top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-24

Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/commit/db648d7ea85878e9cce03283694d01d878481f6b

2 years ago

Rider is now free for non-commercial use

https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

2 years ago

Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

https://play2048.co

2 years ago

Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices

https://github.com/RamboRogers/rfhunter

2 years ago

AWS data center latencies, visualized

https://benjdd.com/aws/

2 years ago

Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint

https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-quantized-lightweight-models/?_fb_noscript=1

2 years ago

All political ads running on Google in the US

https://adstransparency.google.com/political?region=US&topic=political

2 years ago

Pretty.c

https://github.com/aartaka/pretty.c

2 years ago

Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations

https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern

2 years ago

Security research on Private Cloud Compute

https://security.apple.com/blog/pcc-security-research/

2 years ago

Post World War II Food

https://www.nps.gov/articles/post-wwii-food.htm

2 years ago

NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch

https://netguard.me/

2 years ago

Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/cable-companies-ask-5th-circuit-to-block-ftcs-click-to-cancel-rule/

2 years ago

Why Safety Profiles Failed

https://www.circle-lang.org/draft-profiles.html

2 years ago

Zigler: Zig NIFs in Elixir

https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler

2 years ago

Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/2m53bmuzemamzc4jzk2bj7tli22ruaaqqe34a2shtdtqrd52hp@alifh66en3rj/T/#u

2 years ago

Quit Social Media (2016)

https://calnewport.com/quit-social-media/

2 years ago

The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese

https://archaeologymag.com/2024/09/lion-of-st-marks-square-in-venice-is-chinese/

2 years ago

Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report

https://www.ft.com/content/151eb482-6415-48a8-bf3f-baed00018c4e

2 years ago

Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020)

https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/

2 years ago

TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/tsmc-cuts-off-client-after-discovering-chips-diverted-to-huawei

2 years ago

Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices

https://www.assembled.com/blog/how-we-saved-hundreds-of-engineering-hours-by-writing-tests-with-llms

2 years ago

Brush – A new compatible Gaussian splatting engine

https://github.com/ArthurBrussee/brush

2 years ago

BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its affordability

https://insideevs.com/news/738606/byd-ev-teardown-impresses-japan/

2 years ago

New Architecture is here

https://reactnative.dev/blog/2024/10/23/the-new-architecture-is-here

2 years ago

Show HN: Which animal shares your body fat percentage?

https://animalbodyfatmatch.netlify.app/

2 years ago

Lingo: A Go micro language framework for building Domain Specific Languages

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/26/a-go-micro-language-framework-for-building-dsls/

2 years ago

Lost Silk Road Cities Discovered High in the Mountains of Central Asia

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-silk-road-cities-discovered-high-in-the-mountains-of-central-asia/

2 years ago

Zero or Sign Extend

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/zero-or-sign-extend/

2 years ago

ST Book, the Notebook Atari ST

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/st-book-the-notebook-atari-st

2 years ago

70% of meteorites from 3 collisions in asteroid belt within past 40M years

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/weve-found-the-source-of-most-meteorites/

2 years ago

Show HN: TypeSchema – A JSON specification to describe data models

https://typeschema.org/

2 years ago

Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/375219954

2 years ago

Claude Computer Use – Is Vision the Ultimate API?

https://www.thariq.io/blog/claudecomputer/

2 years ago

Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/01/12/password-strength/

2 years ago

For the strongest disc golf throws, it's all in the thumbs

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/how-physics-can-improve-your-disc-golf-game/

2 years ago

Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in people with Type 2 diabetes

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ozempic-linked-lower-alzheimers-risk-people-type-2-diabetes-rcna176821

2 years ago

WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/10/24/webstorm-and-rider-are-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

2 years ago

How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/oct/24/how-one-engineer-beat-the-ban-on-home-computers-in-socialist-yugoslavia

2 years ago

Data viz project that maps all earthquakes by magnitude

https://seismic-explorer.concord.org

2 years ago

TCP over TCP is a bad idea (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230228035749/https://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/tcp-tcp.html

2 years ago

LibLISA – Instruction Discovery and Analysis on x86-64

https://liblisa.nl/

2 years ago

Official Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD Review

https://bret.dk/official-raspberry-pi-nvme-ssd-review/

2 years ago

How do merging supermassive black holes pass the final parsec?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-merging-supermassive-black-holes-pass-the-final-parsec-20241023/

2 years ago

Developing with Docker

https://danielquinn.org/blog/developing-with-docker/

2 years ago

Apple ripped a valuable hearing loss feature from the AirPods line

https://mattiebee.io/55828/it-sure-looks-like-apple-ripped-a-valuable-hearing-loss-feature-from-the-airpods-line

2 years ago

19th-century photography technique employed in novel data storage method

https://spectrum.ieee.org/clark-johnson-profile

2 years ago

Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

https://support.postbox-inc.com/hc/en-us/articles/26988085310103-Postbox-has-been-acquired-by-eM-Client

2 years ago

Building a better and scalable system for data migrations

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/building-a-better-and-scalable-system-for-data-migrations/

2 years ago

Throw more AI at your problems

https://frontierai.substack.com/p/throw-more-ai-at-your-problems

2 years ago

Practical Introduction to BLE GATT Reverse Engineering: Hacking the Domyos EL500 (2023)

https://jcjc-dev.com/2023/03/19/reversing-domyos-el500-elliptical/

2 years ago

Why that one coworker got fired for no reason

https://gieseanw.wordpress.com/2024/10/24/why-that-one-coworker-got-fired-for-no-reason/

2 years ago

TI expands internal manufacturing for gallium nitride (GAN) semiconductors

https://www.ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-releases/2024/2024-10-24-texas-instruments-expands-internal-manufacturing-for-gallium-nitride--gan--semiconductors--quadrupling-capacity.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Pneumatic – free open-source workflow software

https://github.com/pneumaticapp/pneumaticworkflow

2 years ago

Get any AI to generate an image of a glass of wine that is full to the brim

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1gas25l/your_mission_should_you_choose_to_accept_it_is_to/

2 years ago

Rust in enterprise kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/993337/

2 years ago

Show HN: PreCog AI – Automatic AI Model Selection for Any Task

https://precog.ubik.studio/

2 years ago

An Introduction to BGP from the operator of a small AS

https://quantum5.ca/2023/07/14/introduction-to-bgp-from-operator-of-small-as/

2 years ago

Why did you write a new RTOS for CHERIoT?

https://cheriot.org/rtos/philosophy/history/2024/10/24/why-new-rtos.html

2 years ago

Location tracking of phones is out of control

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/phone-tracking-tool-lets-government-agencies-follow-your-every-move/

2 years ago