top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-26

Ghostty 1.0

https://ghostty.org/

2 years ago

Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

https://github.com/blackcandy-org/blackcandy

2 years ago

Should more of us be moving to live near friends?

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/should-more-of-us-be-moving-to-live-near-friends

2 years ago

Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law

https://fedscoop.com/agencies-must-share-custom-source-code-under-new-share-it-act/

2 years ago

A Minecraft server written in COBOL

https://github.com/meyfa/CobolCraft

2 years ago

Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022)

https://www.jmeiners.com/lc3-vm/

2 years ago

Lua is so underrated

https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/lua-is-so-underrated/

2 years ago

Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software

https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

2 years ago

Differential Growth Addon for Blender

https://boris.okunskiy.name/posts/blender-differential-growth

2 years ago

A Tour of WebAuthn

https://www.imperialviolet.org/tourofwebauthn/tourofwebauthn.html

2 years ago

Seconds Since the Epoch

https://aphyr.com/posts/378-seconds-since-the-epoch

2 years ago

A Simple ELF

https://4zm.org/2024/12/25/a-simple-elf.html

2 years ago

Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust

https://www.egui.rs/

2 years ago

OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly

https://sherwood.news/tech/openai-is-visa/

2 years ago

The trap of "I am not an extrovert"

https://orkohunter.net/blog/the-trap-of-introversion/

2 years ago

Short Message Compression Using LLMs

https://bellard.org/ts_sms/

2 years ago

Numbers Are Leaves

https://www.christo.sh/numbers-are-leaves/

2 years ago

The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/the-cap-theorem-of-clustering

2 years ago

Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony

https://pbat.ch/recurse/demos/trio/

2 years ago

Write a Shell in C (2015)

https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/

2 years ago

Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/dash-cams/nikon-reveals-incredible-lens-that-captures-wide-and-telephoto-images-simultaneously

2 years ago

Sub-pixel distance transform (2023)

https://acko.net/blog/subpixel-distance-transform/

2 years ago

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code

2 years ago

Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+

https://den.dev/blog/reverse-engineer-stream-deck-plus/

2 years ago

Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/25/us/bird-flu-washington-cats-cases/index.html

2 years ago

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516991

2 years ago

Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU

https://github.com/lisyarus/webgpu-raytracer

2 years ago

Melbourne Train Control System is running on a hardware emulated PDP11

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dervishe/107242749336390295

2 years ago

DeepSeek-V3

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

2 years ago

Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps

https://badkeming.com

2 years ago

The history of twisted-pair Ethernet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y

2 years ago

Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/30/joco-almost-died-at-launch-now-its-a-lifeline-for-e-bike-delivery-riders-and-a-profitable-business/

2 years ago

My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime

https://www.christo.sh/building-agi-on-the-tokio-runtime/

2 years ago

The semver trick (2019)

https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick

2 years ago

When Zig Is Safer and Faster Than Rust

https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/

2 years ago

Building a 3D safety sensor with Rust

https://www.sonair.com/journal/building-for-safety-with-rust

2 years ago

NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/nasa-axiom-space-change-assembly-order-of-commercial-space-station/

2 years ago

Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/26/undersea-power-cable-linking-finland-and-estonia-suffers-damage-in-latest-baltic-sea-incid

2 years ago

Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, programmable microrobot assemblies

https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(24)00583-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666998624005830%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

2 years ago

Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3-Mini and its integration with tool like Ollama

https://pieces.app/blog/phi-3-mini-integrations

2 years ago

Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato

https://arcan-fe.com/2024/12/25/arcan-0-7-the-all-tomato/

2 years ago

Analyzing North Korean Malware

https://medium.com/@henrique4win/analyzing-north-korean-malware-95dc3325d943

2 years ago

Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

https://engineering.prezi.com/how-using-availability-zones-can-eat-up-your-budget-our-journey-from-prometheus-to-be8a816f7efe

2 years ago

Thermodynamic model identifies how gold reaches Earth's surface

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-thermodynamic-gold-earth-surface.html

2 years ago

Simulating C. elegans brain, body and environment interactions

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00738-w

2 years ago