top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-09-30

Bop Spotter

https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

2 years ago

NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/29/notebooklm-audio-overview/

2 years ago

California bans legacy admissions at private universities

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/california-bans-legacy-admissions-private-universities.html

2 years ago

Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth

https://unfashionable.blog/p/yc/

2 years ago

Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene

https://marincomics.com/vallejo-pixelart.html

2 years ago

MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia

https://musicbrainz.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code

https://github.com/zhengkyl/qrframe

2 years ago

BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/2.0.0b11/changes.html#version-2-0-0b11-2024-09-26

2 years ago

Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41703312

2 years ago

GnuCash 5.9

https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml

2 years ago

The best browser bookmarking system is files

https://afewthingz.com/browserbookmark

2 years ago

Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133462/hurricane-helene-quartz-microchips-solar-panels-spruce-pine

2 years ago

John Wheeler saw the tear in reality

https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler-saw-the-tear-in-reality-20240925/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693844

2 years ago

Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crystalclear-sound/id6695723746?mt=12

2 years ago

AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/30/cerebras-files-for-ipo.html

2 years ago

Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording

https://github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe

2 years ago

The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-arch-linux-team-is-now-working-directly-with-valve-steamos-and-arch-should-both-benefit-greatly

2 years ago

Phrase matching in Marginalia Search

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_111_phrase_matching/

2 years ago

Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes

https://twitter.com/CodeFryingPan/status/1840831339337302204

2 years ago

Liquid Foundation Models: Our First Series of Generative AI Models

https://www.liquid.ai/liquid-foundation-models

2 years ago

Keep Track: 3D Satellite Toolkit

https://app.keeptrack.space

2 years ago

Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/30/apple-no-longer-investing-openai-chatgpt/

2 years ago

FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs

https://jbkempf.com/blog/2024/ffmpeg-7.1.0/

2 years ago

How we built ngrok's data platform

https://ngrok.com/blog-post/how-we-built-ngroks-data-platform

2 years ago

Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks

https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/vanishing-culture-preserving-cookbooks/

2 years ago

New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905120923.htm

2 years ago

Show HN: Facad – A colorful directory listing tool for the command line

https://github.com/yellow-footed-honeyguide/facad

2 years ago

A Tour of Hell – Shell scripting Haskell dialect

https://chrisdone.com/posts/tour-of-hell/

2 years ago

Peer Calls: WebRTC peer to peer calls for everyone

https://github.com/peer-calls/peer-calls

2 years ago

Code Generation in Rust vs. C++26

https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2024/09/30/annotations/

2 years ago

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

2 years ago

Tips for Building and Deploying Robots

https://rodneybrooks.com/tips-for-building-and-deploying-robots/

2 years ago

Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project

https://github.com/bndr/pipreqs

2 years ago

Hierarchical Navigable Small World: a scalable nearest neighbor search

https://github.com/brtholomy/hnsw/blob/master/README.md

2 years ago

Agentic patters from scratch using Groq

https://github.com/neural-maze/agentic_patterns

2 years ago

Launch HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Copilot for Support (think Cursor for help desks)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697137

2 years ago

The Dogma of Otherness (1986)

https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html

2 years ago

Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/determinism-league-legends-implementation

2 years ago

Two new books on John Calhoun and his rodent experiments

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/dr-calhouns-mousery-lee-alan-dugatkin-book-reviews-rat-city-edmund-ramsden-and-jon-adams

2 years ago

Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified

https://launchpointzero.com/blog/product-hunt-isnt-dying-its-become-gentrified/

2 years ago

No such thing as exactly-once delivery

https://blog.sequinstream.com/at-most-once-at-least-once-and-exactly-once-delivery/

2 years ago

Manuscripts reveal the details of everyday life on the Silk Road

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/secrets-silk-road

2 years ago

Show HN: Venator – Open-source threat detection

https://github.com/nianticlabs/venator

2 years ago

The Unraveling of Space-Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveling-of-space-time-20240925/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi AI Camera on sale now at $70

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-camera-on-sale-now/

2 years ago

Type-erased generic functions for C: A modest non-proposal

https://duriansoftware.com/joe/type-erased-generic-functions-for-c:-a-modest-non-proposal

2 years ago

Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/30/farewell-to-the-car-cd-player-source-of-weirdly-deep-musical-fandoms

2 years ago

The True Weight of Medieval Weapons – Fact and Fiction

https://warfantasy.wordpress.com/2024/09/29/the-true-weight-of-medieval-weapons-fact-and-fiction/

2 years ago

Doom in the iPhone photos app (barely)

https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-15-doom-ios-photos-app/

2 years ago

How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/12/g-s1-22291/pfas-drinking-water-filter

2 years ago

Deep Learning with Jax

https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-jax

2 years ago

Amazon employees are 'rage applying' for new jobs after RTO mandate

https://fortune.com/2024/09/29/amazon-employees-angry-andy-jassy-rto-mandate/

2 years ago

Ping Storms at GreyNoise

https://darthnull.org/noisestorms/

2 years ago

Tim Peters – Dispelling Information Asymmetry

https://tim-one.github.io/psf/ban.html

2 years ago

UK to finish with coal power after 142 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o

2 years ago

Pooltool: A sandbox billiards game that emphasizes realistic physics

https://github.com/ekiefl/pooltool

2 years ago

Eliminating Intermediate Array Allocations

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2024/09/29/eliminating-intermediate-array-allocations/

2 years ago

Engineers investigate another malfunction on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/engineers-investigate-another-malfunction-on-spacexs-falcon-9-rocket/

2 years ago

Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on Nginx

https://tengine.taobao.org/

2 years ago