top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-02

Weird Lexical Syntax

https://justine.lol/lex/

2 years ago

My Time Working at Stripe

https://jondlm.github.io/website/blog/leaving_stripe/

2 years ago

Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script

https://github.com/rbbydotdev/someday

2 years ago

Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links

https://lynx.boo

2 years ago

Rewrite It in Rails

https://dirkjonker.bearblog.dev/rewrite-it-in-rails/

2 years ago

Britain's postwar sugar craze confirms harms of sweet diets in early life

https://www.science.org/content/article/britain-s-postwar-sugar-craze-confirms-harms-sweet-diets-early-life

2 years ago

Obtainium: Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source

https://obtainium.imranr.dev/

2 years ago

Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11831-022-09740-9

2 years ago

Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers

https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash

2 years ago

SpawELO – small free matchmaking system for LAN parties

https://blog.spawek.com/SpawELO

2 years ago

Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection

https://railsatscale.com/2024-10-23-next-generation-oob-gc/

2 years ago

131M American Buildings

https://tech.marksblogg.com/ornl-fema-buildings.html

2 years ago

Superstreamer – OSS streaming toolkit from video source to player

https://github.com/matvp91/superstreamer

2 years ago

Practical Radio Circuits (2003) [pdf]

https://www.fracassi.net/iw2ntf/manuali/practical-radio-circuits-raymond-haigh.pdf

2 years ago

Show HN: Midnight Reminders via Morse Code

https://github.com/dmd/morse

2 years ago

Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/venvstacks

2 years ago

Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/replay-attacks-javascript-hackrf/

2 years ago

Spann: Highly-Efficient Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08566

2 years ago

Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card

https://mattgreer.dev/blog/cramming-solitaire-onto-a-nintendo-ereader-card/

2 years ago

SmolLM2

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/2/smollm2/

2 years ago

Sortledton: A Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structure [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p1173-fuchs.pdf

2 years ago

Ghosts in the Machine

https://daily.jstor.org/ghosts-in-the-machine/

2 years ago

Don't return named tuples in new APIs

https://snarky.ca/dont-use-named-tuples-in-new-apis/

2 years ago

Nikolai Fyodorov wanted to resurrect the dead to live among the stars

https://lz.kubicki.org/a-letter-about-nikolai-fyodorov/

2 years ago

Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Using Deep Learning Word Prediction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18100

2 years ago

It's time for a modern synthesis kernel (2019)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1676

2 years ago

Why sprints are taking the joy out of building software

https://zaidesanton.substack.com/p/why-sprints-are-broken

2 years ago

October 30 – Reflections on the Day the Earth Moved for H5N1

https://hogvet51.substack.com/p/october-30-reflections-on-the-day

2 years ago

Pkdns: DNS server resolving via mainline DHT

https://github.com/pubky/pkdns

2 years ago

Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more

https://orlp.net/blog/breaking-hash-functions/

2 years ago

Cats may be able to learn human words

https://nautil.us/your-cat-is-listening-to-you-1045745/

2 years ago

Static Basic Block Versioning

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.28

2 years ago

Why Pg_dump Is Amazing

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-pgdump-is-amazing.html

2 years ago

Colossus AI Supercluster with over 100k Nvidia H100 GPUs

https://twitter.com/ServeTheHome/status/1850917031421399543

2 years ago

Brute-Forcing the LLM Guardrails

https://medium.com/@volkot/brute-forcing-the-llm-guardrails-e02fcd9bc9a4

2 years ago

Apple's M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max compared to past generations, and to each other

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/10/apples-m4-m4-pro-and-m4-max-compared-to-past-generations-and-to-each-other/

2 years ago

Show HN: Private, in-browser, CSV-SQL query runner using SQLite-WASM

https://csvsqltool.com

2 years ago

The Language of Faces

https://domofutu.substack.com/p/the-language-of-faces

2 years ago