news, !paper 2024-12-04

1646 IMG_0001 / walzr.com / 259

1402 Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter / ContinueAndPersist.org / 223

1034 Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 / github.com/xairy / 522

971 Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model / deepmind.google / 350

813 Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone / play.google.com / 378

579 Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers / news.alvaroduran.com / 549

560 The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020) / interactionmagic.com / 47

533 The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory / downtowndougbrown.com / 259

484 Rails is better low code than low code / radanskoric.com / 242

472 You can use C-Reduce for any language / bernsteinbear.com / 113

466 Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices / news.ycombinator.com / 685

433 QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM / qwenlm.github.io / 410

363 In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse / lithub.com / 331

356 How to grow professional relationships / tej.as / 180

349 Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier / krebsonsecurity.com / 193

315 London's 850-year-old food markets to close / bbc.co.uk / 277

309 A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022) / 121gigawatts.org / 191

306 OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe / openttd.org / 105

306 Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub / github.com/bjesus / 55

300 ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser / zetaoffice.net / 140

295 The success and failure of Ninja (2020) / neugierig.org / 82

294 Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals / ft.com / 1304

289 Spotify has shut down several API endpoints / developer.spotify.com / 288

270 Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning / github.com/abus-aikorea / 189

270 Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI / news.ycombinator.com / 94

267 D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems / techradar.com / 169

264 Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant) / old.reddit.com / 347

263 Show HN: Feels Like Paper / lukasmoro.com / 83

242 A particle physics course for high-school students / ppc.web.cern.ch / 31

241 Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby / jpcamara.com / 81

241 Janet for Mortals (2023) / ianthehenry.com / 65

236 Murderbot, she wrote / wired.com / 168

228 Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go / pkg.go.dev / 82

227 Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI / github.com/outerbase / 93

225 Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience / kerkour.com / 135

225 Bananas: Cross-Platform screen sharing made simple / github.com/mistweaverco / 71

222 Rust in QEMU Roadmap / lore.kernel.org / 162

221 picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models / store.steampowered.com / 32

219 Show HN: Screen Sharing in the Browser / github.com/tonghohin / 53

210 No NAT November: My month without IPv4 / blog.infected.systems / 140

206 Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters / seangoedecke.com / 105

195 Show HN: Myphotos.site – Make a gallery website from Google Photos / myphotos.site / 82

193 MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 (2016) / sheldonbrown.com / 148

190 The story of Rogue / spillhistorie.no / 76

189 UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan / cnn.com / 348

184 How IBM invented the automated fab / spectrum.ieee.org / 44

183 Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux / welivesecurity.com / 82

181 Forced to upgrade / herman.bearblog.dev / 294

178 SSH Artwork / github.com/villasv / 29

177 Sitters and Standers / pudding.cool / 73

171 The Art and Mathematics of Genji-Ko / oranlooney.com / 9

164 Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system / lithub.com / 188

162 Native dual-range input / muffinman.io / 22

160 A washing machine for human beings, from 1970 / core77.com / 202

159 Show HN: I combined spaced repetition with emails so you can remember anything / ginkgonotes.com / 49

157 AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells / newscenter.lbl.gov / 48

146 Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine / volfpeter.github.io / 87

144 Inferring neural activity before plasticity for learning beyond backpropagation / nature.com / 49

144 EmacsConf 2024 / emacsconf.org / 9

143 The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? / theguardian.com / 194

134 They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard / kevinboone.me / 80

133 Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing / tratt.net / 53

132 DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model / ruliad.co / 103

132 PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc / proot-me.github.io / 50

130 Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games / news.ycombinator.com / 35

126 NASA aircraft uncover Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet / space.com / 40

126 Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama / smcleod.net / 14

124 A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929 / moreisdifferent.blog / 137

123 Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out: 'I Never Wanted to Be a Spy' / variety.com / 83

119 Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists / buttondown.com / 15

112 Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension / ourworldindata.org / 99

110 Ask HN: Has anyone tried adapting a court reporter keyboard for writing code? / news.ycombinator.com / 103

110 I Got an IP Address / github.com/francisrstokes / 8

110 An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Interpretability / adamkarvonen.github.io / 3

105 Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes / arstechnica.com / 66

104 AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it) / kapa.ai / 107

101 Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022) / arxiv.org / 36

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