top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-21

First images from Euclid are in

https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2024/10/023/orig-2410_023_AR_EN.mp4

2 years ago

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

2 years ago

Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl8pjgn2o

2 years ago

Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1g8xrub/microsoft_is_introducing_hidden_apis_to_vs_code/

2 years ago

Please do not write below the line

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Please%20do%20not%20write%20below%20the%20line.htm

2 years ago

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo

2 years ago

A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/take-the-near-impossible-literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html

2 years ago

Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging

https://github.com/konstin/sudoku-in-python-packaging

2 years ago

Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading

https://github.com/maoserr/epublifier

2 years ago

ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v62gg49zro

2 years ago

Show HN: Data Formulator – AI-powered data visualization from Microsoft Research

https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator

2 years ago

Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]

https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/education/swebok/swebok-v4.pdf

2 years ago

How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-i-got-a-digital-nomad-visa-for-japan

2 years ago

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/t-mobile-att-oppose-unlocking-rule-claim-locked-phones-are-good-for-users/

2 years ago

Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab

https://www.amoses.dev/blog/upl-people-counter/

2 years ago

A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-team-takes-major-step-toward-fully-3d-printed-active-electronics-1015

2 years ago

Scalene: A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, memory profiler for Python

https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene

2 years ago

Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thought-experiments-that-fray-the-fabric-of-space-time-20240925/

2 years ago

Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit

https://spacenews.com/intelsat-33e-loses-power-in-geostationary-orbit/

2 years ago

Scientists working to decode birdsong

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong

2 years ago