Hacker News on Sunday, 18 June 2023

Imaginary problems are the root of bad software(cerebralab.com)

834 points by deofoo 3 years ago | 358 comments

Blog essay on Cerebralab arguing that bad software stems from developers solving imaginary problems rather than real user needs.

Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet(lecromee.github.io)

665 points by campuscodi 3 years ago | 237 comments

Blog post investigating how the Swing VPN mobile app uses its users' devices as a botnet to DDoS websites.

Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod(mikebeauchamp.com)

558 points by edent 3 years ago | 279 comments

A personal blog guide showing how to modify Sennheiser HD 555 headphones into the pricier HD 595 model using only a screwdriver.

Jellyfin: Free software media system(github.com)

534 points by majkinetor 3 years ago | 341 comments

GitHub repository for Jellyfin, a free GPL-licensed software media system written in C#/.NET for self-hosted media streaming.

Goodbye, Twilio(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

491 points by joaopaulomcc 3 years ago | 293 comments

Miguel Grinberg's personal blog post explaining why he voluntarily left his job at Twilio after almost four years.

I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser(twitter.com)

461 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 127 comments

Tweet by Andreas Kling announcing a $100,000 sponsorship specifically for Ladybird browser development, with more details to come.

A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (2021)(pkolaczk.github.io)

456 points by xk3 3 years ago | 138 comments

Blog post by Piotr Kołaczkowski explaining how one line of code caused a parallel program to run slower on a 24-core server than on a 4-core laptop.

Sketch.systems(sketch.systems)

284 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 44 comments

Follow up to “I booted Linux 293k times”(rwmj.wordpress.com)

280 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 29 comments

HDR QR Code(notes.dt.in.th)

276 points by fdb 3 years ago | 142 comments

Show HN: Answer Overflow – Indexing Discord content into the web(answeroverflow.com)

271 points by rhyssullivan1 3 years ago | 77 comments

Keycloak – Open-source identity and access management interview(console.substack.com)

269 points by ph4ni 3 years ago | 161 comments

Scientists create contained ball of turbulence in a tank(news.uchicago.edu)

264 points by gmays 3 years ago | 40 comments

Soviet Union sold titanium to US believing they needed it for pizza ovens(theaviationgeekclub.com)

224 points by jerryjerryjerry 3 years ago | 166 comments

A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science(github.com)

212 points by tsingy 3 years ago | 68 comments

Graphic design items from Internet Archive(archives.design)

212 points by ptrkcsk 3 years ago | 16 comments

Most tech content is bullshit (2020)(aleksandra.codes)

209 points by udev4096 3 years ago | 134 comments

Redbean Systems(redbean.systems)

206 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 27 comments

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely(netflixtechblog.com)

202 points by theptip 3 years ago | 174 comments

A complete guide to getting what you want (2018)(raptitude.com)

187 points by shsachdev 3 years ago | 96 comments

Milk-V Duo: A $9 RISC-V Computer(milkv.io)

178 points by prabhu-yu 3 years ago | 83 comments

The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)(fanael.github.io)

168 points by segfaultbuserr 3 years ago | 142 comments

Get It Done(boz.com)

168 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 60 comments

The WFH future is destroying bosses' brains (2021)(wheresyoured.at)

165 points by LordNibbler 3 years ago | 151 comments

Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida(theconversation.com)

162 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 153 comments

OpenLLaMA 13B Released(huggingface.co)

158 points by tosh 3 years ago | 78 comments

GPU Programming: When, Why and How?(enccs.github.io)

142 points by transpute 3 years ago | 37 comments

How I feel quitting my own startup(aquiles.me)

141 points by aqui_c 3 years ago | 76 comments

DIY-Audio-Heaven(diyaudioheaven.wordpress.com)

136 points by bfm 3 years ago | 26 comments

Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)(cable.ayra.ch)

131 points by BenFeldman1930 3 years ago | 46 comments

Neural networks in the 1990s(twitter.com)

122 points by jrott 3 years ago | 75 comments

Shannon’s Source Coding Theorem (2020)(mbernste.github.io)

117 points by ElFitz 3 years ago | 35 comments

BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data(databreaches.net)

114 points by geox 3 years ago | 81 comments

Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout(join-lemmy.org)

112 points by roskelld 3 years ago | 80 comments

Why you can't Kickstart a conference(abnercoimbre.com)

108 points by abnercoimbre 3 years ago | 55 comments

Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the info he wants? (2011)(serverfault.com)

108 points by Wowfunhappy 3 years ago | 19 comments

Database Gyms [pdf](cidrdb.org)

105 points by greghn 3 years ago | 8 comments

Moldable Live Programming for Clojure(github.com)

83 points by simonpure 3 years ago | 11 comments

A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago(science.anu.edu.au)

83 points by gumby 3 years ago | 57 comments

Go: Execution Tracer Overhaul(go.googlesource.com)

82 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 15 comments

Dynamic programming in Haskell: automatic memoization(byorgey.wordpress.com)

80 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 23 comments

The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single GitHub user(gmplib.org)

79 points by bramhaag 3 years ago | 39 comments

Chemists introduce a two-step process for making phosphorus compounds(phys.org)

77 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 10 comments

Port forwarding(blog.azirevpn.com)

77 points by mondego 3 years ago | 39 comments

ChatGPT, Google Bard Generates Generic Windows 11, Windows 10 Pro Keys(tomshardware.com)

76 points by el_hacker 3 years ago | 23 comments

How to Read and Organize Online Articles (Without Driving Yourself Crazy) (2013)(gregoryciotti.com)

74 points by pyeri 3 years ago | 32 comments

Squeezing a Little More Performance Out of Bytecode Interpreters(stefan-marr.de)

71 points by abhi9u 3 years ago | 12 comments

The Difference Between Root Certificate Authorities, Intermediates and Resellers(agwa.name)

71 points by agwa 3 years ago | 35 comments

I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches (2020)(incoherency.co.uk)

70 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 15 comments

Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified(texastribune.org)

68 points by detaro 3 years ago | 59 comments

The Israeli weapons and spyware falling into the hands of despots(ft.com)

67 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 42 comments

Fruit-Bat/Pico-Zxspectrum: ZX Spectrum for Raspberry Pico Pi RP2040(github.com)

65 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 1 comments

Hexa Lift: Single person drone(liftaircraft.com)

63 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 70 comments

Apple Vision Pro – Hardware Issues(kguttag.com)

62 points by tosh 3 years ago | 70 comments

Processing medical images at scale on the cloud(tweag.io)

62 points by harporoeder 3 years ago | 6 comments

A History Of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor(fabiensanglard.net)

60 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 2 comments

Hybrid SDF-Voxel Traversal(shadertoy.com)

59 points by michaelsbradley 3 years ago | 3 comments

What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear (2013)(spectrum.ieee.org)

59 points by tosh 3 years ago | 38 comments

LLM Fine Tuning Guide for Enterprises in 2023(research.aimultiple.com)

48 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 7 comments

Finite and Infinite Games (1986) [pdf](wtf.tw)

47 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 8 comments