Hacker News on Friday, 19 May 2023

Orb Farm(orb.farm)

720 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 95 comments

Orb.farm is a browser-based falling-sand ecosystem simulator where users build a sealed aquarium orb with water, algae, daphnia, fish and bacteria.

Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser(nyxt.atlas.engineer)

562 points by sathishmanohar 3 years ago | 228 comments

Homepage of Nyxt, a keyboard-driven, fully hackable open-source web browser written in Common Lisp, with download, FAQ, and articles links.

Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine(nilsbakker.nl)

557 points by stijnbakker 3 years ago | 103 comments

A portfolio page about using Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles in Unreal Engine; it failed to load with a resource-limit error.

Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd(github.com)

430 points by jxi 3 years ago | 160 comments

GitHub repository for progress, a Linux tool that shows progress of running coreutils commands like cp, mv, and dd (formerly cv).

Migrating from Supabase(blog.val.town)

335 points by stevekrouse 3 years ago | 107 comments

Val Town blog post explaining why and how the company migrated its database from Supabase to a simpler setup on Render, and lessons learned.

FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs(twitter.com)

331 points by gslin 3 years ago | 314 comments

Tweet by Colin Percival noting that FreeBSD booting in Firecracker spends 7% of its time bubblesorting SYSINITs, prompting a switch to a faster sort.

Venture Predation(papers.ssrn.com)

305 points by miiiiiike 3 years ago | 202 comments

PyTorch for WebGPU(praeclarum.org)

288 points by mighdoll 3 years ago | 65 comments

Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video](youtube.com)

280 points by CHB0403085482 3 years ago | 229 comments

Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks(wsj.com)

269 points by pat-jay 3 years ago | 258 comments

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage(science.org)

266 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 164 comments

I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)(axleos.com)

260 points by codyd51 3 years ago | 40 comments

Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%(ca.news.yahoo.com)

229 points by gregsadetsky 3 years ago | 241 comments

Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?(theatlantic.com)

218 points by explosion-s 3 years ago | 335 comments

It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)(newyorker.com)

201 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 146 comments

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images(arxiv.org)

179 points by ortusdux 3 years ago | 34 comments

Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself (2010)(openheartproject.com)

177 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 60 comments

Tunnel via Cloudflare to any TCP service(iq.thc.org)

161 points by sharjeelsayed 3 years ago | 50 comments

Let ChatGPT visit a website and have your email stolen(twitter.com)

161 points by wunderwuzzi23 3 years ago | 33 comments

With new trade deal, Big Tech wants to be above the law(proton.me)

145 points by andrewinardeer 3 years ago | 60 comments

Debugging a FUSE deadlock in the Linux kernel(netflixtechblog.com)

145 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 27 comments

JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source(medium.com)

144 points by onehair 3 years ago | 70 comments

US Air Force shoots down drone swarm with THOR microwave weapon(thedefensepost.com)

139 points by MR4D 3 years ago | 206 comments

Dandelion Root Recipes(practicalselfreliance.com)

137 points by itronitron 3 years ago | 112 comments

US Supreme Court leaves protections for internet companies unscathed(reuters.com)

137 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 84 comments

LangChain: The Missing Manual(pinecone.io)

134 points by gk1 3 years ago | 35 comments

Typescale: A tool for easy CSS typography(typescale.com)

131 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 67 comments

D1: Improvements to performance and scalability(blog.cloudflare.com)

127 points by eallam 3 years ago | 62 comments

Hands-Free Coding (2020)(joshwcomeau.com)

123 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 43 comments

Devex: What actually drives productivity(queue.acm.org)

121 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 56 comments

Writing Is My Main Freedom. One Day My Work Disappeared (2021)(themarshallproject.org)

118 points by xrd 3 years ago | 83 comments

My solar-powered blog is now on lithium iron phosphate(louwrentius.com)

116 points by louwrentius 3 years ago | 44 comments

I lived in LA and commuted to Berkeley by plane to save on rent(old.reddit.com)

115 points by 18nleung 3 years ago | 80 comments

Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter(tweag.io)

107 points by Xophmeister 3 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Weekle – a web app to learn how to calculate the day of the week(benjoffe.com)

105 points by benjoffe 3 years ago | 28 comments

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images(vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de)

100 points by waqasy 3 years ago | 17 comments

Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens’ Fundamental Rights in France(torrentfreak.com)

93 points by gslin 3 years ago | 8 comments

CodeWeavers Now Controlled by an Employee Ownership Trust(phoronix.com)

92 points by computerliker 3 years ago | 10 comments

Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronauts on lunar surface(dailymail.co.uk)

90 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 111 comments

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered and a C compiler for it too(theregister.com)

88 points by lproven 3 years ago | 22 comments

WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told(theguardian.com)

83 points by grammers 3 years ago | 62 comments

Synthea: Open-source synthetic patient generation(synthetichealth.github.io)

82 points by johncole 3 years ago | 18 comments

MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator(ai.facebook.com)

81 points by thinxer 3 years ago | 28 comments

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns(e360.yale.edu)

77 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 58 comments

Road to reality – executable essay(reality.mentat.org)

76 points by sritchie 3 years ago | 15 comments

NodePad: LLM-aided graph based note-taking and brainstorming tool(nodepad.space)

76 points by beshrkayali 3 years ago | 41 comments

The professor who made $10B by cutting Google its first startup check(finance.yahoo.com)

75 points by redbell 3 years ago | 57 comments

Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59(bbc.co.uk)

74 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 38 comments

To Pay Rent in Medieval England, Catch Some Eels(atlasobscura.com)

67 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 36 comments

A new proof of security for steganography in machine-generated messages(quantamagazine.org)

63 points by jonbaer 3 years ago | 40 comments

Pushing through when no one cares(elpha.com)

60 points by thibo_skabgia 3 years ago | 25 comments

Apple II Vapor Lock and the Floating Bus (2018)(deater.net)

60 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 16 comments

Debian 12 'Bookworm' New Features and Release Date(news.itsfoss.com)

59 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 28 comments

Update of the RDF and SPARQL (RDF star) families of specifications(w3.org)

58 points by tannhaeuser 3 years ago | 45 comments

Switching from QWERTY to Colemak and Back(oppositeinvictus.com)

58 points by jboogie77 3 years ago | 94 comments

Show HN: Freenet 2023, a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web(freenet.org)

56 points by sanity31415 3 years ago | 23 comments

Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture(intel.com)

56 points by ruik 3 years ago | 36 comments

AI Submissions to Clarkesworld Continue(neil-clarke.com)

51 points by em-bee 3 years ago | 36 comments

Wang Computers 'David and Goliath' Commercial (1977) [video](youtube.com)

51 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 17 comments

Microsoft decides it will be the one to choose which secure login method you use(theregister.com)

50 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 26 comments