Hacker News on Sunday, 29 December 2024

Jimmy Carter has died(washingtonpost.com)

1081 points by gkolli 1 year ago | 633 comments

Washington Post obituary reporting the death of former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter.

WebGL Fluid Simulation(paveldogreat.github.io)

435 points by ChadNauseam 1 year ago | 56 comments

An interactive browser-based WebGL fluid simulation demo with adjustable parameters like vorticity, pressure, bloom, and sunrays.

38C3: Illegal Instructions(media.ccc.de)

423 points by type0 1 year ago | 63 comments

media.ccc.de archive page listing recorded talk videos from the 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3: Illegal Instructions) held in Hamburg in December 2024.

Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting(scrtwpns.com)

351 points by tlarkworthy 1 year ago | 53 comments

Product page for Mixbox by Secret Weapons, a library that simulates realistic pigment color mixing for digital painting software.

We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video](media.ccc.de)

348 points by doener 1 year ago | 58 comments

Video of a 38C3 talk by Dragon Sector researchers about the aftermath of disclosing DRM in Newag trains, including the lawsuit filed against them.

I Run LLMs Locally(abishekmuthian.com)

300 points by Abishek_Muthian 1 year ago | 183 comments

Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?(mikegalsworthy.substack.com)

269 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 545 comments

OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’(daringfireball.net)

256 points by ajuhasz 1 year ago | 228 comments

Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again(chrisholdgraf.com)

247 points by ianrahman 1 year ago | 443 comments

I was wrong about the ethics crisis(cacm.acm.org)

246 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 341 comments

The Zombocom Problem(newsletter.squishy.computer)

243 points by headalgorithm 1 year ago | 70 comments

The Cody Computer(codycomputer.org)

222 points by classichasclass 1 year ago | 31 comments

Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold(cbc.ca)

217 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 158 comments

How China turns members of its diaspora into spies(economist.com)

204 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 164 comments

Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?(benkaiser.dev)

200 points by benkaiser 1 year ago | 129 comments

Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing(bloomberg.com)

197 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 185 comments

4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub(arxiv.org)

196 points by qianli_cs 1 year ago | 182 comments

Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?(scottrlarson.com)

181 points by trinsic2 1 year ago | 127 comments

ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)(vice.com)

167 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 71 comments

BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video](media.ccc.de)

152 points by doener 1 year ago | 156 comments

Developing inside a virtual machine(blog.disintegrator.dev)

151 points by disintegrator 1 year ago | 117 comments

The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024(pcmag.com)

149 points by elorant 1 year ago | 170 comments

Breaking NATO Radio Encryption [video](media.ccc.de)

132 points by doener 1 year ago | 33 comments

Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes(npr.org)

130 points by geox 1 year ago | 83 comments

We fine-tuned Llama and got 4.2x Sonnet 3.5 accuracy for code generation(finecodex.com)

130 points by banddk 1 year ago | 47 comments

BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021)(ariadne.space)

111 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 78 comments

Show HN: Chorus, a Mac app that lets you chat with a bunch of AIs at once(melty.sh)

105 points by Charlieholtz 1 year ago | 53 comments

For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house(katalog-barbaraiweins.com)

105 points by Alifatisk 1 year ago | 56 comments

A web app to read Latin texts with inline translations(adi.earth)

102 points by realaleris149 1 year ago | 57 comments

Neuters: Lightweight front end to Reuters News(neuters.de)

101 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 49 comments

Personal Mail Server on OpenBSD (2019)(nicolascarpi.github.io)

99 points by likeabatterycar 1 year ago | 58 comments

DuPont and “DuPont” connectors, and how to crimp them properly(mattmillman.com)

95 points by pera 1 year ago | 21 comments

I don't do Domain Driven Design(tonymarston.net)

91 points by lr0 1 year ago | 38 comments

Stripe V2(brandur.org)

80 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 32 comments

Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript(github.com)

75 points by thesephist 1 year ago | 15 comments

What is a second?(johndcook.com)

70 points by zdw 1 year ago | 28 comments

Notes on China(dwarkeshpatel.com)

69 points by admp 1 year ago | 45 comments

We know where your car is(ccc.de)

66 points by uxhacker 1 year ago | 37 comments

Brave Care Has Closed(bravecare.com)

60 points by godisdad 1 year ago | 114 comments

The Story of Stent(om.co)

57 points by rmason 1 year ago | 4 comments

Short-Term Rentals Are Hollowing Out Communities with Loose Restrictions(nextcity.org)

45 points by rntn 1 year ago | 48 comments

'No Problem' Word Processor Poses a Problem for Former President Carter (1981)(nytimes.com)

39 points by helloworld 1 year ago | 17 comments

Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?(preethamrn.com)

36 points by xmprt 1 year ago | 54 comments

Show HN: Resizer2 – i3/KDE window movement on Windows(github.com)

32 points by alvel 1 year ago | 11 comments

Board game from Mexican prisons brings together people from all walks of life(apnews.com)

28 points by solardev 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Invisible Tsunami Kids(robertvanwey.substack.com)

26 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 1 comments

Visualizing memory layout of Rust's data types(youtube.com)

21 points by eventhelix 1 year ago | 1 comments

McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class (2020)(theatlantic.com)

21 points by lifeisstillgood 1 year ago | 7 comments

Unintuitive optimization for performing paths union(minus-ze.ro)

19 points by vg_head 1 year ago | 2 comments

Siri mixes up baby kangaroo with Friends sitcom actor(mastodon.social)

13 points by latexr 1 year ago | 0 comments

Populism and the World of Oz(americanhistory.si.edu)

12 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 1 comments

OnlyFans turned into an empire bent on redefining porn(reuters.com)

10 points by marban 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Global Loss of the U-Shaped Curve of Happiness(afterbabel.com)

7 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 0 comments

Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of torment and sexual servitude(reuters.com)

7 points by SpaghettiCthulu 1 year ago | 1 comments

Building Apollo(construction-physics.com)

7 points by bitfield 1 year ago | 0 comments

Frequency shifts do not imply quantum entanglement (2022)(benbrubaker.com)

6 points by c1ccccc1 1 year ago | 0 comments

Women describe lives of isolation, torment and sexual servitude(reuters.com)

6 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 0 comments

Family of Deceased OpenAI Whistleblower Disputes Suicide Ruling(twitter.com)

5 points by sdan 1 year ago | 1 comments

Tools to Consider for Your Next Django Project(thinkingbytes.co.uk)

5 points by boros2me 1 year ago | 0 comments

Pirate Party – a political party in Iceland (and in many other countries)(en.wikipedia.org)

4 points by alentred 1 year ago | 0 comments