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

How I ship projects at big tech companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/

2 weeks ago

1423 upvotes – 380 comments

I Don't Have Spotify

https://github.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify

2 weeks ago

786 upvotes – 371 comments

Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/voyager-1-breaks-its-silence-with-nasa-via-a-radio-transmitter-not-used-since-1981-180985399/

2 weeks ago

508 upvotes – 306 comments

Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

2 weeks ago

482 upvotes – 236 comments

Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux

https://ttimo.typepad.com/blog/2024/11/the-steam-client-update-earlier-this-week-mentions-fixed-some-miscellaneous-common-crashes-in-the-linux-notes-which-i-wante.html

2 weeks ago

477 upvotes – 147 comments

Visualizing World War II

https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/visualizing-the-past-world-war-ii/

2 weeks ago

441 upvotes – 89 comments

I sent an Ethernet packet

https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024%2F11%2F1%2Fsending-an-ethernet-packet.md

2 weeks ago

426 upvotes – 126 comments

YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110901

2 weeks ago

288 upvotes – 109 comments

Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write

https://www.scannedinavian.com/the-github-plugin-my-coworkers-asked-me-not-to-write.html

2 weeks ago

277 upvotes – 117 comments

The death and life of prediction markets at Google

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-death-and-life-of-prediction-markets-at-google

2 weeks ago

273 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: Krita RGBA Tech – Bringing Realistic Metal to Life in Open-Source Art

https://github.com/Draneria/Metallics-by-Draneria_Krita-Brushes

2 weeks ago

271 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/11/06/apple-threatened-workers-over-talk-about-pay-remote-work-feds-charge/

2 weeks ago

247 upvotes – 111 comments

Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms

https://www.science.org/content/article/elephant-learned-use-hose-shower-then-her-rival-sought-revenge

2 weeks ago

228 upvotes – 151 comments

The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/better-source-cheap-bay-area-office-furniture-19897542.php

2 weeks ago

198 upvotes – 142 comments

Welcome to the Antarctic Fire Department

http://www.antarcticfire.org/

2 weeks ago

193 upvotes – 69 comments

The Silurian Hypothesis

https://pacificklaus.com/the-silurian-hypothesis-it-was-the-cephalopods/

2 weeks ago

186 upvotes – 219 comments

Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video]

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

2 weeks ago

173 upvotes – 32 comments

New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-elliptic-curve-breaks-18-year-old-record-20241111/

2 weeks ago

172 upvotes – 53 comments

Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP

https://zanussbaum.substack.com/p/optimizing-a-webgpu-matmul-kernel

2 weeks ago

172 upvotes – 80 comments

Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform

https://questdb.io/blog/making-a-trading-gameboy/

2 weeks ago

165 upvotes – 24 comments

Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer

https://pieter.com/

2 weeks ago

160 upvotes – 75 comments

SST: Container Support

https://sst.dev/blog/container-support/

2 weeks ago

158 upvotes – 69 comments

Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day

https://www.sciencealert.com/your-standing-desk-might-actually-be-as-bad-as-sitting-all-day

2 weeks ago

155 upvotes – 221 comments

Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-courier-uber-may-have-stolen-2-macbooks-i-bought-and-its-looking-like-apple-is-not-going-to-help.2441932/

2 weeks ago

146 upvotes – 117 comments

TinyTroupe, a new LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation Python library

https://github.com/microsoft/TinyTroupe

2 weeks ago

143 upvotes – 48 comments

Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes

https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/iphone/iph66057d0f6/ios

2 weeks ago

143 upvotes – 91 comments

AlphaFold 3 Code

https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold3

2 weeks ago

137 upvotes – 23 comments

Misguided Apple Intelligence ads

https://tidbits.com/2024/11/11/misguided-apple-intelligence-ads/

2 weeks ago

132 upvotes – 107 comments

Security Is a Useless Controls Problem

https://securityis.substack.com/p/security-is-a-useless-controls-problem

2 weeks ago

131 upvotes – 76 comments

How Chordcat works – a chord naming algorithm

https://blog.s20n.dev/posts/how-chordcat-works/

2 weeks ago

125 upvotes – 105 comments

The online sports gambling experiment

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-online-sports-gambling-experiment

2 weeks ago

124 upvotes – 128 comments

Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty

https://mtsi.substack.com/p/testing-the-z80-chip-with-a-1970s

2 weeks ago

122 upvotes – 23 comments

Every arthouse buff you know is pirating films

https://i-d.co/article/streaming-arthouse-movies-john-waters-netflix-2024/

2 weeks ago

115 upvotes – 135 comments

I converted a Macbook into a PC

https://community.frame.work/t/i-converted-a-macbook-into-a-pc/60063

2 weeks ago

113 upvotes – 79 comments

High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging

https://grizzlyreports.com/hsy/

2 weeks ago

111 upvotes – 89 comments

Chegg is on its last legs after ChatGPT sent its stock down

https://gizmodo.com/chegg-is-on-its-last-legs-after-chatgpt-sent-its-stock-down-99-2000522585

2 weeks ago

108 upvotes – 97 comments

The Internet Gopher from Minnesota

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-internet-gopher-from-minnesota

2 weeks ago

108 upvotes – 43 comments

ML in Go with a Python Sidecar

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2024/ml-in-go-with-a-python-sidecar/

2 weeks ago

107 upvotes – 16 comments

How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-gophers-brought-mount-st-helens.html

2 weeks ago

96 upvotes – 55 comments

Is the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm biased against younger patients?

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/does-the-uks-liver-transplant-matching

2 weeks ago

93 upvotes – 62 comments

Go Turns 15

https://go.dev/blog/15years

2 weeks ago

88 upvotes – 26 comments

Homage to Alexander Grothendieck

https://igrothendieck.org/en/homage-to-alexander-grothendieck/

2 weeks ago

87 upvotes – 8 comments

Binary vector embeddings are so cool

https://emschwartz.me/binary-vector-embeddings-are-so-cool/

2 weeks ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

The surprising effectiveness of test-time training for abstract reasoning [pdf]

https://www.mit.edu/~akyurek/papers/ttt.pdf

2 weeks ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Recovering from a kidney donation

https://sjer.red/blog/2024/kidney/

2 weeks ago

86 upvotes – 110 comments

Did scientists revive an extinct animal or just breed a less stripey zebra?

https://www.wsj.com/science/biology/quagga-woolly-mammoth-extinct-zebra-africa-dabce258

2 weeks ago

85 upvotes – 156 comments

Evolving a NoSQL Database Schema

https://karmanivero.us/projects/entity-manager/evolving-a-nosql-db-schema/

2 weeks ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds

http://tinfoil.com/

2 weeks ago

79 upvotes – 24 comments

VMware Fusion and Workstation Are Now Free for All Users

https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/11/vmware-fusion-and-workstation-are-now-free-for-all-users/

2 weeks ago

79 upvotes – 47 comments

New textbook teaches students about matrix methods and their real world apps

https://ece.engin.umich.edu/stories/new-textbook-teaches-students-about-matrix-methods-and-their-real-world-applications

2 weeks ago

77 upvotes – 33 comments

A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how-a-stubborn-computer-scientist-accidentally-launched-the-deep-learning-boom/

2 weeks ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments
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