top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-12-28

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html

2 years ago

Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus

https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/

2 years ago

I automated my job application process

https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-automated-my-job-application-process-part-1

2 years ago

Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?

https://www.chronotrains.com/en

2 years ago

Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

https://chuckwnelson.com/blog/google-search-results-infested-open-ai-using-google-playbook

2 years ago

Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

https://www.righto.com/2024/12/this-die-photo-of-pentium-shows.html

2 years ago

Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)

https://unity.com/blog/engine-platform/debugging-memory-debugging-memory-corruption-who-wrote-2-into-my-stack-who-the-hell

2 years ago

Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2024-fide-world-rapid-chess-championship-day-2

2 years ago

EmacsConf 2024 Notes

https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/12/emacsconf-2024-notes/

2 years ago

Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-liberating-wi-fi-on-the-esp32

2 years ago

Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42531830

2 years ago

Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

2 years ago

Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/28/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji

2 years ago

EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241228-eu-law-mandating-universal-chargers-for-devices-comes-into-force

2 years ago

Ada's dependent types, and its types as a whole

https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-12-27

2 years ago

Show HN: Anki AI Utils

https://github.com/thiswillbeyourgithub/AnkiAIUtils

2 years ago

Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/23/billionaire-daniel-ek-shuts-down-spotify-unwrapped-calculator/

2 years ago

38C3: Blinkencity, radio controlling street lamps and power plants [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-blinkencity-radio-controlling-street-lamps-and-power-plants

2 years ago

Machine-Assisted Proof [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/notices/202501/rnoti-p6.pdf

2 years ago

I Reversed a Drone and Landed It with My PC

https://www.hardbreak.wiki/network-analysis/protocols/application-layer/proprietary-protocols/parrot-anafi-drone-reverse-engineering

2 years ago

PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/bizarre-pcie-trouble-with-4tb-crucial-t500-nvme-ssd/222915

2 years ago

So you want to write Java in Neovim

https://ptrtojoel.dev/posts/so-you-want-to-write-java-in-neovim/

2 years ago

The Nvidia Way

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-nvidia-way

2 years ago

How to Cure Acid Reflux with Simple Exercise: An Anecdotal Study

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9106553/

2 years ago

Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator (2018)

https://jamchamb.net/2018/07/11/animal-crossing-nes-emulator-hacks.html

2 years ago

Revisiting the NetBSD Build System

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/netbsd-build-system

2 years ago

Ruby-refrigerator: Freeze all core Ruby classes

https://github.com/jeremyevans/ruby-refrigerator

2 years ago

All You Need Is 4x 4090 GPUs to Train Your Own Model

https://sabareesh.com/posts/llm-rig/

2 years ago

Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway

https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/ensuring-software-provenance/

2 years ago

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html

2 years ago

After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/blue-origin-hot-fires-new-glenn-rocket-setting-up-a-launch-early-next-year/

2 years ago

U.S. homelessness jumps to record high amid affordable housing shortage

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/27/nx-s1-5241115/us-homeless-hud-housing-costs-migrants

2 years ago

What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks?

https://thenewstack.io/what-happens-to-relicensed-open-source-projects-and-their-forks/

2 years ago

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/evolution-journal-editors-resign-en-masse-to-protest-elsevier-changes/

2 years ago

Penrose Mazes (2020)

https://justinpombrio.net/archive/penrose-maze/

2 years ago

Chess: Magnus Carlsen disqualified in N.Y. after refusing to change out of jeans

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/27/chess-carlsen-targets-rapid-and-blitz-gold-on-wall-street-this-weekend

2 years ago

Explaining Large Language Models Decisions Using Shapley Values

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01332

2 years ago

Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

2 years ago

3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-largest-3d-printed-neighborhood-060654029.html

2 years ago

The Unicon Programming Language

https://btiffin.users.sourceforge.net/up/unicon.html

2 years ago