Hacker News on Friday, 27 December 2024

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods(plasticlist.org)

588 points by jeff18 1 year ago | 179 comments

The PlasticList report describing a project that tested 100 everyday Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals such as endocrine disruptors, with methodology and results.

Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders(lucaiaconistewart.com)

541 points by uticus 1 year ago | 96 comments

Portfolio page showing a 1:60 scale model of an Air India Boeing 777-300ER built entirely from manila folders.

Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'(lloydslist.com)

506 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 386 comments

Lloyd's List news article reporting that the Russia-linked tanker Eagle S, seized by Finland over cable damage, carried listening equipment to monitor Nato activity.

They have not been trained for this(ccc.de)

501 points by hacka22 1 year ago | 85 comments

CCC statement supporting the three hackers who exposed at 37C3 how Polish train maker Newag manipulated trains to block third-party repairs.

Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers(wsj.com)

496 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 352 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that missile shootdowns have become the leading cause of airline passenger deaths; the page loaded a captcha instead.

Does current AI represent a dead end?(bcs.org)

461 points by jnord 1 year ago | 854 comments

BCS opinion article by Professor Eerke Boiten arguing that current AI systems are unsuitable for serious applications and may represent a dead end.

TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips(spectrum.ieee.org)

330 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 158 comments

IEEE Spectrum feature on TSMC's Arizona fab set to begin producing advanced chips in 2025 as a test of the U.S. CHIPS Act.

Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor(github.com)

309 points by peterkos 1 year ago | 36 comments

Bench accounting services shutting down(bench.co)

280 points by knuckleheads 1 year ago | 271 comments

Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)(codegolf.stackexchange.com)

247 points by wxw 1 year ago | 28 comments

Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission(openai.com)

231 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 265 comments

Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers(gianlucaventurini.com)

230 points by kolui 1 year ago | 44 comments

Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it(theverge.com)

224 points by tombot 1 year ago | 148 comments

Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life(doodledreams.cc)

197 points by vikmex 1 year ago | 66 comments

VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles(cyberinsider.com)

194 points by benwerner01 1 year ago | 187 comments

Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram(gitdiagram.com)

176 points by ahmedkhaleel 1 year ago | 57 comments

Show HN: I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch(github.com)

151 points by tr97 1 year ago | 91 comments

Execution units are often pipelined(blog.xoria.org)

150 points by ingve 1 year ago | 82 comments

The new science of controlling lucid dreams(scientificamerican.com)

147 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 96 comments

Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy(sfist.com)

146 points by miles 1 year ago | 75 comments

The last Inca bridge master(bbc.com)

130 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 27 comments

Building AI Products–Part I: Back-End Architecture(philcalcado.com)

129 points by rafaelferreira 1 year ago | 11 comments

The paper passport's days are numbered(wired.com)

129 points by ascorbic 1 year ago | 242 comments

Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'(daringfireball.net)

119 points by tosh 1 year ago | 101 comments

Spotify is full of AI music(fastcompany.com)

113 points by segasaturn 1 year ago | 102 comments

PolyDye: Full color printer mod for Marlin 3D printers(github.com)

112 points by utopcell 1 year ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker(github.com)

109 points by DrPhish 1 year ago | 33 comments

Homebrew Batteries(hanssummers.com)

106 points by xanderlewis 1 year ago | 11 comments

Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon(wsj.com)

100 points by gnabgib 1 year ago | 185 comments

How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files(gildas-lormeau.github.io)

95 points by gildas 1 year ago | 26 comments

Demystifying Common Microcontroller Debug Protocols [video](media.ccc.de)

95 points by doener 1 year ago | 0 comments

Implementing SM-2 in Rust(borretti.me)

93 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 13 comments

DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years(divestos.org)

92 points by azalemeth 1 year ago | 59 comments

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

86 points by apollinaire 1 year ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Kando – A cross-platform pie menu for your desktop(kando.menu)

82 points by schneegans 1 year ago | 35 comments

Breaking the Mirror – A Look at Apple's New iPhone Remote Control Feature [video](media.ccc.de)

80 points by doener 1 year ago | 11 comments

Complain and Propose (2014)(tidyfirst.substack.com)

78 points by zdw 1 year ago | 28 comments

Behind the Scenes: Alien Worlds – Jumpship over a tidally locked planet(blendernation.com)

75 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 5 comments

Hello World on z/OS (2018)(medium.com)

74 points by haunter 1 year ago | 45 comments

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun(blogs.nasa.gov)

73 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 14 comments

Agentarium: Creating social simulations with AI Agents(github.com)

69 points by Thytu 1 year ago | 24 comments

Show HN: Map with an LLM(godview.ai)

66 points by ata_aman 1 year ago | 39 comments

S Korean crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US(bbc.com)

66 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 40 comments

PQConnect: Automated Post-Quantum End-to-End Tunnels(pqconnect.net)

62 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 15 comments

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

60 points by mohdsyam 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Structure of Neural Embeddings(seanpedersen.github.io)

56 points by sean_pedersen 1 year ago | 1 comments

Rod Serling on Doomsday(mubi.com)

55 points by ecliptik 1 year ago | 10 comments

Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts(wptavern.com)

42 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 29 comments

What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?(seangoedecke.com)

41 points by gfysfm 1 year ago | 33 comments

Racket-embed-images-in-source-text(github.com)

40 points by spdegabrielle 1 year ago | 9 comments

Invariants: Computation and Applications(arxiv.org)

38 points by crete 1 year ago | 1 comments

Show HN: SkunkHTML – Markdown Blog with GitHub Pages(github.com)

37 points by MaxGripe 1 year ago | 7 comments

Topological Mechanics of Knots and Tangles(science.org)

36 points by mmooss 1 year ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Houseplant – Database Migrations for ClickHouse(houseplant.readthedocs.io)

36 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 13 comments

Astronauts face unique visual challenges at lunar South Pole(phys.org)

36 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 14 comments

Search ArXiv Fluidly(searchthearxiv.com)

35 points by Exorust 1 year ago | 10 comments

Against the Hydraulic Analogy(lcamtuf.substack.com)

34 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 22 comments

Denmark Offers to Buy USA (2019)(newyorker.com)

32 points by belter 1 year ago | 4 comments

Tangled Physics: Knots Strain Intuitive Physical Reasoning(direct.mit.edu)

32 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 9 comments

Roaming Rocks(aeon.co)

30 points by Vigier 1 year ago | 3 comments