top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-14

MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard

2 years ago

The Onion buys Infowars

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html

2 years ago

Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-granny-wasting-scammers-time/

2 years ago

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/chess

2 years ago

Thomas E. Kurtz has died

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/

2 years ago

AI makes tech debt more expensive

https://www.gauge.sh/blog/ai-makes-tech-debt-more-expensive

2 years ago

I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100

https://elliott-king.github.io/2024/10/amplify-overcharge/

2 years ago

Lessons from my first exit

https://mtlynch.io/lessons-from-my-first-exit/

2 years ago

FireDucks: Pandas but Faster

https://hwisnu.bearblog.dev/fireducks-pandas-but-100x-faster/

2 years ago

Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21771

2 years ago

Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

2 years ago

Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

https://legiscope.com/blog/hidden-productivity-drain-cookie-banners.html

2 years ago

Interview with gwern

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern-branwen

2 years ago

SQLite Index Visualization

https://mrsuh.com/articles/2024/sqlite-index-visualization-structure/

2 years ago

PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/joint-statement-from-fbi-and-cisa-on-the-peoples-republic-of-china-targeting-of-commercial-telecommunications-infrastructure

2 years ago

The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/278130/the-letter-wp-name-origin

2 years ago

Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-contribute-comprehensive-container-tools-collection-cloud-native-computing-foundation

2 years ago

Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code

https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/uk-air-traffic-system-failure-triggered-by-misidentified-french-bee-flightplan-waypoint/157386.article

2 years ago

The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-can-all-be-ai-engineers

2 years ago

A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework

https://obdev.at/blog/a-memory-leak-in-apples-network-extension-framework/

2 years ago

PyPI now supports digital attestations

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-11-14-pypi-now-supports-digital-attestations/

2 years ago

An analysis of the Keycloak authentication system

https://security.humanativaspa.it/an-analysis-of-the-keycloak-authentication-system/

2 years ago

Go-Safeweb

https://github.com/google/go-safeweb

2 years ago

Looking for a Job Is Tough

https://blog.kaplich.me/looking-for-a-job-is-tough/

2 years ago

On Building Git for Lawyers

https://jordanbryan.substack.com/p/on-building-git-for-lawyers

2 years ago

Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/02/dusting-off-dreamcast-linux.html

2 years ago

GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/gogs-preservation-program-is-the-drm-free-store-refocusing-on-the-classics/

2 years ago

BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04823

2 years ago

Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess

https://dynomight.net/chess/

2 years ago

DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration

https://www.deepl.com/en/products/voice

2 years ago

Waiting for many things at once with io_uring

https://mazzo.li/posts/uring-multiplex.html

2 years ago

JSON for Classic C++

https://github.com/jart/json.cpp

2 years ago

SqueakJS: A modern and practical Smalltalk that runs in any browser (2014) [pdf]

https://freudenbergs.de/vanessa/publications/Freudenberg-2014-SqueakJS.pdf

2 years ago

Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle

https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2024/02/04/speeding-up-the-rust-edit-build-run-cycle.html

2 years ago

The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936

2 years ago

Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly"

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113479000564381543

2 years ago

Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlS3FOmKUbE

2 years ago

Windows Kills SMB Speeds When Using Tailscale

https://danthesalmon.com/windows-smb-tailscale/#

2 years ago

OpenMP 6.0

https://www.openmp.org/home-news/openmp-arb-releases-openmp-6-0-for-easier-programming/

2 years ago

YouTube Premium Showing Ads

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1gnaetv/paying_to_see_ads_great/

2 years ago

WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly

https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/webvm-20

2 years ago

AI progress stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic hit roadblocks

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/ai-progress-stalls-openai-google-and-anthropic-hit-roadblocks

2 years ago

Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads

https://www.wsj.com/tech/eu-fines-meta-843-million-over-marketplace-classified-ads-b28ddb38

2 years ago

Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

2 years ago

An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)

https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time

2 years ago

Origin private file system

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API/Origin_private_file_system

2 years ago