Hacker News on Thursday, 18 May 2023

What happened with ASUS routers this morning?(downtowndougbrown.com)

699 points by zdw 3 years ago | 437 comments

Blog post by Doug Brown investigating a widespread May 2023 outage where ASUS routers lost connectivity and ran out of memory, unable to fork processes.

Why is my dryer radioactive?(physics.stackexchange.com)

629 points by jpitz 3 years ago | 148 comments

Physics Stack Exchange question asking why a Geiger counter reads elevated radiation inside a clothes dryer right after a drying cycle.

ChatGPT app for iOS(openai.com)

622 points by rememberlenny 3 years ago | 375 comments

OpenAI blog post announcing the ChatGPT app for iOS, which syncs conversations, supports voice input, and brings the latest model improvements.

A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB(liliputing.com)

326 points by gooseyard 3 years ago | 179 comments

Liliputing article about a $200 mini-laptop built around an Intel 8088 processor with 640KB of memory, blending retro PC hardware with a modern form factor.

User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)(userinyerface.com)

319 points by onion2k 3 years ago | 102 comments

User Inyerface is a browser game by Verhaert that challenges players to fill in a form built from deliberately frustrating, worst-practice UI design patterns.

Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement(petapixel.com)

290 points by kens 3 years ago | 338 comments

Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days(finance.yahoo.com)

258 points by he0001 3 years ago | 399 comments

European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects(blog.opensource.org)

245 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 158 comments

One million cancel broadband as living costs rise(bbc.com)

241 points by nly 3 years ago | 414 comments

Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std(github.com)

240 points by huydotnet 3 years ago | 132 comments

Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen(pcworld.com)

240 points by advance512 3 years ago | 142 comments

How to quit cars(newyorker.com)

238 points by amatheus 3 years ago | 669 comments

The Great CPU Stagnation(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

237 points by greghn 3 years ago | 197 comments

Language models cost much more in some languages than others(blog.yenniejun.com)

236 points by yenniejun111 3 years ago | 149 comments

Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic(github.com)

233 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 30 comments

Windows XP Activation: Game Over(tinyapps.org)

226 points by sysadm1n 3 years ago | 121 comments

Apple’s new headset meets reality(bloomberg.com)

216 points by sudheer_paturi 3 years ago | 425 comments

Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung(asia.nikkei.com)

215 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 285 comments

High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)(zxch3n.com)

207 points by czx111331 3 years ago | 18 comments

Where have all the hackers gone?(morepablo.com)

205 points by danieka 3 years ago | 245 comments

CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue(loro-dev.notion.site)

190 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 51 comments

Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?(greatwavetoday.com)

181 points by msephton 3 years ago | 91 comments

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Who wants to be tracked?(quantable.com)

170 points by jhpacker 3 years ago | 241 comments

CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs(simonwillison.net)

167 points by simonw 3 years ago | 44 comments

NYC skyscrapers sit vacant(bloomberg.com)

166 points by mirthlessend 3 years ago | 338 comments

Tell HN: Today Is Global Accessibility Awareness Day

166 points by bcx 3 years ago | 40 comments

DuckDB 0.8(duckdb.org)

164 points by nnx 3 years ago | 74 comments

Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop(vice.com)

163 points by ruph123 3 years ago | 69 comments

Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos”(twitter.com)

161 points by benguild 3 years ago | 131 comments

User Driven UI(garden.bradwoods.io)

161 points by bradwoodsio 3 years ago | 110 comments

Montana becomes first US state to ban TikTok(reuters.com)

145 points by cmckn 3 years ago | 126 comments

The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK(rssdsaisection.substack.com)

144 points by martingoodson 3 years ago | 114 comments

20 Years of Gentoo(blog.nawaz.org)

144 points by BeetleB 3 years ago | 105 comments

The simple joys of scaling up(motherduck.com)

140 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 39 comments

My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919)(archive.org)

135 points by cbracketdash 3 years ago | 58 comments

Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup(github.com)

120 points by luu 3 years ago | 46 comments

SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code(fortran-lang.discourse.group)

117 points by zaikunzhang 3 years ago | 61 comments

Unit Testing eBPF Programs(who.ldelossa.is)

114 points by ldelossa 3 years ago | 10 comments

ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks(github.com)

114 points by andy_xor_andrew 3 years ago | 48 comments

Google banned me – open sourcing all my apps(old.reddit.com)

112 points by lawgimenez 3 years ago | 20 comments

Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website(blog.1password.com)

111 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 113 comments

Show HN: Swap.js – a JavaScript micro-framework (HTML fragments over the wire)(github.com)

110 points by josephernest 3 years ago | 32 comments

The Case for Bash (2021)(neversaw.us)

107 points by memalign 3 years ago | 145 comments

Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)(cs.cmu.edu)

105 points by DerekBickerton 3 years ago | 50 comments

Cargo Cult AI(queue.acm.org)

100 points by rmwdev 3 years ago | 103 comments

85% of jobs are filled via networking(zippia.com)

95 points by mgh2 3 years ago | 49 comments

Ireland’s DPC set to hit Meta with record privacy fine over US data transfers(irishtimes.com)

94 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 58 comments

The Future of Programming – Interview with Richard Eisenberg(signalsandthreads.com)

88 points by Smaug123 3 years ago | 20 comments

Seven.zip(7-zip.org)

86 points by jve 3 years ago | 74 comments

The American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal(english.elpais.com)

85 points by elorant 3 years ago | 49 comments

Linux Software Map(xteddy.org)

84 points by naetius 3 years ago | 6 comments

Nuances of overloading and overriding in Java(software.rajivprab.com)

82 points by whack 3 years ago | 60 comments

BT will shed as many as 55,000 workers by 2030(cnn.com)

82 points by rntn 3 years ago | 49 comments

Bevy and WebGPU(bevyengine.org)

77 points by _cart 3 years ago | 27 comments

Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500M bill(theregister.com)

75 points by damethos 3 years ago | 73 comments

Replication of room-temperature superconductor fails to show superconductivity(phys.org)

71 points by airstrike 3 years ago | 27 comments

New York City may be sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers(architecturaldigest.com)

64 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 60 comments

A statistical analysis of the work of Bob Ross (2014)(fivethirtyeight.com)

62 points by frumpish 3 years ago | 15 comments

Using LangChainJS and Cloudflare Workers together(blog.cloudflare.com)

62 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 10 comments