top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-10-28

We're forking Flutter

https://flutterfoundation.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/

2 years ago

A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write

https://research.google/blog/a-return-to-hand-written-notes-by-learning-to-read-write/

2 years ago

New iMac with M4

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-new-imac-supercharged-by-m4-and-apple-intelligence/

2 years ago

Buy payphones and retire

https://computer.rip/2024-10-26-buy-payphones-and-retire.html

2 years ago

The motor turns too much

https://www.projectgus.com/2024/01/kona-motor-turns/

2 years ago

HTML Form Validation is underused

https://expressionstatement.com/html-form-validation-is-heavily-underused

2 years ago

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

https://danluu.com/ballmer/

2 years ago

So long WordPress

https://chriswiegman.com/2024/10/so-long-wordpress/

2 years ago

Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read

https://shepherd.com/best-books/science-fiction-that-you-should-definitely-read

2 years ago

Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free

https://dmytroengineering.com/content/projects/t2s-plus-thermal-camera-hacking

2 years ago

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)

https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

2 years ago

Why so few Matt Levines?

https://gwern.net/matt-levine

2 years ago

The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

https://jgeekstudies.org/2024/10/27/on-the-influence-of-japanese-archaeological-heritage-on-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild/

2 years ago

418 I’m a teapot

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

2 years ago

The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20241028-surveillance.html

2 years ago

ATL: A layer to run Android apps on Linux

https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/-/blob/master/README.md

2 years ago

Using reinforcement learning and $4.80 of GPU time to find the best HN post

https://openpipe.ai/blog/hacker-news-rlhf-part-1

2 years ago

The unnecessary decline of U.S. numerical weather prediction

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-unnecessary-decline-of-us-numerical.html

2 years ago

Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala

https://mill-build.org/

2 years ago

How Gothic architecture became spooky

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/how-gothic-architecture-became-spooky

2 years ago