top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-04

IMG_0001

https://walzr.com/IMG_0001/

2 years ago

Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-2-a-large-scale-foundation-world-model/

2 years ago

Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

https://www.ft.com/content/1201f834-6407-4bb5-ac9d-18496ec2948b

2 years ago

How to grow professional relationships

https://tej.as/blog/how-to-grow-professional-relationships-tjs-model

2 years ago

Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

https://github.com/outerbase/studio

2 years ago

They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard

https://kevinboone.me/dx7.html

2 years ago

OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

https://www.openttd.org/

2 years ago

Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby

https://jpcamara.com/2024/12/01/speeding-up-ruby.html

2 years ago

A particle physics course for high-school students

https://ppc.web.cern.ch/

2 years ago

Native dual-range input

https://muffinman.io/blog/native-dual-range-input/

2 years ago

Show HN: I combined spaced repetition with emails so you can remember anything

https://www.ginkgonotes.com/

2 years ago

AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/12/04/ai-helps-researchers-dig-through-old-maps-to-find-lost-oil-and-gas-wells/

2 years ago

Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

https://www.seangoedecke.com/programmer-archetypes/

2 years ago

No NAT November: My month without IPv4

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-12-01-no-nat-november/

2 years ago

Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant

https://www.propublica.org/article/formaldehyde-epa-trump-public-health-danger

2 years ago

UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/brian-thompson-united-healthcare-death/index.html

2 years ago

AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/ai-hallucination

2 years ago

Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C

https://github.com/alxyng/flappybird

2 years ago

Y2K

https://www.y2k.movie/

2 years ago

Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/nearly-half-of-teenagers-globally-cannot-read-with-comprehension

2 years ago

EmacsConf 2024

https://emacsconf.org/2024/

2 years ago

A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929

https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/a-pro-science-pro-progress-techno

2 years ago

Show HN: A 5th order motion planner with PH spline blending, written in Ada

https://600f3559.prunt-docs.pages.dev/

2 years ago

Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel

https://divisbyzero.com/2024/11/30/make-a-magic-eye-image-using-excel/

2 years ago

Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US

https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.14072

2 years ago

Oracle files notice of appearance for JavaScript trademark [pdf]

https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle/20241204-notice-of-appearance.pdf

2 years ago

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-04/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-fatally-shot-in-manhattan

2 years ago

Why did clothing become boring?

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-did-clothing-become-boring

2 years ago

Self-Funding Harberger Taxes

https://gwern.net/harberger

2 years ago

Show HN: Open-Source Colab Notebooks to Implement Advanced RAG Techniques

https://github.com/athina-ai/rag-cookbooks

2 years ago

History of rat control in Alberta

https://www.alberta.ca/history-of-rat-control-in-alberta

2 years ago

Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)

https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

2 years ago

The Hoare Cube

https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/the-hoare-cube/

2 years ago

Test Driven Development (TDD) for your LLMs? Yes please, more of that please

https://blog.helix.ml/p/building-reliable-genai-applications

2 years ago

Deploying Containers on NixOS: A Guide

https://bkiran.com/blog/deploying-containers-nixos

2 years ago

Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310835

2 years ago

Show HN: Vekos – a Rust OS with Built-In Cryptographic Verification

https://github.com/JGiraldo29/vekos

2 years ago

Interview with Dr. Ken Iverson (1982)

https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode92-iverson

2 years ago

Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319315

2 years ago

The ambiguous witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2014)

https://newcriterion.com/article/the-ambiguous-witness-of-dietrich-bonhoeffer/

2 years ago

How Typing Transformed Nietzsche's Consciousness

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-typing-transformed-nietzsches-consciousness/

2 years ago

Keyset cursors, not offsets, for Postgres pagination

https://blog.sequinstream.com/keyset-cursors-not-offsets-for-postgres-pagination/

2 years ago

Splash pads are fountains of fecal material; CDC reports 10K illnesses

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/from-diapers-to-mouths-of-babes-how-splash-pads-sickened-over-10k/

2 years ago

You're Breathtaking [Godot #100000]

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/100000

2 years ago

The "Bird and Baby" grows up: inside the new Eagle and Child

https://oxfordclarion.uk/the-bird-and-baby-grows-up-inside-the-new-eagle-child/

2 years ago

OpenRCT2 – RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in browser using emscripten

https://github.com/Mstrodl/ORCT2-web

2 years ago

AI Stole the Joy of Programming

https://paulefou.com/blog/ai-cuck

2 years ago

Automated reasoning to remove LLM hallucinations

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prevent-factual-errors-from-llm-hallucinations-with-mathematically-sound-automated-reasoning-checks-preview/

2 years ago

Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/04/apple-icloud-passwords-firefox-add-on/

2 years ago

The Tragedy of Stafford Beer (2023)

https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-tragedy-of-stafford-beer

2 years ago

Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution

https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/russia-drug-trade-organized-crime/

2 years ago

Glyphosate exacerbates neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease-like pathology

https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-024-03290-6

2 years ago

The Booze of Monkey Island is an unofficial fan game

https://bean-adventure-agency.itch.io/the-booze-of-monkey-island

2 years ago

On Bullshit (2005)

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit

2 years ago

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather-forecast.html

2 years ago