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Hacker News on Tuesday, 24 December 2024

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Screenshot of github.com: macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time

macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (github.com)

1076 points by ajdude 1 year ago | 237 comments

GitHub repository for pISSStream, a macOS menu bar app that displays the International Space Station's urine tank fill level in real time.

iss macos menu-bar-app swift

Screenshot of mathstodon.xyz: The number pi has an evil twin

The number pi has an evil twin (mathstodon.xyz)

553 points by pkaeding 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Mastodon thread by John Carlos Baez explaining the lemniscate constant ϖ, an analogue of pi tied to the lemniscate curve and its sl and cl functions.

mathematics lemniscate-constant pi lemniscate

Screenshot of digikey.com: Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32

Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32 (digikey.com)

409 points by m3at 1 year ago | 138 comments

A DigiKey Maker.io project guide with video showing how to build a low-cost quadcopter drone using an ESP32 microcontroller.

esp32 drone diy-electronics maker-projects

Screenshot of blog.mlc.ai: Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)

Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)(blog.mlc.ai)

297 points by plasticchris 1 year ago | 199 comments

Screenshot of events.ccc.de: 38th Chaos Communication Congress

38th Chaos Communication Congress (events.ccc.de)

286 points by joeig 1 year ago | 144 comments

Screenshot of admiralcloudberg.medium.com: Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804

Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

230 points by gdmt 1 year ago | 118 comments

Screenshot of twitter.com: Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free

Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free (twitter.com)

225 points by taubek 1 year ago | 32 comments

Screenshot of simonwillison.net: Trying out QvQ – Qwen's new visual reasoning model

Trying out QvQ – Qwen's new visual reasoning model (simonwillison.net)

219 points by simonw 1 year ago | 66 comments

Screenshot of cfodive.com: Intel shareholders file case asking ex CEO, CFO to return 3 years of salary

Intel shareholders file case asking ex CEO, CFO to return 3 years of salary (cfodive.com)

187 points by YetAnotherNick 1 year ago | 87 comments

Screenshot of rfleury.com: Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program

Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program (rfleury.com)

164 points by robenkleene 1 year ago | 23 comments

Screenshot of issung.com: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived (issung.com)

149 points by issung 1 year ago | 45 comments

Screenshot of sakana.ai: Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models

Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models (sakana.ai)

148 points by hardmaru 1 year ago | 31 comments

Screenshot of danielmangum.com: VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor

VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor (danielmangum.com)

147 points by hasheddan 1 year ago | 33 comments

Screenshot of theestablished.com: Why making friends as an adult is harder

Why making friends as an adult is harder (theestablished.com)

135 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 172 comments

Screenshot of pcworld.com: Gordon Mah Ung has died

Gordon Mah Ung has died (pcworld.com)

132 points by EA-3167 1 year ago | 18 comments

Screenshot of torrentfreak.com: Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses

Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses (torrentfreak.com)

124 points by DanAtC 1 year ago | 130 comments

Screenshot of byteofdev.com: JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess

JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess (byteofdev.com)

123 points by joseneca 1 year ago | 71 comments

Screenshot of wsj.com: Taxi drivers offer a clue to Alzheimer's risk

Taxi drivers offer a clue to Alzheimer's risk (wsj.com)

108 points by julienchastang 1 year ago | 97 comments

Screenshot of abortretry.fail: Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory (abortretry.fail)

103 points by BirAdam 1 year ago | 34 comments

Screenshot of svbrain.xyz: Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks

Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks (svbrain.xyz)

92 points by notallm 1 year ago | 73 comments

Screenshot of thezvi.substack.com: AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment

AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment (thezvi.substack.com)

84 points by theptip 1 year ago | 80 comments

Screenshot of theguardian.com: Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours

Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours (theguardian.com)

83 points by teleforce 1 year ago | 71 comments

Screenshot of v5.chriskrycho.com: Jujutsu Megamerges and jj Absorb

Jujutsu Megamerges and jj Absorb (v5.chriskrycho.com)

69 points by chriskrycho 1 year ago | 36 comments

Screenshot of philipzucker.com: Symbolic Execution by Overloading __bool__

Symbolic Execution by Overloading bool(philipzucker.com)

63 points by philzook 1 year ago | 8 comments

Screenshot of massivesci.com: How did human butts evolve to look that way?

