April 29, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-04-29

Good Morning, Hackers! Here are today's top stories:

1. Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades
   
   
2. Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
   
   
3. Pdf.tocgen
   
   
4. Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres
   
   
5. Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
   
   
6. Principles for Keyboard Layouts
   
   
7. Tangoing with a Martin Gardner Word Game
   
   
8. Functional Semantics in Imperative Clothing (Richard Feldman)
   
   
9. The Bloat Busters: pg_repack vs. pg_squeeze
   
   
10. Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
    
    
11. FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator
    
    
12. 6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf]
    
    
13. Mini ponds are 'tiny universes' of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills
    
    
14. Reentry – An Orbital Simulator
    
    
15. iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules
    
    
16. A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)
    
    
17. I found one of my first programs (Java, 2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs
    
    
18. DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game
    
    
19. Three ways of handling user input (2022)
    
    
20. The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf]
    
    
21. Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default
    
    
22. Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video]
    
    
23. London Drugs closes stores until further notice due to cyberattack
    
    
24. China's Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made
    
    
25. The Myth of the Second Chance
    
    
26. Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B
    
    
27. Step Differences in Instructional Video
    
    
28. Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate E2E UI tests
    
    
29. Watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm
    
    
30. Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility