Hacker News on Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

808 points by kgwgk 2 years ago | 424 comments

Blog post on Andrew Gelman's statistics blog discussing a suspicious numerical pattern in the announced results of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election.

macOS in QEMU in Docker(github.com)

659 points by lijunhao 2 years ago | 182 comments

GitHub repository for Docker-OSX, a project that runs a macOS virtual machine via QEMU/KVM inside a Docker container.

`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete(ogiekako.vercel.app)

376 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 93 comments

Blog post demonstrating that a system with only GNU find and mkdir is Turing complete, via loops, FizzBuzz, and a Rule 110 implementation.

Robot dentist performs first human procedure(newatlas.com)

330 points by voxadam 2 years ago | 350 comments

New Atlas article reporting that a fully automatic robot dentist performed the world's first dental procedure on a human patient.

I prefer rST to Markdown(buttondown.email)

320 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 379 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post arguing that reStructuredText is preferable to Markdown for writing books and documentation with Sphinx.

Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies(bbc.com)

310 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 214 comments

The effect of CRTs on pixel art(datagubbe.se)

246 points by zdw 2 years ago | 79 comments

Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2(ai.meta.com)

240 points by bambax 2 years ago | 68 comments

How great was the Great Oxidation Event?(eos.org)

222 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 94 comments

Foobar2000(foobar2000.org)

211 points by citruscomputing 2 years ago | 114 comments

Construction of the AT&T Long Lines "Cheshire" underground site(coldwar-ct.com)

203 points by walrus01 2 years ago | 89 comments

SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant(snowflakeos.org)

194 points by tkz1312 2 years ago | 128 comments

Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017)(words.filippo.io)

172 points by telotortium 2 years ago | 69 comments

Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-Efficient (2021)(spectrum.ieee.org)

160 points by actinium226 2 years ago | 84 comments

FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)(github.com)

156 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 103 comments

Cardie – An open source business card designer and sharing platform(github.com)

156 points by nfoert 2 years ago | 52 comments

Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use(blog.activision.com)

153 points by noch 2 years ago | 71 comments

Meta Has Run Hundreds of Ads for Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs(wsj.com)

146 points by cwwc 2 years ago | 158 comments

Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri

144 points by darweenist 2 years ago | 98 comments

Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon(fortune.com)

133 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 153 comments

Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard(bitsaboutmoney.com)

126 points by sideway 2 years ago | 165 comments

The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)(caitlingreen.org)

109 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 20 comments

After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers(arstechnica.com)

107 points by notamy 2 years ago | 76 comments

Cargo Cult Science (1974)(fermatslibrary.com)

95 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 47 comments

WordGrinder: A simple word processor that runs on the console(github.com)

91 points by netule 2 years ago | 22 comments

Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework(nongnu.org)

73 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 15 comments

The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space (2022)(pnas.org)

72 points by cpach 2 years ago | 33 comments

Deep-Tempest: Using Deep Learning to Eavesdrop on HDMI(arxiv.org)

67 points by _____k 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Non SaaS – Directory of Non SaaS Apps(nonsaas.com)

66 points by frequentflyeru 2 years ago | 41 comments

Dunbar's Number Is Quadratic (2020)(generativist.falsifiable.com)

65 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 38 comments

Fast Multidimensional Matrix Multiplication on CPU from Scratch (2022)(siboehm.com)

56 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 11 comments

An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding(tulip.computer)

55 points by alsetmusic 2 years ago | 21 comments

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be)(wiisfi.com)

55 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Shadow IT Scan – Uncover SaaS Apps, Users and Risky OAuth Scopes(accessowl.io)

53 points by mathiasn 2 years ago | 23 comments

Health industry company sues to prevent certificate revocation(hezmatt.org)

52 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 31 comments

Ampere AmpereOne Aurora 512 Core AI CPU Announced(servethehome.com)

46 points by ksec 2 years ago | 6 comments

How Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program(bloomberg.com)

44 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 37 comments

Stop Destroying Videogames – European Citizens' Initiative(citizens-initiative.europa.eu)

43 points by purkka 2 years ago | 12 comments

With CO2 Levels Rising, Drylands Are Turning Green – Yale E360(e360.yale.edu)

43 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 39 comments

The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities(nature.com)

43 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 13 comments

Ask HN: Junior dev and I don't want to compete in this job market. Any advice?

39 points by thirdacc 2 years ago | 38 comments

Carbon capture and storage is a fantasy(vox.com)

39 points by blueflow 2 years ago | 17 comments

GrapheneOS may take legal action against Google regarding Play Integrity API(x.com)

38 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 8 comments

Apple Arcade developers say working with Apple is like in 'abusive relationship'(appleinsider.com)

38 points by ksec 2 years ago | 7 comments

Servo Web Engine Now Leverages Multiple CPU Cores for Rendering HTML Tables(phoronix.com)

37 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 4 comments

Nobody Cares (2011)(a16z.com)

35 points by joshuawright11 2 years ago | 19 comments

Heavy metal analysis of dark chocolate and cocoa products in the USA(frontiersin.org)

33 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 11 comments

Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?

33 points by revorad 2 years ago | 24 comments

The Hype Around Photobiomodulation(mcgill.ca)

31 points by luu 2 years ago | 17 comments

Eric Roberts (Spy)(en.wikipedia.org)

30 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 4 comments

Spikey Spheres (2010)(penzba.co.uk)

30 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 12 comments

Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?(newyorker.com)

29 points by teddyh 2 years ago | 27 comments

Ocean Gyre(education.nationalgeographic.org)

29 points by dedalus 2 years ago | 11 comments

The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education(cacm.acm.org)

29 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 30 comments

I Miss Lorina Bulwer: A hand-stitched letter of note(news.lettersofnote.com)

29 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 6 comments

The sinister, shocking rise of dog attacks on postal workers(theguardian.com)

28 points by mellosouls 2 years ago | 30 comments

This Month in Ladybird: July 2024(mailchi.mp)

27 points by richardboegli 2 years ago | 8 comments

Robin Warren Has Died(telegraph.co.uk)

27 points by voisin 2 years ago | 4 comments

Our data isn't safe. Resist giving it up whenever you can(washingtonpost.com)

27 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 15 comments

Common side effects of not drinking(medium.com)

25 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 20 comments