How did human butts evolve to look that way?(massivesci.com)

63 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 36 comments

Screenshot of bostonglobe.com: In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline

In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline (bostonglobe.com)

62 points by dvektor 1 year ago | 75 comments

Screenshot of nsa.gov: National Cryptologic Museum (NSA/CSS) New Temporary Exhibit on Project Stargate

National Cryptologic Museum (NSA/CSS) New Temporary Exhibit on Project Stargate (nsa.gov)

60 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 29 comments

Screenshot of diziet.dreamwidth.org: Debian's approach to Rust – Dependency handling (2022)

Debian's approach to Rust – Dependency handling (2022)(diziet.dreamwidth.org)

57 points by zdw 1 year ago | 120 comments

Screenshot of cnx-software.com: Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe

Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe (cnx-software.com)

57 points by zdw 1 year ago | 37 comments

Screenshot of wired.com: Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think

Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think (wired.com)

56 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 70 comments

Screenshot of theregister.com: Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI (theregister.com)

53 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 47 comments

Screenshot of theatlantic.com: New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer

New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer (theatlantic.com)

47 points by Ozarkian 1 year ago | 52 comments

Screenshot of cnn.com: American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop

American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop (cnn.com)

47 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 36 comments

Screenshot of Hacker News post: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?

Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?

43 points by alexcos 1 year ago | 15 comments

Screenshot of atlasobscura.com: Threads of God

Threads of God (atlasobscura.com)

40 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 39 comments

Screenshot of twitter.com: The MTEB benchmark is dead

The MTEB benchmark is dead (twitter.com)

34 points by herecomethefuzz 1 year ago | 11 comments

Screenshot of gist.github.com: Operational PGP

Operational PGP (gist.github.com)

31 points by gone35 1 year ago | 12 comments

Screenshot of swissinfo.ch: The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all

The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all (swissinfo.ch)

26 points by giuliomagnifico 1 year ago | 13 comments

Screenshot of fgiesen.wordpress.com: Unorm and SNORM to float, hardware edition

Unorm and SNORM to float, hardware edition (fgiesen.wordpress.com)

26 points by luu 1 year ago | 7 comments

Screenshot of zdnet.com: If ChatGPT produces AI-generated code for your app, who does it belong to?

If ChatGPT produces AI-generated code for your app, who does it belong to?(zdnet.com)

21 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 28 comments

Screenshot of reuters.com: Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case

Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case (reuters.com)

18 points by ramsj 1 year ago | 19 comments

Screenshot of en.wikipedia.org: Mike the Headless Chicken

Mike the Headless Chicken (en.wikipedia.org)

16 points by rrauenza 1 year ago | 3 comments

Screenshot of coindesk.com: El Salvador to Change Bitcoin Law as Part of New IMF Deal: Financial Times

El Salvador to Change Bitcoin Law as Part of New IMF Deal: Financial Times (coindesk.com)

14 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 1 comments

Screenshot of sites.google.com: We're All Bozos on This Bus: Eliza and the Firesign Theater

We're All Bozos on This Bus: Eliza and the Firesign Theater (sites.google.com)

13 points by abrax3141 1 year ago | 5 comments

Screenshot of infoworld.com: The AI backlash couldn't have come at a better time

The AI backlash couldn't have come at a better time (infoworld.com)

10 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 6 comments

Screenshot pending…

Show HN: Web app that shows how good the air quality is in Chile (calidaddelairecl.vercel.app)

9 points by iwayato 1 year ago | 4 comments

Screenshot of kyunghyuncho.me: I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS'24

I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS'24 (kyunghyuncho.me)

8 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 0 comments

Screenshot of utcc.utoronto.ca: A gotcha with importing ZFS pools and NFS exports on Linux

A gotcha with importing ZFS pools and NFS exports on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)

7 points by zdw 1 year ago | 0 comments

Screenshot of cryptome.org: Return to NSA's Menwith Hill with 60 Minutes (2000)

Return to NSA's Menwith Hill with 60 Minutes (2000)(cryptome.org)

5 points by robtherobber 1 year ago | 0 comments

Screenshot of londoncentric.media: London Transport Explained in Nine Graphs

London Transport Explained in Nine Graphs (londoncentric.media)

5 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 0 comments

Screenshot of natesilver.net: Nobody goes to New York City anymore. It's too crowded

Nobody goes to New York City anymore. It's too crowded (natesilver.net)

5 points by NavinF 1 year ago | 0 comments

Screenshot of Hacker News post: Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG

Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG

4 points by myrigole 1 year ago | 2 comments

Screenshot of cbsnews.com: 7-year-old boy undergoes heart surgery after getting hit by falling drone

7-year-old boy undergoes heart surgery after getting hit by falling drone (cbsnews.com)

3 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 0 comments

Screenshot of bren.blog: Charlie Munger's wisdom lives on in LLMs

Charlie Munger's wisdom lives on in LLMs (bren.blog)

3 points by laudney 1 year ago | 0 comments