top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-27

They have not been trained for this

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist

2 years ago

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

https://www.plasticlist.org/report

2 years ago

Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Russia-linked-cable-cutting-tanker-seized-by-Finland-was-loaded-with-spying-equipment

2 years ago

Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers

https://www.wsj.com/world/flight-deaths-shot-from-sky-rising-798fd31e

2 years ago

Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders

https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777

2 years ago

Does current AI represent a dead end?

https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/does-current-ai-represent-a-dead-end/

2 years ago

TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tsmc-arizona

2 years ago

Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor

https://github.com/varkor/quiver

2 years ago

Bench accounting services shutting down

https://bench.co/

2 years ago

Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission

http://openai.com/index/why-our-structure-must-evolve-to-advance-our-mission

2 years ago

VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles

https://cyberinsider.com/vw-suffers-major-breach-exposing-location-of-800000-electric-vehicles/

2 years ago

Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life

2 years ago

Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers

https://gianlucaventurini.com/posts/2024/factorio-sat

2 years ago

Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/27/24326278/nintendo-fake-takedowns-youtube-domtendo-dmca

2 years ago

Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

https://doodledreams.cc

2 years ago

Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy

https://sfist.com/2024/12/26/parents-of-openai-whistleblower-dont-believe-he-died-by-suicide-order-second-autopsy/

2 years ago

Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram

https://gitdiagram.com/

2 years ago

The new science of controlling lucid dreams

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/engineering-lucid-dreams-could-improve-sleep-and-defuse-nightmares/

2 years ago

The paper passport's days are numbered

https://www.wired.com/story/the-paper-passport-is-dying/

2 years ago

Execution units are often pipelined

https://blog.xoria.org/pipelining/

2 years ago

Building AI Products–Part I: Back-End Architecture

https://philcalcado.com/2024/12/14/building-ai-products-part-i.html

2 years ago

Show HN: I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch

https://github.com/ThReinecke/dutch_vocabulary

2 years ago

Spotify is full of AI music

https://www.fastcompany.com/91170296/spotify-ai-music

2 years ago

The last Inca bridge master

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20241206-the-last-inca-bridge-master

2 years ago

Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/24/coding-font-selection-tournament

2 years ago

Homebrew Batteries

http://www.hanssummers.com/homebrew/homebrewbattery.html

2 years ago

PolyDye: Full color printer mod for Marlin 3D printers

https://github.com/cooljjj33/PolyDye

2 years ago

Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker

https://github.com/bmtwl/exerciseminimilism

2 years ago

Demystifying Common Microcontroller Debug Protocols [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-demystifying-common-microcontroller-debug-protocols

2 years ago

DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years

https://divestos.org/pages/news#end

2 years ago

Implementing SM-2 in Rust

https://borretti.me/article/implementing-sm2-in-rust

2 years ago

Why did so many mid-century designers make children's books? (2022)

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-did-so-many-mid-century-designers-make-childrens-books/

2 years ago

How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files

https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG/SUMMARY.html

2 years ago

Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/james-bond-movies-amazon-barbara-broccoli-0b04f0db

2 years ago

Show HN: Kando – A cross-platform pie menu for your desktop

https://kando.menu/

2 years ago

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun

https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2024/12/27/nasas-parker-solar-probe-reports-successful-closest-approach-to-sun/

2 years ago

Breaking the Mirror – A Look at Apple's New iPhone Remote Control Feature [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-breaking-the-mirror-a-look-at-apple-s-new-iphone-remote-control-feature

2 years ago

Complain and Propose (2014)

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/complain-and-propose

2 years ago

Hello World on z/OS (2018)

https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/hello-world-on-z-os-a0ef31c1e87f

2 years ago

Agentarium: Creating social simulations with AI Agents

https://github.com/Thytu/Agentarium

2 years ago

Behind the Scenes: Alien Worlds – Jumpship over a tidally locked planet

https://www.blendernation.com/2024/12/24/behind-the-scenes-alien-worlds-jumpship-over-a-tidally-locked-planet/

2 years ago

S Korean crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7r8xr3v76o

2 years ago

Show HN: Map with an LLM

https://godview.ai

2 years ago

Denmark Offers to Buy USA (2019)

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/denmark-offers-to-buy-us

2 years ago

What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/weak-engineers/

2 years ago

The Structure of Neural Embeddings

https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/structure-of-neural-latent-space

2 years ago

RubyConf 2024: Cloud Native Buildpack Hackday (and other Ruby deploy tools, too)

https://www.schneems.com/rubyconf-2024-hackday/

2 years ago

PQConnect: Automated Post-Quantum End-to-End Tunnels

https://www.pqconnect.net/

2 years ago

Rod Serling on Doomsday

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/rod-serling-on-doomsday

2 years ago

87.4% of population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/human-freedom-index-2024

2 years ago

Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts

https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-asks-what-drama-to-create-in-2025-community-reacts

2 years ago