top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-11-18

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly

2 years ago

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/europe/undersea-cable-disrupted-germany-finland-intl/index.html

2 years ago

Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204

2 years ago

Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

https://reason.com/2024/11/18/how-scientific-americans-departing-editor-helped-degrade-science/

2 years ago

Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank

https://github.com/circlemind-ai/fast-graphrag

2 years ago

20 years of Google Scholar

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-scholar-20-years/

2 years ago

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

https://michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-banned-from-the-hcaptcha-accessibility-account-for-not-being-blind/

2 years ago

Reactive HTML Notebooks

https://maxbo.me/a-html-file-is-all-you-need.html

2 years ago

We are shutting down Ondsel

https://ondsel.com/blog/goodbye/

2 years ago

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server

https://mailcatcher.me/

2 years ago

A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor

https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2024-11-08-how-a-bbc-navigation-bar-component-broke-depending-on-which-external-monitor-it-was-on/

2 years ago

Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming

https://tips.io

2 years ago

Against Best Practices

https://www.arp242.net/best-practices.html

2 years ago

The tragedy of running an old Node project

https://abdisalan.com/posts/tragedy-running-old-node-project/

2 years ago

Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bhutan-emigration-crisis-60-minutes/

2 years ago

Bayesian Neural Networks

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/distill_bayes_net/public/

2 years ago

Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

https://www.wired.com/story/alan-filion-torswats-guilty-plea-federal-charges-swatting/

2 years ago

Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

2 years ago

The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles

https://jvernay.fr/en/blog/skyline-2d-packer/implementation/

2 years ago

Museum of Bad Art

https://museumofbadart.org/

2 years ago