top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-27

Fraud, so much fraud

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fraud-so-much-fraud

2 years ago

I Am Tired of AI

https://www.ontestautomation.com/i-am-tired-of-ai/

2 years ago

CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them

https://larslofgren.com/cnn-usa-today-forbes-marketplace/

2 years ago

The best $4 ever spent

https://papanotes.com/the-best-4-ever-spent

2 years ago

TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-execs-allegedly-dismissed-openai-ceo-sam-altman-as-podcasting-bro

2 years ago

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans

https://erikbern.com/2024/09/27/its-hard-to-write-code-for-humans.html

2 years ago

Maggie Smith has died

https://variety.com/2024/legit/news/maggie-smith-dead-harry-potter-1236157839/

2 years ago

AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M

https://community.amd.com/t5/ai/amd-unveils-its-first-small-language-model-amd-135m/ba-p/711368

2 years ago

Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/sony-ubisoft-scandals-prompt-calif-ban-on-deceptive-sales-of-digital-goods/

2 years ago

If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt

2 years ago

How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-alphachip-transformed-computer-chip-design/

2 years ago

CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it

https://www.polygon.com/news/457071/new

2 years ago

Comedy Theory (2022)

https://rpgadventures.io/post/comedy-theory

2 years ago

Collaborative text editing with Eg-Walker: Better, faster, smaller

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252

2 years ago

Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry

https://globalchinapulse.net/moving-bricks-money-laundering-practices-in-the-online-scam-industry/

2 years ago

Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)

https://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

2 years ago

Small3dlib: Public domain 3D software rasterizer

https://codeberg.org/drummyfish/small3dlib

2 years ago

MTA Open Data Challenge

https://new.mta.info/article/mta-open-data-challenge

2 years ago

My MEGA65 is finally here

https://lyonsden.net/my-mega65-is-finally-here/

2 years ago

US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC's 'Super Hero' Marks

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-trademark-office-cancels-marvel-dcs-super-hero-marks-2024-09-26/

2 years ago

SAML: A Technical Primer

https://ssoready.com/docs/saml/saml-technical-primer

2 years ago

Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look

https://blog.cloudflare.com/container-platform-preview/

2 years ago

Obsessed with Cuttle: Parametric CAD for prototyping, producing, and procrastin

https://hannahilea.com/blog/cuttle-obsession/

2 years ago

Greenwich: an experiment in collaborative links

https://readpolymathematics.substack.com/p/ive-built-a-city-now-it-needs-residents

2 years ago

Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)

https://www.xda-developers.com/privacy-implications-new-microsoft-outlook/

2 years ago

Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/

2 years ago

Rewriting Rust: A Response

https://gavinhoward.com/2024/09/rewriting-rust-a-response/

2 years ago

The Architecture of London Pubs (1966)

https://thelondonmagazine.org/archive-the-architecture-of-london-pubs-by-stephen-gardiner/

2 years ago

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/

2 years ago

Everything we know about spies is wrong

https://lithub.com/why-everything-we-think-we-know-about-spies-is-wrong/

2 years ago

BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software

https://www.bookstackapp.com/

2 years ago

Lion Cove: Intel's P-Core Roars

https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/09/27/lion-cove-intels-p-core-roars/

2 years ago

Japan's humble onigiri took over lunchtimes around the world

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/japan-onigiri-rice-boom

2 years ago

LlamaF: An Efficient Llama2 Architecture Accelerator on Embedded FPGAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11424

2 years ago

Guide to implementing 2D platformers (2012)

http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/

2 years ago

Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/normans-and-slavery-breaking-bonds

2 years ago

Binance founder 'CZ' leaves prison on Friday

https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/09/26/cz-changpeng-zhao-crypto-release-date-binance-founder/

2 years ago

The CRPG Book Project (2023)

https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet

https://www.quadratichq.com/javascript

2 years ago

Gaussian Frosting: Editable complex radiance fields with real-time rendering

https://anttwo.github.io/frosting/

2 years ago

The fight to save Chile's white strawberry

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/white-strawberry

2 years ago

Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it

https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/megalopolis-baffling-plainly-nuts-francis-ford-coppola/

2 years ago

Prep: Golang Comptime

https://github.com/pijng/prep

2 years ago

Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-is-on-the-brink-of-breaching-a-seventh-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-that-support-life-180985144/

2 years ago

Will plants grow on the moon?

https://nautil.us/will-plants-grow-on-the-moon-897620/

2 years ago

OpenAI is closing in on raising $6.5B. Largest VC raise in history

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/20/openai-largest-vc-round

2 years ago

Minix 3 (2014)

https://www.minix3.org/

2 years ago

EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91M euros over password storage

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-privacy-regulator-fines-meta-91-million-euros-over-password-storage-2024-09-27/

2 years ago

Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449454-forcing-people-to-change-their-passwords-is-officially-a-bad-idea/

2 years ago

Mathiness

https://www.votito.com/methods/mathiness

2 years ago

NASA confirms space station cracking a "highest" risk and consequence problem

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/nasa-confirms-space-station-cracking-a-highest-risk-and-consequence-problem/

2 years ago

CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

https://blog.couchdb.org/2024/09/27/3-4-1/

2 years ago

A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System (1977)

http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/index.php

2 years ago

Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law

https://eaftan.github.io/hash-ordering/

2 years ago

OpenAI as we knew it is dead

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/374275/openai-just-sold-you-out

2 years ago

The Case of the Missing Increment

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/the-case-of-the-missing-increment

2 years ago

Google Listed as Sponsor, Host of Israeli Military Tech Conference

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/27/google-israel-defense-tech-conference/

2 years ago

Python for Inversive and Hyperbolic Geometry

https://coe.psu.ac.th/ad/invhyper/

2 years ago

You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/cups-cve/

2 years ago

Steam Removed Forced Arbitration from Their Subscriber Agreement

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4696781406111167991

2 years ago