May 17, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-05-17

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

1. Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
   
   
2. Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life
   
   
3. How to read C type declarations (2003)
   
   
4. A forged Apple employee badge
   
   
5. Exercises to Learn Rust
   
   
6. Extracting Words from Scanned Books: A Step-by-Step Tutorial with Python, OpenCV
   
   
7. Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting
   
   
8. Random Attractors – Found Using Lyapunov Exponents (2001)
   
   
9. Welcome to the Parallel Future of Computation
   
   
10. But Why a Penguin?
    
    
11. Make a game with Hoot for the Lisp Game Jam
    
    
12. Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"
    
    
13. Growing sodium chloride crystals at home
    
    
14. A transport protocol's view of Starlink
    
    
15. Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene
    
    
16. Arch Linux RISC-V
    
    
17. Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
    
    
18. Slack AI Training with Customer Data
    
    
19. It's official: ADSL works over wet string
    
    
20. NiceGUI – Simple web apps with Python
    
    
21. America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
    
    
22. The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020)
    
    
23. Simplifying Join Syntax
    
    
24. Context caching guide
    
    
25. D3 in Depth
    
    
26. Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
    
    
27. Show HN: Chessdream – Generate realistic chess positions with AI
    
    
28. Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp
    
    
29. History of the Italian electrical system
    
    
30. Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life (2020)