2024-06-12 front | Hacker News

Stories from June 12, 2024

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day or month.

31.		Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend (texastribune.org)
		179 points by toomuchtodo 8 months ago \| 172 comments
32.		Perspective-Correct Interpolation (andrewkchan.dev)
		54 points by nicopappl 8 months ago \| 12 comments
33.		Where did the idea of the tin foil hat come from? (gizmodo.com)
		48 points by gumby 8 months ago \| 59 comments
34.		Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable (github.com/paralogical)
		70 points by luu 8 months ago \| 46 comments
35.		Wild horses reintroduced to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries (theguardian.com)
		132 points by racional 8 months ago \| 47 comments
36.		Real-Time Settlers of Catan (ocallahan.org)
		140 points by Ivoah 8 months ago \| 89 comments
37.		Stoke Space ignites its ambitious main engine (arstechnica.com)
		89 points by perihelions 8 months ago \| 66 comments
38.		Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio] (syntax.fm)
		168 points by thunderbong 8 months ago \| 175 comments
39.		Raspberry Pi is now a public company (techcrunch.com)
		169 points by mbs159 8 months ago \| 219 comments
40.		Wild elephants may have names that other elephants use to call them (npr.org)
		130 points by hackernj 8 months ago \| 22 comments
41.		The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred (danielchasehooper.com)
		266 points by paraboul 8 months ago \| 221 comments
42.		My Favourite Gleam Feature (erikarow.land)
		70 points by ingve 8 months ago \| 39 comments
43.		Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise to a Minimum (jalopnik.com)
		95 points by cf100clunk 8 months ago \| 60 comments
44.		AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway (gizmodo.com)
		159 points by lapcat 8 months ago \| 176 comments
45.		Tea Punch Was the First Cocktail (atlasobscura.com)
		30 points by pepys 8 months ago \| 11 comments
46.		A baseball loving physicist looks at the knuckleball (baseballprospectus.com)
		16 points by mkovach 8 months ago \| 18 comments
47.		Apple is finally bringing RCS messaging to the iPhone (theverge.com)
		127 points by samspenc 8 months ago \| 196 comments
48.		Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments (airtrain.ai)
		114 points by josh-sematic 8 months ago \| 49 comments
49.		Relative Evaluation Report on S1, iPhone (2010) [pdf] (archive.org)
		67 points by radeeyate 8 months ago \| 60 comments
50.		The 'Dead Internet Theory' (theconversation.com)
		64 points by TamTech 8 months ago \| 64 comments
51.		Spilo: High Availability PostgreSQL cluster using Docker (github.com/zalando)
		64 points by klaussilveira 8 months ago \| 14 comments
52.		Google Dataset Search Engine (research.google.com)
		107 points by idrisschebak 8 months ago \| 31 comments
53.		Calm Company Fund Is Taking a Break (calmfund.com)
		103 points by philip1209 8 months ago \| 29 comments
54.		Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19 (umd.edu)
		160 points by robtherobber 8 months ago \| 125 comments
55.		Python wheel filenames have no canonical form (yossarian.net)
		60 points by woodruffw 8 months ago \| 73 comments
56.		Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810) (publicdomainreview.org)
		10 points by pepys 8 months ago
57.		George Gorton Machine Co engraver typefaces (devroye.org)
		38 points by fanf2 8 months ago \| 9 comments
58.		US proposes banning medical debt from credit reports (reuters.com)
		116 points by JumpCrisscross 8 months ago \| 114 comments
59.		Cheapest source of fossil fuel generation is double the cost of solar (pv-magazine-usa.com)
		64 points by doener 8 months ago \| 69 comments
60.		Show HN: I 'integrated' ChatGPT in iOS-iPadOS-macOS with out official support (giuliomagnifico.blog)
		44 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago \| 20 comments
		More