top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-03

My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

https://www.armaansahni.com/game/

2 years ago

Egoless Engineering

https://egoless.engineering

2 years ago

Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here

https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1.0-released?release=1.0

2 years ago

South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-997c22ac93f6a9bece68454597e577c1

2 years ago

Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/art-gallery

2 years ago

Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage#google_vignette

2 years ago

Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/backdrop-filter/

2 years ago

Amazon Nova

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-nova-frontier-intelligence-and-industry-leading-price-performance/

2 years ago

I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source

https://kvinogradov.com/algo-sponsors/

2 years ago

DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

https://www.perl.com/article/duckduckgo-donates-25-000-to-the-perl-and-raku-foundation/

2 years ago

Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley

https://commoncog.com/c/cases/y-combinator-power/

2 years ago

Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

https://skia-canvas.org/

2 years ago

Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself

https://github.com/keyvank/30cc

2 years ago

The story of Rogue

https://spillhistorie.no/the-story-of-rogue/

2 years ago

Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ

https://blog.erodriguez.de/dependency-management-fatigue-or-why-i-forever-ditched-react-for-go-htmx-templ/

2 years ago

8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)

https://chshersh.com/blog/2023-12-16-8-months-of-ocaml-after-8-years-of-haskell.html

2 years ago

LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/fish-eye

2 years ago

Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Shows 100% Effectiveness in Women

https://apnews.com/article/hiv-infections-aids-prevention-shot-02606f7d7892f0baf55bd0a0ff2ba3de

2 years ago

Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/12/blizzards-pulling-of-warcraft-i-ii-tests-gogs-new-preservation-program/

2 years ago

The Tube Computer

https://www.thetubecomputer.com/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-boosts-pi-5-performance-sdram-tuning

2 years ago

No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/03/no-need-to-email-me-about-cisco-anyconnect/

2 years ago

Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/certain-names-make-chatgpt-grind-to-a-halt-and-we-know-why/

2 years ago

Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chuck-e-cheese-animatronics

2 years ago

Distributed Erlang

https://vereis.com/posts/disterl_inbox

2 years ago

Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine

https://annali.netlify.app/2024/11/20/tweaking-stunt-island

2 years ago

Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival/

2 years ago

FTC takes action against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for selling location data

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/ftc-takes-action-against-gravy-analytics-venntel-unlawfully-selling-location-data-tracking-consumers

2 years ago

Amazon Aurora DSQL

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/

2 years ago

Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/why-phishers-love-new-tlds-like-shop-top-and-xyz/

2 years ago

We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)

https://www.datocms.com/blog/why-we-switched-to-astro

2 years ago

Show HN: Copper – Open-source robotics in Rust with deterministic log replay

https://github.com/copper-project/copper-rs/wiki/Copper-Release-Log

2 years ago

Efficient Track Anything

https://yformer.github.io/efficient-track-anything/

2 years ago

A simple way to scale pixel art games

https://30fps.net/pages/pixelart-scaling/

2 years ago

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/beeks_group_vmware_opennebula_migration/

2 years ago

Kagi Search API

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/search.html

2 years ago

Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/arts/stephen-king-maine-radio-stations.html

2 years ago

What I learned covering computer science in 2024

https://mailchi.mp/quantamagazine.org/why-colliding-particles-reveal-reality-4865746?e=4ee9db7d79

2 years ago

Derivative at a Discontinuity

https://alok.github.io/2024/09/28/discontinuous-derivative/

2 years ago

The Porsche Macan EV is being recalled because its headlights are too bright

https://insideevs.com/news/742893/porsche-macan-electric-ev-recall-headlights/

2 years ago

Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/desktop/b-series/overview.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Book and change flights with one email

https://www.bonbook.co/showhn

2 years ago

Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)

https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/

2 years ago

My brand new digitizing workflow using a 25 year old film scanner

https://blog.vladovince.com/my-brand-new-digitizing-workflow-using-a-25-year-old-film-scanner/

2 years ago

California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite

https://ktla.com/news/california/california-teacher-dies-from-suspect-rabid-bat-bite/

2 years ago

‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/01/with-brain-preservation-nobody-has-to-die-meet-the-neuroscientist-who-believes-life-could-be-eternal

2 years ago

A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-middle-schooler-compound-piece-goose.html

2 years ago

A new home for Python-build-standalone

https://astral.sh/blog/python-build-standalone

2 years ago

South Korea President Yoon declares martial law

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-president-yoon-declares-martial-law-2024-12-03/

2 years ago

AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1

2 years ago

The dogs of Chernobyl: Populations in the nuclear exclusion zone (2023)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade2537

2 years ago

Codenames App, or my biggest project so far

https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogpost/167758/my-biggest-project-so-far

2 years ago

SpiderBasic

https://www.spiderbasic.com/

2 years ago

Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoUnionTypesAndZeroValues

2 years ago

The Smallest Thing in Go

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/iota

2 years ago

FSharpPacker – compile F# scripts to executables

https://github.com/kant2002/FSharpPacker

2 years ago

Guile-Emacs Relaunched

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/guile/

2 years ago

MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/mta-bus-camera-issue-mistake-parking-violations/6020986/

2 years ago

.NET Support on Heroku

https://blog.heroku.com/dotnet-support-on-heroku

2 years ago

My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan

https://watilo.com/my-domain-registrar-dnsimple-tried-to-5x-the-cost-of-my-reseller-plan

2 years ago

Two decades after Enron's bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/a-crypto-firm-apparently-bought-the-enron-name-to-sell-an-energy-coin/

2 years ago

Tip pressure might work in the moment, but customers are less likely to return

https://theconversation.com/tip-pressure-might-work-in-the-moment-but-customers-are-less-likely-to-return-242089

2 years ago

Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM

https://kevindavid.org/code/2024/03/20/chrome-os-flex-proxmox.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Why did no one save the Living Computers museum in Seattle?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42309025

2 years ago

Launch HN: Vocera (YC F24) – Testing and Observability for Voice AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307393

2 years ago