top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-08

Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output

https://github.com/dandavison/delta

2 years ago

Mitochondria Are Alive

https://www.asimov.press/p/mitochondria

2 years ago

Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities

https://jhftss.github.io/A-New-Era-of-macOS-Sandbox-Escapes/

2 years ago

Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742

2 years ago

I quit Google to work for myself (2018)

https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

2 years ago

We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix

https://pushtoprod.substack.com/p/netflix-terrifying-concurrency-bug

2 years ago

Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web

https://asterogue.com

2 years ago

FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-proposes-ending-use-oral-phenylephrine-otc-monograph-nasal-decongestant-active-ingredient-after

2 years ago

After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/11/fda-proposes-ditching-common-decongestant-for-being-completely-useless/

2 years ago

Rust for tokenising and parsing

https://xnacly.me/posts/2024/rust-pldev/

2 years ago

It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-4974964

2 years ago

Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/2d-an-exploration-of-drawing-as-programming-language-featuring-ideas-from-lambda-calculus/overview/

2 years ago

Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/safe-ai-champ-anthropic-teams-up-with-defense-giant-palantir-in-new-deal/

2 years ago

LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21228

2 years ago

Principles for product velocity

https://ssoready.com/blog/from-the-founders/methodology-is-bullshit/

2 years ago

Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s

https://mlumiste.com/technical/liveportrait-compression/

2 years ago

Notes on Guyana

https://mattlakeman.org/2024/11/08/notes-on-guyana/

2 years ago

How to find exploits in video games

https://shalzuth.com/Blog/FindingExploitsInGames

2 years ago

Making Electronic Calipers

https://kevinlynagh.com/calipertron/

2 years ago

My Notes on Apple Math Notes

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-5

2 years ago

Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?

https://www.onallbands.com/ham-radio-101-what-is-wspr/

2 years ago

Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/technology/elwood-edwards-aol-dead.html

2 years ago

Desktop icons are surprisingly hard

https://akselmo.dev/posts/plasma-desktop-icons-positioning-refactor/

2 years ago

What Is a Staff Engineer?

https://nishtahir.com/what-is-a-staff-engineer/

2 years ago

How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)

https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q

2 years ago

Guild Builds

https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/index.html

2 years ago

Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan's konbini

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/08/coffee-sandwiches-underwear-beer-day-in-the-life-japan-konbini-stores

2 years ago

Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult

https://torrentfreak.com/pirating-the-pirate-bay-tv-series-is-ironically-difficult-241108/

2 years ago

Genetic repair via CRISPR can inadvertently introduce other defects

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-genetic-crispr-inadvertently-defects.html

2 years ago

An unusual Google Keyboard bug

https://weiyen.net/articles/an-unusual-google-keyboard-bug

2 years ago

The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241108-00/?p=110490

2 years ago

Apple Macintosh before System 7

https://earlymacintosh.org/

2 years ago

The Weeds Are Winning

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105034/weeds-climate-change-genetic-engineering-superweeds-food/

2 years ago

Why 4D geometry makes me sad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piJkuavhV50

2 years ago

How is the SSD installed – M4 Mac Mini (2024)

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/875970/How+is+the+SSD+installed

2 years ago

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted to Same Tier as Gnome-Based Fedora Workstation

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Promoted

2 years ago

D-Wave achieves calibration of Advantage2 processor

https://www.dwavesys.com/company/newsroom/press-release/d-wave-achieves-significant-milestone-with-calibration-of-4-400-qubit-advantage2-processor/

2 years ago

Colors of the Court – NBA Uniforms

https://pudding.cool/2024/10/nba-uniforms/

2 years ago

Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/07/judges-investigation-into-patent-troll-results-in-criminal-referrals/

2 years ago

Algol-68 seemed like a good idea

https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/algol-68-seemed-like-a-good-idea-until-it-wasnt/

2 years ago

Intentrace: Strace for Everyone

https://github.com/sectordistrict/intentrace

2 years ago

Ease of maintenance is a feature

https://ronakgothi.com/p/ease-of-maintenance-is-a-feature/

2 years ago

TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/tsmc-will-stop-making-7-nm-chips-for-chinese-customers/

2 years ago

The 'Invisibility Cloak' – Slash-Proc Magic

https://dfir.ch/posts/slash-proc/

2 years ago

iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out

https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/

2 years ago

Choose Boring Technology and LLMs

https://www.maragu.dev/blog/choose-boring-technology-and-llms

2 years ago

Safe and efficient C++ interoperability via non-escapable types and lifetimes

https://forums.swift.org/t/safe-and-efficient-c-interoperability-via-non-escapable-types-and-lifetimes/75426

2 years ago