top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-26

How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me

https://www.ft.com/content/b9e419c6-acf1-420b-8ae6-908feb52c94e

2 years ago

Understanding Round Robin DNS

https://blog.hyperknot.com/p/understanding-round-robin-dns

2 years ago

New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-driver-signature-bypass-allows-kernel-rootkit-installs/

2 years ago

How can this 6 axis robot have a static accuracy of 0.05 mm? (2021) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SioCwvR_PYY

2 years ago

We Can Terraform the American West

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/we-can-terraform-the-american-west/

2 years ago

Bluesky Is Not Decentralized

https://beige.party/@possibledog/113367977656537478

2 years ago

Do hard things carefully

https://blog.depthsofrepair.com/p/do-hard-things-carefully

2 years ago

Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange

https://tristanrhodes.com/blog/Adventures-in-Algorithmic-Trading-on-the-Runescape-Grand-Exchange

2 years ago

Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)

https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/fulltext/2023/02000/a_short_history_of_saturated_fat__the_making_and.10.aspx

2 years ago

James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation

https://scitechdaily.com/james-webb-telescope-discovers-quasars-where-they-shouldnt-exist/

2 years ago

ZombAIs: From Prompt Injection to C2 with Claude Computer Use

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/claude-computer-use-c2-the-zombais-are-coming/

2 years ago

Olivetti’s Ivrea

https://medium.com/@danielstone/olivettis-ivrea-how-an-italian-tech-giant-built-the-world-s-most-progressive-company-town-557cb035c383

2 years ago

Fruits (2020)

https://graphallthethings.com/posts/fruits

2 years ago

Should JavaScript be split into two languages?

https://devclass.com/2024/10/22/should-javascript-be-split-into-two-languages-new-google-driven-proposal-divides-opinion/

2 years ago

Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)

https://commoncog.com/goodharts-law-not-useful/

2 years ago

Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/opinion_open_washing/

2 years ago

Debugging my wife's alarm clock

https://ntietz.com/blog/debugging-my-wifes-alarm-clock/

2 years ago

ADHD and managing your professional reputation

https://www.optimaloutliers.com/p/adhd-and-managing-your-reputation

2 years ago

Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go

https://github.com/dim0x69/mdx

2 years ago

Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action

https://bullenweg.com/

2 years ago

OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/995159/a37fb9817a00ebcb/

2 years ago

Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades

https://m4xc.dev/articles/fundamental-rc/

2 years ago

Programming a computer for playing chess (1950) [pdf]

https://vision.unipv.it/IA1/ProgrammingaComputerforPlayingChess.pdf

2 years ago

Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

https://gizmodo.com/feds-say-you-dont-have-a-right-to-check-out-retro-video-games-like-library-books-2000516767

2 years ago

The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/the-fediverse-is-getting-its-own-tiktok-competitor-called-loops/

2 years ago

SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea

https://github.com/antirez/load81

2 years ago

Deep dive: the instability of op-amps

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/deep-dive-the-instability-of-op-amps

2 years ago

NixOS is not reproducible

https://linderud.dev/blog/nixos-is-not-reproducible/

2 years ago

MrBeast's Faux Philanthropy

https://unherd.com/2024/10/mrbeasts-faux-philanthropy/

2 years ago

RebrickNet – Lego Part Detector

https://rebrickable.com/rebricknet/submit/

2 years ago

Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart

https://abc7chicago.com/post/russia-amplified-hurricane-disinformation-drive-americans-apart-researchers-find/15463309/

2 years ago

Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store

https://github.com/jonfraser/simpletext

2 years ago

Canvas Fingerprinting

https://browserleaks.com/canvas

2 years ago

The weak science behind psychedelics

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/psychedelics-medicine-science/680286/

2 years ago

How to configure an Ethernet connection between iPad and RaspberryPi with USB-C

https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/howto-configure-ethernet-connection-ipad-raspberrypi-usbc/

2 years ago

Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-ion-solar-gravitational-lens-years.html

2 years ago

Fitting a Forth in 512 bytes (2021)

https://compilercrim.es/bootstrap/miniforth/

2 years ago

State-space models can learn in-context by gradient descent

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11687

2 years ago

Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/microsoft-fires-employees-who-organized-vigil-for-palestinians-killed-in-gaza/ar-AA1sX4Tf

2 years ago

Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18379

2 years ago

PineNote Community Edition: Preorder coming soon

https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-community-edition-coming-soon/

2 years ago

On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the British "Empire"

https://old.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1fv9ti6/on_friday_21st_march_2025_at_0250_utc_the_sun/

2 years ago

Nvidia dethrones Apple as the most valuable company

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nvidia-stock-price-market-cap-apple-most-valuable-company-nvda-2024-10

2 years ago

Long wave radio fans mourn fading frequencies (2023)

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66644709

2 years ago

First scientific study of the Paris catacombs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/19/bodies-quarry-shafts-millions-buried-paris-catacombs

2 years ago

All the electricity you'll need for 40 years

https://www.innerpathing.com/p/all-the-electricity-youll-need-for

2 years ago

Apple wins $250 US jury verdict in patent case over Masimo smartwatches

https://www.reuters.com/legal/masimo-smartwatches-infringe-apple-patents-us-jury-says-2024-10-25/

2 years ago

Why those particular integer multiplies?

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/why-those-particular-integer-multiplies/

2 years ago

Serious fun

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/serious-fun/

2 years ago

How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/

2 years ago

California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?

https://unherd.com/2024/10/californias-woes-were-born-in-england/

2 years ago

Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41953063

2 years ago

"We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

2 years ago

Evaluate Markdown code blocks within Vim

https://github.com/gpanders/vim-medieval

2 years ago

Cerebras Trains Llama Models to Leap over GPUs

https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/25/cerebras-trains-llama-models-to-leap-over-gpus/

2 years ago

Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Threatens Inst. Autonomy

https://pen.org/press-release/cancellation-of-naval-academy-lecture-by-ruth-ben-ghiat-at-behest-of-republican-politicians-threatens-institutional-autonomy/

2 years ago

I've never used cohost but I miss it

https://plume.pink/blog-cohost/

2 years ago

On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers

https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20241025-linux-maintainers-russian/

2 years ago

There are only two asset classes: ownership and debt

https://www.ft.com/content/15998397-48dc-4afd-acbb-19ff08416e5b

2 years ago

It is fine not to like a piece of free software

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/10/it-is-fine-not-to-like-a-piece-of-free-software-and-other-oft-unstated-foss-related-freedoms/

2 years ago

Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome

https://9to5google.com/2024/10/26/google-jarvis-agent-chrome/

2 years ago

JetKVM: Tiny IP KVM That's Not an Apple Watch

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/jetkvm-tiny-ip-kvm-thats-not-apple-watch

2 years ago