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

a month ago

776 upvotes – 303 comments

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

a month ago

576 upvotes – 244 comments

Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format

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

a month ago

436 upvotes – 268 comments

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/

a month ago

417 upvotes – 976 comments

Using static websites for tiny archives

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

a month ago

391 upvotes – 78 comments

Code that helped end Apartheid

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

a month ago

362 upvotes – 207 comments

Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

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

a month ago

326 upvotes – 520 comments

Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo

https://pehringer.info/go_plan9_memo.html

a month ago

305 upvotes – 110 comments

Focus on decisions, not tasks

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

a month ago

298 upvotes – 61 comments

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

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

a month ago

264 upvotes – 148 comments

Just want simple TLS for your .internal network?

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

a month ago

245 upvotes – 141 comments

Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace

https://subvert.fm/

a month ago

230 upvotes – 136 comments

Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements

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

a month ago

203 upvotes – 216 comments

SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely

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

a month ago

191 upvotes – 123 comments

Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies

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

a month ago

184 upvotes – 84 comments

Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet

a month ago

173 upvotes – 33 comments

Smart pointers for the kernel

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

a month ago

169 upvotes – 114 comments

What is theoretical computer science?

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

a month ago

167 upvotes – 131 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags

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

a month ago

161 upvotes – 45 comments

Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial

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

a month ago

158 upvotes – 116 comments

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/

a month ago

157 upvotes – 38 comments

Express v5

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

a month ago

149 upvotes – 39 comments

Building a Game with the Real Engine

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

a month ago

145 upvotes – 36 comments

Life is not a story

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

a month ago

135 upvotes – 129 comments

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

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

a month ago

125 upvotes – 120 comments

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

a month ago

124 upvotes – 82 comments

A Mathematica interpreter in Typescript

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

a month ago

121 upvotes – 29 comments

Advice for first-time inventors from a patent engineer

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

a month ago

121 upvotes – 106 comments

One of Florida's most lethal python hunters

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

a month ago

120 upvotes – 148 comments

DHL pioneered the sharing economy (2016)

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

a month ago

109 upvotes – 43 comments

Coreboot port for 486 motherboard (UM8881/6)

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

a month ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

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

a month ago

95 upvotes – 13 comments

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

a month ago

93 upvotes – 71 comments

Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons

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

a month ago

92 upvotes – 131 comments

Another burnout post

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

a month ago

87 upvotes – 122 comments

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

https://github.com/clemensmanert/fas

a month ago

79 upvotes – 41 comments

Fixed Timestep Without Interpolation

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

a month ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

Polar Night in the Northernmost Town

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

a month ago

76 upvotes – 20 comments

Numerical Precision Affects Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13857

a month ago

66 upvotes – 49 comments

How should the new <selectedoption> element work?

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

a month ago

65 upvotes – 48 comments

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

a month ago

61 upvotes – 11 comments

Frederick Law Olmsted: His essential theory (2000)

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

a month ago

59 upvotes – 18 comments
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