June 14, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-06-14

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

1. A look at Apple's technical approach to AI including core model performance etc.
   
   
2. Effect of Passenger Position on Crash Injury Risk in Aircraft (2015) [pdf]
   
   
3. Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users
   
   
4. MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
   
   
5. Scale is a meritocracy, and we must always remain one
   
   
6. Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds
   
   
7. Sustain Open Source, sustain the planet: A new conversation
   
   
8. Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers
   
   
9. Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
   
   
10. From One RSS Feed Entry to 186850 Hits
    
    
11. My thoughts on Python in Excel
    
    
12. Germany sees company bankruptcies soar
    
    
13. Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers
    
    
14. "The Door Problem" (2014)
    
    
15. Spreadsheet Assassins – A short history of "software as a service"
    
    
16. Show HN: XDeck – An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like TweetDeck
    
    
17. A new map of medieval London
    
    
18. FAA Investigating How Counterfeit Titanium Got into Boeing and Airbus Jets
    
    
19. Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition
    
    
20. The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control
    
    
21. Turning away from smartphones: 'We need to go places and touch things'
    
    
22. ASHA for Linux
    
    
23. The Surprising Brain-Health Benefits of Weightlifting
    
    
24. Designing a website without 404s
    
    
25. Show HN: Paramount – Human Evals of AI Customer Support
    
    
26. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Phishing
    
    
27. Why I Bought an Encyclopedia
    
    
28. Borges on Chaos Theory
    
    
29. Gen AI will increase demand for software engineers
    
    
30. Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe