Hacker News on Friday, 28 April 2023

Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen(mastodon.social)

579 points by ruph123 3 years ago | 195 comments

A Mastodon thread by Felix Häcker describing how his new monitor kept going black for seconds at a time, traced to his IKEA chair.

Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet

448 points by statquontrarian 3 years ago | 264 comments

A Tell HN post reporting that Cloudflare's human verification check loops endlessly on Firefox under Fedora Linux, with Chrome as the only workaround.

Is Gmail killing independent email?(tutanota.com)

416 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 403 comments

Tutanota blog post arguing that Gmail's dominance threatens independent email providers; the captured page shows only the site header and footer.

Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam(blog.benjojo.co.uk)

398 points by tomwas54 3 years ago | 68 comments

Blog post by Ben Cox about writing a userspace USB driver to get a 1999 Logitech QuickCam webcam working on modern systems.

Beautiful branchless binary search(probablydance.com)

342 points by ingve 3 years ago | 128 comments

Blog post by Malte Skarupke presenting a branchless C++ binary search based on Shar's algorithm that runs over twice as fast as std::lower_bound in GCC.

Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside(neowin.net)

328 points by itvision 3 years ago | 172 comments

Neowin news article reporting a senior Microsoft executive's statement that the Windows 11 kernel will soon boot with Rust code inside.

New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings(nytimes.com)

305 points by ajay-d 3 years ago | 750 comments

How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery(billmei.net)

261 points by Kortaggio 3 years ago | 217 comments

U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic(reuters.com)

245 points by VagueMag 3 years ago | 352 comments

Europe’s Longest Bicycling Tunnel Opens in Norway(reasonstobecheerful.world)

238 points by imartin2k 3 years ago | 217 comments

There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)(ma.ttias.be)

236 points by KomoD 3 years ago | 94 comments

A brief history of LLaMA models(agi-sphere.com)

220 points by andrewon 3 years ago | 77 comments

Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI(github.com)

217 points by freedmand 3 years ago | 176 comments

Tech companies are colluding to cheat H1B visa lottery, US says(wsj.com)

217 points by erehweb 3 years ago | 189 comments

Many public Salesforce sites are leaking private data(krebsonsecurity.com)

189 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 45 comments

Startup Playbook(playbook.samaltman.com)

182 points by dgs_sgd 3 years ago | 47 comments

Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games(polishpixels.com)

179 points by zepesm 3 years ago | 25 comments

We're afraid language models aren't modeling ambiguity(arxiv.org)

172 points by lnyan 3 years ago | 132 comments

Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server(davidhampgonsalves.com)

171 points by carride 3 years ago | 69 comments

Fibonacci Hashing: An optimization that the world forgot (2018)(probablydance.com)

167 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 39 comments

Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge(tomshardware.com)

166 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 220 comments

Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure(clojure.org)

163 points by xmlblog 3 years ago | 35 comments

Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020(blog.airsequel.com)

148 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 56 comments

The Difference Between European and American Butter(epicurious.com)

145 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 218 comments

JanOS: Turn your phone into an IoT board (2015)(janos.io)

141 points by danboarder 3 years ago | 25 comments

Presentations and pitch decks by failures and frauds(slidebook.io)

140 points by oyster143 3 years ago | 32 comments

Plan 9 from User Space(9fans.github.io)

139 points by abudabi123 3 years ago | 45 comments

Upward Farms throws in towel ten years after founding vertical-farming business(just-food.com)

134 points by ignored 3 years ago | 195 comments

GameBox is a programmable, turn-based, WebAssembly game platform(extism.org)

131 points by neuronicnobody 3 years ago | 21 comments

Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model(stability.ai)

130 points by chemeng 3 years ago | 53 comments

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers(kare11.com)

121 points by nafnlj 3 years ago | 226 comments

Hidet: A Deep Learning Compiler for Efficient Model Serving(pytorch.org)

108 points by ashvardanian 3 years ago | 14 comments

Launch Lamini: The LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models as Good as ChatGPT(lamini.ai)

103 points by sharonzhou 3 years ago | 40 comments

Curl 8 Is Faster(daniel.haxx.se)

103 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 16 comments

I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup(utcc.utoronto.ca)

103 points by ink_13 3 years ago | 75 comments

What's up in the Python community? – April 2023(bitecode.substack.com)

102 points by BiteCode_dev 3 years ago | 44 comments

Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)(sites.psu.edu)

101 points by kykeonaut 3 years ago | 55 comments

Tuple Space (2014)(wiki.c2.com)

98 points by paulgb 3 years ago | 50 comments

Late Architecture with Functional Programming(infoq.com)

97 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 18 comments

Udemy to pay $4M to settle a case alleging it advertised fake discounts(twitter.com)

97 points by taubek 3 years ago | 19 comments

Eytzinger Binary Search(algorithmica.org)

96 points by mikecarlton 3 years ago | 13 comments

Grokking(domluna.com)

88 points by lunaticd 3 years ago | 19 comments

Controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law in Canada(cbc.ca)

84 points by standeven 3 years ago | 85 comments

Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken (2002) [pdf](isotropic.org)

83 points by luu 3 years ago | 43 comments

Europe to ChatGPT: disclose your sources(wsj.com)

82 points by erehweb 3 years ago | 55 comments

Too many people take too many pills(economist.com)

78 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 55 comments

The State of Serverless GPUs(inferless.com)

78 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 67 comments

Quite OK Audio Format(phoboslab.org)

78 points by picture 3 years ago | 37 comments

Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot(ounapuu.ee)

71 points by hddherman 3 years ago | 62 comments

OrbStack – Fast, lightweight Docker Desktop and Colima alternative for macOS(orbstack.dev)

68 points by anderspitman 3 years ago | 17 comments

Daimler is setting up a $650M charging network for commercial EVs(arstechnica.com)

65 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 18 comments

Parrondo's Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)

64 points by dedalus 3 years ago | 43 comments

Provora: tiny predators that have been evolving separately for millions of years(salon.com)

62 points by objections 3 years ago | 5 comments

The classic “homunculus” has gone through a radical revision(scientificamerican.com)

59 points by taubek 3 years ago | 29 comments

Genetic circuitry boosts cell longevity(science.org)

58 points by birriel 3 years ago | 13 comments

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 2: Condition the Masses(narratively.com)

57 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 43 comments

Heroes of Hardware Revolution: Bob Widlar (2014)(hackaday.com)

56 points by jnord 3 years ago | 6 comments

Amazon omits India business in earnings, a first in years(techcrunch.com)

53 points by jmsflknr 3 years ago | 30 comments

Liubo: Ancient Chinese board game originally played from about 500 BCE to 500 CE(liubolab.itch.io)

53 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 2 comments

Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI(storiesby.ai)

51 points by andreyk 3 years ago | 45 comments