top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-24

macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time

https://github.com/Jaennaet/pISSStream

2 years ago

The number pi has an evil twin

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/113703444230936435

2 years ago

Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32

https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/projects/a-step-by-step-guide-to-build-a-low-cost-drone-using-esp32/8afccd0690574bcebfa0d2ad6fd0a391

2 years ago

38th Chaos Communication Congress

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/infos/index.html

2 years ago

Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free

https://twitter.com/spatiallyjess/status/1871342549958537326

2 years ago

Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)

https://blog.mlc.ai/2023/08/09/Making-AMD-GPUs-competitive-for-LLM-inference

2 years ago

Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/masks-smoke-and-mirrors-the-untold-story-of-egyptair-flight-804-42c788fcac2d

2 years ago

Trying out QvQ – Qwen's new visual reasoning model

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/qvq/

2 years ago

Intel shareholders file case asking ex CEO, CFO to return 3 years of salary

https://www.cfodive.com/news/intel-shareholders-yank-exceo-cfo-compensation-foundry/736193/

2 years ago

Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program

https://www.rfleury.com/p/demystifying-debuggers-part-2-the

2 years ago

Why making friends as an adult is harder

https://www.theestablished.com/self/health/why-making-friends-as-an-adult-is-harder-than-ever

2 years ago

1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

https://issung.com/posts/lanphotosarchive/

2 years ago

Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models

https://sakana.ai/asal/

2 years ago

VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor

https://danielmangum.com/posts/vpr-nordic-risc-v-processor/

2 years ago

Gordon Mah Ung has died

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2564783/gordon-mah-ung-remembered.html

2 years ago

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/ai_slop_bug_reports/

2 years ago

Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-must-block-piracy-shield-domains-and-ip-addresses-across-its-service-241224/

2 years ago

JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess

https://byteofdev.com/posts/javascript-benchmarking-mess/

2 years ago

Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/dec/24/paris-to-berlin-by-train-faster-service-via-strasbourg

2 years ago

Taxi drivers offer a clue to Alzheimer's risk

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/alzheimers-risk-taxi-ambulance-drivers-be15739b

2 years ago

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/shockley-semiconductor-laboratory

2 years ago

Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1938187

2 years ago

Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks

https://svbrain.xyz/2024/12/20/cerebrum

2 years ago

AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ais-will-increasingly-fake-alignment

2 years ago

How did human butts evolve to look that way?

https://massivesci.com/articles/butts-shape-big-anthropologist-evolution-how-why-explainer/

2 years ago

Jujutsu Megamerges and jj Absorb

https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/jujutsu-megamerges-and-jj-absorb/

2 years ago

In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/24/metro/maine-prison-remote-jobs-mountain-view-correctional-facility/

2 years ago

Symbolic Execution by Overloading __bool__

https://www.philipzucker.com/overload_bool/

2 years ago

New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/

2 years ago

Electric cars could last much longer than you think

https://www.wired.com/story/electric-cars-could-last-much-longer-than-most-think/

2 years ago

National Cryptologic Museum (NSA/CSS) New Temporary Exhibit on Project Stargate

https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/3946210/new-exhibits-at-the-national-cryptologic-museum-unlock-your-curiosity/

2 years ago

Debian's approach to Rust – Dependency handling (2022)

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/10559.html

2 years ago

Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/24/sipeed-nanokvm-pcie-is-an-inexpensive-kvm-over-ip-solution-with-optional-wifi-6-and-poe-support/

2 years ago

American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/24/business/american-airlines-delays-cancellations/index.html

2 years ago