June 28, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-06-28

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

1. Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason
   
   
2. A Novel way to curb poaching, injecting radioisotopes into 20 live rhinoceros
   
   
3. Software galaxies
   
   
4. Orbital Mechanics and Astrodynamics
   
   
5. Understanding React Compiler
   
   
6. Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)
   
   
7. Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment
   
   
8. A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves
   
   
9. Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden
   
   
10. Perplexity's Grand Theft AI
    
    
11. Investigating SSMEC's (State Micro) 486s with the UCA
    
    
12. Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version
    
    
13. WA man set up fake free WiFi at Australian airports and on flights,police allege
    
    
14. Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail
    
    
15. Japan's Mini Kei-Truck Sales Surge in US Despite Safety Concerns
    
    
16. Git-cliff – Generate changelog from the Git history
    
    
17. Infrastructure set-up & open-source scripts to train a 70B model from bare metal
    
    
18. Moving objects precisely with sound
    
    
19. Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers
    
    
20. Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide
    
    
21. Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work
    
    
22. Flame Graphs: Making the opaque obvious (2017)
    
    
23. Hardware FPGA DPS-8M Mainframe and FNP Project
    
    
24. Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
    
    
25. Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader
    
    
26. Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags
    
    
27. The Life Of Lithium
    
    
28. ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses
    
    
29. Make Something With Your Hands (Even if It’s Hideous)
    
    
30. My First Kubernetes: k3s 'cluster' on 3 Orange Pi Zero 3's