top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-29

GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-29/microsoft-s-github-unit-cuts-ai-deals-with-google-anthropic

2 years ago

Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2023m12d15/

2 years ago

How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends

https://delroth.net/posts/spoofed-mass-scan-abuse/

2 years ago

Vector databases are the wrong abstraction

https://www.timescale.com/blog/vector-databases-are-the-wrong-abstraction/

2 years ago

How I write code using Cursor

https://www.arguingwithalgorithms.com/posts/cursor-review.html

2 years ago

New Mac Mini with M4

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apples-new-mac-mini-is-more-mighty-more-mini-and-built-for-apple-intelligence/

2 years ago

OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-builds-first-chip-with-broadcom-tsmc-scales-back-foundry-ambition-2024-10-29/

2 years ago

AI Flame Graphs

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2024-10-29/ai-flame-graphs.html

2 years ago

Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature

https://yalereview.org/article/chris-ware-richard-scarry

2 years ago

Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels

https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-postgres-early-access

2 years ago

What's New in POSIX 2024

https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu

2 years ago

Digging into PlantStudio, a bit late

https://pketh.org/plantstudio.html

2 years ago

Launch HN: Integuru (YC W24) – Reverse-engineer internal APIs using LLMs

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

2 years ago

RIP botsin.space

https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

2 years ago

Wasmer 5.0

https://wasmer.io/posts/introducing-wasmer-v5

2 years ago

The electrostatic world of insects

https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-electrostatic-world-of-insects/

2 years ago

Hobby CAD, CNC machining, and resin casting (2015)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/full/

2 years ago

PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go

2 years ago

Signal: Online MIDI Editor

https://github.com/ryohey/signal

2 years ago

What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/oct/29/acute-psychosis-inner-voices-avatar-therapy-psychiatry

2 years ago

Create block devices on your computer backed by Redstone Memory

https://github.com/williambl/blockblockdevice

2 years ago

GLP-1 for Everything

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/glp-1-everything

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell

https://dingdongdoorbell.com

2 years ago

Insiders Stealing Instagram Usernames?

https://javier.computer/instagram

2 years ago

Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce Rivalry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-29/shopify-is-winning-salesforce-clients-stoking-e-commerce-rivalry

2 years ago

An indie studio created a game based on Stanislaw Lem's novel

https://invinciblethegame.com/?hn

2 years ago

A deep history of Halloween

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/a-very-deep-history-of-halloween

2 years ago

Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-s-ghost-stories-ca-1830/

2 years ago

SmartTube – an advanced player for set-top boxes and TVs running Android OS

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

2 years ago

Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029890.2024.2370240

2 years ago

Nuclear Fusion's New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-off-the-shelf-stellarator

2 years ago

Show HN: Kasama – an IntelliJ plugin to keep track of your coding practices

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/24683-kasama

2 years ago

Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs

https://blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-is-joining-elevenlabs

2 years ago

Swift – A great language strangled by governance?

https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killing-swift

2 years ago

GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/github-spark-lets-you-build-web-apps-in-plain-english/

2 years ago

Strava was used to locate the most powerful people

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/oct/29/strava-problem-fitness-app-locate-worlds-most-powerful-people

2 years ago

An Italian 'fruit detective' who investigates centuries-old paintings

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/meet-italian-fruit-detective-who-investigates-centuries-old-paintings-clues-produce-180985227/

2 years ago

Ancient Monkey: Pwning a 17-Year-Old Version of SpiderMonkey

https://blog.pspaul.de/posts/ancient-monkey-pwning-a-17-year-old-version-of-spidermonkey/

2 years ago

X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content Whether They Want It or Not

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/x-twitter-political-content-election-2024-28f2dadd

2 years ago

ElasticSearch and many other repos are gone

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

2 years ago

Show HN: Latex.to – LaTeX to image converter running in the browser

https://latex.to

2 years ago

No More Tax-Free Lunch for Billionaires: Closing the Borrowing Loophole

https://www.taxnotes.com/special-reports/individual-income-taxation/no-more-tax-free-lunch-billionaires-closing-borrowing-loophole/2024/01/19/7j3bg

2 years ago

Meta's AI Abundance

https://stratechery.com/2024/metas-ai-abundance/

2 years ago

Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical games online

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/10/copyright-office-libraries-cant-share-remotely-emulated-versions-of-physical-games/

2 years ago

Guide to applying to YC – from a founder who was accepted on the third try

https://getfluently.notion.site/Y-Combinator-Application-Guide-1286a9ce04d98004b4dac50cf66fb883

2 years ago

Inspecting North Korea's Digital Map App: Licensing and API Insights

https://nkinternet.wordpress.com/2024/10/28/inspecting-north-koreas-digital-map-app-licensing-api-insights/

2 years ago

When are two proofs essentially the same? (2007)

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/when-are-two-proofs-essentially-the-same/

2 years ago

The trailing dot in domain names matter

https://lacot.org/blog/2024/10/29/the-trailing-dot-in-domain-names-a-detail-that-is-often-poorly-managed.html

2 years ago

Rescue Party (1946)

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747___1.htm

2 years ago

Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' Dies at 79

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/teri-garr-dead-young-frankenstein-tootsie-1236193831/

2 years ago

License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars

https://www.wired.com/story/license-plate-readers-political-signs-bumper-stickers/

2 years ago

Matrix 2.0 Is Here

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/

2 years ago

OutRun: Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker

https://outrun.tadris.de/

2 years ago

Waymo does over 150k paid trips and over 1M autonomous miles every week

https://twitter.com/waymo/status/1851365483972538407

2 years ago

Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia

https://www.kentik.com/blog/beyond-their-intended-scope-uzing-into-russia/

2 years ago

Jeff Bezos: Americans don't trust the news media

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/

2 years ago

A Performance Comparison of Modern Garbage Collectors (2021) [pdf]

https://rodrigo-bruno.github.io/mentoring/77998-Carlos-Goncalves_dissertacao.pdf

2 years ago