top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-11-28

Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

https://ContinueAndPersist.org

2 years ago

Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/engineers-do-not-get-to-make-startup

2 years ago

The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)

https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces/

2 years ago

Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264427

2 years ago

In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-print-why-reading-remains-essential-in-an-era-of-epistemological-collapse/

2 years ago

A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)

https://121gigawatts.org/copper-sushi-power-flow-european-grid/

2 years ago

Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

https://adriano.fyi/posts/hetzner-raises-prices-while-significantly-lowering-bandwidth-in-us/

2 years ago

The success and failure of Ninja (2020)

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2020/05/ninja.html

2 years ago

Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-28/social-media-age-ban-passes-parliament/104647138

2 years ago

Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning

https://github.com/abus-aikorea/voice-pro

2 years ago

Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1h15md8/goodbye_rust_i_wish_you_success_but_im_back_to_c/

2 years ago

Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go

https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/tk9.0

2 years ago

Bananas: Cross-Platform screen sharing made simple

https://github.com/mistweaverco/bananas

2 years ago

picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2800590/picoCAD/

2 years ago

Show HN: Myphotos.site – Make a gallery website from Google Photos

https://www.myphotos.site

2 years ago

Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/bootkitty-analyzing-first-uefi-bootkit-linux/

2 years ago

A washing machine for human beings, from 1970

https://www.core77.com/posts/134471/A-Washing-Machine-for-Human-Beings-from-1970

2 years ago

Dell is posting unsigned updates to their website which fail to install

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/113543212666056329

2 years ago

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria

2 years ago

Accidentally writing a SAT solver

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/sat

2 years ago

PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc

https://proot-me.github.io/

2 years ago

Haunted by my own projects

https://cassidoo.co/post/side-project-haunting/

2 years ago

NASA aircraft uncover Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet

https://www.space.com/the-universe/earth/nasa-aircraft-uncovers-site-of-secret-cold-war-nuclear-missile-tunnels-under-greenland-ice-sheet

2 years ago

Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171120-the-secret-tricks-hidden-inside-restaurant-menus

2 years ago

Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out: 'I Never Wanted to Be a Spy'

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/fugees-pras-michel-conviction-legal-battle-22-years-prison-1236224041/

2 years ago

Conversational Game Theory

https://aikiwiki.com/

2 years ago

Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268570

2 years ago

Hetzner raises US cloud prices while lowering included bandwidth by 95%

https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1862083571231424701

2 years ago

An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Interpretability

https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/06/11/sae-intuitions.html

2 years ago

Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/11/man-suffers-chemical-burn-that-lasted-months-after-squeezing-limes/

2 years ago

Taxing unrealized gains has caused an entrepreneurial exodus in Norway

https://paragraph.xyz/@hagaetc/norway-shrugged

2 years ago

Bluesky Social Dataset (235M posts from 4M users)

https://zenodo.org/records/11082879

2 years ago

Hetzner - New tariff structure for Cloud servers and Load balancers in the USA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264789

2 years ago

Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2024/11/21/who-is-jay-graber-the-ceo-of-bluesky_6733621_117.html

2 years ago

Who can claim Aristotle?

https://aeon.co/essays/dont-cancel-aristotle-we-need-his-ideas-to-hone-ours

2 years ago

Rewrite Git history via drag-and-drop

https://retcon.app

2 years ago

Emacs: A Basic and Capable Configuration

https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-11-28-basic-emacs-configuration/

2 years ago

Jazz Kissa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_kissa

2 years ago

OpenStreetMap Migrates to Debian 12

https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html

2 years ago

Synology patches unannounced multiple zero-day vulnerabilities

https://www.synology.com/en-us/security/advisory/Synology_SA_24_20

2 years ago

In the Rockets' Red Glare: The past and future of hot-rodding in America

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/12/in-the-rockets-red-glare-rachel-kushner/

2 years ago

Ukraine has become a breeding ground for lethal drug-resistant bacteria

https://www.science.org/content/article/war-torn-ukraine-has-become-breeding-ground-lethal-drug-resistant-bacteria

2 years ago

A Beginner's Guide to Switches

https://www.theremingoat.com/blog/beginners-guide

2 years ago

Writing Composable SQL Using Knex and Pipelines

https://lackofimagination.org/2024/11/writing-composable-sql-using-knex-and-pipelines/

2 years ago

RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/romcom-exploits-firefox-and-windows-zero-days-in-the-wild/

2 years ago

Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/blueskys-open-api-means-anyone-can-scrape-your-data-for-ai-training/

2 years ago