top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-16

OpenERV

https://www.openerv.ca

2 years ago

Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/

2 years ago

Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)

https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

2 years ago

Veo 2: Our video generation model

https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/veo-2/

2 years ago

Always go to the funeral (2005)

https://www.npr.org/2005/08/08/4785079/always-go-to-the-funeral

2 years ago

Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant

https://github.com/XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_home

2 years ago

Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42431103

2 years ago

Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway

https://apnews.com/article/public-domain-2025-popeye-tintin-e71ca89b7a430e68e66a7c6ce45a98eb

2 years ago

In Search of a Faster SQLite

https://avi.im/blag/2024/faster-sqlite/

2 years ago

What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018)

https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html

2 years ago

Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/16/most-iphone-owners-see-little-to-no-value-in-apple-intelligence-so-far/

2 years ago

US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-lawmakers-tell-apple-google-be-ready-remove-tiktok-app-stores-jan-19-2024-12-13/

2 years ago

Modelica

https://modelica.org/

2 years ago

Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API

https://go.dev/blog/protobuf-opaque

2 years ago

Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)

https://opsbros.com/nokia-5110-back-from-the-dead/

2 years ago

Apple Watch with Android

https://abishekmuthian.com/apple-watch-with-android/

2 years ago

UK's Online Safety Act comes into force

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/

2 years ago

"Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1868356459542770087

2 years ago

Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS

https://sailor.li/aocnds.html

2 years ago

OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider

https://openauth.js.org/

2 years ago

Documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64

https://github.com/markmoxon/elite-source-code-commodore-64

2 years ago

Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale

https://solmaz.io/our-muscles-will-atrophy

2 years ago

Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and Eleven Other Memory Safety Approaches

https://verdagon.dev/grimoire/grimoire#

2 years ago

Using Guile for Emacs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1001645/b1e4453a8c6c16d7/

2 years ago

SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection

https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase

2 years ago

Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/wydrowski

2 years ago

Droste’s Lair

https://vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post/

2 years ago

Conda: A package management disaster?

https://pyherald.com/articles/16_12_2024/

2 years ago

Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language (2017)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium/network-protocols?share_key=97d3ba4c24d21147

2 years ago

Cyphernetes: A Query Language for Kubernetes

https://cyphernet.es/#

2 years ago

Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/who_me/

2 years ago

Ten Thousand Years

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

2 years ago

Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-forgotten-collection-of-charles-de-gaulles-personal-letters-speeches-and-manuscripts-has-been-discovered-in-a-safe-180985666/

2 years ago

Using Drop for safety in Rust

https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/read-the-code/using-drop-for-safety-in-rust/

2 years ago

The Power Mac 4400

https://512pixels.net/2024/12/the-power-mac-4400/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42431361

2 years ago

Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'

https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-ceo-sebastian-siemiatkowski-ai-jobs-2024-12

2 years ago

Scanners Beware: Welcome to the network from hell

https://medium.com/sensorfu/scanners-beware-welcome-to-the-network-from-hell-86989f29f17b

2 years ago

Pelicans on a bicycle

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/

2 years ago

Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/oldest-human-genomes-lrj-neanderthals.html

2 years ago

Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/the-cyclic-identity-for-partial-derivatives/

2 years ago

Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop

https://op-co.de/blog/posts/grub2_bios_bootloop/

2 years ago

Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/frood/

2 years ago

Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/submarine-stealth

2 years ago

The Qualcomm DSP Driver – Unexpectedly excavating an exploit

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/12/qualcomm-dsp-driver-unexpectedly-excavating-exploit.html

2 years ago

To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good

https://www.404media.co/wordpress-login-pineapple-on-pizza/

2 years ago

The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers

https://www.boomcampaign.org/p/on-the-higher-fertility-of-semiconductor

2 years ago

Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace

https://github.com/huggingface/search-and-learn

2 years ago

Principles of Educational Programming Language Design

https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/797/info

2 years ago

Scores for adults are dropping on tests of basic skills

https://nataliewexler.substack.com/p/scores-for-adults-are-dropping-on

2 years ago

Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests

https://rakhim.exotext.com/jupyter-notebooks-as-e2e-tests

2 years ago

The Year of McDonald's

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-year-of-mcdonalds-trump-luigi-mangione

2 years ago

Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips

https://dontvacuum.me/rocketflashrecovery/index.html

2 years ago

Time for a code-yellow?: A blunt instrument that works

https://nilam.ca/2024/11/02/time-for-a-code-yellow-a-blunt-instrument-that-works/

2 years ago

BYOJS (Bring your own JS)

https://byojs.dev/

2 years ago

EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Starlink

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/eu-signs-11b-deal-for-sovereign-satellite-constellation-to-rival-musks-starlink/

2 years ago

Canada's First Pirate Site Blocking Order Expires

https://torrentfreak.com/canadas-first-pirate-site-blocking-order-quietly-expires-241214/

2 years ago