top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-15

A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/12/15/tidy-2/

2 years ago

Map of GitHub

https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-github

2 years ago

Dumb TVs deserve a comeback

https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-dumb-tvs-deserve-a-comeback/

2 years ago

Ask HN: How do you find part time work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425339

2 years ago

Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences

https://www.rubyvideo.dev/

2 years ago

25 Years of Dillo

https://dillo-browser.github.io/25-years/

2 years ago

Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game

https://smarthome.steviep.xyz

2 years ago

Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1868368310024462791

2 years ago

Crystal Ball Trading Game

https://elmwealth.com/crystal-ball/

2 years ago

3D-Printed Dune Chess Set

https://parametric-architecture.com/3d-printed-dune-chess-set-by-rory-noble-turner/

2 years ago

Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013)

https://mascontext.com/issues/trace/kowloon-walled-city-heterotopia-in-a-space-of-disappearance

2 years ago

Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups

https://irrationalanalysis.substack.com/p/tenstorrent-and-the-state-of-ai-hardware

2 years ago

SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer

https://github.com/JanNeuendorf/SVC16

2 years ago

Our brains create mental "chapters" with new event segmentation study

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-sheds-light-on-how-our-brains-create-mental-chapters-with-new-event-segmentation-study/

2 years ago

In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape

https://jpcamara.com/2024/12/14/my-rubyconf-talk.html

2 years ago

The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/12/the-antikythera-mechanism/

2 years ago

Chip Cities Rise in Japan's Fields of Dreams

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-12-11/chip-cities-rise-in-japan-s-fields-of-dreams

2 years ago

XFCE 4.20 Released

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_14.html

2 years ago

Fractional Jobs – Job Board for Fractional Work

https://www.fractionaljobs.io/

2 years ago

Maximum likelihood estimation and loss functions

https://rish-01.github.io/blog/posts/ml_estimation/

2 years ago

Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance

https://railgunlabs.com/unicorn/

2 years ago

Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/14/quick-takes-on-the-recent-openai-public-incident-write-up/

2 years ago

Starting a Business at 60: My Father's Story

https://thoughts.jatintiwari.com/pages/starting-business-at-60.html

2 years ago

The First 50M Prime Numbers (1975) [pdf]

https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/doi/10.1007/BF03039306/fulltext.pdf

2 years ago

What's happening with founders over 40?

https://justinjackson.ca/over-40

2 years ago

The tale of two Shanghais

https://arun.is/blog/tale-of-two-shanghais/

2 years ago

Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423742

2 years ago

Automotive Grade Linux Launches New Expert Group Led by Toyota

https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/ospo_eg/

2 years ago

Inside the university AI cheating crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/15/i-received-a-first-but-it-felt-tainted-and-undeserved-inside-the-university-ai-cheating-crisis

2 years ago

The Red Beads Experiment (2019)

https://medium.com/make-work-better/w-edwards-demings-red-beads-experiment-dea18bfc2aba

2 years ago

Absinthe: From green fairy to moral panic

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/absinthe-green-fairy-moral-panic

2 years ago

AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2024/keynote-meredith-whittaker/

2 years ago

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Treatment for Kids with Autism

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid

2 years ago

Python Meta Circular Interpreter (2019)

https://rahul.gopinath.org/post/2019/12/07/python-mci/

2 years ago