Hacker News on Sunday, 7 May 2023

macOS Internals(gist.github.com)

698 points by JoelMcCracken 3 years ago | 112 comments

A GitHub Gist collecting links to John Siracusa's Mac OS X reviews, tracing macOS internals from the prerelease era to Swift.

Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled(fitzsim.org)

525 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 315 comments

Blog post by Thomas Fitzsimmons reporting that some Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled.

Walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees(theguardian.com)

481 points by mindracer 3 years ago | 200 comments

Guardian/Observer article on the entire editorial board of a global science journal resigning in protest over an academic publisher's 'unethical' fees.

The Prime Video microservices to monolith story(adrianco.medium.com)

456 points by mparnisari 3 years ago | 357 comments

Adrian Cockcroft's Medium post responding to takes on Amazon Prime Video's move from microservices to a monolith, discussing lessons learned.

Belgium legalises ethical hacking(law.kuleuven.be)

394 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 57 comments

A KU Leuven CiTiP blog post discussing Belgium's new legal framework legalising ethical hacking and whether it threatens or helps cybersecurity.

I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again(androidauthority.com)

389 points by Corrado 3 years ago | 273 comments

Android Authority opinion piece by Dhruv Bhutani arguing against investing in Google's smart home ecosystem due to its uncertain product future.

Ancient Earth Globe(dinosaurpictures.org)

375 points by ohjeez 3 years ago | 68 comments

Interactive 3D globe showing Earth's continental layout at selected points in geologic time, here 470 million years ago in the Ordovician, with city search.

EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones(techradar.com)

354 points by Vedor 3 years ago | 732 comments

TechRadar news article reporting the EU warned Apple against restricting USB-C charging functionality on new iPhones.

Contrast Rebellion(contrastrebellion.com)

240 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 127 comments

Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten(gla.ac.uk)

226 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 154 comments

SpaceTraders: A multiplayer game built on a free web API(spacetraders.io)

221 points by akpa1 3 years ago | 40 comments

Burnout(drewdevault.com)

221 points by emerongi 3 years ago | 85 comments

Five Books: The best books on everything(fivebooks.com)

208 points by pps 3 years ago | 67 comments

Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing Update(chipsandcheese.com)

208 points by gautamcgoel 3 years ago | 137 comments

Are sockets the wave of the future? (1990)(groups.google.com)

199 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 75 comments

Why Lisp?(nyxt.atlas.engineer)

198 points by mepian 3 years ago | 200 comments

Turbo Rascal Syntax Error(lemonspawn.com)

186 points by 6581 3 years ago | 40 comments

TV series about startup failures(1984.design)

181 points by boraoztunc 3 years ago | 135 comments

The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock(burialsandbeyond.com)

181 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 43 comments

Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy(matomo.org)

176 points by doener 3 years ago | 91 comments

Passkeys: A Loss of User Control?(lapcatsoftware.com)

173 points by ingve 3 years ago | 125 comments

Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system(devever.net)

162 points by tempodox 3 years ago | 40 comments

AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts(techradar.com)

162 points by jacooper 3 years ago | 151 comments

Prolog for data science(emiruz.com)

157 points by usgroup 3 years ago | 44 comments

210k works in the Public Domain, searchable(digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de)

154 points by doener 3 years ago | 10 comments

A Beginner's Guide to eBPF(github.com)

147 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 55 comments

DIY-Thermocam: A low-cost thermal imager based on the FLIR Lepton sensor(diy-thermocam.net)

141 points by rittermax 3 years ago | 74 comments

Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch(gizmodo.com)

139 points by occamschainsaw 3 years ago | 148 comments

RedisRaft(github.com)

126 points by anhldbk 3 years ago | 40 comments

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (2005)(gwern.net)

123 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 43 comments

Effect of LSD on reinforcement learning in humans (2022)(cambridge.org)

123 points by nabla9 3 years ago | 78 comments

How to make smaller C and C++ binaries(ptspts.blogspot.com)

122 points by costco 3 years ago | 108 comments

Vulkan Video Decoding(wickedengine.net)

122 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 31 comments

AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable(nature.com)

120 points by voisin 3 years ago | 50 comments

React Aria Components(react-spectrum.adobe.com)

112 points by itsuka 3 years ago | 40 comments

Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to Google Tasks Soon(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

107 points by e2e4 3 years ago | 99 comments

Lamest Edit Wars(en.wikipedia.org)

100 points by justin66 3 years ago | 53 comments

Prime Video service dumps microservices, cuts AWS bill 90%(thestack.technology)

92 points by msolujic 3 years ago | 25 comments

The ‘devil bird’ lands in New York, with more likely to come(nytimes.com)

88 points by raybb 3 years ago | 55 comments

What I want from the internet(chrbutler.com)

86 points by chrbutler 3 years ago | 87 comments

Scientists find link between photosynthesis and 'fifth state of matter'(phys.org)

80 points by 8bitsrule 3 years ago | 12 comments

The tale of "-mrtd" in GCC and Clang(m680x0.github.io)

76 points by cbmuser 3 years ago | 17 comments

The businessman and the fisherman (1963)(thestorytellers.com)

74 points by antimora 3 years ago | 94 comments

A Go compiler, written in Rust (2016)(github.com)

73 points by philonoist 3 years ago | 18 comments

When Connie Converse, the ‘female Bob Dylan,’ lived in NYC(nytimes.com)

69 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 18 comments

5G Rollout Disappointments(spectrum.ieee.org)

68 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 86 comments

Passkeys will be importable, exportable, cross-device, and across managers(hachyderm.io)

67 points by latexr 3 years ago | 42 comments

Free Public Domain Audiobooks(librivox.org)

67 points by doener 3 years ago | 11 comments

The Messy Page Or: why I don't like greenfield projects(registerspill.thorstenball.com)

67 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 76 comments

Makeitfrom.com – Material Properties Database(makeitfrom.com)

67 points by rayshan 3 years ago | 11 comments

Neil Postman: A civilized man in a century of barbarism (2003)(salon.com)

66 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 12 comments

Some early praise for using drgn for poking into Linux kernel internals(utcc.utoronto.ca)

63 points by ingve 3 years ago | 3 comments

VW to fire top executives at software unit Cariad, source says(reuters.com)

62 points by sva_ 3 years ago | 53 comments

Waking up to Hacker News(johnathannader.com)

61 points by nadermx 3 years ago | 3 comments

Amazon Tried Not to Pay a Woman After Driver Totaled Her Car(jalopnik.com)

59 points by t23 3 years ago | 32 comments

The first planetarium projector was unveiled 100 years ago(planetarium100.org)

58 points by Tea418 3 years ago | 11 comments

OpenAI CEO says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake–and ‘it’s over’(fortune.com)

58 points by lopkeny12ko 3 years ago | 16 comments

Are There Price Asymmetries in the U.S. Beef Market? [pdf](lancebachmeier.com)

55 points by luu 3 years ago | 37 comments

ChatGPT is Really Good at Roleplaying(blog.varunramesh.net)

53 points by varunramesh 3 years ago | 47 comments

Why the Ferrari F355 sounds so good(roadandtrack.com)

52 points by ptrkcsk 3 years ago | 55 comments