top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-25

We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

https://www.ifixit.com/News/102368/victory-is-sweet-we-can-now-fix-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines

2 years ago

Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2024/10/25/before-you-buy-a-domain-name-first-check-to-see-if-its-haunted/

2 years ago

Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos-killed-washington-post-endorsement-of-kamala-harris-.html

2 years ago

Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._Wikimedia_Foundation

2 years ago

Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk

2 years ago

Care Doesn't Scale

https://stevenscrawls.com/care-doesnt-scale/

2 years ago

Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance

https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/rust-in-non-rust-servers.md

2 years ago

Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/with-apple-intelligence-on-the-horizon-a-quarter-of-smartphone-owners-are-unimpressed-by-ai/

2 years ago

The brain's waste clearing lymphatic system shown in people for first time

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/brain-waste-clearance-system-shown-people-first-time

2 years ago

In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice

https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/10/11/regenerative-farming-practices-require-unlearning-past-advice/

2 years ago

Detecting when LLMs are uncertain

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

2 years ago

Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-plastic-chemical-phthalate-dna-breakage.html

2 years ago

Battleships Logic Puzzle

https://lukerissacher.com/battleships

2 years ago

Category Theory Illustrated: Logic (2021)

https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/05_logic/

2 years ago

A deep dive into Linux's new mseal syscall

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/10/25/a-deep-dive-into-linuxs-new-mseal-syscall/

2 years ago

Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html

2 years ago

Debian’s “secret” sauce

https://lwn.net/Articles/990177/

2 years ago

Universal optimality of Dijkstra via beyond-worst-case heaps

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11793

2 years ago

OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging

https://github.com/open-feature

2 years ago

SELinux bypasses

https://klecko.github.io/posts/selinux-bypasses/

2 years ago

Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/24/claude-analysis-tool/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941845

2 years ago

Show HN: Trench – Open-source analytics infrastructure

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/trench

2 years ago

Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7n3zyp114o

2 years ago

Cerebras Inference now 3x faster: Llama3.1-70B breaks 2,100 tokens/s

https://cerebras.ai/blog/cerebras-inference-3x-faster

2 years ago

OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent

https://microsoft.github.io/OmniParser/

2 years ago

Infinite Git repos on Cloudflare workers

https://gitlip.com/blog/infinite-git-repos-on-cloudflare-workers

2 years ago

Astronomers discover complex carbon molecules in interstellar space

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-discover-complex-carbon-molecules-in-interstellar-space

2 years ago

High-resolution postmortem human brain MRI at 7 tesla

https://pulkit-khandelwal.github.io/exvivo-brain-upenn/

2 years ago

Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybertruck-outselling-almost-every-other-ev-in-us-2024-10

2 years ago

U.S. Consumer Watchdog Cautions Businesses on Surveillance of Workers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-consumer-watchdog-cautions-businesses-on-surveillance-of-workers-8262bee3

2 years ago

Unsafe Rust is harder than C

https://chadaustin.me/2024/10/intrusive-linked-list-in-rust/

2 years ago

Federal investigators probe Tether

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/federal-investigators-probe-cryptocurrency-firm-tether-a13804e5

2 years ago

Study: DNA corroborates “Well-man” tale from Norse saga

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/ancient-dna-sheds-light-on-well-man-from-norse-saga/

2 years ago

Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets

https://theconversation.com/why-ghosts-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948

2 years ago

Law Enforcement Undermines Tor

https://marx.wtf/2024/10/10/law-enforcement-undermines-tor/

2 years ago

Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje03dq2pyyo

2 years ago

Electro-agriculture: Revolutionizing farming for a sustainable future

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(24)00429-X

2 years ago

Ask HN: Namecheap charged my card, didn't deliver, then upped the price

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949455

2 years ago

Elon Musk's Conversations with Vladimir Putin

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187

2 years ago

Waymo closes $5.6B investment round

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/investing-to-bring-the-waymo-driver-to-more-riders/

2 years ago

Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability

https://composio.dev/blog/claude-computer-use/

2 years ago

How not to sort by average rating (2009)

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

2 years ago

UnitedHealth says data of 100M stolen in Change Healthcare hack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unitedhealth-says-data-of-100-million-stolen-in-change-healthcare-hack/

2 years ago

Florida Eases Licensing Requirements for Foreign Trained Doctors

https://www.murthy.com/2024/10/17/florida-eases-licensing-requirements-for-foreign-trained-doctors/

2 years ago

Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust

https://www.404media.co/amazon-says-it-has-a-first-amendment-right-to-union-bust/

2 years ago

LibNSFB – Framebuffer (bitmap on screen) abstraction library, written in C

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/libnsfb/

2 years ago

California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Middle School Math (2023)

https://reason.com/2023/10/04/california-state-guidelines-discourage-schools-from-offering-advanced-middle-school-math/

2 years ago

Rsbuild – A Better Vite?

https://rsbuild.dev/

2 years ago