Hacker News on Thursday, 27 June 2024

Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work(arstechnica.com)

696 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 76 comments

Ars Technica obituary remembering Larry Finger, 84, who helped make Linux wireless drivers work and mentored other kernel developers.

Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC(web.dev)

400 points by microflash 2 years ago | 179 comments

A web.dev case study explaining why Google Sheets moved its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC and the performance results.

200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown(apnews.com)

392 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 204 comments

AP News article on the U.S. Justice Department charging nearly 200 people in a $2.7 billion health care fraud crackdown.

A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves(valve.computer)

387 points by cenazoic 2 years ago | 70 comments

Project site for Valve.Computer, a modern 8-bit computer design built from 1950s thermionic valves, with technical and art sections.

Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement(washingtonpost.com)

324 points by datadrivenangel 2 years ago | 622 comments

Washington Post article reporting that the Supreme Court blocked Purdue Pharma's opioid bankruptcy settlement, which would have shielded the Sackler family from future lawsuits.

25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite(latenighter.com)

323 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 235 comments

LateNighter news article reporting that Paramount shut down the Comedy Central website, removing over 25 years of Daily Show video clips.

Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf](storage.googleapis.com)

300 points by tosh 2 years ago | 163 comments

The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player(theguardian.com)

297 points by jgwil2 2 years ago | 249 comments

Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf](ams.org)

279 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 82 comments

Entrust Certificate Distrust(security.googleblog.com)

251 points by iancarroll 2 years ago | 99 comments

Claude 3.5 Sonnet(thezvi.substack.com)

242 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 144 comments

Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)

237 points by signa11 2 years ago | 41 comments

Infrastructure setup and open-source scripts to train 70B model from bare metal(imbue.com)

237 points by thejash 2 years ago | 28 comments

Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version

233 points by abelanger 2 years ago | 93 comments

A buried ancient Egyptian port reveals connections between distant civilizations(smithsonianmag.com)

216 points by jelliclesfarm 2 years ago | 81 comments

CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4(openai.com)

213 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 199 comments

Open Sourcing Kinopio(pketh.org)

205 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 53 comments

Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections(lwn.net)

201 points by leephillips 2 years ago | 67 comments

Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader(sixcolors.com)

192 points by kermatt 2 years ago | 148 comments

DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)(readmargins.com)

172 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 114 comments

Post Office lawyers held secret meeting with judge to stop disclosure(lawgazette.co.uk)

168 points by chrisjj 2 years ago | 101 comments

6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex(joanwestenberg.com)

167 points by zoul 2 years ago | 110 comments

Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE(infoworld.com)

166 points by javierluraschi 2 years ago | 98 comments

Flow Charts with CSS Anchor Positioning(coryrylan.com)

153 points by roosgit 2 years ago | 62 comments

Misconceptions about loops in C(dl.acm.org)

138 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 128 comments

The greatest social media site is Craigslist(slate.com)

132 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 73 comments

How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation(mlops.systems)

120 points by sebg 2 years ago | 7 comments

Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement(nbcnews.com)

116 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 139 comments

Identity Verification Used by X, TikTok, and Uber Exposed Driver's Licenses(gizmodo.com)

112 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 59 comments

The Life Of Lithium(noemamag.com)

104 points by bertman 2 years ago | 22 comments

Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup(space.com)

102 points by belter 2 years ago | 111 comments

Not everything is behavioral science(behavioralscientist.org)

100 points by the-mitr 2 years ago | 102 comments

Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs(backprop.co)

91 points by kristoo 2 years ago | 105 comments

How to Run Adobe Photoshop 2024 on Wine (Linux)(forum.mattkc.com)

86 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 51 comments

Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample(nasa.gov)

85 points by kumarm 2 years ago | 38 comments

A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022)(sourcegraph.com)

75 points by hogu 2 years ago | 27 comments

FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days(techcrunch.com)

72 points by rntn 2 years ago | 23 comments

TeamViewer Security Breach(teamviewer.com)

69 points by campuscodi 2 years ago | 29 comments

Redis Alternative at Apache Software Foundation Now Supports RediSearch and SQL(kvrocks.apache.org)

66 points by tison 2 years ago | 1 comments

US sanctions Boeing for sharing information about 737 MAX 9 investigation(apnews.com)

62 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 42 comments

Show HN: Gosax – A high-performance SAX XML parser for Go(github.com)

57 points by orisano 2 years ago | 24 comments

310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan(newatlas.com)

55 points by geox 2 years ago | 53 comments

Debugging hardware is hard(blog.supermechanical.com)

52 points by jkestner 2 years ago | 19 comments

110 new languages are coming to Google Translate(blog.google)

51 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 19 comments

Fuggerei: the world’s first public housing (2022)(karlsnotes.com)

50 points by Bowes-Lyon 2 years ago | 18 comments

My First Kubernetes: k3s 'cluster' on 3 Orange Pi Zero 3's(raymii.org)

47 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 20 comments

Princeton engineers create new oyster-inspired cement 17X more crack-resistant(engineering.princeton.edu)

47 points by toss1 2 years ago | 15 comments

Slack to destroy >90d history of free communities(slimsag.com)

45 points by slimsag 2 years ago | 43 comments

Aromatic compounds: A ring made up solely of metal atoms(uni-heidelberg.de)

45 points by geox 2 years ago | 6 comments

Lyttle Lytton Contest(adamcadre.ac)

44 points by luu 2 years ago | 13 comments

The C Standard charter was updated, now with security principles as well(open-std.org)

44 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 13 comments

New Whistleblower Files FAA and OSHA Complaints Against Boeing and Spirit(katzbanks.com)

43 points by GrumpyNl 2 years ago | 5 comments

Chase will soon share their customers' credit card information with startup Paze(chase.com)

42 points by guiambros 2 years ago | 18 comments

Dashboard and UIs for Node-Red(dashboard.flowfuse.com)

41 points by zegerjan 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Bleak Genius of Michel Foucault(compactmag.com)

40 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 39 comments

The strategy behind Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology(nature.com)

37 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought(nature.com)

36 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 13 comments

Why it takes NYC nearly 10 years to install 500 feet of pipes – Gothamist(gothamist.com)

35 points by raybb 2 years ago | 38 comments

The ketogenic diet improves healthspan and memory in aging mice(medicalxpress.com)

33 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 18 comments

Rounding Percentages(tavianator.com)

31 points by tavianator 2 years ago | 15 comments