June 23, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-06-23

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

1. Never* Use Datagrams
   
   
2. Fresh water on Earth emerged 500M years earlier than previously thought
   
   
3. I've Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? (2021)
   
   
4. Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4
   
   
5. Of Psion and Symbian
   
   
6. Explained: The secret City of London which is not part of London
   
   
7. DOS game "F15 SE II" reversing: more stories and now on GitHub
   
   
8. Identifying Leap Years (2020)
   
   
9. Virtually Hawaii
   
   
10. SSH as a Sudo Replacement
    
    
11. Chimpanzees 'self-medicate' with healing plants
    
    
12. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
    
    
13. The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
    
    
14. TinyLetter Shut Down by Mailchimp, So I Built the LetterDrop
    
    
15. The prevalence, persistence, and perils of lame delegations
    
    
16. Shape Rotation 101: An Intro to Einsum and Jax Transformers
    
    
17. Coverage at a Crossroads
    
    
18. The Pre-Scheme Restoration
    
    
19. Interface Upgrades in Go
    
    
20. Germany's autobahn bridges falling apart
    
    
21. Flambda2 Ep. 2: Loopifying Tail-Recursive Functions
    
    
22. ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968) [pdf]
    
    
23. Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c
    
    
24. Words you can spell with a calculator
    
    
25. Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
    
    
26. A Study Says Warp Drives Might Be Real–and We'll Find Them with Lasers
    
    
27. Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
    
    
28. Pi Gazing is a project to build meteor cameras using Raspberry Pi
    
    
29. HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering
    
    
30. After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (2018)