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

Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions

2 years ago

Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/wcc-2024-round-14-gukesh-becomes-the-youngest-world-champion-in-history/cDggdNZw

2 years ago

Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po

2 years ago

BlenderGPT

https://www.blendergpt.org/

2 years ago

Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/fermats-last-theorem-how-its-going/

2 years ago

Android XR

https://blog.google/products/android/android-xr/

2 years ago

A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2023/chat-gpt-2-in-c.html

2 years ago

"Rules" that terminal programs follow

https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/terminal-rules/

2 years ago

Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling

https://quantus.finance/

2 years ago

Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard

https://mouseless.click/

2 years ago

Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it

https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/parkinsons-law-its-real-so-use-it

2 years ago

Conversations are better with four people

https://www.thetimes.com/article/why-conversations-are-better-with-four-people-zhxbsg06s

2 years ago

Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)

https://kennyballou.com/blog/2016/12/elixir-hot-swapping/index.html

2 years ago

Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-recall-screenshots-credit-cards-and-social-security-numbers-even-with-the-sensitive-information-filter-enabled

2 years ago

Show HN: Kubernetes Spec Explorer

https://kubespec.dev/

2 years ago

Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/carta-is-making-it-too-difficult-to-cancel-subscriptions-some-founders-say/

2 years ago

Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024

https://www.keacher.com/xmas24/

2 years ago

What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf]

https://assets.bitbashing.io/papers/concurrency-primer.pdf

2 years ago

Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software

https://www.souzatharsis.com/tamingLLMs/markdown/toc.html

2 years ago

The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw

https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-oversight

2 years ago

A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/black-plastic

2 years ago

Programming Language Memory Models (2021)

https://research.swtch.com/plmm

2 years ago

Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use

https://www.anthropic.com/research/clio

2 years ago

A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1347

2 years ago

Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013)

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/02/21/converting-untrusted-pdfs-into-trusted.html

2 years ago

CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer

https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2024/12/11/cading-and-3d-printing-like-a-software-engineer-part1/

2 years ago

Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans

https://www.uaf.edu/news/study-reveals-mammoth-as-key-food-source-for-ancient-americans.php

2 years ago

Majora's Mask decompilation project reaches 100% completion

https://gbatemp.net/threads/majoras-mask-decompilation-project-reaches-100-completion.664380/

2 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate (2023)

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-ashton-tate

2 years ago

Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis

https://thewallanalysis.com/

2 years ago

Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger)

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/102424-doctor-who-theme-ron-grainer-composer-and-delia-derbyshire-musician

2 years ago

Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata

https://richiejp.com/1d-reversible-automata

2 years ago

Idiomatic Errors in Clojure

https://www.daveliepmann.com/articles/idiomatic-clojure-errors.html

2 years ago

The secret life of DNS packets (2019)

https://stripe.com/blog/secret-life-of-dns

2 years ago

The humble for loop in Rust

https://blog.startifact.com/posts/humble-for-loop-rust/

2 years ago

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE)

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

2 years ago

Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)

https://www.lionsroar.com/learning-tibetan/

2 years ago

Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

https://ev.medium.com/making-social-social-again-0126fa5c6ce8

2 years ago

Ultra-low-power localization tag uses cellular signals [pdf]

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nakul/assets/papers/litefoot_sensys2024_nakul.pdf

2 years ago

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fei-fei-li-world-labs

2 years ago

Program Synthesis and Large Language Models

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/on-program-synthesis-and-large-language-models/

2 years ago

Show HN: Bring-your-own-key browser extension for summarizing HN posts with LLMs

https://github.com/ivanyu/hn-tldr-extension

2 years ago

Run Database in GitHub Actions, Persisting Data to S3, and Access It Publicly

https://wesql.io/blog/use-github-actions-as-database

2 years ago

Consider Negotiating with Infringers

https://www.thelegalartist.com/blog/why-you-should-consider-negotiating-with-infringers

2 years ago

A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/12/a-new-timeline-for-neanderthal-interbreeding-with-modern-humans/

2 years ago

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/aclu_ai_police_report/

2 years ago

Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging

https://www.owlposting.com/p/why-recursion-pharmaceuticals-abandoned

2 years ago

How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force

https://restofworld.org/2024/how-whatsapp-became-a-global-cultural-force/

2 years ago

The Errors of TeX [pdf] (1989)

https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf

2 years ago

A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/a-second-tree-of-life-could-wreak-havoc-scientists-warn.html

2 years ago

Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for drug use

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/11/pregnant-hospital-drug-test-medicine/76804299007/

2 years ago

Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/12/pompeii-experts-back-plinys-account-of-mount-vesuvius-eruption-date

2 years ago

Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/startup-will-brick-800-emotional-support-robot-for-kids-without-refunds/

2 years ago

Show HN: Credit reports about German companies

https://bonscore.org/

2 years ago