top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-19

Accountability sinks

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/accountability-sinks

2 years ago

Svelte 5 Released

https://www.npmjs.com/package/svelte

2 years ago

Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements

https://twitter.com/snwy_me/status/1847396175961641176

2 years ago

AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-engineers-build-new-algorithm-for-ai-processing-replace-complex-floating-point-multiplication-with-integer-addition

2 years ago

QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09423

2 years ago

Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send

https://send.vis.ee/

2 years ago

Civet: A Superset of TypeScript

https://civet.dev/

2 years ago

The long road to lazy preemption in the Linux CPU scheduler

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/994322/45aa5211a50bc63a/

2 years ago

Data Version Control

https://dvc.org/

2 years ago

S3 as a Git remote and LFS server

https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3

2 years ago

A Distributed Systems Reading List (2014)

https://dancres.github.io/Pages/

2 years ago

Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/10/10/ribbonfarm-is-retiring/

2 years ago

Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/03/25/have-mckinsey-and-its-consulting-rivals-got-too-big

2 years ago

The Languages of English, Math, and Programming

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/Triplets.ipynb

2 years ago

Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/machine-learning-mnist-inference-on-the-3-cent-microcontroller/

2 years ago

Dwarf Fortress – Boatmurdered Part #1 – Intro (2006)

https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introduction/

2 years ago

Morsle – A daily Morse code challenge

https://morsle.fun

2 years ago

Autism's Four Core Subtypes

https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/untangling-biological-threads-from-autisms-phenotypic-patchwork-reveals-four-core-subtypes/

2 years ago

Blocking code is a leaky abstraction

https://notgull.net/blocking-leaky/

2 years ago

US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4M cars 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

How to leverage Claude's capabilities with interactive visualization

https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/tree/main/financial-data-analyst

2 years ago

Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

https://mil04s43-in-f1.1e100.net

2 years ago

Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/18/dutch-woman-82-rides-bike/

2 years ago

Did Automattic commit open source theft?

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/did-automattic-commit-open-source-theft/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it

https://frondly.app/

2 years ago

Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35840393

2 years ago

Eliza in SNOBOL4

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/987452.987458

2 years ago

Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41885689

2 years ago

How I Use Git

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/how-i-use-git

2 years ago

Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

https://apnews.com/article/cuba-power-outage-blackout-4ae305120a99fec17c79e7621e8dac4b

2 years ago

I Hate the Letter F

https://old.reddit.com/comments/1g6uc7x/comment/lsmpeeu

2 years ago

Bluesky gains 1.2M in 2 days, 12M total after X disables blocking

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/x-rival-bluesky-gains-12-million-new-users-in-2-days/481572

2 years ago

WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)

https://oct8l.gitlab.io/posts/2019/140/wireguard-performance-with-a-pi-zero/

2 years ago

It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-keynote

2 years ago

Shanghai Before the Foreigners

https://jaapgrolleman.com/shanghai-before-the-foreigners/

2 years ago

'They refused to let me go': Japanese turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/19/japan-workers-resignation-agencies-quit-job-work-life

2 years ago

Implementing Brainfuck in APL

https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2024-09-27-brainfuck.html

2 years ago

SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid

https://testing.googleblog.com/2024/10/smurf-beyond-test-pyramid.html

2 years ago

Zen: Firefox Based Browser

https://zen-browser.app/

2 years ago

Plastic – A Modern NES Emulator That Works with EGUI and TUI

https://github.com/Amjad50/plastic

2 years ago

Senate report: How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. hospitals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/17/private-equity-steward-hospital-bankruptcy/

2 years ago

Nonfree software found in GNU Boot releases again, many distros affected

https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10684

2 years ago

Jury awards American Airline $9.4M from website behind 'skiplagging' hack

https://www.courthousenews.com/jury-awards-american-airlines-9-4-million-from-website-behind-skiplagging-hack/

2 years ago

Breaking Bad: How Compilers Break Constant-Time~Implementations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13489

2 years ago

The Oblivion Mod Terry Pratchett Worked On

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on

2 years ago

U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/19/g-s1-29030/us-probe-tesla-full-self-driving-system

2 years ago

The Raku Programming Language

https://raku.org/

2 years ago

Booting Sun Sparc Servers

https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2024/10/04/booting-sun-sparc-servers.html

2 years ago

Strep A kills half a million per year; why don't we have a vaccine?

https://wellcome.org/news/strep-bacteria-kill-half-million-year-why-dont-we-have-vaccine

2 years ago

NASA drops Boeing Starliner from upcoming missions

https://jalopnik.com/nasa-drops-boeing-starliner-from-upcoming-missions-1851676293

2 years ago

Show HN: I made tool for slicing up samples to Ableton Move presets

https://github.com/alexfedosov/move-tool

2 years ago