top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-17

Moon

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/

2 months ago

3128 upvotes – 250 comments

Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

https://brightonruby.com/2024/getting-to-2-million-users-as-a-one-woman-dev-team/

2 months ago

734 upvotes – 263 comments

FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/17/ftc-bans-hidden-junk-fees-in-hotel-event-ticket-prices-.html

2 months ago

658 upvotes – 663 comments

After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code

https://dylanhuang.com/blog/closing-my-startup/

2 months ago

549 upvotes – 268 comments

ISO 8583: The language of credit cards

https://increase.com/articles/iso-8583-the-language-of-credit-cards

2 months ago

407 upvotes – 79 comments

MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819

2 months ago

373 upvotes – 423 comments

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/the-kids-are-maybe-alright-teen-drug-use-hits-new-lows-in-ongoing-decline/

2 months ago

371 upvotes – 596 comments

Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope

https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024/dwingeloo-telescope-receives-signals-from-voyager-1/

2 months ago

321 upvotes – 121 comments

How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor

https://medium.com/@ivan.ishubin/how-i-used-linear-algebra-to-build-an-interactive-diagramming-editor-and-why-matrix-math-is-d5bd552f2e8d

2 months ago

298 upvotes – 46 comments

Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/16/black-magic-3d-vision-pro-camera/

2 months ago

273 upvotes – 327 comments

Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps

https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse

2 months ago

215 upvotes – 61 comments

Developing Developers (2015)

https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developers.html

2 months ago

201 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source data pipeline tool in Go

https://github.com/bruin-data/bruin

2 months ago

200 upvotes – 48 comments

Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch

https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/leanprover-community/NNG4

2 months ago

191 upvotes – 32 comments

Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime

https://www.more-magic.net/posts/crunch.html

2 months ago

190 upvotes – 71 comments

Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/12/partnering-with-nihon-kotsu-and-go-on-our-first-international-road-trip

2 months ago

187 upvotes – 120 comments

Includeable minimal operating system for C++

https://www.includeos.org/

2 months ago

183 upvotes – 46 comments

Design Token-Based UI Architecture

https://martinfowler.com/articles/design-token-based-ui-architecture.html

2 months ago

177 upvotes – 138 comments

Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/huge-math-error-corrected-in-black-plastic-study-authors-say-it-doesnt-matter/

2 months ago

173 upvotes – 112 comments

The Night Watch [pdf] (2013)

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch.pdf

2 months ago

173 upvotes – 28 comments

In Defense of Y'All

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/in-defense-of-yall-nyt-columnist/

2 months ago

169 upvotes – 362 comments

The Headlight Brightness Wars

https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents

2 months ago

165 upvotes – 197 comments

Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z

https://luke8086.dev/netbsd-on-thinkpad-380z.html

2 months ago

164 upvotes – 63 comments

Is stuff online worth saving?

https://rubenerd.com/is-it-worth-saving/

2 months ago

158 upvotes – 165 comments

Make your QEMU faster (2022)

https://linus.schreibt.jetzt/posts/qemu-9p-performance.html

2 months ago

150 upvotes – 22 comments

Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Alaska and the world

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2024/12/15/torpedo-juice-the-legendary-illegal-world-war-ii-liquor-drunk-in-alaska-and-across-the-world/

2 months ago

135 upvotes – 89 comments

Grammarly acquires Coda

https://coda.io/blog/about-coda/grammarly-acquires-coda

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Adventures in OCR

https://blog.medusis.com/38_Adventures+in+OCR.html

2 months ago

126 upvotes – 45 comments

Using GPS satellites to detect tsunamis via ionospheric ionization waves

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/data-in-action/global-navigation-satellite-system-data-brings-forth-guardian

2 months ago

126 upvotes – 44 comments

When should we require that firmware be free?

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70895.html

2 months ago

114 upvotes – 141 comments

CRDTs and Collaborative Playground

https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/crdts-and-collaborative-playground

2 months ago

111 upvotes – 8 comments

FastVideo: a lightweight framework for accelerating large video diffusion models

https://github.com/hao-ai-lab/FastVideo

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021)

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/san-francisco-historic-plane-crash-asoh-defense-16319360.php

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 105 comments

Microsoft rejects documentation PR because AI chatbots can't display tables

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021

2 months ago

108 upvotes – 30 comments

Northern Ireland police unlawfully put reporters under surveillance

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/northern-ireland-police-unlawfully-put-reporters-under-surveillance-tribunal-2024-12-17/

2 months ago

106 upvotes – 27 comments

Multilspy: Building a common LSP client handtuned for all Language servers

https://github.com/microsoft/multilspy

2 months ago

98 upvotes – 14 comments

Puppet Will Be Forked

https://fosstodon.org/@genebean/113664863697232378

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Ozempic increases risk of debilitating eye condition: studies

https://www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/fakulteterne/sundhedsvidenskab/nyheder/dansk-diabetesmedicin-oger-risikoen-for-svaert-invaliderende-ojensygdom

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 101 comments

Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident

https://www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-centre/landmark-settlement-of-$50m-from-meta-for-australian-users-impacted-by-cambridge-analytica-incident

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 37 comments

Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. an Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]

https://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1049.pdf

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 95 comments

Researchers discover new ocean predator in the Atacama Trench

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ocean-predator-atacama-trench.html

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 25 comments
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