top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-26

California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-11-18/special-education-schools-gifted

a month ago

412 upvotes – 527 comments

Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/y-combinator-often-backs-startups-that-duplicate-other-yc-companies-data-shows-its-not-just-ai-code-editors/

a month ago

389 upvotes – 204 comments

A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)

https://medium.com/@drspoulsen/a-solution-to-the-onion-problem-of-j-kenji-l%C3%B3pez-alt-c3c4ab22e67c

a month ago

376 upvotes – 151 comments

Borgo Programming Language

https://borgo-lang.github.io/

a month ago

361 upvotes – 198 comments

Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247368

a month ago

354 upvotes – 196 comments

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang

a month ago

342 upvotes – 511 comments

Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal

https://www.quantamagazine.org/teen-mathematicians-tie-knots-through-a-mind-blowing-fractal-20241126/

a month ago

329 upvotes – 67 comments

ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser

https://zetaoffice.net/

a month ago

301 upvotes – 141 comments

Cybertruck's Many Recalls

https://www.wired.com/story/cybertrucks-many-recalls-make-it-worse-than-91-percent-of-all-2024-vehicles/

a month ago

277 upvotes – 430 comments

GenChess

https://labs.google/genchess

a month ago

269 upvotes – 235 comments

D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/d-link-says-it-wont-patch-60-000-older-modems-as-theyre-not-worth-saving

a month ago

267 upvotes – 170 comments

LLVM-powered devirtualization

https://blog.thalium.re/posts/llvm-powered-devirtualization/

a month ago

245 upvotes – 10 comments

Fly.io outage – resolved

https://status.flyio.net

a month ago

243 upvotes – 263 comments

What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?

https://neuralmagic.com/blog/24-sparse-llama-smaller-models-for-efficient-gpu-inference/

a month ago

231 upvotes – 132 comments

Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll

https://github.com/captn3m0/jekyll-sqlite

a month ago

227 upvotes – 66 comments

Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation

http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/11/setelinleikkaus-when-finns-snipped.html

a month ago

225 upvotes – 235 comments

Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/11/25/scientists-are-learning-why-ultra-processed-foods-are-bad-for-you

a month ago

220 upvotes – 428 comments

I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever

https://blog.stackademic.com/i-stopped-using-kubernetes-our-devops-team-is-happier-than-ever-a5519f916ec0

a month ago

214 upvotes – 204 comments

DEA passenger searches halted after watchdog finds signs of rights violations

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/dea-passenger-searches-halted-watchdog-finds-signs-civil-rights-violat-rcna181262

a month ago

206 upvotes – 214 comments

LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document

https://latex.vercel.app/

a month ago

196 upvotes – 60 comments

Learn perfect pitch in 15 years

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/perfect_pitch/

a month ago

171 upvotes – 147 comments

We can mine asteroids for space food

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/how-we-can-mine-asteroids-for-space-food/9EF3C4FA6F32368D09994EB7910C7035

a month ago

168 upvotes – 207 comments

The industry structure of LLM makers

https://calpaterson.com/porter.html

a month ago

159 upvotes – 127 comments

The Slang Shading Language

https://shader-slang.com

a month ago

142 upvotes – 44 comments

Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction

https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-gets-up-to-7-9-billion-award-for-u-s-chip-plant-construction-6c6818a1

a month ago

137 upvotes – 233 comments

Prioritize work at the task level

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/power_efficiency_guidelines_osx/PrioritizeWorkAtTheTaskLevel.html

a month ago

132 upvotes – 26 comments

A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/arts/john-jacobs-slavery-discovery.html

a month ago

129 upvotes – 73 comments

Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/us/usps-new-mail-trucks.html

a month ago

126 upvotes – 144 comments

Show HN: Silent Poems – Visual expression of unspoken thoughts

https://silentpoems.net/

a month ago

121 upvotes – 27 comments

Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git

https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/

a month ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6290285/

a month ago

119 upvotes – 110 comments

Functional Programming Self-Affirmations

https://norikitech.com/posts/functional-affirmations/

a month ago

118 upvotes – 113 comments

Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps

https://github.com/steel-dev/steel-browser

a month ago

114 upvotes – 52 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone tried adapting a court reporter keyboard for writing code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251040

a month ago

112 upvotes – 103 comments

Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-word-and-excel-ai-data-scraping-slyly-switched-to-opt-in-by-default-the-opt-out-toggle-is-not-that-easy-to-find

a month ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (2018)

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/winter/feature/the-thinker-who-believed-in-doing-0

a month ago

102 upvotes – 39 comments

1B nested loop iterations

https://benjdd.com/languages/

a month ago

100 upvotes – 101 comments

'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' (1993)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexmchale/merc-mud/refs/heads/master/doc/hacker.txt

a month ago

99 upvotes – 83 comments

The Crime Messenger

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/the-crime-messenger

a month ago

99 upvotes – 119 comments

Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito

https://saasprices.net/blog/aws-price-rise

a month ago

95 upvotes – 63 comments

How fast does Java compile?

https://mill-build.org/mill/comparisons/java-compile.html

a month ago

94 upvotes – 71 comments

Samurai: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking

https://yangchris11.github.io/samurai/

a month ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

Float Self-Tagging

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16544

a month ago

87 upvotes – 50 comments

USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3612364/uspto-petitioned-to-cancel-oracles-javascript-trademark.html

a month ago

86 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: My party game where AI decides if you’re funny

https://playsnatched.com

a month ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

The GNU make jobserver Implementation (2015)

https://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/jobserver-implementation/

a month ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

A Revolution in How Robots Learn

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/a-revolution-in-how-robots-learn

a month ago

82 upvotes – 21 comments

Has anyone used Proton Business Suite rather than Google's for a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42242051

a month ago

79 upvotes – 64 comments

Nvidia Fugatto: "World's Most Flexible Sound Machine"

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/fugatto-gen-ai-sound-model/

a month ago

74 upvotes – 47 comments

Warp terminal – no more login required

https://www.warp.dev/blog/lifting-login-requirement

a month ago

73 upvotes – 107 comments

Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis

https://www.reuters.com/technology/northvolt-goes-europe-battery-promise-crisis-2024-11-21/

a month ago

72 upvotes – 133 comments

Agile Is Dead

https://www.agilepilled.com/

a month ago

70 upvotes – 93 comments
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