top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-07

Is the attack helicopter dead?

https://hushkit.net/2024/10/07/is-the-attack-helicopter-dead/

2 years ago

Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores

2 years ago

Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

https://twitter.com/notengoprisa/status/1842550658102079556

2 years ago

Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fukushima-reactor

2 years ago

The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)

https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

2 years ago

Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster

2 years ago

An e-waste dumping ground

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/10/05/g-s1-6411/electronics-public-health-waste-ghana-phones-computers

2 years ago

California bans sell-by dates

https://www.foodandwine.com/california-bans-sell-by-dates-8723111

2 years ago

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/10/07/whats-new-in-ruby-on-rails-8.html

2 years ago

US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-antitrust-case-against-amazon-move-forward-2024-10-07/

2 years ago

Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

https://zod.dev/

2 years ago

Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon

https://edwardbenson.com/2024/10/google-ai-thinks-i-left-gatorade-on-the-moon

2 years ago

Hetzner Object Storage

https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

2 years ago

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html

2 years ago

Building a single-page app with Htmx

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-single-page-app-with-htmx/

2 years ago

Homemade AI drone software finds people when search and rescue teams can't

https://www.wired.com/story/this-homemade-ai-drone-software-finds-bodies-when-search-and-rescue-teams-cant/

2 years ago

Fun with Go Iterators

https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/fun-with-iterators/

2 years ago

Python 3.13.0 Is Released

https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html

2 years ago

uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/6acf97bf51

2 years ago

Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021)

https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/index.html

2 years ago

How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?

https://aarol.dev/posts/go-contentlength/

2 years ago

Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/06/alleged-m4-macbook-pro-unboxing-video/

2 years ago

Automating processes with software is hard

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/222-automating-processes-with-software

2 years ago

Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/137/rust-is-rolling-off-the-volvo-assembly-line

2 years ago

Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor

https://nonzero.substack.com/p/sam-altman-goes-full-emperor

2 years ago

Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e848ewnlno

2 years ago

ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms

https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/bytedance-tiktok-bytespider-scraper-bot/

2 years ago

Do not use secrets in environment variables

https://www.nodejs-security.com/blog/do-not-use-secrets-in-environment-variables-and-here-is-how-to-do-it-better

2 years ago

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2024/summary/

2 years ago

Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6MK5Wpx4o

2 years ago

Show HN: A website for comparing protein powder prices

https://nutritionprices.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly

https://wasmer.io/posts/clang-in-browser

2 years ago

How a Gas Compressor Station Works

https://kimray.com/training/how-gas-compressor-station-works

2 years ago

Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766704

2 years ago

What is "founder mode"?

https://tomblomfield.com/post/763715798246227968/what-is-founder-mode

2 years ago

Fast B-Trees

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/smolderingly-fast-btrees/

2 years ago

Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/DaemonizationAndRestarts

2 years ago

AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atandt-verizon-reportedly-hacked-to-target-us-govt-wiretapping-platform/

2 years ago

New Italian Law Threatens ISPs with Prison over Piracy Reporting Failures

https://torrentfreak.com/isps-betrayed-over-pirate-site-blocking-threats-the-reckoning-will-be-invisible-241005/

2 years ago

Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/10/07/

2 years ago

Day Rates (2023)

https://davesmyth.com/day-rates

2 years ago

Warm Handoffs

https://luckymike.dev/posts/warm-handoffs/

2 years ago

Google Will Track Your Location 'Every 15 Minutes'–'Even with GPS Disabled'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/10/05/google-new-location-tracking-warning-pixel-9-pro-pixel-9-pro-xl-pixel-9-pro-fold/

2 years ago

Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone

https://wigle.net/

2 years ago

Gboard Double Sided Version

https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/master/mozc-doublesided

2 years ago

Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766551

2 years ago

Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command

https://github.com/C-Loftus/QuickPiperAudiobook

2 years ago

Is AWS S3 having an outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770111

2 years ago

Self-experiment with L-theanine: effect on sleep and cognition

https://metasophi.com/blog/does-l-theanine-work-for-me/

2 years ago

Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/streaming-industry-has-unprecedented-surveillance-manipulation-capabilities/

2 years ago

Octothorpes: Hashtags for the Open Internet

https://octothorp.es/docs

2 years ago

Show HN: Instant HTML Preview Bookmarklet

https://gist.github.com/rmtbb/e42d870a59a7f98091e734674831072b

2 years ago

A Photo of the Moon

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/darya-kawa-mirza-moon-photos/

2 years ago

How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/private-intelligence/

2 years ago

Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aria-devtools/dneemiigcbbgbdjlcdjjnianlikimpck

2 years ago

Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end

https://serverlessai.dev/

2 years ago

50 Years of Queries

https://cacm.acm.org/research/50-years-of-queries/

2 years ago

Trap – Transformers in APL

https://github.com/BobMcDear/trap

2 years ago

Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words

https://github.com/THUDM/LongWriter

2 years ago

Every change breaks someone's workflow (2013)

https://xkcd.com/1172/

2 years ago

Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review

https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/2024/09/puppylinux/

2 years ago

A Language of Beautiful Impurity

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language-of-beautiful-impurity

2 years ago

Gunter's Space Page

https://space.skyrocket.de/index.html

2 years ago

The SQLite Amalgamation

https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

2 years ago

Unlocking the 'aha' moment: Developer relations for startups

https://www.signalfire.com/blog/devrel-for-startups

2 years ago

Show HN: GoSQL – A query engine in 319 LoC

https://github.com/archiewood/gosql

2 years ago

EuroBSDcon 2024: Some notes after the conference

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2024_in_dublin_ireland

2 years ago