top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-18

Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/secret-3d-scans-in-the-french-supreme

2 years ago

The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair

https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-are-coming-for-john-deere-over-the-right-to-repair-2000513521

2 years ago

Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format

https://rmondello.com/2024/10/07/apple-passwords-generated-strong-password-format/

2 years ago

US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/nhtsa-opens-probe-into-24-mln-tesla-vehicles-over-full-self-driving-collisions-2024-10-18/

2 years ago

Using static websites for tiny archives

https://alexwlchan.net/2024/static-websites/

2 years ago

Code that helped end Apartheid

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-you-can-now-see-the-code-that-ended-apartheid/

2 years ago

Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/technology/microsoft-openai-partnership-deal.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo

https://pehringer.info/go_plan9_memo.html

2 years ago

Focus on decisions, not tasks

https://technicalwriting.dev/strategy/decisions.html

2 years ago

Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations

https://spliit.app/blog/spliit-by-the-stats-usage-costs-donations

2 years ago

Just want simple TLS for your .internal network?

https://github.com/nh2/internal-contstrained-pki

2 years ago

Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace

https://subvert.fm/

2 years ago

Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements

https://blog.ndepend.com/net-9-0-linq-performance-improvements/

2 years ago

SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

https://tilde.town/~dozens/sofa/

2 years ago

Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1793319

2 years ago

Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet

2 years ago

Smart pointers for the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/992055/

2 years ago

What is theoretical computer science?

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/what-is-theoretical-computer-science/

2 years ago

An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags

https://rabbitwaves.ca/site/flags_maritime.html

2 years ago

Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial

https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/

2 years ago