top 50% 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

Mosaic REALMAP: Explore Prague in detail with 1.26M images

https://www.mosaic51.com/featured/mosaic-realmap-explore-prague-in-unprecedented-detail-with-1-26-million-images/

2 years ago

Express v5

https://expressjs.com/2024/10/15/v5-release.html

2 years ago

Building a Game with the Real Engine

https://novalis.org/blog/2024-10-18-building-a-game-with-the-real-engine.html

2 years ago

Life is not a story

https://psyche.co/ideas/your-life-is-not-a-story-why-narrative-thinking-holds-you-back

2 years ago

Impact of early life adversity on reward processing in young adults (2014)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0104185

2 years ago

Kennedy, Merkley introduce bill to end TSA facial recognition (2023)

https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2023/11/kennedy-merkley-introduce-bill-to-end-involuntary-facial-recognition-screenings-protect-americans-privacy

2 years ago

Advice for first-time inventors from a patent engineer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/patent-engineer-lesley-ann-knee

2 years ago

A Mathematica interpreter in Typescript

https://www.spakhm.com/ts-wolfram

2 years ago

One of Florida's most lethal python hunters

https://gardenandgun.com/feature/python-hunter/

2 years ago

DHL pioneered the sharing economy (2016)

https://www.flexport.com/blog/dhl-bills-of-lading/

2 years ago

Coreboot port for 486 motherboard (UM8881/6)

https://github.com/pc2005cz/TheUltimate486Upgrade/blob/main/main.md

2 years ago

Plankton balloon to six times size in newly discovered mode of oceanic travel

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-plankton-balloon-size-newly-mode.html

2 years ago

Mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive

2 years ago

Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons

https://apnews.com/article/canada-euthanasia-deaths-doctors-nonterminal-nonfatal-cases-cd7ff24c57c15a404347df289788ef6d

2 years ago

Another burnout post

https://gushogg-blake.com/p/blog-burnout/

2 years ago

Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base

https://github.com/clemensmanert/fas

2 years ago

Fixed Timestep Without Interpolation

https://jakubtomsu.github.io/posts/fixed_timestep_without_interpolation/

2 years ago

Polar Night in the Northernmost Town

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/what-its-like-to-experience-polar-night-in-the-worlds-northernmost-town-180985271/

2 years ago

Numerical Precision Affects Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13857

2 years ago

How should the new <selectedoption> element work?

https://jakearchibald.com/2024/how-should-selectedoption-work/

2 years ago

EU court upholds right to sell Playstation add-ons, in loss for Sony

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/10/17/eu-court-upholds-right-to-sell-playstation-add-ons-in-loss-for-sony-datel-game-mods

2 years ago

Frederick Law Olmsted: His essential theory (2000)

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/frederick-law-olmsted-his-essential-theory.htm

2 years ago

Stark et al. vs. Patreon, Inc. Class Action Settlement

https://www.patreonsettlement.com/

2 years ago

Show HN: What happens if you make a crossword out of Reddit r/gaming

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879754

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a Sonic runner game in JavaScript

https://jslegend.itch.io/sonic-ring-run

2 years ago

TCAS averts possible head-on collision in Austin

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/tcas-averts-possible-collision-austin/

2 years ago

Cross-Process Spectre Exploitation

https://grsecurity.net/cross_process_spectre_exploitation

2 years ago

US startup charging couples to 'screen embryos for IQ'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/18/us-startup-charging-couples-to-screen-embryos-for-iq

2 years ago

LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12860

2 years ago

Access your Raspberry Pi without a public IP

https://pinggy.io/blog/access_raspberry_pi_remotely_to_control_iot_devices/

2 years ago