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/

3 weeks ago

1251 upvotes – 481 comments

Egoless Engineering

https://egoless.engineering

3 weeks ago

869 upvotes – 298 comments

Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here

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

3 weeks ago

779 upvotes – 140 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

611 upvotes – 662 comments

Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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

3 weeks ago

488 upvotes – 189 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

474 upvotes – 702 comments

Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

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

3 weeks ago

384 upvotes – 65 comments

Amazon Nova

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

3 weeks ago

365 upvotes – 152 comments

I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source

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

3 weeks ago

365 upvotes – 84 comments

DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

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

3 weeks ago

314 upvotes – 202 comments

Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley

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

3 weeks ago

300 upvotes – 164 comments

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

https://skia-canvas.org/

3 weeks ago

288 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself

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

3 weeks ago

275 upvotes – 128 comments

The story of Rogue

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

3 weeks ago

275 upvotes – 108 comments

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/

3 weeks ago

273 upvotes – 300 comments

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

3 weeks ago

264 upvotes – 277 comments

LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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

3 weeks ago

260 upvotes – 38 comments

Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Shows 100% Effectiveness in Women

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

3 weeks ago

249 upvotes – 146 comments

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/

3 weeks ago

239 upvotes – 185 comments

The Tube Computer

https://www.thetubecomputer.com/

3 weeks ago

232 upvotes – 63 comments

Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning

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

3 weeks ago

226 upvotes – 145 comments

No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect

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

3 weeks ago

220 upvotes – 68 comments

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/

3 weeks ago

215 upvotes – 134 comments

Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out

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

3 weeks ago

215 upvotes – 150 comments

Distributed Erlang

https://vereis.com/posts/disterl_inbox

3 weeks ago

211 upvotes – 61 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

209 upvotes – 47 comments

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/

3 weeks ago

206 upvotes – 196 comments

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

3 weeks ago

194 upvotes – 158 comments

Amazon Aurora DSQL

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

3 weeks ago

187 upvotes – 135 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

170 upvotes – 209 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

167 upvotes – 158 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

161 upvotes – 36 comments

Efficient Track Anything

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

3 weeks ago

160 upvotes – 15 comments

A simple way to scale pixel art games

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

3 weeks ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

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

3 weeks ago

150 upvotes – 112 comments

Kagi Search API

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

3 weeks ago

145 upvotes – 150 comments

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

3 weeks ago

136 upvotes – 220 comments

What I learned covering computer science in 2024

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

3 weeks ago

135 upvotes – 12 comments

Derivative at a Discontinuity

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

3 weeks ago

134 upvotes – 62 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

132 upvotes – 286 comments

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

3 weeks ago

131 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Book and change flights with one email

https://www.bonbook.co/showhn

3 weeks ago

128 upvotes – 85 comments

Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)

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

3 weeks ago

126 upvotes – 62 comments

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/

3 weeks ago

123 upvotes – 60 comments

California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite

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

3 weeks ago

119 upvotes – 187 comments

‘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

3 weeks ago

118 upvotes – 476 comments

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

3 weeks ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

A new home for Python-build-standalone

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

3 weeks ago

117 upvotes – 34 comments

South Korea President Yoon declares martial law

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

3 weeks ago

113 upvotes – 3 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

110 upvotes – 207 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

Codenames App, or my biggest project so far

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

3 weeks ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

SpiderBasic

https://www.spiderbasic.com/

3 weeks ago

100 upvotes – 37 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

89 upvotes – 105 comments

The Smallest Thing in Go

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/iota

3 weeks ago

89 upvotes – 27 comments

Guile-Emacs Relaunched

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

3 weeks ago

88 upvotes – 40 comments

FSharpPacker – compile F# scripts to executables

https://github.com/kant2002/FSharpPacker

3 weeks ago

88 upvotes – 8 comments

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

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

3 weeks ago

87 upvotes – 112 comments

.NET Support on Heroku

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

3 weeks ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

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

3 weeks ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

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/

3 weeks ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments

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

3 weeks ago

84 upvotes – 182 comments
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