Hacker News on Saturday, 3 June 2023

Fq: Jq for Binary Formats(github.com)

615 points by ingve 3 years ago | 92 comments

GitHub repository for fq, a jq-like tool, language, and set of decoders for inspecting and querying binary and text formats.

GPS (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

365 points by tkiolp4 3 years ago | 32 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog essay explaining how the Global Positioning System works, including its satellite constellation and positioning math.

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice(lwn.net)

340 points by 5e92cb50239222b 3 years ago | 267 comments

LWN brief quoting Red Hat's Matthias Clasen announcing that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future RHEL release, with Fedora support uncertain.

Still Love Telnet(bash-prompt.net)

300 points by wannacboatmovie 3 years ago | 159 comments

This site is no longer solar powered for now(andrewjvpowell.com)

283 points by adriangrigore 3 years ago | 141 comments

Decoding small QR codes by hand (2012)(blog.qartis.com)

274 points by terryds 3 years ago | 62 comments

Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns(cnn.com)

273 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 153 comments

The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support(discourse.nixos.org)

270 points by ghuntley 3 years ago | 252 comments

Bytes are all you need: Transformers operating directly on file bytes(arxiv.org)

246 points by pmoriarty 3 years ago | 90 comments

CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)(jeff-kaye.medium.com)

234 points by VagueMag 3 years ago | 122 comments

Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps(old.reddit.com)

214 points by netfortius 3 years ago | 147 comments

OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request(humanloop.com)

205 points by bluefishinit 3 years ago | 119 comments

Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?

198 points by v_ignatyev 3 years ago | 126 comments

A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)(thirtythreeforty.net)

196 points by hansc 3 years ago | 52 comments

Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) [video](youtube.com)

182 points by irsagent 3 years ago | 16 comments

The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated(understandingai.org)

178 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 496 comments

Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US diplomat(rarehistoricalphotos.com)

177 points by Octabrain 3 years ago | 124 comments

Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode(howchoo.com)

176 points by xg15 3 years ago | 69 comments

Sick Workers Connected to 41 Percent of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, CDC Reports(smithsonianmag.com)

172 points by _delirium 3 years ago | 141 comments

Leaked source – CS:GO(lwss.github.io)

169 points by wastedbrains 3 years ago | 73 comments

Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs(cam.ac.uk)

162 points by supermatou 3 years ago | 41 comments

CodeCompose: A large-scale industrial deployment of AI-assisted code authoring(arxiv.org)

151 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 65 comments

How Reddit became the enemy [video](youtube.com)

134 points by jtokoph 3 years ago | 101 comments

MSI reveals first USB4 expansion card, delivering 100W through USB-C(techspot.com)

130 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 120 comments

School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘mental health crisis’(theverge.com)

129 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 126 comments

Classic components could be replaced by rubber in next-gen loudspeakers(polytechnique-insights.com)

112 points by crousto 3 years ago | 71 comments

How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (2020)(washingtonpost.com)

111 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 60 comments

Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button(oneusefulthing.org)

97 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 31 comments

StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style(styledrop.github.io)

95 points by og_kalu 3 years ago | 21 comments

Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive: Display(frame.work)

95 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 55 comments

Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions(hbr.org)

94 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 85 comments

The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

90 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 61 comments

For the badge: Badges for badges' sake(forthebadge.com)

87 points by popcalc 3 years ago | 18 comments

Efficiently Searching In-Memory Sorted Arrays: Revenge of Interpolation Search? [pdf](pages.cs.wisc.edu)

87 points by greghn 3 years ago | 29 comments

Reduce vs. Fold in Common Lisp(n16f.net)

86 points by billiob 3 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Google Code Jam Archive(zibada.guru)

84 points by zibada 3 years ago | 14 comments

Hash Functions(papa.bretmulvey.com)

83 points by rdpintqogeogsaa 3 years ago | 29 comments

Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore(asiasentinel.com)

79 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 96 comments

Atomic Tourism(wsj.com)

77 points by mirthlessend 3 years ago | 32 comments

OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman(web.archive.org)

74 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 35 comments

Brainformers: Trading Simplicity for Efficiency(arxiv.org)

70 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 3 comments

Nvidia Started in a Denny’s. Now It’s Worth $1T(wsj.com)

65 points by lxm 3 years ago | 61 comments

Ask HN: What’s the deal with random people sending me money over PayPal?

62 points by ano-ther 3 years ago | 45 comments

Induction of a torpor-like state in rodents by ultrasound(livescience.com)

62 points by geox 3 years ago | 19 comments

Manifesto on the Teaching of Mathematics (2015)(intellectualmathematics.com)

61 points by declanhaigh 3 years ago | 30 comments

The UI of Hacker News Is Perfect

60 points by Vishal19111999 3 years ago | 35 comments

Why Is GPS Free?(old.reddit.com)

59 points by tooltower 3 years ago | 39 comments

Teen neurostimulation of dopamine circuit reverses genetic deficits in PF cortex(elifesciences.org)

53 points by birriel 3 years ago | 19 comments

Federal judge: No AI in my courtroom unless a human verifies its accuracy(arstechnica.com)

51 points by gslin 3 years ago | 30 comments

Covid-19 vaccination-related myocarditis: A Korean nationwide study(academic.oup.com)

49 points by VagueMag 3 years ago | 8 comments

When digital nomads come to town(restofworld.org)

48 points by Michelangelo11 3 years ago | 39 comments

Vectorious: BLAS-accelerated linear algebra for TypeScript(github.com)

46 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 12 comments

EBPFGuard: a Rust Library Mitigation of Threats Using LSM Hooks(deepfence.io)

45 points by noboruma 3 years ago | 17 comments

Supreme Court Rules Companies Can Sue Striking Workers for 'Sabotage'(vice.com)

44 points by belter 3 years ago | 41 comments

Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat (2021)(250bpm.com)

43 points by atomicnature 3 years ago | 5 comments

Thought Cloning: Learning to think while acting by imitating human thinking(arxiv.org)

42 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 27 comments

Git Blame-Someone-Else(github.com)

41 points by MrGagi 3 years ago | 9 comments

YouTube will stop removing false claims of 2020 US election fraud(lemonde.fr)

40 points by lc2817 3 years ago | 23 comments

Maglev: Chrome’s New JIT Compiler(blog.chromium.org)

39 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 6 comments

What are the risks of being an older father?(bbc.com)

38 points by rntn 3 years ago | 38 comments