Hacker News on Monday, 29 May 2023

Let us serve you, but don't bring us down(blog.archive.org)

857 points by _delirium 3 years ago | 197 comments

Internet Archive blog post by Brewster Kahle describing how heavy automated scraping traffic brought archive.org down on May 29, 2023.

Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics(mslivo.itch.io)

786 points by Akharin 3 years ago | 171 comments

Itch.io page for Setris, a downloadable pay-what-you-want Tetris-like game with sand physics for Windows and Linux, with a trailer video.

India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces(altnews.in)

653 points by throwaway384629 3 years ago | 324 comments

Alt News fact-check showing that a viral image of detained Indian wrestlers Vinesh and Sangeeta Phogat smiling was digitally altered with AI.

HBO Max new Captcha system(twitter.com)

619 points by Signez 3 years ago | 283 comments

A tweet sharing a TikTok video of HBO Max's new account-protection captcha puzzle, captioned as hilarious.

300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time(nray.dev)

487 points by janpio 3 years ago | 160 comments

Blog post by Nicholas Ray describing how Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time was reduced by about 300ms through front-end performance work.

An open-source alternative to QuickBooks(bigcapital.ly)

458 points by abouolia 3 years ago | 176 comments

Landing page for Bigcapital, an open-source online accounting and bookkeeping software available as a cloud service or self-hosted.

Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere(catholicnewsagency.com)

327 points by axelfontaine 3 years ago | 135 comments

Catholic News Agency article on how Wikipedia displayed an incorrect Vatican City flag for years, leading to inaccurate flags spreading widely.

Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer(github.com)

273 points by hectormalot 3 years ago | 84 comments

Removing support for forwarded ports(mullvad.net)

244 points by brakmic 3 years ago | 208 comments

Production AI systems are hard(methexis.substack.com)

224 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 119 comments

A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

221 points by kizunajp 3 years ago | 107 comments

C++17’s useful features for embedded systems(interrupt.memfault.com)

207 points by manchoz 3 years ago | 158 comments

Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers(blog.cloudflare.com)

201 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 85 comments

My first superoptimizer(austinhenley.com)

197 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 51 comments

Thanks, David Peter(duncanlock.net)

190 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 14 comments

Software bugs that cause real-world harm(pointersgonewild.com)

189 points by thepbone 3 years ago | 100 comments

A terminal case of Linux(fasterthanli.me)

183 points by luu 3 years ago | 81 comments

‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints(theguardian.com)

177 points by doener 3 years ago | 83 comments

DNSSEC KSK rollover breaks DNS resolution for .nz domains(status.internetnz.nz)

176 points by rjgray 3 years ago | 132 comments

Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain(simonschreibt.de)

170 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 69 comments

CPR's true survival rate is lower than many people think(npr.org)

162 points by rntn 3 years ago | 184 comments

A chiral aperiodic monotile(arxiv.org)

156 points by fred256 3 years ago | 71 comments

LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay(interactions.org)

151 points by elashri 3 years ago | 86 comments

Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person(block21m.substack.com)

150 points by cft 3 years ago | 167 comments

You can serve static data over HTTP(ignore.pl)

148 points by cxr 3 years ago | 106 comments

Using computers more freely and safely(akkartik.name)

144 points by gstipi 3 years ago | 60 comments

Sigils are underappreciated (2022)(raku-advent.blog)

133 points by luuuzeta 3 years ago | 72 comments

Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code(alentred.medium.com)

133 points by alentred 3 years ago | 113 comments

XFS Metadata Corruption on Linux 6.3 Tracked Down to One Missing One-Line Patch(phoronix.com)

125 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 37 comments

New Arm cores deliver up to 40% better performance(phonescoop.com)

121 points by mikece 3 years ago | 43 comments

The UX Research Reckoning is Here(medium.com)

118 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 151 comments

Fitting 44% More Data on a C64/1541 Floppy Disk(pagetable.com)

117 points by basementcat 3 years ago | 40 comments

The Johari Window(en.wikipedia.org)

112 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 12 comments

The metaverse was never alive in the first place(fastcompany.com)

101 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 122 comments

Media Queries and Responsive Design(engineering.kablamo.com.au)

89 points by nhardy 3 years ago | 37 comments

Are you breathing? Do you have email apnea? (2014)(lindastone.net)

88 points by DerCommodore 3 years ago | 28 comments

Rheinmetall pilot project for curb stone chargers for EVs(rheinmetall.com)

87 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 124 comments

Show HN: Tiny – A 2D Game Engine in Kotlin Working with Lua(minigdx.github.io)

86 points by dwursteisen 3 years ago | 24 comments

Research on harvesting electricity from humidity in the air(techxplore.com)

84 points by wglb 3 years ago | 39 comments

Container Runtimes and WasmEdge benchmarking on Arm(community.arm.com)

74 points by 3Sophons 3 years ago | 40 comments

How much does it cost to develop and manufacture an electronic product? (2022)(predictabledesigns.com)

74 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 44 comments

The Statistics Handbook (free culture LaTeX handbook)(github.com)

72 points by carlocck 3 years ago | 13 comments

Tone: Cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor(github.com)

70 points by ingve 3 years ago | 17 comments

AI will slightly drain the swamp of higher ed(betonit.substack.com)

68 points by sieste 3 years ago | 80 comments

Clever Code Considered Harmful(joshwcomeau.com)

64 points by signa11 3 years ago | 87 comments

The Stanford Pascal Compiler(bernd-oppolzer.de)

64 points by elvis70 3 years ago | 15 comments

Commodore 64 Web server [video](youtube.com)

63 points by kentricon 3 years ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

62 points by greggsy 3 years ago | 23 comments

Deep-Dive into the Internals of TCP Connection Establishment Process(medium.com)

61 points by matt_berninger 3 years ago | 10 comments

How to build AI products people want(reforge.com)

61 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 31 comments

When we were first adding Mac OS X guest support at VMware (2022)(numi.st)

60 points by luu 3 years ago | 21 comments

Hardening Drupal with WebAssembly(wasmlabs.dev)

60 points by gzurl 3 years ago | 42 comments

How Iceweasel Was Born (2016)(pcworld.com)

59 points by alraj 3 years ago | 21 comments

System76 Virgo Aims to Be the Quietest yet Most Performant Linux Laptop(phoronix.com)

58 points by mikece 3 years ago | 23 comments

No A/C? No problem, if buildings copy networked tunnels of termite mounds(arstechnica.com)

55 points by notpushkin 3 years ago | 32 comments

Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks(chalmers.se)

54 points by geox 3 years ago | 87 comments

One Click Deepfake(github.com)

53 points by udev4096 3 years ago | 13 comments

Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture(wired.com)

51 points by lawgimenez 3 years ago | 64 comments

Circles rolling on circles (2014)(plus.maths.org)

50 points by montalbano 3 years ago | 19 comments

Texas Passes Ban on DEI Offices and Tenure Reform at Public Universities(thetexan.news)

49 points by g42gregory 3 years ago | 20 comments