top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-15

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th

2 years ago

Biological Miracle – Wood Frog

https://www.nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/wood-frog-page-2.htm

2 years ago

Maybe Bluesky has "won"

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

2 years ago

Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

https://github.com/epasveer/seer

2 years ago

Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200

https://www.relativty.com/

2 years ago

Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

2 years ago

New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/new-apple-security-feature-reboots-iphones-after-3-days-researchers-confirm/

2 years ago

Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs

https://closingwtf.com

2 years ago

Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls

https://onair.io/

2 years ago

Please stop the coding challenges

https://blackentropy.bearblog.dev/please-stop-the-absurd-coding-challenges/

2 years ago

99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python

https://sandimetz.com/99bottles

2 years ago

I tried every top email marketing tool

https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/email-marketing-tools/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42149938

2 years ago

Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo

https://bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-the-firehose-cheaply/

2 years ago

First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2024-November/004068.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language

https://zyme.dev

2 years ago

1-Bit AI Infrastructure

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16144

2 years ago

The Practical Guide to Scaling Django

https://slimsaas.com/blog/django-scaling-performance/

2 years ago

The Battle Line at Louvain

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-battle-line-at-louvain-1914

2 years ago

Matrix Client Tutorial

https://uhoreg.gitlab.io/matrix-tutorial/index.html

2 years ago

Installed an open source garage door opener, and I'm loving it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/i-too-installed-an-open-source-garage-door-opener-and-am-loving-it/

2 years ago

Norwegian fishermen hunting for halibut caught a US nuclear sub

https://www.vice.com/en/article/fishermen-hunting-for-halibut-caught-a-us-nuclear-sub/

2 years ago

Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs

https://github.com/pex-tool/pex

2 years ago

FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/ftc-to-launch-investigation-into-microsofts-cloud-business/

2 years ago

Non-elementary group-by aggregations in Polars vs pandas

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/dataframe-group-by

2 years ago

Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal

https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter

2 years ago

1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lax5zxh7bc2p

2 years ago

Are We PEP740 Yet?

https://trailofbits.github.io/are-we-pep740-yet/

2 years ago

Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD

https://begriffs.com/posts/2022-07-17-debugging-gdb-ddd.html

2 years ago

C++ template macroprogramming versus Lisp macros

https://simondobson.org/2024/06/21/c%2B%2B-template-macroprogramming-versus-lisp-macros/

2 years ago

Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)

https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/15801/why-did-people-rub-snow-on-frozen-feet

2 years ago

It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start

https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/its-hard-to-stop-math-acceleration

2 years ago

The price of shutting down coal power, and what would be gained

https://www.economist.com/interactive/the-economist-explains/2024/11/15/what-would-it-cost-to-kill-coal

2 years ago

Libobscura

https://dorotac.eu/posts/libobscura/

2 years ago

A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor

https://www.crowdsupply.com/signaloid/signaloid-c0-microsd

2 years ago

Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-will-stop-serving-political-ads-in-the-eu-including-on-youtube-210604043.html

2 years ago

Query Your Python Lists

https://github.com/mkalioby/leopards

2 years ago

Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

https://github.com/dbohdan/recur

2 years ago

Manual for PUB (a markup language in 1971) – Larry Tesler

https://www.nomodes.com/history/pub-manual

2 years ago

Mayor Adams' office directs NYC agencies to launch Bluesky accounts amid growth

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/14/mayor-adams-office-directs-nyc-agencies-to-launch-bluesky-accounts-amid-growth-on-new-platform/

2 years ago

Go-taskflow: A taskflow-like General-purpose Task-parallel Programming Framework

https://github.com/noneback/go-taskflow

2 years ago

Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/world/canada/blobs-canada-newfoundland.html

2 years ago

The bucket brigade device: An analog shift register

https://10maurycy10.github.io/misc/bbd/

2 years ago

Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices

https://nexa.ai/blogs/omni-vision

2 years ago

Getting Started with FPGAs

https://nandland.com/book-getting-started-with-fpga/

2 years ago

The cochlear implant question

https://aeon.co/essays/why-i-want-my-deaf-daughter-to-have-the-best-of-both-worlds

2 years ago

Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42151976

2 years ago

NeuralDEM – Real-Time Simulation of Industrial Particulate Flows

https://nx-ai.github.io/NeuralDEM/

2 years ago

How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-migrate-from-x-to-bluesky-without-losing-your-followers/

2 years ago

Costco’s butter recall, explained

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniegravalese/2024/11/12/the-high-stakes-of-labelingcostcos-butter-recall-explained/

2 years ago

Gliimly is a programming language for web services

https://gliimly.github.io/

2 years ago

Uno Platform Studio Featuring Hot Design

https://platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-design/

2 years ago

Building Observability with ClickHouse

https://cmtops.dev/posts/building-observability-with-clickhouse/

2 years ago

Building LawStar – a year long indie hacking journey

https://mackey.substack.com/p/building-lawstar

2 years ago

The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/the-hidden-tax-trap-for-saas-founders-in-germany/

2 years ago

Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/surveillance-and-the-secret-history-of-19th-century-wearable-tech/

2 years ago

SQL style guide by Simon Holywell

https://www.sqlstyle.guide/

2 years ago

Scientists discover laser light can cast a shadow

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-scientists-laser-shadow.html

2 years ago

National Security Just Called, They Can't See the Email Traffic

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/27-years-of-linux/

2 years ago

Bill Atkinson has pancreatic cancer

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/13/atkinson-prayers

2 years ago

M4 MacBook Pro Uses Quantum Dot Display Technology

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/14/m4-macbook-pro-quantum-dot/

2 years ago

Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/well/obesity-epidemic-america.html

2 years ago

Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components

https://spectrum.ieee.org/server-reuse

2 years ago

Ask HN: What job search strategies work for you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42148731

2 years ago

Fuzzing the PHP Interpreter via Dataflow Fusion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21713

2 years ago