top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-17

Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

https://www.creativebloq.com/design/adobes-new-image-rotation-tool-is-one-of-the-most-impressive-ai-concepts-weve-seen

2 years ago

Crokinole

https://pudding.cool/2024/10/crokinole/

2 years ago

Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-dont-need-words-to-think/

2 years ago

Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

https://ading.dev/blog/posts/chrome_sandbox_escape.html

2 years ago

Grandmaster-level chess without search

https://github.com/google-deepmind/searchless_chess

2 years ago

Cats are (almost) liquid

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02024-8

2 years ago

NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-update-october-2024/

2 years ago

Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

https://gitlab.com/lockie/cl-fast-ecs/-/wikis/tutorial-2

2 years ago

Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/

2 years ago

JSON Patch

https://zuplo.com/blog/2024/10/10/unlocking-the-power-of-json-patch

2 years ago

Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01502

2 years ago

C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3477r0.html

2 years ago

555 Timer Circuits

https://www.555-timer-circuits.com/

2 years ago

Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients

https://scitechdaily.com/diabetes-breakthrough-new-treatment-eliminates-insulin-for-86-of-patients/

2 years ago

NASA freezes Starliner missions

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-freezes-starliner-missions-after-boeing-leaves-astronauts-stranded-2000512963

2 years ago

Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/exclude-ai-images.html

2 years ago

Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?

https://neon.tech/blog/why-does-everyone-run-ancient-postgres-versions

2 years ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41870887

2 years ago

WordPress retaliation impacts community

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/993895/c0438e0ee9382c5f/

2 years ago

setBigTimeout

https://evanhahn.com/set-big-timeout/

2 years ago

Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil

https://www.wpri.com/news/street-stories/blue-whale-skeleton-at-new-bedford-museum-still-leaking-oil/

2 years ago

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic

https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/

2 years ago

Understanding how bureaucracy develops

https://dhruvmethi.substack.com/p/bureaucracy

2 years ago

My solar-powered and self-hosted website

https://dri.es/my-solar-powered-and-self-hosted-website

2 years ago

Unit tests as documentation

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/unit-tests-as-documentation

2 years ago

Time is a dimension, but not like space

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/time-yes-dimension-not-like-space/

2 years ago

OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust

https://github.com/microsoft/openvmm

2 years ago

Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter

https://leontrolski.github.io/grammar.html

2 years ago

Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-matt-mullenweg-defending-wordpress-or-sabotaging-it/

2 years ago

Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/pg_parquet-an-extension-to-connect-postgres-and-parquet

2 years ago

Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-cancels-snapdragon-dev-kit-refunds-all-orders

2 years ago

Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-on-health-care-is-wrong-a-primer/

2 years ago

Industrious Dice

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2024/10/17/industrious-dice/

2 years ago

Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends

https://www.smolways.com/post/where-the-digital-sidewalk-ends

2 years ago

The Fifth Generation Project in Japan (1992)

https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/5thgen.htm

2 years ago

What do you visualize while programming?

https://dillonshook.com/what-do-you-visualize-while-programming/

2 years ago

The science of "Zoom fatigue"

https://bigthink.com/business/not-remotely-cool-the-science-of-zoom-fatigue/

2 years ago

Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser

https://savaos.com/

2 years ago

Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/17/futures2.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871499

2 years ago

My experiences with Automattic: Part 3

https://aldavigdis.dev/2024/09/30/my-strange-experiences-with-automattic-part-3/

2 years ago

Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/salt-typhoon-hack-shows-theres-no-security-backdoor-thats-only-good-guys

2 years ago

Do Fungi Recognize Shapes?

https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/do_fungi_recognize_shapes.html

2 years ago

4K Gaming on Raspberry Pi [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ImUnRwjAo

2 years ago

Doctor Fukushi Masaichi and the art of preserving tattooed skin

https://www.dannydutch.com/post/doctor-fukushi-masaichi-and-the-art-of-preserving-tattooed-skin

2 years ago

Tubeworms live around deep-sea vents

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/10/16/tubeworms-live-beneath-the-planetary-crust-around-deep-sea-vents

2 years ago

AI Mathematical Olympiad – Progress Prize 2

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ai-mathematical-olympiad-progress-prize-2

2 years ago

A Liveness Example in TLA+

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/10/16/a-liveness-example-in-tla/

2 years ago

Firefox Is Now "More Than 75X Faster" Running WebAssembly

https://www.howtogeek.com/firefox-75x-faster-running-webassembly/

2 years ago

Why "founder mode" is a rebranding for micromanaging, top-down leaders

https://news.paolo.pm/p/apple-with-worms-why-founder-mode

2 years ago

A CLI tool for management of Next.js applications

https://quicky.dev

2 years ago

Removing PGP from PyPI (2023)

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-23-removing-pgp/

2 years ago

UEVR: An Exploration of Advanced Game Hacking Techniques (2023)

https://praydog.com/reverse-engineering/2023/07/03/uevr.html

2 years ago

Workaround Clang v15 AArch64 miscompile that affects parallel collection

https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/pull/879

2 years ago

Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/17/meta-fires-staff-free-meal-vouchers-buy-household-goods

2 years ago

Implementing Regular Expressions in TypeScript Types (Badly)

https://skalt.github.io/projects/brzozowski_ts/

2 years ago

The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends

https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/the-shroud-of-turin

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi 3 fastboot in less than 2 seconds (2020)

https://www.furkantokac.com/rpi3-fast-boot-less-than-2-seconds/

2 years ago

12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-10-only-has-a-year-of-support-12-months-left-to-keep-copilot-off-your-desktop-or-learn-linux/

2 years ago

The Prompt() Function: Use the Power of LLMs with SQL

https://motherduck.com/blog/sql-llm-prompt-function-gpt-models/

2 years ago

Rethinking School Design

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/education-architecture-changing-views-childhood/

2 years ago

Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo

https://blog.mozilla.ai/taming-randomness-in-ml-models-with-hypothesis-testing-and-marimo/

2 years ago

The Border Crisis Won't Be Solved at the Border

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/border-crisis-texas-solutions/

2 years ago