Hacker News on Thursday, 15 June 2023

My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do(raymii.org)

917 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 1054 comments

Blog post by Remy van Elst about running Linux on a 24-year-old HP Jornada 720 handheld and arguing users should control their devices, unlike with iPhones.

Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development(mermaidchart.com)

573 points by knsv 3 years ago | 333 comments

A Mermaid Chart blog post arguing sequence diagrams are UML's most useful contribution and explaining how they model interactions between system parts.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely(old.reddit.com)

520 points by rajeevk 3 years ago | 549 comments

An r/technology discussion thread on old Reddit linking an Independent article reporting that the Reddit blackout protest will continue indefinitely.

Our Plan for Python 3.13(github.com)

477 points by bratao 3 years ago | 333 comments

README in the faster-cpython ideas repo on GitHub outlining the Faster CPython team's performance plan for Python 3.13, by Mark Shannon and Michael Droettboom.

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts(macrumors.com)

440 points by stalfosknight 3 years ago | 419 comments

MacRumors article reporting that Reddit told moderators of subreddits continuing API-pricing protest blackouts it may replace them.

Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace(bloomberg.com)

401 points by brycewray 3 years ago | 171 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Alphabet is selling its Google Domains business assets to Squarespace.

Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35(unihiker.com)

360 points by nathanasmith 3 years ago | 209 comments

Product homepage for UNIHIKER, a single-board computer with a built-in 2.8-inch touchscreen and quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 processor.

Effective Rust (2021)(lurklurk.org)

353 points by FL33TW00D 3 years ago | 186 comments

Online book "Effective Rust: 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code" by David Drysdale, presented as an mdBook site.

Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved(newsingermany.com)

336 points by janpot 3 years ago | 164 comments

News article reporting that archaeologists in Germany found an exceptionally well-preserved 3,000-year-old sword.

Everything must be paid for twice (2022)(raptitude.com)

297 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 240 comments

On the slow productivity of John Wick(calnewport.com)

290 points by lawgimenez 3 years ago | 152 comments

Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (2021)(shape-of-code.com)

288 points by greghn 3 years ago | 183 comments

Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf](graybeardgames.com)

286 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 153 comments

11 years of hosting a SaaS(ghiculescu.substack.com)

280 points by ghiculescu 3 years ago | 187 comments

UnsuckJS: Progressively enhance HTML with lightweight JavaScript libraries(unsuckjs.com)

277 points by vmoore 3 years ago | 172 comments

Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets(newsroom.squarespace.com)

248 points by cebert 3 years ago | 156 comments

Localrf – Nerf from casual shaky videos(localrf.github.io)

233 points by smusamashah 3 years ago | 28 comments

Zluda: Run CUDA code on Intel GPUs, unmodified(github.com)

220 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 84 comments

ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf](espressif.com)

213 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 99 comments

Generating Income from Open Source(vadimdemedes.com)

206 points by farazzz 3 years ago | 81 comments

Rock engravings made by Homo Naledi ~300k years ago(biorxiv.org)

201 points by tdaltonc 3 years ago | 86 comments

Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)(michaelnielsen.org)

184 points by swyx 3 years ago | 63 comments

The Stupid Programmer Manifesto(hasen.substack.com)

166 points by hsn915 3 years ago | 171 comments

The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf](math.uwaterloo.ca)

166 points by sebg 3 years ago | 51 comments

Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs(spiegel.de)

151 points by tfourb 3 years ago | 144 comments

Tilt Five – Bring holograms home – Play your favorite games in 3D(tiltfive.com)

150 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 67 comments

W3C announces new Web standard for online payments(applemust.com)

150 points by serhack_ 3 years ago | 80 comments

A LiveView Is a Process(fly.io)

149 points by clessg 3 years ago | 74 comments

Stack Overflow Is Down(stackstatus.net)

148 points by qsantos 3 years ago | 96 comments

The Guardian bans all gambling advertising(theguardian.com)

145 points by CaptainZapp 3 years ago | 86 comments

FANN: Vector Search in 200 Lines of Rust(fennel.ai)

144 points by ingve 3 years ago | 61 comments

Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates(bbc.com)

143 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 138 comments

Google warns own staff about entering data into, using code from, chatbots(reuters.com)

139 points by kjhughes 3 years ago | 94 comments

Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

139 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 80 comments

Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand(abcnews.go.com)

131 points by jacquesm 3 years ago | 92 comments

Tell HN: Messages from Another Azure Customer Are Appearing in My Queue

128 points by AzureQueueMixup 3 years ago | 39 comments

Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage(letsencrypt.status.io)

118 points by fastest963 3 years ago | 52 comments

How the brain processes German and Arabic(en.qantara.de)

117 points by kaycebasques 3 years ago | 73 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

115 points by joshuawitzer 3 years ago | 108 comments

The long story of how neural nets got to where they are [video](youtube.com)

109 points by kaycebasques 3 years ago | 13 comments

Tell HN: Locked Google account reopened after two years

103 points by romanhn 3 years ago | 42 comments

Cement's future could be a combination of carbon capture and electrification(industrydecarbonization.com)

97 points by hannob 3 years ago | 77 comments

Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood(wired.com)

92 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 56 comments

Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories(trickest.com)

91 points by zaric 3 years ago | 44 comments

This Week in Rust 499(this-week-in-rust.org)

89 points by unripe_syntax 3 years ago | 8 comments

WebStudio: Open visual development for the open web(webstudio.is)

88 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 48 comments

Rick Rubin’s creative genius(latimes.com)

87 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 80 comments

Vision Pro(ben-evans.com)

84 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 84 comments

What motorcycles teach about maintenance(books.worksinprogress.co)

83 points by ericwaller 3 years ago | 111 comments

/r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy(old.reddit.com)

82 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 57 comments

The NVIDIA AI Red Team(developer.nvidia.com)

76 points by lucan 3 years ago | 62 comments

Building a platform that open sources itself(zed.dev)

75 points by signa11 3 years ago | 16 comments

Man found UC Berkeley skeleton in 2021(berkeleyscanner.com)

71 points by yawnxyz 3 years ago | 34 comments

r/startrek has just launched its own Lemmy instance(old.reddit.com)

70 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 17 comments

Wasmer Edge: WebAssembly on the Edge(wasmer.io)

70 points by syrusakbary 3 years ago | 38 comments

Gently Down the Stream – A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka (2021)(gentlydownthe.stream)

69 points by warrenm 3 years ago | 7 comments

Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content(phys.org)

62 points by belter 3 years ago | 18 comments

Hacker News needs a Dark Mode

61 points by jaylittle 3 years ago | 29 comments

North Koreans speak secretly to BBC from inside closed country(bbc.co.uk)

59 points by radicaldreamer 3 years ago | 34 comments

Playing Atari Games in OCaml(janestreet.com)

57 points by lnyan 3 years ago | 8 comments