top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-07

Just: Just a Command Runner

https://just.systems/

2 years ago

Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner

https://github.com/jdx/mise

2 years ago

Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs

https://countless.dev/

2 years ago

How to use Postgres for everything

https://github.com/Olshansk/postgres_for_everything

2 years ago

Structured Outputs with Ollama

https://ollama.com/blog/structured-outputs

2 years ago

Biggest shell programs

https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/The-Biggest-Shell-Programs-in-the-World

2 years ago

"BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home

https://aaka.sh/posts/20230129-bgp-at-home.html

2 years ago

RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JouTsMQsEA

2 years ago

Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350245

2 years ago

Mathics 7.0 – Open-source alternative to Mathematica

https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-core/releases/tag/7.0.0

2 years ago

Notre Dame Cathedral reopens

https://apnews.com/article/notre-dame-paris-latest-e50813cf016f08607c20ab115bc4b153

2 years ago

An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews

https://github.com/ibttf/interview-coder

2 years ago

Insects rely on sounds made by vegetation to guide reproduction

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/science/moths-hearing-plant-sounds.html

2 years ago

We all took the DVD boom era for granted

https://filmstories.co.uk/features/we-all-took-the-dvd-boom-era-for-granted/

2 years ago

Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/valves-steam-link-on-raspberry-pi/

2 years ago

Understanding the Odin Programming Language

https://odinbook.com/

2 years ago

Can life emerge around a white dwarf?

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/12/06/can-life-emerge-around-a-white-dwarf/

2 years ago

"Eat What You Kill"

https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-st-peters-hospital-oncology

2 years ago

B+ Tree Visualization

https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/BPlusTree.html

2 years ago

Protecting undersea internet cables is a tech nightmare

https://spectrum.ieee.org/undersea-internet-cables-protection-tech

2 years ago

Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit

https://newatlas.com/technology/starlink-direct-to-phone-satellites-orbit/

2 years ago

Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-selling-restricted-guns-posties/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an HTML5 RTL-SDR application

https://radio.ea1iti.es/

2 years ago

Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing

https://minimalmodeling.substack.com/p/historically-4nf-explanations-are

2 years ago

Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI; they're being written out of history

https://theconversation.com/japanese-scientists-were-pioneers-of-ai-yet-theyre-being-written-out-of-its-history-243762

2 years ago

My4th Light – Custom 8-Bit Forth CPU

http://mynor.org/my4th_xs.htm

2 years ago

Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351436

2 years ago

Htmhail

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/7/

2 years ago

He Built Apple's 1980s iPad Concept [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd_a4oi7qU

2 years ago

Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ultralytics-ai-model-hijacked-to-infect-thousands-with-cryptominer/

2 years ago

Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpn44pyz9o

2 years ago

Firefox Is the Superior Browser

https://asindu.xyz/posts/switching-to-firefox/

2 years ago

Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987)

https://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/music242/shaefferinterview.html

2 years ago

Google's AI weather prediction model is pretty darn good

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/7/24314064/ai-weather-forecast-model-google-deepmind-gencast

2 years ago

12,419 days of Strandbeest evolution [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaAjR_RRJs

2 years ago

What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser?

https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking_brave

2 years ago

Python with Rizz

https://github.com/shamith09/pygyat

2 years ago

The FBI now recommends choosing a secret password to thwart AI voice clones

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/your-ai-clone-could-target-your-family-but-theres-a-simple-defense/

2 years ago

Show HN: App to discover job listings directly from company websites

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

2 years ago

Tell HN: Alaska Airlines website exposes passenger data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42347432

2 years ago

My site just passed 1000 views. I feel great.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42348025

2 years ago

I made a satellite ion thruster [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfYSBlV90NQ

2 years ago

Tricking c64 basic into clearing a hi-res screen quickly

https://retro64.altervista.org/blog/hi-res-bitmap-graphics-with-commodore-64-basic-2-0-fast-screen-clearing-routine/

2 years ago

PSA: The Kagi search engine directly funds Yandex –- and refuses to stop

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_kagi_search_engine_directly_funds_yandex/

2 years ago

Now Boarding: The Story of Airport

https://airport.revolvertype.com/

2 years ago

Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/06/microsoft-discontinues-imac-rival-surface-studio/

2 years ago

The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future

https://news.sky.com/story/the-electric-shock-behind-europes-stuttering-ev-future-and-how-china-has-leapfrogged-major-car-exporting-nations-13267440

2 years ago

Precursors of Copernicus' heliocentric theory

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/martianus-capella/

2 years ago

The Startup Trap (2013)

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2013/03/05/TheStartUpTrap.html

2 years ago

US Food and Drug Administration moves to ban red food dye

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/07/fda-moves-to-ban-red-food-dye

2 years ago

The momentum of the solar energy transition

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41971-7

2 years ago

Microsoft GW-Basic User's Guide and Reference (1989) [pdf]

https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/pdf/microsoft/gw-basic/Microsoft_GW-BASIC_Users_Guide_and_Reference_1989.pdf

2 years ago

OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft

https://www.ft.com/content/2c14b89c-f363-4c2a-9dfc-13023b6bce65

2 years ago