top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-21

ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges

2 years ago

890 upvotes – 1023 comments

Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematical-thinking-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-20241118/

2 years ago

669 upvotes – 397 comments

Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders

https://github.com/PaulPauls/llama3_interpretability_sae

2 years ago

579 upvotes – 99 comments

Handling cookies is a minefield

https://grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/handling-cookies-is-a-minefield/

2 years ago

545 upvotes – 252 comments

OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

2 years ago

524 upvotes – 460 comments

PHP 8.4

https://www.php.net/releases/8.4/en.php

2 years ago

486 upvotes – 323 comments

The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”

https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-meme-ification-of-the-demon-core

2 years ago

400 upvotes – 288 comments

A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/a-common-urban-intersection-in-the-netherlands/

2 years ago

360 upvotes – 330 comments

Hyrum’s Law in Golang

https://abenezer.org/blog/hyrum-law-in-golang

2 years ago

317 upvotes – 183 comments

The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary

https://chipwits.com/2024/11/16/chipwits-40th-birthday-original-forth-code-open-sourced/

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: We open-sourced our compost monitoring tech

https://github.com/gtls64/MontyHome-Hackers-Guide

2 years ago

236 upvotes – 57 comments

What's Next for WebGPU

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/next-for-webgpu

2 years ago

211 upvotes – 198 comments

The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction

https://thematrix1999.github.io/

2 years ago

210 upvotes – 71 comments

How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half

https://oxide.computer/blog/how-oxide-cuts-data-center-power-consumption-in-half

2 years ago

195 upvotes – 178 comments

Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work

https://portswigger.net/research/listen-to-the-whispers-web-timing-attacks-that-actually-work

2 years ago

188 upvotes – 33 comments

A binary tree of all Pythagorean triples

https://richardt.io/stereo_stern/

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 19 comments

Personality Basins

https://near.blog/personality-basins/

2 years ago

166 upvotes – 111 comments

Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-overcharged-air-force-nearly-8000-soap-dispensers-watchdog-alleges-2024-10-29/

2 years ago

154 upvotes – 132 comments

The rectangular cows of Art UK (2018)

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-rectangular-cows-of-art-uk

2 years ago

153 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands

https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/

2 years ago

147 upvotes – 32 comments

You Exist in the Long Context

https://thelongcontext.com/

2 years ago

136 upvotes – 91 comments

Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/unveiling-wolfsbane-gelsemiums-linux-counterpart-to-gelsevirine/

2 years ago

135 upvotes – 65 comments

WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08107

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 17 comments

DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1062.0.pdf

2 years ago

131 upvotes – 123 comments

Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301660/apple-doj-motion-dismiss-antitrust-lawsuit

2 years ago

112 upvotes – 109 comments

January 1928: Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity

https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2024/11/mathematical-intuition-dirac-quantum-mechanics

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 61 comments

Building Databases over a Weekend

https://www.denormalized.io/blog/building-databases

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 13 comments

Code Conversion Language (2019)

https://emacsninja.com/posts/code-conversion-language.html

2 years ago

108 upvotes – 22 comments

Scientific computing with confidence using typed dimensions

https://laurentrdc.xyz/posts/typed-dimensions.html

2 years ago

97 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Yami – An Open Source Music Player with Spotdl Integration

https://github.com/DevER-M/yami

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42204939

2 years ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

500 Million, But Not a Single One More

https://laneless.substack.com/p/500-million-but-not-a-single-one-more

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 9 comments

A Study of Malware Prevention in Linux Distributions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11017

2 years ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Andrew Tate's online university hacked – Chat logs, data on 800k users leaked

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-tate-the-real-world-hack/

2 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments

I hacked the Dutch government and all I got was this t-shirt

https://jacobriggs.io/blog/posts/i-hacked-the-dutch-government-and-all-i-got-was-this-t-shirt-24

2 years ago

56 upvotes – 31 comments

Discharging Lean goals into SMT solvers

https://github.com/ufmg-smite/lean-smt

2 years ago

52 upvotes – 3 comments

Autopoietic Networks

https://gbragafibra.github.io/2024/10/08/autopoietic_nets.html

2 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

OpenZFS Horror Stories – Klara Systems

https://klarasystems.com/webinars/openzfs-horror-stories/

2 years ago

51 upvotes – 0 comments
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