top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-24

Frosted glass from games to the web

https://www.tyleo.com/html-glass.html

2 years ago

Starlink Direct to Cell

https://www.starlink.com/business/direct-to-cell

2 years ago

This website is hosted on Bluesky

https://danielmangum.com/posts/this-website-is-hosted-on-bluesky/

2 years ago

Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-forest-trees-fertilizer-e55416347fcc385a3ea8e2415726f908

2 years ago

The two factions of C++

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2024/11/two-factions-of-cpp/

2 years ago

The size of BYD's factory

https://twitter.com/taylorogan/status/1859146242519167249

2 years ago

A career-ending mistake

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/career

2 years ago

Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/you-have-built-a-kubernetes/

2 years ago

Marshall Brain has died

https://www.wral.com/news/local/nc-state-marshall-brain-dies-november-2024/

2 years ago

WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration

https://sloonz.github.io/posts/wireguard-beyond-basic-configuration/

2 years ago

Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-gaining-ground-on-competitor-meta-threads

2 years ago

Charset="WTF-8"

https://wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com/

2 years ago

Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit

https://github.com/huggingface/smollm

2 years ago

Pushing AMD's Infinity Fabric to Its Limit

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/pushing-amds-infinity-fabric-to-its

2 years ago

Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control

https://gizmodo.com/senators-say-tsas-facial-recognition-program-is-out-of-control-heres-how-to-opt-out-2000528310

2 years ago

SQLite: Outlandish Recursive Query Examples

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html#outlandish_recursive_query_examples

2 years ago

2007 Boston Mooninite Panic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic

2 years ago

Show HN: I made an ls alternative for my personal use

https://github.com/triyanox/lla

2 years ago

Mark–Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out

https://inside.java/2024/11/22/mark-scavenge-gc/

2 years ago

Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03817-0

2 years ago

Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming

https://files.spritely.institute/papers/petnames.html

2 years ago

Those correction notices, in full

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/24/those-correction-notices-in-full-yes-its-possible-to-directly-admit-and-learn-from-error/

2 years ago

Linux 6.13 will report the number of hung tasks since boot

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Non-MM

2 years ago

Hynix launches 321-layer NAND

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/hynix-launches-321-layer-nanzd-2024-11/

2 years ago

Deegen: A JIT-Capable VM Generator for Dynamic Languages

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11469

2 years ago

Owl Lisp – A functional Scheme for world domination

https://gitlab.com/owl-lisp/owl

2 years ago

Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-meta-facebook-lawsuit-9173ad92e11df4b2a565418e419dfb88

2 years ago

History of Hangul

https://zkorean.com/hangul/history_of_hangul

2 years ago

32k context length text embedding models

https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/09/18/voyage-3/

2 years ago

C99 doesn't need function bodies: VLAs are Turing complete

https://lemon.rip/w/c99-vla-tricks/

2 years ago

C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'

https://slashdot.org/submission/17330375/c-standards-contributor-expelled-for-the-undefined-behavior-question

2 years ago

This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in America [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe1wYwGcjlo

2 years ago

No More Storage Limits: M.2 Adapter for Apple's M1 MacBooks [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3N-z-Y8cuw

2 years ago

Show HN: Trilogy – A Reusable, Composable SQL Experiment

https://trilogydata.dev/demo

2 years ago

Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots into Dangerous Tasks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm

2 years ago

There Is No Business Case for Civilization

https://twitter.com/peterrhague/status/1764746632011149655

2 years ago