top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-02

OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html

2 years ago

The Fastest Mutexes

https://justine.lol/mutex/

2 years ago

American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/travel/wwii-bomb-miyazaki-airport-japan-scli-intl/index.html

2 years ago

I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tik/id6720712299

2 years ago

VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/crv-vc-fund-returning-money.html

2 years ago

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/02/an-adult-fruit-fly-brain-has-been-mapped-human-brains-could-follow

2 years ago

NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

https://sidhion.com/blog/posts/nixos_server_issues/

2 years ago

A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html

2 years ago

Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

https://medium.com/@jpolak/why-im-leaving-medium-ai-policy-ce925cffb91c

2 years ago

Anatomy of an internet argument

https://defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-an-internet-argument

2 years ago

Why does Lisp use cons cells? (1998)

https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/[email protected]

2 years ago

Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet

https://automattic.com/2024/10/01/wpe-terms/

2 years ago

AMD GPU Inference

https://github.com/slashml/amd_inference

2 years ago

Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work

https://gizmodo.com/famous-ai-artist-says-hes-losing-millions-of-dollars-from-people-stealing-his-work-2000505822

2 years ago

You Too Could Have Made Curl

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/02/06/fosdem-2024-you-too-could-have-made-curl/

2 years ago

What Your Job Ad Says About You

https://www.talentstuff.com/blog/what-your-job-ad-says-about-you

2 years ago

What P vs. NP is about

https://vasekrozhon.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/what-p-vs-np-is-actually-about/

2 years ago

Noise

https://noise.jake.fun/

2 years ago

TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/TinyJS

2 years ago

We need more zero config tools

https://arne.me/blog/we-need-more-zero-config-tools

2 years ago

The bunkbed conjecture is false

https://igorpak.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/the-bunkbed-conjecture-is-false/

2 years ago

Tiered support is an anti-pattern (2013)

https://peter.gillardmoss.me.uk/blog/2013/06/24/tiered-support-is-an-anti-pattern/

2 years ago

52 Factorial

https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Kameo – Fault-tolerant async actors built on Tokio

https://github.com/tqwewe/kameo

2 years ago

Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-322-can-we-consume-our

2 years ago

Distributed transactions in Go: Read before you try

https://threedots.tech/post/distributed-transactions-in-go

2 years ago

Nvidia releases NVLM 1.0 72B open weight model

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVLM-D-72B

2 years ago

Personal Names Around the World (2011)

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

2 years ago

In Mexico’s underwater caves, a glimpse of artifacts, fossils and human remains

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/divers-in-mexicos-underwater-caves-get-a-glimpse-of-rarely-seen-artifacts-fossils-and-human-remains-180985159/

2 years ago

The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/starting-up/the-ai-startup-drama-thats-damaging-y-combinator-s-reputation-GQKuTmpGV2uWOCoxtHBn

2 years ago

WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

https://github.com/stephansturges/WALDO

2 years ago

Make Pottery at Home Without a Kiln (Or Anything Else) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaX1iOyKsB0

2 years ago

Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble (2018)

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2018.0018

2 years ago

Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/cisco_exiting_lorawan/

2 years ago

Show HN: A Demo for a Strategy Game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2389320/Fall_of_an_Empire_Demo/

2 years ago

QBittorrent: Open-Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client with No Ads

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent

2 years ago

I'm a Professional

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/02/im-a-professional/

2 years ago

Show HN: Quilt – Powerful RAG UI for Document QA

https://quilt.fly.dev/

2 years ago

Evidence of 'Negative Time' Found in Quantum Physics Experiment

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-of-negative-time-found-in-quantum-physics-experiment/

2 years ago

Let the network tell you where you are

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/10/01/lldp/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Do 10DLC Requirements make it impossible for hobby projects to send SMS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41717873

2 years ago

Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen Desktop Instability Root Cause Update

https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Client/Intel-Core-13th-and-14th-Gen-Desktop-Instability-Root-Cause/post/1633239

2 years ago

A Trail Gone Cold

https://www.damninteresting.com/a-trail-gone-cold/

2 years ago

Airborne plastic levels shock researchers (chronic DEHP/DiNP/DEHT exposure)

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/10/01/airborne-plastic-chemical-levels-shock-researchers

2 years ago

Show HN: Weird Books to Read

https://bizarrebookshelf.com/

2 years ago

A C++ Developer Learns Assembly

https://deadbeef.io/a_cpp_developer_learns_assembly

2 years ago

Modifications to GPU Hardware to Benefit Signed Distance Fields

https://github.com/bryanmcnett/sdf_hardware

2 years ago

Putting the "Person" in "Personal Website"

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/person-in-personal-website/

2 years ago

Show HN: Temp.now – A free temporary disposable email generator

https://temp.now

2 years ago

OpenAI asks investors not to back rival startups such as Elon Musk's xAI

https://www.ft.com/content/66e0653e-c446-47b2-8a7f-baa54ccbfb9a

2 years ago

Sausages: An Anthology

https://thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/sausages-an-anthology/

2 years ago

Holocron is an object storage based leader election library

https://github.com/kellabyte/holocron

2 years ago

Sustaphones Tablets – Database of repairable Android devices with community ROMs

https://www.sustaphones.com/tablets

2 years ago

Today's selfie is tomorrow's biometric profile

https://adam.harvey.studio/todays-selfie/

2 years ago