top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-07

QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/products/qnx-everywhere

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos

https://jamcorder.com/

2 years ago

Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-ecco-the-dolphin

2 years ago

Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/07/16-u-s-states-still-ban-community-owned-broadband-networks-because-att-and-comcast-told-them-to/

2 years ago

Mushroom Color Atlas

https://www.mushroomcoloratlas.com/

2 years ago

Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2024/11/ambulance-hits-oregon-cyclist-rushes-him-to-hospital-then-sticks-him-with-1800-bill-lawsuit-says.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42079768

2 years ago

Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42078536

2 years ago

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289707/microsoft-notepad-ai-text-editing-rewrite

2 years ago

A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)

https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-forgotten-mistake-that-killed-japans-software-industry/

2 years ago

AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation

https://control.princeton.edu/machine-learning-for-rt-profile-control-in-tokamaks/

2 years ago

Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/11/07/five-minutes-of-exercise-a-day-could-lower-blood-pressure.html

2 years ago

Kagi Translate

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-translate

2 years ago

Show HN: Draw.Audio – A musical sketchpad using the Web Audio API

https://draw.audio

2 years ago

Google banned me from Google Voice

https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/google-banned-me-from-google-voice

2 years ago

Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/07/ios-18-forcing-reboots-law-enforcement/

2 years ago

I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated

https://blog.dnmfarrell.com/post/incomplete-data-structures/

2 years ago

Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed

https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-web-interest-group-is-formed/

2 years ago

Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management

https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/11/excerpts-from-a-conversation-with-john-wiegley-johnw-and-adam-porter-alphapapa-about-personal-information-management/

2 years ago

Since the '60s, Ford has stored cars underground in a Kansas City cave

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/since-the-60s-ford-has-stored-cars-underground-in-a-kansas-city-cave/

2 years ago

Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics

https://github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB

2 years ago

The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-english-paradox-four-decades-of-life-and-language-in-japan

2 years ago

Richard A. Cash, who saved millions from dehydration, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/science/richard-cash-dead.html

2 years ago

How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows

https://www.hitsubscribe.com/how-to-delegate-effectively-as-your-responsibility-grows/

2 years ago

Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/kidnapping-toronto-businessman-cryptocurrency-1.7376679

2 years ago

Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/07/introducing-hyperlight-virtual-machine-based-security-for-functions-at-scale/

2 years ago

Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03689

2 years ago

Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/accelerating_the_performance_of_rosetta

2 years ago

XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/xmpp-the-forgotten-gem-of-instant-messaging.md

2 years ago

Show HN: TutoriaLLM – AI Integrated programming tutorials

https://github.com/TutoriaLLM/TutoriaLLM

2 years ago

URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars

https://junxuan-li.github.io/urgca-website/

2 years ago

Burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian priestess is discovered after 4k years

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14048371/burial-chamber-ancient-Egyptian-priestess-coffin.html

2 years ago

Trump's likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he'd run the agency

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/trumps-likely-fcc-chair-wrote-project-2025-chapter-on-how-hed-run-the-agency/

2 years ago

Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-05/nvidia-rides-ai-wave-to-pass-apple-as-world-s-largest-company

2 years ago

Bluesky's AT Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers

https://thenewstack.io/blueskys-at-protocol-pros-and-cons-for-developers/

2 years ago

A counter-intuitive guide to better leadership

https://sudarkoff.com/blog/stop-analyzing-your-gut-feelings-a-counter-intuitive-guide-to-better-leadership

2 years ago

Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge

https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-bunny-edge-scripting-a-better-way-to-build-and-deploy-applications-at-the-edge/

2 years ago

Rails 8.0 Released

https://rubyonrails.org/2024/11/7/rails-8-no-paas-required

2 years ago

Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/bringing-faster-exceptions-to-rust/

2 years ago

Steam releases new built-in recording feature

https://store.steampowered.com/gamerecording

2 years ago

Implementing Signal's Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)

https://nfil.dev/coding/encryption/python/double-ratchet-example/

2 years ago

Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/sega-is-delisting-60-classic-games-from-steam-so-nows-the-time-to-grab-them/

2 years ago

Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/05/043209/meta-permits-its-ai-models-to-be-used-for-us-military-purposes

2 years ago

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/anthropic-teams-up-with-palantir-and-aws-to-sell-its-ai-to-defense-customers/

2 years ago

Memory64

https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/main/proposals/memory64/Overview.md

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42079086

2 years ago

DNA from Pompeii Victims Reveals Surprising Relationships Amidst the Chaos

https://gizmodo.com/dna-from-pompeii-victims-reveals-surprising-relationships-amidst-the-chaos-2000520264

2 years ago

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

https://theamericanscholar.org/masters-of-horror-and-magic/

2 years ago

Astronomers may have spotted the smallest possible stars

https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-may-have-spotted-smallest-possible-stars

2 years ago

The egg or the chicken? An ancient unicellular says egg

https://www.unige.ch/medias/en/2024/loeuf-ou-la-poule-un-unicellulaire-ancestral-dit-loeuf

2 years ago

Five Learnings from 15 Years in Perception

https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/five-learnings-from-15-years-in-perception

2 years ago

Lynis – Security auditing and hardening tool, for Unix-based systems

https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis

2 years ago

Windows Memory Mapped File IO

https://www.jeremyong.com/winapi/io/2024/11/03/windows-memory-mapped-file-io/

2 years ago

Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42081574

2 years ago

Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08097-2

2 years ago