May 31, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-05-31

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

1. 25 Years of Krita
   
   
2. Engineering for Slow Internet
   
   
3. I created the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources
   
   
4. Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any time
   
   
5. “Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
   
   
6. Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns
   
   
7. Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork
   
   
8. Intel's Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated with Kapton Tape
   
   
9. Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
   
   
10. How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition
    
    
11. Apple Silicon MacBook batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third party
    
    
12. Japan's push to make all research open access
    
    
13. The Pumpkin Eclipse
    
    
14. A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence
    
    
15. YOLOv5 on FPGA with Hailo-8 and 4 Pi Cameras
    
    
16. The Scully Effect
    
    
17. Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
    
    
18. Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
    
    
19. The Elusive Byzantine Empire (2019)
    
    
20. Steam's Last Stand
    
    
21. Geometry for Entertainment (1950)
    
    
22. Myths about platform engineering: what it is and what it isn't
    
    
23. Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search
    
    
24. Surviving History: The Fever (2014)
    
    
25. MP944: The First Microprocessor (2014)
    
    
26. Thoughts on Skymont Slides
    
    
27. Skio (YC S20) – Subscriptions for Shopify, ReCharge Migrations Is Hiring
    
    
28. Firefly forges on after co-founder murdered by Hamas
    
    
29. Asqi: A codebase explorer designed to help navigate and understand Git projects
    
    
30. Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes