Hacker News on Sunday, 16 April 2023

Load Balancing(samwho.dev)

1011 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 202 comments

A blog post by Sam Rose explaining how a load balancer distributes HTTP requests across servers, building up from basic approaches to modern load balancing algorithms.

De-Stressing Booking.com(alexcharlton.co)

823 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 323 comments

Alex Charlton's project page with commentary on persuasion tactics on Booking.com and a Chrome extension that removes them.

I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog(shruggingface.com)

591 points by jakedahn 3 years ago | 199 comments

Blog post describing how the author fine-tuned Stable Diffusion with Dreambooth to generate a painted portrait of their dog.

AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable(adriano.fyi)

537 points by acaloiar 3 years ago | 269 comments

Blog post by Adriano Caloiaro describing how AT&T Wireless traffic shaping appears to make some websites unusable, observed while living in an RV.

Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)(futureblues.com)

459 points by tm2t 3 years ago | 174 comments

Emily S.'s long-running Cowboy Bebop fan site from 1999, with sections on the story, characters, music, episodes, goods, and a guestbook.

Dishwasher Salmon(en.wikipedia.org)

427 points by mothershipper 3 years ago | 309 comments

Wikipedia article on dishwasher salmon, an American dish of foil-wrapped salmon cooked by a dishwasher's heat, popularized by Vincent Price in 1975.

Why flying insects gather at artificial light(biorxiv.org)

256 points by Luc 3 years ago | 104 comments

Understanding large language models: A cross-section of the relevant literature(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

255 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 25 comments

'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco(joannejacobs.com)

240 points by yasp 3 years ago | 274 comments

Pico3D: Open World 3D Game Engine for the PicoSystem (RP2040 Microcontroller)(github.com)

228 points by bstrobl 3 years ago | 31 comments

The fastest math typesetting library for the web(katex.org)

215 points by jayhoon 3 years ago | 109 comments

Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive(github.com)

204 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 35 comments

Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video](youtube.com)

177 points by xbmcuser 3 years ago | 48 comments

FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome(phoronix.com)

172 points by YakBizzarro 3 years ago | 133 comments

OpenSSH versus SSH(utcc.utoronto.ca)

171 points by ingve 3 years ago | 82 comments

The basics of decoupling capacitors(lcamtuf.substack.com)

161 points by zdw 3 years ago | 54 comments

Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)(m.post.naver.com)

161 points by zdw 3 years ago | 101 comments

Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised [video](aeon.co)

158 points by gmays 3 years ago | 55 comments

Lessons from America’s astonishing economic record(economist.com)

154 points by belter 3 years ago | 359 comments

A Mulching Proposal (2019)(arxiv.org)

146 points by politelemon 3 years ago | 93 comments

Tabi: The shoe that became a sock and then a shoe again(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

143 points by kizunajp 3 years ago | 33 comments

Experiments with plane-filling curves and Fourier transform(github.com)

140 points by flockonus 3 years ago | 18 comments

Conway’s Law (2022)(martinfowler.com)

136 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 46 comments

The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2021)(latimes.com)

135 points by wallflower 3 years ago | 109 comments

SpaceX's First Starship Launch Tomorrow(space.com)

132 points by skilled 3 years ago | 81 comments

Misalignment Museum(niche-museums.com)

126 points by another 3 years ago | 54 comments

OpenVMS 9.2 for x86: Auto boot, licenses, PAKs, networking and SSH(raymii.org)

125 points by zdw 3 years ago | 67 comments

Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test(nibblestew.blogspot.com)

124 points by jmillikin 3 years ago | 64 comments

Unwinding the Stack the Hard Way(lesenechal.fr)

121 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 40 comments

PSKoans: A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language(github.com)

121 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 37 comments

Space Invaders creator reveals game’s origin story(wired.com)

118 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 25 comments

‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR(theguardian.com)

115 points by tolien 3 years ago | 41 comments

Efficiency trades off against resiliency(blog.nelhage.com)

113 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 56 comments

Alien Artefacts(brautaset.org)

111 points by varjag 3 years ago | 39 comments

The Battle over Techno’s Origins(newyorker.com)

111 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 71 comments

WikiIndex(wikiindex.org)

107 points by raybb 3 years ago | 18 comments

‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega(theverge.com)

106 points by achow 3 years ago | 69 comments

Nibbles of Rust – Restructuring Patterns(catmonad.xyz)

105 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 26 comments

Batch computing and the coming age of AI systems(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

103 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 30 comments

Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit(nikoheikkila.fi)

98 points by imadj 3 years ago | 61 comments

Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier(historynet.com)

97 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 52 comments

Laid off by Big Tech, then recruited for contract work – at the same place(seattletimes.com)

94 points by mirthlessend 3 years ago | 71 comments

Tooll 3: open-source software to create realtime motion graphics(github.com)

93 points by based2 3 years ago | 19 comments

Constraint Programming (2020)(mareknarozniak.com)

92 points by yeesian 3 years ago | 23 comments

CrabLang(crablang.org)

88 points by return_to_monke 3 years ago | 49 comments

Better Together: Unifying Datalog and Equality Saturation(arxiv.org)

85 points by luu 3 years ago | 12 comments

Proxmox Docker Containers Monster – 13000 containers on a single host(virtualizationhowto.com)

85 points by new_user_final 3 years ago | 44 comments

Lithium battery ripe for disruption, inventor says(spectrum.ieee.org)

81 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 69 comments

Coq typeclass resolution is Turing-complete(thaliaarchi.github.io)

80 points by thaliaarchi 3 years ago | 23 comments

The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex(mattstoller.substack.com)

78 points by passwordoops 3 years ago | 69 comments

Functional Programming with TypeScript's Type System(desislav.dev)

74 points by evolveyourmind 3 years ago | 30 comments

Usability heuristics for user interface design(1984.design)

67 points by boraoztunc 3 years ago | 11 comments

A Journey Through Color Space with FFmpeg(canvatechblog.com)

63 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 18 comments

Clojure Rationale (2008)(clojure.org)

59 points by djha-skin 3 years ago | 40 comments

A Language Design Analysis of HolyC (2019)(harrison.totty.dev)

58 points by d-s 3 years ago | 7 comments

Caravaggio Lost at Sea (2022)(historytoday.com)

57 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 10 comments

Build systems à la carte (2018)(dl.acm.org)

55 points by quick_brown_fox 3 years ago | 6 comments

Peak LLM?(ihavemanythoughts.substack.com)

55 points by TisButMe 3 years ago | 40 comments

Nvenc vs. QSV: Who Has the Best Hardware AV1 Encoder?(giannirosato.com)

55 points by computerbuster 3 years ago | 32 comments

Bavaria mulls reopening nuclear plant under state control(dw.com)

50 points by belter 3 years ago | 62 comments