top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-20

Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tuition-undergraduates-family-income-1120

7 months ago

737 upvotes – 458 comments

What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/57033/what-is-the-origin-of-the-lake-tank-image-that-has-become-a-meme

7 months ago

628 upvotes – 150 comments

AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

https://blog.frost.kiwi/analytical-anti-aliasing/

7 months ago

602 upvotes – 95 comments

Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

https://bsky.app/profile/auonsson.bsky.social/post/3lbc5va7f722p

7 months ago

588 upvotes – 730 comments

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

https://letsencrypt.org/2014/11/18/announcing-lets-encrypt/

7 months ago

543 upvotes – 189 comments

Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/18/epic-allows-internet-archive-to-distribute-for-free-unreal-unreal-tournament-forever/

7 months ago

488 upvotes – 116 comments

Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-helps-students-to-overcome-academic-poverty-study-finds-241120/

7 months ago

419 upvotes – 130 comments

Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/how-tiny-glade-built-its-way-to-600k

7 months ago

409 upvotes – 102 comments

Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2024/11/weight-loss-drug-found-to-shrink-heart-muscle.html

7 months ago

372 upvotes – 445 comments

Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

https://electrobun.dev/

7 months ago

323 upvotes – 131 comments

Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

https://emschwartz.me/understanding-the-bm25-full-text-search-algorithm/

7 months ago

305 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails

https://trailimap.com/

7 months ago

279 upvotes – 151 comments

Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems

https://www.securityweek.com/apple-confirms-zero-day-attacks-hitting-intel-based-macs/

7 months ago

265 upvotes – 97 comments

Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/google-cracks-down-on-parasite-seo-punishing-established-publishers/

7 months ago

259 upvotes – 189 comments

How good are American roads?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-good-are-american-roads

7 months ago

252 upvotes – 481 comments

Blender 4.3

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-3/

7 months ago

241 upvotes – 111 comments

Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

https://catonmat.net/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer

7 months ago

236 upvotes – 44 comments

Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web

https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm

7 months ago

205 upvotes – 54 comments

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/technology/google-antitrust-employee-messages.html

7 months ago

203 upvotes – 222 comments

Why don't you move abroad?

https://orkohunter.net/blog/why-dont-you-move-abroad/

7 months ago

199 upvotes – 199 comments

Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42189890

7 months ago

198 upvotes – 131 comments

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2456782-bluesky-is-ushering-in-a-pick-your-own-algorithm-era-of-social-media/

7 months ago

193 upvotes – 252 comments

Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-route-around-damage-baltic-sea-cable-cuts/

7 months ago

172 upvotes – 62 comments

Flipping FLIP ship saved from scrapyard at last minute

https://newatlas.com/marine/flipping-flip-ship-saved/

7 months ago

169 upvotes – 49 comments

AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/

7 months ago

161 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197741

7 months ago

159 upvotes – 82 comments

Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)

https://github.com/doxx/darkflare

7 months ago

157 upvotes – 28 comments

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/

7 months ago

154 upvotes – 28 comments

SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

https://www.philipzucker.com/sql_graph_csp/

7 months ago

153 upvotes – 19 comments

Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

https://blog.cloudflare.com/resilient-internet-connectivity-baltic-cable-cuts/

7 months ago

153 upvotes – 35 comments

Lush: My favorite small programming language

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/lush-my-favorite-small-programming-language/

7 months ago

151 upvotes – 28 comments

GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released

https://artanis.dev/blog/1.0.0-release.html

7 months ago

150 upvotes – 54 comments

La Basilica Di San Pietro

https://unlocked.microsoft.com/vatican/

7 months ago

145 upvotes – 69 comments

Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response

https://www.tryparity.com/blog/how-meta-uses-llms-to-improve-incident-response

7 months ago

138 upvotes – 24 comments

With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies

https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/with-core-one-prusas-open-source-hardware-dream-quietly-dies/

7 months ago

125 upvotes – 76 comments

/usr/bin/env -S uv run

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/21/usrbinenv-uv-run/

7 months ago

125 upvotes – 40 comments

Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)

https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/personalhomes/fwerner/research/2021/09/grpc-for-ipc/

7 months ago

121 upvotes – 93 comments

New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi9EW9xhqAU

7 months ago

119 upvotes – 151 comments

German WWII Soldier Grave Found with Mesolithic Tools, Roman and Byzantine Coins

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/11/german-wwii-soldiers-grave-found-in-poland-with-mesolithic-tools-roman-and-byzantine-coins-and-other-artifacts/

7 months ago

117 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client

https://cardo-podcast.github.io/

7 months ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021)

https://www.abebooks.com/books/ex-library-books

7 months ago

115 upvotes – 70 comments

A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/a-summer-intern-once-saved-valve-from-a-near-fatal-lawsuit-after-a-publisher-decided-to-go-world-war-3-on-it-and-it-all-hinged-on-one-email/

7 months ago

108 upvotes – 72 comments

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/bird-flu-cases-mutation-canada

7 months ago

107 upvotes – 64 comments

Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/between-the-booms-ai-in-winter/

7 months ago

105 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints

https://github.com/greymattergames/unbug

7 months ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production

https://github.com/opennextjs/opennextjs-aws

7 months ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Call for Developer Projects

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3049

7 months ago

91 upvotes – 35 comments

'The Best of All Possible Worlds' Review: Leibniz Lives Again

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds-review-leibniz-lives-again-647be296

7 months ago

85 upvotes – 62 comments

Danish Navy stopped a Chinese ship suspected of damaging undersea cables

https://defence24.com/armed-forces/danish-navy-stopped-a-chinese-ship-suspected-of-damaging-undersea-cables

7 months ago

84 upvotes – 3 comments

FQL: A KV Query Language

https://github.com/janderland/fql

7 months ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/dining/malort.html

7 months ago

79 upvotes – 146 comments

Microsoft employees are doubtful of AI's capabilities and company's AI bet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhkFxvAvvd0

7 months ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

My Resignation from Emacs Development

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-11/msg00534.html

7 months ago

77 upvotes – 65 comments

Spatial Pixel: a new kind of social computing

https://spatialpixel.com/

7 months ago

75 upvotes – 20 comments
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