top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-20

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2 years ago

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-breached-again-through-stolen-access-tokens/

2 years ago

Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-18/do-ai-detectors-work-students-face-false-cheating-accusations

2 years ago

Syncthing Android App Discontinued

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

2 years ago

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/04/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most.html

2 years ago

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

https://www.polygon.com/board-games/467103/kurt-vonnegut-ghq-lost-board-game-publisher-interview

2 years ago

WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

https://wifi-solver.com

2 years ago

Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems

https://github.com/drasi-project/drasi-platform

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894765

2 years ago

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/microsoft-said-it-lost-weeks-of-security-logs-for-its-customers-cloud-products/

2 years ago

The AI Investment Boom

https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-ai-investment-boom

2 years ago

Bitwarden is no longer free software

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

2 years ago

Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000003.html

2 years ago

How to do distributed locking (2016)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html

2 years ago

Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing

https://www.takeourword.com/TOW146/page4.html

2 years ago

The IPv6 Transition

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-10/ipv6-transition.html

2 years ago

The best darn grid shader yet (2023)

https://bgolus.medium.com/the-best-darn-grid-shader-yet-727f9278b9d8

2 years ago

Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645302200292X

2 years ago

Using Euro coins as weights (2004)

https://www.rubinghscience.org/surv/euroweights1.html

2 years ago

VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack

https://versatiles.org/

2 years ago

Sampling with SQL

https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2024-08-23-sampling-with-sql.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Create mind maps to learn new things using AI

https://github.com/aotakeda/learn-thing

2 years ago

Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/20/why-im-skeptical-of-rewriting-javascript-tools-in-faster-languages/

2 years ago

Regarding our Cease and Desist letter to Automattic

https://wpfusion.com/business/regarding-our-cease-and-desist-letter-to-automattic/

2 years ago

The Ultimate Conditional Syntax

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689746

2 years ago

Mind Wandering: More than a Bad Habit (2018) [pdf]

https://labs.psych.ucsb.edu/schooler/jonathan/sites/labs.psych.ucsb.edu.schooler.jonathan/files/pubs/202._mind_wandering.pdf

2 years ago

C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets

https://www.c-motive.com/technology/

2 years ago

Scratches in 2001: A Space Osyssey (2018)

https://aphelis.net/scratches-kubrick-2001-space-odyssey/

2 years ago

A new artificial intelligence tool for cancer

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/new-artificial-intelligence-tool-cancer

2 years ago

What docs-as-code means

https://passo.uno/what-docs-as-code-means/

2 years ago

The useful use of cat

https://mrmr.io/cat

2 years ago

Why Surgeons Are Wearing the Apple Vision Pro in Operating Rooms

https://time.com/7093536/surgeons-apple-vision-pro/

2 years ago

A Console-Friendly Pastebin with binary support

https://paste.c-net.org/

2 years ago

The history of the barcode

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241018-barcodes-at-75-how-black-and-white-lines-went-into-space-and-stoked-fears-of-the-antichrist

2 years ago

Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS

https://tonyfinn.com/blog/jj/

2 years ago

The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/safe_c_plusplus/

2 years ago

If you're curious why every username is a domain, it's because users are sites

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3l6xwi52zti2y

2 years ago

Bumblebee queens choose to hibernate in pesticide-contaminated soil

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-bumblebee-queens-hibernate-pesticide-contaminated.html

2 years ago

Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

https://twitter.com/dancantstream/status/1847991191221989620

2 years ago

All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-optical-device-paves-faster-fiber.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Semantic Macros Text Editor

https://samtxt.samrawal.com/

2 years ago

Machine conquest: Jules Verne's technocratic worldmaking

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/machine-conquest-jules-vernes-technocratic-worldmaking/E5897EB8F3FB9A8F0142075EE38D69BC

2 years ago

Sabotage evaluations for frontier models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/sabotage-evaluations

2 years ago

Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Change (2016)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151588

2 years ago

Performance of popular microcontroller boards running uLisp

http://www.ulisp.com/show?36M3

2 years ago

DawVert – a DAW project file converter

https://github.com/SatyrDiamond/DawVert

2 years ago

Paranormasight: A Game Exploring the Depths of Honjo in Tokyo

https://boilingsteam.com/paranormasight-review/

2 years ago