May 21, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-05-21

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

1. Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support
   
   
2. Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
   
   
3. Shipbreaking
   
   
4. One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence
   
   
5. Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
   
   
6. An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)
   
   
7. Trying out the Panel-of-Experts prompting strategy for LLMs
   
   
8. We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM
   
   
9. NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
   
   
10. How Might We Learn?
    
    
11. Waxolotl – A small language that compiles to WebAssembly text format
    
    
12. CamelCase vs. Snake_case Scientific Studies
    
    
13. Enlightenmentware
    
    
14. Bento3D
    
    
15. Langfuse (YC W23) is hiring engineers in Berlin: open-source LLM devtool
    
    
16. Falling in love again with disposable cameras
    
    
17. City in a Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System
    
    
18. How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input (2021)
    
    
19. Chameleon: Meta's New Multi-Modal LLM
    
    
20. Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply
    
    
21. The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible
    
    
22. pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
    
    
23. Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)
    
    
24. The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great?
    
    
25. Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007)
    
    
26. Reversing Choplifter
    
    
27. Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
    
    
28. Eudyptula Challenge (2014)
    
    
29. Which Electric Cars Have Bidirectional Charging (V2L, V2G, V2H)
    
    
30. Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R