top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-29

A teacher who made mistakes on purpose

https://nik.art/the-teacher-who-made-mistakes-on-purpose/

2 years ago

Do AI companies work?

https://benn.substack.com/p/do-ai-companies-work

2 years ago

96% of climate policy since 1998 failed

https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/96-of-climate-policy-since-1998-failed

2 years ago

Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)

https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

2 years ago

Kris Kristofferson has died

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/kris-kristofferson-dead-1107074/

2 years ago

Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential

https://bassusteur.github.io/2024/08/07/thinkpad13nvme.html

2 years ago

On With Theo / T3.gg

https://ma.tt/2024/09/t3/

2 years ago

Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047

https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SB-1047-Veto-Message.pdf

2 years ago

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/09/29/ai-and-globalisation-are-shaking-up-software-developers-world

2 years ago

Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690087

2 years ago

Return to Work and Dying on the Job

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/27/sharpen-your-blades-boys/#disciplinary-technology

2 years ago

Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-09-29-build-a-serverless-acid-database-with-this-one-neat-trick.html

2 years ago

Linux 6.12 Features Super Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 and Pi 5

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-features#google_vignette

2 years ago

AGI is far from inevitable

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable

2 years ago

Ruby Meetups

https://rubyconferences.org/meetups/

2 years ago

'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/ai-data-center-boom-spurs-race-to-find-power-87cf39dd

2 years ago

A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt

2 years ago

Pagoda: Rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit in Go

https://github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda

2 years ago

CPU Throttling for containerized Go applications explained

https://kanishk.io/posts/cpu-throttling-in-containerized-go-apps/

2 years ago

FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/26/fda-antipsychotic-mental-illness-alzheimers/

2 years ago

NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing with

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1840112692910272898

2 years ago

In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation?

https://neurelo.substack.com/p/in-the-land-of-llms-can-we-do-better

2 years ago

Mindustry: Automation Tower Defense RTS with Deep Strategy and Modding

https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry

2 years ago

I Taught My 8yo Subduction Zones with NotebookLM

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/09/29/notebooklm

2 years ago

Map with public fruit trees

https://mundraub.org/map

2 years ago

Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/pirate-library-must-pay-publishers-30m-but-no-one-knows-who-runs-it/

2 years ago

FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/ftc-report-confirms-commercial-surveillance-out-control

2 years ago

Sitina1 Open-Source Camera

https://gitlab.com/zephray/sitina1

2 years ago

Salt Water Dimmers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_water_dimmers

2 years ago

Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/caltech-simplilearn-class-students.html

2 years ago

Quandoom: A port of DOOM for a quantum computer

https://github.com/Lumorti/Quandoom

2 years ago

A Bendy RISC-V Processor

https://spectrum.ieee.org/flexible-risc-v

2 years ago

Some Go web dev notes

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/09/27/some-go-web-dev-notes/

2 years ago

Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd

https://varlink.org/

2 years ago

Serialization Is the Secret

https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/serialization-is-the-secret

2 years ago

When To Do What You Love

https://paulgraham.com/when.html

2 years ago

Web components are okay

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/09/28/web-components-are-okay/

2 years ago

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

2 years ago

More annoying macOS 15 Sequoia prompts: Bluetooth

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/8/11.html

2 years ago

The world knows Wim Hof as "The Iceman", his family suffered domestic violence

https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/the-outside-world-knows-wim-hof-as-the-eccentric-iceman-his-family-suffered-domestic-violence~v1176564/

2 years ago

Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast

https://cepa.org/article/floating-megabomb-heaves-to-near-the-english-coast/

2 years ago

Alan Kay on Messaging (1998)

http://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging

2 years ago

Feldera Incremental Compute Engine

https://github.com/feldera/feldera

2 years ago

Text2CAD: Generating sequential cad designs from text prompts

https://sadilkhan.github.io/text2cad-project/

2 years ago

Why TCP needs 3 handshakes

https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1727412048-Why-TCP-needs-3-handshakes

2 years ago

NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover: Never used, one previous owner

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/09/25/nasa-is-selling-a-brand-new-moon-rover

2 years ago

Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws

https://ckrapu.github.io/blog/2024/why-dont-we-just-freeze-the-carbon/

2 years ago

Apple's homework is due Monday no matter what, says judge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/28/24256684/apple-epic-lawsuit-document-production-delay-denied

2 years ago

How can a jigsaw have two distinct solutions? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5nElEbbnfU

2 years ago

Meta blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier over election interference concerns

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/28/24256815/meta-blocking-jd-vance-dossier-hack

2 years ago

Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)

https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.html

2 years ago

Cores That Don't Count [pdf] (2021)

https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s01-hochschild.pdf

2 years ago

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges

https://hackaday.com/2024/09/28/man-in-the-middle-pcb-unlocks-hp-ink-cartridges/

2 years ago

Notes on the Crystal Language

https://wiki.alopex.li/CrystalNotes

2 years ago