top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-23

I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

https://arslan.io/2024/09/23/dieter-rams-inspired-iphone-dock/

2 years ago

Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629377

2 years ago

In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules

https://www.atomsonly.news/p/franklin-oil

2 years ago

We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs

https://publish.obsidian.md/felafax/pages/Tune+Llama3+405B+on+AMD+MI300x+(our+journey)

2 years ago

What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?

https://peabee.substack.com/p/whats-inside-the-qr-code-menu-at

2 years ago

How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works

https://www.ifixit.com/News/100352/we-hot-wired-the-iphone-16

2 years ago

Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/cloudflares-new-marketplace-lets-websites-charge-ai-bots-for-scraping/

2 years ago

iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRRNR4HyYaw

2 years ago

Octopuses seen hunting together with fish

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/octopuses-hunt-with-fish-punch-video-rcna171705

2 years ago

The Intelligence Age

https://ia.samaltman.com/

2 years ago

The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity

https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad

2 years ago

Show HN: King Thirteen: 2048 with chess pieces, in under 13 KB

https://js13kgames.com/2024/games/king-thirteen

2 years ago

Free-form floor plan design using differentiable Voronoi diagram

https://github.com/nobuyuki83/floor_plan

2 years ago

What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

https://www.nrm.org/2024/08/mad/

2 years ago

A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/09/22/colo/

2 years ago

Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf]

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_X4100/PDF_index/k-4-pdf/k-4-u2780-Manchester-Mark-I-manual.pdf

2 years ago

Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252438/x-blocked-users-view-public-posts

2 years ago

What I've Learned in the Past Year Spent Building an AI Video Editor

https://www.makeartwithpython.com/blog/a-year-of-showing-up/

2 years ago

Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252276/telegram-disclose-user-data-legal-requests-criminal-activity

2 years ago

Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE)

https://github.com/teslamotors/ttpoe

2 years ago

Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps

https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder/releases/tag/v1.4.0

2 years ago

Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET

https://fractalfir.github.io/generated_html/rustc_codegen_clr_v0_2_1.html

2 years ago

Ocean waves grow way beyond known limits

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ocean-limits.html

2 years ago

Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip

http://www.righto.com/2024/09/ramtron-ferroelectric-fram-die.html

2 years ago

Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

https://todayhasbeen.com

2 years ago

Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor

https://nova.app/

2 years ago

If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621191

2 years ago

Anime is eating the world

https://a16z.com/anime-is-eating-the-world/

2 years ago

Show HN: Interactive map of the convenience store "turf war" in Japan

https://conbini.kikkia.dev

2 years ago

Data Science Agent and Code Transformation

https://labs.google.com/code/

2 years ago

Teenager jailed for 18 months still in prison 18 years later

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ipp-sentence-luke-ings-mcdonalds-prison-b2601321.html

2 years ago

Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience

https://www.thetransmitter.org/neural-coding/averaging-is-a-convenient-fiction-of-neuroscience/

2 years ago

Overview of cross-architecture portability problems

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2024/09/23/overview-of-cross-architecture-portability-problems/

2 years ago

Major Toronto Utility Company Stores Customers' Passwords in Plain Text

https://old.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1fnqw0c/psa_toronto_hydro_is_able_to_see_your_login/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Panora (YC S24) – Data Integration API for LLMs

https://github.com/panoratech/Panora

2 years ago

Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-violins-biggest-section-orchestra.html

2 years ago

Telegram Removes Z-Library Posts 'Due to Copyright Infringement'

https://torrentfreak.com/telegram-removes-z-library-posts-due-to-copyright-infringement-240923/

2 years ago

The Python Package Index Should Get Rid of Its Training Wheels

https://kristoff.it/blog/python-training-wheels/

2 years ago

Autocracy and Stagnation: How Imperial Exams Shaped China's Destiny

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/autocracy-and-stagnation-how-imperial

2 years ago

What I tell people new to on-call

https://ntietz.com/blog/what-i-tell-people-new-to-oncall/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What tools should I use to manage secrets from env files?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41629168

2 years ago

Qocker is a user-friendly Qt GUI application for managing Docker containers

https://github.com/xlmnxp/Qocker

2 years ago

Hinkley Point C: Building Britain's first nuclear reactor in 30 years

https://www.building.co.uk/buildings/hinkley-point-c-building-britains-first-nuclear-reactor-in-30-years/5130997.article

2 years ago

Two kinds of LLM responses: Informational vs. Instructional

https://shabie.github.io/2024/09/23/two-kinds-llm-responses.html

2 years ago

Court orders Google to uninstall pirate IPTV app sideloaded on Android devices

https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-google-to-uninstall-pirate-iptv-app-sideloaded-on-android-devices-240923/

2 years ago

Nintendo Kawaii Progress (Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii)

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/page-4

2 years ago

California fails to track its homelessness spending or results, a new audit says

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/california-homelessness-spending/

2 years ago

Developing a Go bot embedding Ichiban Prolog

https://rogersm.net/posts/developing-a-go-bot-embedding-ichiban-prolog/

2 years ago

One Year of Rust in Production

https://yieldcode.blog/post/one-year-of-rust-in-production/

2 years ago

Honey, YouTubers are poisoning the kids

https://www.trend-mill.com/p/honey-youtubers-are-poisoning-the

2 years ago