top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-08

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf

2 years ago

Differential Transformer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05258

2 years ago

The Static Site Paradox

https://kristoff.it/blog/static-site-paradox/

2 years ago

Who died and left the US $7B?

https://sherwood.news/power/who-died-and-left-the-us-7-billion-fayez-sarofim/

2 years ago

Uxn

https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Kotlin Money

https://blog.eriksen.com.br/en/introducing-kotlin-money

2 years ago

Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components

https://player.style

2 years ago

On the Nature of Time

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/10/on-the-nature-of-time/

2 years ago

End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit

https://blog.panic.com/end-of-the-road-for-google-drive-and-transmit/

2 years ago

A modest critique of Htmx

https://chrisdone.com/posts/htmx-critique/

2 years ago

My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine

https://nullonerror.org/2024/10/08/my-first-game-with-carimbo/

2 years ago

European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/mind-air-gap-goldenjackal-gooses-government-guardrails/

2 years ago

An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem (2018)

https://mwhittaker.github.io/blog/an_illustrated_proof_of_the_cap_theorem/

2 years ago

Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava

https://github.com/PsyChip/machina

2 years ago

Practices of Reliable Software Design

https://entropicthoughts.com/practices-of-reliable-software-design

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream

https://urlshortenersaresoyesterdaytrythisamazingsuperlongurlexpander.site/

2 years ago

A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241007-00/?p=110345

2 years ago

Do U.S. ports need more automation?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more-automation

2 years ago

Don't let dicts spoil your code

https://roman.pt/posts/dont-let-dicts-spoil-your-code/

2 years ago

Research in psychology: are we learning anything?

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/is-psychology-going-to-cincinnati

2 years ago

Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards

https://blog.jgc.org/2024/10/rabbit-hole-stumbling-across-two.html

2 years ago

Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/climate/biden-epa-lead-pipes.html

2 years ago

Run Llama locally with only PyTorch on CPU

https://github.com/anordin95/run-llama-locally

2 years ago

How to delete your 23andMe data amid the company's turmoil

https://lifehacker.com/health/how-to-delete-23andme-data

2 years ago

John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf]

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/press-physicsprize2024.pdf

2 years ago

Lunar Lake's iGPU: Debut of Intel's Xe2 Architecture

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/lunar-lakes-igpu-debut-of-intels

2 years ago

The Nazi of Oak Park

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/september-2024/the-nazi-of-oak-park/

2 years ago

The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/x86-64-programming-models

2 years ago

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

2 years ago

The missing middle: firms in developing countries

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/want-growth-kill-small-businesses

2 years ago

FTX creditors will make money on bankruptcy

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/07/ftx-bankruptcy-judge-approves-more-than-14-billion-payback-plan.html

2 years ago

The Atlantic Did Me Dirty

https://cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlantic-did-me-dirty

2 years ago

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/

2 years ago

Archaeologists found an ancient Egyptian observatory

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/archaeologists-found-an-ancient-egyptian-observatory/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Good Online Maths Communities?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41774252

2 years ago

Japan's Cat Island won't survive much longer

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/cat-island-wont-survive-much-longer/

2 years ago

Julia 1.11 Highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2024/10/julia-1.11-highlights/index.html

2 years ago

Car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-09/car-brands-are-tracking-and-sharing-your-data-with-third-parties/104440742

2 years ago

How London's Crystal Palace was built so quickly

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/how-londons-crystal-palace-was-built-so-quickly/

2 years ago

X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-x-elon-musk-supreme-court-de-moraes-e32c4b4171e78cbe8994f53713a922f7

2 years ago

BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-drops-oil-output-target-strategy-reset-sources-say-2024-10-07/

2 years ago

Kudzu, the vine that never ate the South (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/

2 years ago

Building a robust data synchronization framework with Rails

https://pcreux.com/2024/10/07/rails-data-sync-service.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41773784

2 years ago

Show HN: My microkernel-based OS built from scratch now has basic Unix commands

https://github.com/lux-operating-system/kernel

2 years ago

PeachPie Compiler: Compile and run PHP on top of .NET runtime

https://www.peachpie.io/

2 years ago

TikTok sued by 13 states and DC, accused of harming younger users

https://www.reuters.com/legal/tiktok-sued-by-13-states-dc-accused-harming-younger-users-2024-10-08/

2 years ago

Show HN: Squey, an open-source GPU-accelerated data visualization software

https://squey.org

2 years ago

Engineering Geology of the BART System (2000)

http://sonic.net/~mly/www.geolith.com/bart/

2 years ago

Roblox: Inflated Key Metrics for Wall Street and a Pedophile Hellscape for Kids

https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/

2 years ago

iPhone Mirroring at work may expose employees’ personal information

https://www.sevcosecurity.com/iphone-mirroring-expose-employee-personal-information/

2 years ago

Automattic is doing open source dirty

https://world.hey.com/dhh/automattic-is-doing-open-source-dirty-b95cf128

2 years ago