top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-24

Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today/

2 months ago

1002 upvotes – 467 comments

Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

https://openfreemap.org/

2 months ago

848 upvotes – 234 comments

Winamp Legacy player source code

https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp

2 months ago

717 upvotes – 328 comments

DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of 'nearly everything’

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/24/doj-accuses-visa-of-debit-network-monopoly-that-impacts-price-of-nearly-everything.html

2 months ago

610 upvotes – 464 comments

Move Fast and Abandon Things

https://engineersneedart.com/blog/movefast/movefast.html

2 months ago

470 upvotes – 220 comments

Google Cache is fully dead

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cache-dead-38112.html

2 months ago

440 upvotes – 238 comments

WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic

https://twitter.com/wpengine/status/1838350670564377051

2 months ago

317 upvotes – 266 comments

Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server

https://github.com/cozis/blogtech

2 months ago

303 upvotes – 155 comments

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/false-memories-planted-in-chatgpt-give-hacker-persistent-exfiltration-channel/

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 148 comments

Maker Pipe – Structural Pipe Fittings for DIY Builders

https://makerpipe.com/

2 months ago

276 upvotes – 119 comments

Working Turing Machine

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7

2 months ago

259 upvotes – 33 comments

On Impactful AI Research

https://github.com/okhat/blog/blob/main/2024.09.impact.md

2 months ago

255 upvotes – 79 comments

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

2 months ago

231 upvotes – 271 comments

Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined

2 months ago

221 upvotes – 148 comments

Beyond the route: Introducing granular MTA bus speed data

https://new.mta.info/article/beyond-route-introducing-granular-mta-bus-speed-data

2 months ago

217 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views

https://github.com/loggerhead/json4u

2 months ago

211 upvotes – 85 comments

Tracy: A real time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler

https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

2 months ago

198 upvotes – 27 comments

Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/updated-production-ready-gemini-models-reduced-15-pro-pricing-increased-rate-limits-and-more/

2 months ago

193 upvotes – 137 comments

Giving T cells extra batteries supercharges them against cancer

https://newatlas.com/cancer/cancer-immunotherapy-t-cells-extra-batteries-supercharges/

2 months ago

193 upvotes – 85 comments

OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240924105732

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 154 comments

Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/caroline-ellison-ftx-sentence.html

2 months ago

181 upvotes – 239 comments

Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/09/23/colo/

2 months ago

176 upvotes – 171 comments

Fully documented source code for Lander on the Acorn Archimedes

https://lander.bbcelite.com/

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 39 comments

Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Protocol Firehose by >99%

https://jazco.dev/2024/09/24/jetstream/

2 months ago

163 upvotes – 103 comments

The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

https://venturebeat.com/games/the-metaverse-didnt-die-it-moved-inside-microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-jorg-neumann-interview/

2 months ago

154 upvotes – 128 comments

Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638199

2 months ago

153 upvotes – 305 comments

45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web

https://www.wosu.org/2024-09-24/45-years-ago-compuserve-connected-the-world-before-the-world-wide-web

2 months ago

150 upvotes – 123 comments

Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi

https://jackevans.bearblog.dev/refactoring-python-with-tree-sitter-jedi/

2 months ago

147 upvotes – 58 comments

Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos

https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/24/halide-rejected-from-the-app-store-because-it-doesnt-explain-why-the-camera-takes-photos/

2 months ago

145 upvotes – 178 comments

3D-Stacked CMOS Takes Moore's Law to New Heights

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-cmos

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 40 comments

Preventing app removal on iOS

https://tinycoder.pika.page/posts/you-can-prevent-your-app-from-being-removed

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 69 comments

The quest to build a telescope on the moon

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-quest-to-build-a-telescope-on-the-moon

2 months ago

128 upvotes – 84 comments

The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03105-x

2 months ago

125 upvotes – 87 comments

Death of the Department Store

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/rosemary-hill/at-the-musee-des-arts-decoratifs

2 months ago

113 upvotes – 192 comments

Show HN: Velvet – Store OpenAI requests in your own DB

https://www.usevelvet.com

2 months ago

109 upvotes – 55 comments

Radioactive Tape Dispenser (1970s)

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/miscellaneous/tape-dispenser.html

2 months ago

108 upvotes – 51 comments

GSoC'24: Differentiable Logic for Interactive Systems and Generative Music

https://ijc8.me/2024/08/26/gsoc-difflogic/

2 months ago

105 upvotes – 8 comments

Why is F# code robust and reliable?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/why-is-fsharp-code-so-robust-and-reliable/

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 85 comments

EzAudio: Enhancing Text-to-Audio Generation with Efficient Diffusion Transformer

https://haidog-yaqub.github.io/EzAudio-Page/

2 months ago

99 upvotes – 17 comments

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dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633268

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 0 comments

What Is Io_uring?

https://matklad.github.io/2024/09/32/-what-is-io-uring.html

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 29 comments

Debian Packaging from First Principles

https://mikecoats.com/debian-packaging-first-principles-part-1-simple/

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

https://blog.oodle.ai/building-a-high-performance-low-cost-metrics-observability-system/

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 82 comments

Tandem OLED is OLED's latest weapon in holding off MicroLED, QDEL

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/what-tandem-oled-can-and-probably-wont-do-for-consumer-gadgets/

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 50 comments

New laser could cram GPS alternative into a shoebox

https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternative-for-gps

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: GitHub Repo Visualizer Using D3

https://see-my-repo.netlify.app/

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

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dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41633574

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 0 comments

'Stop ripping us off': Senate grills Novo Nordisk CEO on Ozempic drug pricing

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/24/novo-nordisk-ceo-to-testify-at-senate-over-weight-loss-drug-prices.html

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments
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