top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-10

From where I left

https://antirez.com/news/144

2 years ago

The Google Willow Thing

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8525

2 years ago

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373343

2 years ago

Tree Calculus

https://treecalcul.us/

2 years ago

Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377018

2 years ago

WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/64/wpengine-inc-v-automattic-inc/

2 years ago

GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/gm-halts-funding-of-robotaxi-development-by-cruise.html

2 years ago

Making my first robot as a software engineer

https://github.com/Robertleoj/pen_plotter_robot/blob/main/story.md

2 years ago

Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust

https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite-of-sqlite-in-rust

2 years ago

Firefox removes "do not track" feature support

https://windowsreport.com/mozilla-firefox-removes-do-not-track-feature-support-heres-what-it-means-for-your-privacy/

2 years ago

Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen

https://old.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1h7vhmg/bro_been_developing_his_2k_star_plugin_on_a/

2 years ago

Save Music, Save the Archive

https://www.savethearchive.com/

2 years ago

U.S. math scores drop on major international test

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/timss-international-test-result-us-math-scores-decline-post-pandemic/

2 years ago

Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

http://sibervepunk.com/digital-consumption.html

2 years ago

Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5222574/kids-character-ai-lawsuit

2 years ago

Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769

2 years ago

Unexpected Keyboard

https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

2 years ago

Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation

https://medium.com/@tomysshadow/fixing-the-loading-in-myst-iv-revelation-86e2814afbf8

2 years ago

AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligence-local-news-oregon-ashland/

2 years ago

The Depths of Wikipedians

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-depths-of-wikipedians

2 years ago

Common misconceptions about compilers

https://sbaziotis.com/compilers/common-misconceptions-about-compilers.html

2 years ago

AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/surrey-announces-worlds-first-ai-model-near-instant-image-creation-consumer-grade-hardware

2 years ago

Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS

https://supabase.com/blog/durable-workflows-in-postgres-dbos

2 years ago

Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

https://ideaharbor.xyz

2 years ago

Canvas

https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/

2 years ago

Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/10/scrabble-star-nigel-richards-wins-spanish-world-title-despite-not-speaking-spanish

2 years ago

Devin is now generally available

https://www.cognition.ai/blog/devin-generally-available

2 years ago

Colour in the Middle Ages

https://www.medievalists.net/2024/06/colour-middle-ages/

2 years ago

Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1452085/full

2 years ago

Boltzmann brain

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

2 years ago

AMD's trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/new-badram-attack-neuters-security-assurances-in-amd-epyc-processors/

2 years ago

BareMetal OS

https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-OS

2 years ago

Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/10/arctic-tundra-carbon-shift

2 years ago

Show HN: HackerNews-new-jobs – insights into fresh and recurring job ads

https://github.com/nemanjam/hn-new-jobs

2 years ago

Neuroplasticity in F16 fighter jet pilots

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9974643/

2 years ago

From Unemployment to Lisp: Running GPT-2 on a Teen's Deep Learning Compiler

https://github.com/hikettei/Caten

2 years ago

The Most Expensive Eating Disorder

https://desmolysium.com/bryan-johnson-the-worlds-most-expensive-eating-disorder/

2 years ago

Show HN: I made Gyroscopic Gyro Sandwiches

https://transistor-man.com/gyroscopic_gyros.html

2 years ago

The Albuquerque "Broken Arrow" Nuclear Accident

https://lflank.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/the-albuquerque-broken-arrow-nuclear-accident/

2 years ago

Is anyone playing with the combination of generative AI and OpenCyc?

https://2ro.co/post/769440256241123328/study-opencyc

2 years ago

The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager

https://zaidesanton.substack.com/p/the-slow-death-of-the-hands-on-engineering

2 years ago

Wolfram Notebook Assistant

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/useful-to-the-point-of-being-revolutionary-introducing-wolfram-notebook-assistant/

2 years ago

Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage

https://gizmodo.com/ai-firms-stop-hiring-humans-billboard-campaign-sparks-outrage-2000536368

2 years ago

C++ exception performance three years later

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2024/12/c-exception-performance-three-years.html

2 years ago

2D Racket Syntax

https://docs.racket-lang.org/2d/index.html

2 years ago

Luigi's Manifesto

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

2 years ago

I'm daily driving Jujutsu, and maybe you should too

https://drewdevault.com/2024/12/10/2024-12-10-Daily-driving-jujutsu.html

2 years ago

Mastering Ruby debugging: From puts to professional tools

https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2024/12/mastering_ruby_debugging/

2 years ago