Notices by Hacker News 50 (hn50@social.lansky.name)

What's Next for WebGPU

Link: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/next-for-webgpu
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42209272

Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

Link: https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tuition-undergraduates-family-income-1120
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42195895

Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

Link: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150443

A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)

Link: https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-forgotten-mistake-that-killed-japans-software-industry/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077886

#japan

ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text

Link: https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42100499

Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program

Link: https://www.torquenews.com/1084/fisker-evs-hired-it-spy-who-funneled-millions-north-koreas-missile-program-case-fbi
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054791

New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working Saudi Vision 2030

Link: https://www.archpaper.com/2024/10/documentary-reveals-21000-workers-killed-saudi-vision-2030-neom/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052105

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration

Link: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/47/1/zsad253/7280269
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022151

ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

Link: https://docs.sweeting.me/s/archivebox-plugin-ecosystem-announcement
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860909

Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal shift from road to rail

Link: https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/news/information/information-detail/article/49-euro-ticket-resulted-in-significant-modal-shift-from-road-to-rail.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41819481

#germany

TikTok sued by 13 states and DC, accused of harming younger users

Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/tiktok-sued-by-13-states-dc-accused-harming-younger-users-2024-10-08/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41779254

"Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

Link: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/broadcom-tried-to-jack-vmware-prices-by-1050-percent-att-claims/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41754314

Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

Link: https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743780

Show HN: open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice

Link: https://github.com/livekit/agents
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743327

Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision

Link: https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-depth-pro-an-ai-model-that-rewrites-the-rules-of-3d-vision/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747863

#apple

Paramotorists soar across remote Peru desert to collect threatened plants

Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-09-extreme-botany-paramotorists-soar-remote.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653148

Linux 6.12 Features Super Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 and Pi 5

Link: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-features#google_vignette
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41689763

#intel #linux

$1B Solar and Battery Storage Project Breaks Ground in Utah

Link: https://electrek.co/2024/09/23/a-1-billion-solar-battery-storage-project-just-broke-ground-in-utah/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41640941

The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity

Link: https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41622640

Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript

Link: https://javascript.tm/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41557383

#oracle #javascript