top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-04

Meta Movie Gen

https://ai.meta.com/research/movie-gen/?_fb_noscript=1

2 years ago

Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030

2 years ago

Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/04/159-employees-are-leaving-automattic-as-ceos-fight-with-wp-engine-escalates/

2 years ago

12 Months of Mandarin

https://isaak.net/mandarin/

2 years ago

Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first

https://onestack.dev

2 years ago

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/

2 years ago

New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/blue-zones-netflix-ignobel-prize-b2622952.html

2 years ago

Why Is Light So Fast?

https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/10/01/why-is-the-speed-of-light-so-fast-part-1/

2 years ago

Don't squander public trust on bullshit

https://livboeree.substack.com/p/dont-squander-public-trust-on-bullshit

2 years ago

Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest

https://www.qcnews.com/news/investigations/sc-pilot-flying-volunteer-supply-and-rescue-missions-ordered-out-of-lake-lure-under-arrest-threat/

2 years ago

LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/CherylMind.ipynb

2 years ago

Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/correcting-the-record/

2 years ago

Please Don't Make Me Download Another App

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/too-many-apps/680122/

2 years ago

How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/30698/how-were-the-70s-versions-of-pong-and-similar-games-implemented-without-a-progra

2 years ago

No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-31872-001

2 years ago

Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

https://szymonkaliski.com/projects/cartographist/

2 years ago

Max Schrems wins privacy case against Meta over data on sexual orientation

https://apnews.com/article/facebook-meta-schrems-privacy-80fd4e6c59f48a3b583d6665af3ede86

2 years ago

炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

https://github.com/mitoma/kashiki2

2 years ago

Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/waymo-and-hyundai-enter-partnership/

2 years ago

Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/civilization-vii-recommends-16-cores-and-32gb-ram-for-4k-gameplay-rtx-4070-or-rx-7800xt-is-the-minimum

2 years ago

Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support

https://mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-11/

2 years ago

Magic isn't real

https://pthorpe92.dev/programming/magic/

2 years ago

Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip

2 years ago

Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux

https://github.com/ravachol/kew

2 years ago

One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/when-a-she-bear-swims-ashore/

2 years ago

Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice

https://github.com/livekit/agents

2 years ago

Teenage hacker became a legend attacking companies, then his rivals attacked him

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/arion-kurtaj-hacker-468e6cad

2 years ago

Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator

https://stuffmatic.com/chebyshev/

2 years ago

Bureaucrat Mode

https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/bureaucrat-mode

2 years ago

Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers

https://www.aquasec.com/blog/perfctl-a-stealthy-malware-targeting-millions-of-linux-servers/

2 years ago

Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones

https://nv1t.github.io/blog/kekz-headphones/

2 years ago

IRS Direct File adds 12 additional states, covers more tax situations in 2025

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-direct-file-set-to-expand-availability-in-a-dozen-new-states-and-cover-wider-range-of-tax-situations-for-the-2025-tax-filing-season

2 years ago

Playing with BOLT and Postgres

https://vondra.me/posts/playing-with-bolt-and-postgres/

2 years ago

Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second

https://github.com/apple/ml-depth-pro

2 years ago

Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go

https://tiniuc.com/chord-chart-memo/

2 years ago

Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/teeth-as-time-capsules-soviet-secrets-and-my-dentist-grandmother

2 years ago

Computer scientists combine two 'beautiful' proof methods

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-combine-two-beautiful-proof-methods-20241004/

2 years ago

Sequencing wastewater may be key to getting a grip on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak

https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/27/h5n1-bird-flu-wastewater-surveillance-sequencing/

2 years ago

ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface

https://github.com/cnlohr/channel3

2 years ago

ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022)

https://theor.xyz/esp32-love-notes-demoscene/

2 years ago

Self-locking and stiffening deployable tubular structures

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409062121

2 years ago

PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study

https://ztoz.blog/posts/postscript-code/

2 years ago

Wikidata as a Giant Crosswalk File

https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/04/wikidata-is-a-giant-crosswalk-file.html

2 years ago

C64 OS Programmer's Guide

https://www.c64os.com/c64os/programmersguide/

2 years ago

Knowledge Growth and Specialization: Evidence from Oncologists

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4960603

2 years ago