Hacker News on Friday, 26 May 2023

Paper Airplane Designs(foldnfly.com)

622 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 66 comments

Fold'N'Fly, a website with folding instructions for paper airplane designs; the loaded page is its National Paper Airplane Day article with history and activities.

0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years(play0ad.com)

591 points by wsgeorge 3 years ago | 158 comments

Homepage of 0 A.D., a free, open-source historical real-time strategy game by Wildfire Games, with downloads, news, and media.

Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases(twitter.com)

589 points by guiambros 3 years ago | 251 comments

Twitter thread by researcher Pascal Geldsetzer announcing a preprint with causal evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a substantial share of dementia cases.

Times New Bastard(github.com)

475 points by orhmeh09 3 years ago | 127 comments

GitHub repository for Times New Bastard, a font that is Times New Roman except every seventh letter is set in a jarring sans serif.

Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost(businessinsider.com)

368 points by scrum-treats 3 years ago | 148 comments

Business Insider article reporting that Amazon abandoned its Shipment Zero net-zero shipping pledge and deleted the related blog post.

There oughta be a bullet time video booth(there.oughta.be)

362 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 97 comments

A blog post describing a DIY bullet time video booth built from an array of DSLR cameras for a cousin's wedding, with a linked YouTube video.

htmx(htmx.org)

354 points by GavinAnderegg 3 years ago | 164 comments

Homepage of htmx, a library that gives HTML access to AJAX, CSS transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events via attributes.

Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

345 points by EvgeniyZh 3 years ago | 226 comments

A free Pragmatic Engineer newsletter issue by Gergely Orosz on how tech layoffs lowered Glassdoor ratings and how companies respond to fix their scores.

Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed(dolphin-emu.org)

333 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 219 comments

Dolphin emulator blog post announcing its Steam release is indefinitely postponed after Nintendo issued a DMCA notice to Valve against its Steam page.

Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023(thedriven.io)

323 points by rippercushions 3 years ago | 424 comments

The Driven article reporting that the Tesla Model Y overtook the Toyota Corolla as the world's best-selling car in early 2023.

Micromouse: The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth [video](youtube.com)

289 points by zdw 3 years ago | 59 comments

Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage(bleepingcomputer.com)

270 points by airhangerf15 3 years ago | 167 comments

The Silent (R)evolution of SAT(cacm.acm.org)

218 points by panic 3 years ago | 75 comments

Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard(fretboardfly.com)

212 points by udit99 3 years ago | 115 comments

What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft?(twitter.com)

211 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 75 comments

That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something(utcc.utoronto.ca)

200 points by ingve 3 years ago | 316 comments

Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018)(codingnest.com)

198 points by weird_user 3 years ago | 76 comments

Emissions are no longer following the worst case scenario(theclimatebrink.substack.com)

197 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 218 comments

New work helps to explain how chronic stress can inflame the gut(nature.com)

192 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 63 comments

418 I'm a teapot(developer.mozilla.org)

188 points by SirAllCaps 3 years ago | 138 comments

GCP CloudSQL Vulnerability Leads to Internal Container Access and Data Exposure(dig.security)

187 points by ivmoreau 3 years ago | 46 comments

Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain(reuters.com)

180 points by TheAlchemist 3 years ago | 201 comments

Tree of Thoughts(github.com)

176 points by kevinslin 3 years ago | 74 comments

Phishing domains tanked after Meta sued Freenom(krebsonsecurity.com)

173 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 63 comments

George Takei recalls his childhood in an internment camp(bbc.com)

164 points by haunter 3 years ago | 132 comments

Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers(media.ford.com)

153 points by bhauer 3 years ago | 216 comments

AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club(wsj.com)

153 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 163 comments

Making $10k/m from a French learning app(highsignal.io)

151 points by geocrasher 3 years ago | 64 comments

How the lemon was invented (2018)(trueorbetter.com)

145 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 124 comments

Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back(nature.com)

144 points by gmays 3 years ago | 80 comments

Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)(masteringmonero.com)

130 points by Frisiavones 3 years ago | 112 comments

Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension(carina.app)

130 points by hnux 3 years ago | 71 comments

MIT Course: Generative AI for Constructive Communication(ai4comm.media.mit.edu)

121 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 7 comments

Node.js built-ins on Deno Deploy(deno.com)

119 points by tjwds 3 years ago | 78 comments

What Neeva's quiet exit tells us about the future of AI startups(supervised.news)

115 points by bobvanluijt 3 years ago | 76 comments

12 years since Saab’s bankruptcy: Secret NEVS electric cars revealed(vibilagare.se)

114 points by eriksdh 3 years ago | 95 comments

Fluent 2 Design System(fluent2.microsoft.design)

111 points by vyrotek 3 years ago | 76 comments

Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

111 points by optbuild 3 years ago | 24 comments

Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953)(whatisnuclear.com)

110 points by jameshart 3 years ago | 30 comments

Am I the Unethical One?(dailynous.com)

108 points by HR01 3 years ago | 269 comments

TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles down to Vimscript(github.com)

106 points by asimjalis 3 years ago | 30 comments

Fontemon: Video Game in a Font(coderelay.io)

101 points by susam 3 years ago | 7 comments

The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs(arxiv.org)

97 points by lebek 3 years ago | 60 comments

Homebrew Hercules Graphics Card(root42.de)

96 points by ingve 3 years ago | 21 comments

A PhD student's perspective on research in NLP in the era of LLMs(arxiv.org)

96 points by morgangiraud 3 years ago | 35 comments

XFS metadata corruption after upgrade to 6.3.3 kernel(bugzilla.redhat.com)

96 points by itvision 3 years ago | 30 comments

Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?

95 points by nlnn 3 years ago | 27 comments

Raspberry Pi/PlatformIO conflict blocks support for Pico-Arduino toolchain(github.com)

94 points by debrisapron 3 years ago | 32 comments

Biosphere 2(en.wikipedia.org)

91 points by ndsipa_pomu 3 years ago | 43 comments

Agent GPT – Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in the browser(agentgpt.reworkd.ai)

85 points by kevinslin 3 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: I made an in-browser code editor with code replay and REPL(logicboard.com)

78 points by logicboard 3 years ago | 23 comments

Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project(appsource.microsoft.com)

76 points by wlkr 3 years ago | 30 comments

Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis(cfr.org)

74 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 60 comments

Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESCO status(sverigesradio.se)

74 points by JoachimS 3 years ago | 61 comments

Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online?

73 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 18 comments

Weird, Rare, and Everywhere(hakaimagazine.com)

72 points by Vigier 3 years ago | 1 comments

How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect?(shkspr.mobi)

71 points by davidgerard 3 years ago | 52 comments

90% of laid-off H1-B visa holders were able to find new work(fortune.com)

69 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 80 comments

A novel about video games became a surprise best seller(nytimes.com)

68 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 56 comments

Want to buy a West Texas ghost town? Now’s your chance(texasmonthly.com)

66 points by lode 3 years ago | 52 comments