Daily Hacker News 15-07-2024

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Daily Hacker News

1. We need visual programming. No, not like that blog.sbensu.com comments
2. Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim github.com comments
3. The fascinating and complicated sex lives of white-throated sparrows www.audubon.org comments
4. Virginia Woolf's list-making paved the way for her literary experiments www.ft.com comments
5. Calculating position from raw GPS data (2017) www.telesens.co comments
6. Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits www.storagereview.com comments
7. Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters arxiv.org comments
8. Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support buzzinga.io comments
9. "Nik": The Mesoamerican Representation of Zero (2021) baas.aas.org comments
10. A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth news.unsw.edu.au comments
11. General Theory of Neural Networks robleclerc.substack.com comments
12. Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch thasso.xyz comments
13. Disqualified (1954) www.gutenberg.org comments
14. Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers www.perfectcircuit.com comments
15. Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021) tabloid.vercel.app comments
16. Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016) www.wsj.com comments
17. Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka github.com comments
18. Building the Bell System www.construction-physics.com comments
19. On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991) larch-www.lcs.mit.edu comments
20. Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game wheybags.com comments
21. The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005) www.ranum.com comments
22. Building and scaling Notion's data lake www.notion.so comments
23. Firmware update hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint today.ucsd.edu comments
24. Mazeppa: A modern supercompiler for call-by-value functional languages github.com comments
25. Git-PR: patch requests over SSH pr.pico.sh comments