top 50% 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

418 I’m a teapot

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

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

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

Standardizing Automotive Connectivity

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/blog/standardizing-automotive-connectivity

2 years ago

Improving Xwayland window resizing

https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2024/10/28/improving-xwayland-window-resizing/

2 years ago

Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem

https://www.colmanhumphrey.com/posts/why-slight-failed/

2 years ago

NY Times gets 230 wrong again

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/28/ny-times-gets-230-wrong-again-misrepresenting-history-law-and-the-first-amendment/

2 years ago

Web Assembly audio decoders highly optimized for size and performance

https://github.com/eshaz/wasm-audio-decoders

2 years ago

'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/28/microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-program-40-years

2 years ago

There is no such thing as a global method in Ruby

https://zverok.space/blog/2024-10-21-global_functions.html

2 years ago

On Good Software Engineers

https://candost.blog/on-good-software-engineers/

2 years ago

200k subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations

2 years ago

Psychological safety vs. high standards: A misunderstood dynamic

https://www.leadingsapiens.com/psychological-safety-vs-high-standards/

2 years ago

The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/explicit-content

2 years ago

They want your ethics for $105

https://ntietz.com/blog/ethics-105-dollars/

2 years ago

Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/marijuana-use-teens-study.php

2 years ago

Go library for in-process vector search and embeddings with llama.cpp

https://github.com/kelindar/search

2 years ago

Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator

https://github.com/rochacbruno/marmite

2 years ago

Wazuh – Open-source security platform

https://wazuh.com/

2 years ago

The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945) [pdf]

https://www.kysq.org/docs/Hayek_45.pdf

2 years ago

Ask HN: Local RAG with private knowledge base

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41968366

2 years ago

DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub

https://github.com/github/dmca

2 years ago

Millions may rely on groundwater contaminated with PFAS for drinking water

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-millions-groundwater-contaminated-pfas.html

2 years ago

RTP: One protocol to rule them all?

https://paper.wf/binarycat/rtp

2 years ago

Crux, a Precise Verifier for Rust and Other Languages

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18280

2 years ago

Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41970318

2 years ago

Critique of Freakonomics interview with psychologist Ellen Langer

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/28/freakonomics-does-it-again-not-in-a-good-way-jeez-these-guys-are-credulous/

2 years ago

Family medicine is in decline

https://thewalrus.ca/your-doctor-wont-see-you/

2 years ago

Rubocop-obsession: RuboCop extension focused on higher-level concepts

https://github.com/jeromedalbert/rubocop-obsession

2 years ago

Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41973744

2 years ago

Don't implement unification by recursion

https://www.philipzucker.com/unify/

2 years ago

Shenzhou-18 crew records video showcasing life, work in space [video]

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

2 years ago

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

https://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Basis – a production focused robotics framework

https://github.com/basis-robotics/basis

2 years ago

Apple Intelligence is coming to the EU in April 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/28/apple-intelligence-is-coming-to-the-eu-in-april-2025/

2 years ago

CIL: C Intermediate Language

https://github.com/goblint/cil

2 years ago

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-medium-posts-content-moderation/

2 years ago

Suits, money laundering, and linear programming

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2024/10/28/suits-money-laundering-and-linear-programming/

2 years ago

People Are Sick and Tired of All Their Subscriptions

https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-are-sick-and-tired-of-all-their-subscriptions-cbee7e03

2 years ago

SQLite Rsync: Database Remote-Copy Tool for SQLite

https://sqlite.org/rsync.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Finstruments - Financial instrument library built with Python

https://github.com/kyleloomis/finstruments

2 years ago

Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?

https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/could-you-pass-this-8th-grade-test

2 years ago

GDDR7 Memory Supercharges AI Inference

https://semiengineering.com/gddr7-memory-supercharges-ai-inference/

2 years ago

Letters by Oliver Sacks review

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/25/letters-by-oliver-sacks-review

2 years ago

How do you deploy in 10 seconds?

https://paravoce.bearblog.dev/how-do-you-deploy-in-10-seconds/

2 years ago

Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?

https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/brute-force-rubiks-cube/

2 years ago

Jump Trading, Virtu and the 'hidden optical fibre cable' under an Ohio field

https://www.ft.com/content/099342e4-cae8-4ac7-86bd-a3f2048065e8

2 years ago

Apple iPhone 16 Is Now Illegal in Indonesia, Ban Leaves Tourists in the Lurch

https://www.news18.com/tech/apple-iphone-16-is-now-illegal-in-indonesia-ban-leaves-tourists-in-the-lurch-9099034.html

2 years ago

The Event Horizon Telescope image might need a correction

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/534/4/3237/7660988

2 years ago

Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is-available-today-on-iphone-ipad-and-mac/

2 years ago