top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-13

No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

https://blog.transitapp.com/go-underground/

2 years ago

The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

https://pikuma.com/blog/jungle-music-video-game-drum-bass

2 years ago

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/openai-google-and-anthropic-are-struggling-to-build-more-advanced-ai

2 years ago

Francois Chollet is leaving Google

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/farewell-and-thank-you-for-the-continued-partnership-francois-chollet/

2 years ago

A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

https://openai.com/chatgpt/use-cases/student-writing-guide/

2 years ago

Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/amazon-makes-it-harder-for-disabled-employees-to-work-from-home

2 years ago

New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/nyc-on-brink-of-ending-killer-broker-fees-that-squeeze-renters

2 years ago

FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/13/polymarket-fbi-shayne-coplan

2 years ago

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

2 years ago

Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

https://github.com/bahaaador/bluetooth-usb-peripheral-relay

2 years ago

Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation

https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/

2 years ago

A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard

https://www.ohrg.org/cycling-typing

2 years ago

The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections (2023)

https://www.lakera.ai/blog/visual-prompt-injections

2 years ago

MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-engineers-make-converting-co2-into-products-more-practical-1113

2 years ago

From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod

https://openmw.org/2024/from-bsp-to-esp-how-s3ctor-abused-quake-editors-to-redefine-the-morrowind-modding-experience/

2 years ago

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder/

2 years ago

Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode

https://www.animefeminist.com/porygon-was-innocent-an-epileptic-perspective-on-pokemons-electric-soldier-porygon/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42121630

2 years ago

Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all

https://awadwatt.com/tezoatlipoca/rim-job-blackberry-tales-the-story-of-sumit-b

2 years ago

DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13

https://deepcomputing.io/deepcomputing-launches-early-access-program-for-dc-roma-risc-v-mainboard-for-framework-laptop-13/

2 years ago

Wonder is acquiring Grubhub

https://about.grubhub.com/news/wonder-announces-acquisition-of-grubhub/

2 years ago

80286 ATX mainboard based on the IBM 5170 AT PC

https://github.com/rodneyknaap/atx-286at-v1-mainboard

2 years ago

Micron launches 60TB PCIe gen5 SSD with 12GB/s read speeds

https://www.micron.com/products/storage/ssd/data-center-ssd/6550-ion

2 years ago

Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction

https://netflixtechblog.com/netflixs-distributed-counter-abstraction-8d0c45eb66b2

2 years ago

Docker Compose Isn't Enough

https://blog.tealok.tech/post/docker-compose-isnt-enough/

2 years ago

An alternative construction of Shannon entropy

https://rkp.science/an-alternative-construction-of-shannon-entropy

2 years ago

Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study

2 years ago

The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916

https://spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-meeting

2 years ago

My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1gqj7qa/my_company_has_banned_the_use_of_jetbrains_ides/

2 years ago

Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3

https://www.kongabeat.com/

2 years ago

Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/manjaro-is-experimenting-with-opt-out-telemetry/22305

2 years ago

U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/us-sets-targets-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050

2 years ago

Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE

https://codeium.com/windsurf/

2 years ago

Grab built its own map in Southeast Asia, and is now going after Google

https://restofworld.org/2024/grab-google-maps-southeast-asia/

2 years ago

Delivering actionable feedback

https://posthog.com/newsletter/how-to-give-feedback

2 years ago

Mapping the Ionosphere with Phones

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08072-x

2 years ago

AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel

https://www.pcguide.com/news/amds-cpu-sales-are-unsurprisingly-miles-ahead-of-intel-as-first-9800x3d-launch-numbers-published/

2 years ago

Spirit Airlines is filing for bankruptcy

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/spirit-airlines-moves-toward-bankruptcy-filing-after-frontier-drops-merger-bid-5d492e80

2 years ago

Zig Reproduced Without Binaries

https://jakstys.lt/2024/zig-reproduced-without-binaries/

2 years ago

Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation

https://news.mit.edu/2024/graph-based-ai-model-maps-future-innovation-1112

2 years ago

An unearthly spectacle – The untold story of the biggest nuclear bomb (2021)

https://thebulletin.org/2021/11/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-bomb/

2 years ago

Cock.li Is on Red Alert

https://cock.li/index.asc.txt

2 years ago

Sentence Structure for Writers (2017)

https://blog.oup.com/2017/11/sentence-structure-for-writers/

2 years ago

Elsevier may wish they had checked the revision a bit more carefully

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/254c582c-b8f0-4fef-a746-b7a012e4dad5/elsevier-may-wish-they-had-checked-the-revision-a-bit-more-carefully.

2 years ago

.NET 9 Is Out

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/9.0.0/9.0.0.md

2 years ago

Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129768

2 years ago

Covering the Supreme Court and the Judiciary in (Mostly) Plain English

https://amylhowe.com/

2 years ago

Eventually consistent plain text accounting

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2024/10/24/plain-text-accounting/

2 years ago

Fault Injection – Down the Rabbit Hole

https://security.humanativaspa.it/fault-injection-down-the-rabbit-hole/

2 years ago

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-department-of-government-efficiency-trump/index.html

2 years ago

Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator

https://puzzlip.com/

2 years ago

Immorality Begins at 40 (2016)

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/04/28/immortality-begins-at-forty/

2 years ago

Elite Overproduction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction

2 years ago

TTECK Has Passed

https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/discussions/237

2 years ago

Contracts for C++ (DbC) [pdf]

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2900R6.pdf

2 years ago

EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/13/eu_apple_id/

2 years ago