings and text classification

https://github.com/taylorai/aiq

2 years ago

Wasm2Mpy: Compiling WASM to MicroPython so it can run on Raspberrys

https://github.com/vshymanskyy/wasm2mpy

2 years ago

Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-a-takeover-in-recent-days-fa114f9d

2 years ago

Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41602044

2 years ago

Disable Sequoia's monthly screen recording permission prompt

https://tinyapps.org/blog/202409180700_disable_sequoia_nag.html

2 years ago

How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/32884982

2 years ago

A Little History of the Anchovy

https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/a-little-history-of-the-anchovy/

2 years ago

Elite 40th Anniversary – Source code release

http://www.elitehomepage.org/fourty/index.htm

2 years ago

A rigid but foldable indoor airship aerial system for cave exploration

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07591

2 years ago

No same site = None cookies for iOS18

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/33164

2 years ago

Neat Randomized Algorithms: RandDiag for Rapidly Diagonalizing Normal Matrices

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2024/07/02/neat-randomized-algorithms-randdiag-for-rapidly-diagonalizing-normal-matrices/

2 years ago

Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk for 15M Dollars

https://www.elonowesyou100dollars.com/

2 years ago

Create your first LiveView Native (Elixir) Application

https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/09/20/create-your-first-liveview-native-app-part-1

2 years ago

Even solar energy's biggest fans are underestimating it

https://www.vox.com/climate/372852/solar-power-energy-growth-record-us-climate-china

2 years ago

Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/comedian-john-mulaney-brutally-roasts-sf-techies-and-ai-at-dreamforce/

2 years ago

Cache Me Not, Cache Me, Cache Me Not

https://hazelweakly.me/blog/cache-me-not-cache-me-cache-me-not/

2 years ago