top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-28

FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot

https://github.com/2Retr0/GodotOceanWaves

2 years ago

Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)

https://web.archive.org/web/20100111052839/http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html

2 years ago

How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)

https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages

2 years ago

Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-python-3-13/

2 years ago

SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS

https://apnews.com/article/spacex-launch-boeing-nasa-stuck-astronauts-e179d0dc6c77d224278fd0430148ff8b

2 years ago

The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2024/09/28/the-perils-of-transition-to-64-bit-time_t/

2 years ago

Britain buys semiconductor factory for defence purposes

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-buys-semiconductor-factory-for-defence-purposes/

2 years ago

Notion's mid-life crisis

https://www.jjinux.com/2024/09/notions-mid-life-crisis.html

2 years ago

Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane

http://www.righto.com/2024/09/f4-attitude-indicator.html

2 years ago

Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014)

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/c8cc4a4f-e641-462b-9a72-654e60f71485/content

2 years ago

SunVox: Powerful Modular Synthesizer and DAW

https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/

2 years ago

If AI seems smarter, it's thanks to smarter human trainers

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/if-your-ai-seems-smarter-its-thanks-smarter-human-trainers-2024-09-28/

2 years ago

Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels

https://github.com/Autossh/autossh

2 years ago

The Little Typer (2018)

https://thelittletyper.com/

2 years ago

On the design of text editors (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06030

2 years ago

PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao

https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-native-architecture-optimization/

2 years ago

Show HN: htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx

https://htmgo.dev

2 years ago

Meta fined $102M for storing passwords in plain text

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-fined-102-million-for-storing-passwords-in-plain-text-110049679.html

2 years ago

MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program

https://www.marktyler.org/ced/

2 years ago

Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/23andme-dna-data-privacy-sale/680057/

2 years ago

America is becoming less "woke"

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/09/19/america-is-becoming-less-woke

2 years ago

Offline UX Patterns

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/main/contributingGuides/OFFLINE_UX.md

2 years ago

I Made a Rubbish Clock

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/i-made-rubbish-clock.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Iceoryx2 – Fast IPC Library for Rust, C++, and C

https://ekxide.io/blog/iceoryx2-0-4-release/

2 years ago

REPL for Dart

https://github.com/fzyzcjy/dart_interactive

2 years ago

Is English a “creole Language”?

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=66229

2 years ago

Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/health/bird-flu-cluster-missouri.html

2 years ago

Four more health care workers ill after caring for bird flu case in Missouri

https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/27/bird-flu-missouri-four-more-healthcare-workers/

2 years ago

Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-no-longer-in-talks-to-join-openai-investment-round-e3be3e66

2 years ago

Recreating Dune II for the Amiga

https://spillhistorie.no/recreating-dune-ii-for-the-amiga/

2 years ago

Show HN: Mitata – Benchmarking tooling for JavaScript

https://github.com/evanwashere/mitata

2 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the App" (2011)

https://www.techemails.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-ship-photos-app

2 years ago

Building a compile-time SIMD optimized smoothing filter

https://scientificcomputing.rs/2024/talks/raz.html

2 years ago

Five ways to reduce variance in A/B testing

https://bytepawn.com/five-ways-to-reduce-variance-in-ab-testing.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Bringing multithreading to Python's async event loop

https://github.com/NeilBotelho/turboAsync

2 years ago

The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/with-an-election-looming-the-us-is-approving-citizenship-applications-at-the-fastest-speed-in-years/ar-AA1rf4FU

2 years ago

What was the point of [ "x$var" = "xval" ]? (2021)

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035

2 years ago

Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k

https://ente.io/blog/mozilla-builders/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677207

2 years ago

Bacteria involved in gum disease linked to increased risk of head, neck cancer

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-bacteria-involved-gum-disease-linked.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript

https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth

2 years ago

Show HN: Enable right click and copy on websites that disabled it

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/allow-copy-enable-right-c/ehfmpjdcdldhefieelihdobnjfpalhic

2 years ago

Researchers seeing little evidence of benefit from co pilots

https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

2 years ago

It is never too late to write your own C/C++ command-line utilities

https://lemire.me/blog/2024/09/28/it-is-never-too-later-to-write-your-own-c-c-command-line-utilities/

2 years ago

Apple not investing in OpenAI after all, new report says

https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/27/apple-not-investing-in-openai-after-all-new-report-says/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-source app builder for comfy workflows

https://github.com/ViewComfy/ViewComfy

2 years ago

Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor, researchers discover

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-sea-robins-leg-fins-seafloor.html

2 years ago