July 20, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-07-20

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

1. I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
   
   
2. Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
   
   
3. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
   
   
4. Building the new hypermedia systems
   
   
5. Xwax Is an Open-Source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux
   
   
6. Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout
   
   
7. Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications
   
   
8. FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
   
   
9. 10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video]
   
   
10. Playing guitar tablatures in Rust
    
    
11. A search engine by and for the federal government
    
    
12. Kompute – Vulkan Alternative to CUDA
    
    
13. The oldest known recording of a human voice [video]
    
    
14. Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
    
    
15. Converting Codebases with LLMs
    
    
16. What happened to BERT and T5?
    
    
17. Parametric Matrix Models
    
    
18. Debugging an evil Go runtime bug: From heat guns to kernel compiler flags (2017)
    
    
19. Is Mars Habitable? (1907)
    
    
20. The Later Years of Douglas Adams
    
    
21. Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF
    
    
22. Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
    
    
23. AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point
    
    
24. We created a fake delivery company to get a job
    
    
25. Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
    
    
26. Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
    
    
27. Elephants use namelike calls
    
    
28. Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
    
    
29. Graunt and Statistics
    
    
30. NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock