Hacker News on Sunday, 25 June 2023

Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located(utcc.utoronto.ca)

1642 points by ingve 3 years ago | 444 comments

Chris Siebenmann blog post arguing that programs using configuration files should have an obvious command-line way to report where those files are located.

Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser(open-resume.com)

594 points by xitang 3 years ago | 180 comments

Landing page for OpenResume, a free open-source resume builder with no sign-up that also offers a parser to test a resume's ATS readability.

XML is the future(bitecode.dev)

569 points by tannhaeuser 3 years ago | 335 comments

Bite Code! essay reflecting on tech hype cycles, from the XML-for-everything era through front-end stack explosion and microservices overuse.

Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks(wbur.org)

556 points by lucasv07 3 years ago | 916 comments

WBUR Cognoscenti commentary arguing that boys need emotional support from early childhood and that ignoring their emotional needs creates public health risks.

The 'fuck you' pattern(cedwards.xyz)

363 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 268 comments

A blog post coining the 'Fuck You' pattern, describing how Instagram forces logins and blocks anonymous browsing even when users try to bypass the modal.

Towards a “PCB Drone” – Making a PCB Motor which reaches 30k RPM [video](youtube.com)

333 points by reaperman 3 years ago | 60 comments

YouTube video by Carl Bugeja showing his efforts to make his tiny PCB motor stronger and faster, reaching 30,000 RPM.

Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1(dialup.net)

329 points by dialupdotnet 3 years ago | 71 comments

Tintin, Hergé and Chang(thewire.in)

308 points by webmobdev 3 years ago | 136 comments

Monitoring Is a Pain(matduggan.com)

306 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 163 comments

A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression(greatergood.berkeley.edu)

276 points by FunnyLookinHat 3 years ago | 261 comments

Eight-mile frieze of Ice Age beasts found in Amazon rainforest (2020)(cnn.com)

273 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 99 comments

Show HN: Open-source shooter which made it to AC: Valhalla and Skydio drones(github.com)

251 points by geneotech 3 years ago | 35 comments

Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero(github.com)

238 points by mickelsen 3 years ago | 88 comments

ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance(tomverbeure.github.io)

235 points by picture 3 years ago | 158 comments

What are embeddings?(vickiboykis.com)

212 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Fossfox – paid opportunities for open-source devs(fossfox.com)

208 points by 4kimov 3 years ago | 34 comments

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (2009)(james-iry.blogspot.com)

198 points by zdw 3 years ago | 57 comments

FP2: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf](microsoft.com)

187 points by chriscbr 3 years ago | 20 comments

Air quality reporting on iOS(intergalactic.systems)

177 points by owl110 3 years ago | 78 comments

Why Google Zanzibar shines at building authorization(blog.warrant.dev)

177 points by kkajla 3 years ago | 68 comments

Ways to say no with grace and style (2021)(fs.blog)

170 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 103 comments

DragGAN source code release: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images(github.com)

166 points by lnyan 3 years ago | 11 comments

Publishers carpet-bomb IPFS gateway operators with DMCA notices(torrentfreak.com)

162 points by gslin 3 years ago | 83 comments

LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets(bleepingcomputer.com)

158 points by jonathanzufi 3 years ago | 166 comments

The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries(theverge.com)

153 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 265 comments

Like diffusion but faster: The Paella model for fast image generation(deeplearning.ai)

136 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 37 comments

Time is not a synchronization primitive(xeiaso.net)

136 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 65 comments

Gut–Brain axis(en.wikipedia.org)

124 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 46 comments

4D Toys Update 8: Rotating the 3D Slice, 2D Faces Projections, Marble Scenes(marctenbosch.com)

122 points by simonpure 3 years ago | 24 comments

INTERCAL: Practically impossible(muppetlabs.com)

122 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 48 comments

Miles Davis: A candid conversation (1962)(erenkrantz.com)

117 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 60 comments

The .meta directory: let's tidy things up(dotmeta.org)

116 points by geoffeg 3 years ago | 91 comments

BrowserBox Pro goes open-source(github.com)

107 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 46 comments

Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040(fortune.com)

105 points by DoingIsLearning 3 years ago | 159 comments

Breadbee: Build your own (tiny) single board computer (2020)(wtarreau.blogspot.com)

104 points by goodburb 3 years ago | 19 comments

No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

102 points by adrianvoica 3 years ago | 93 comments

Upload a Godot HTML5 Game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions(simondalvai.com)

99 points by dulvui 3 years ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: What topics are good for a UI/UX Primer?

98 points by jph 3 years ago | 49 comments

The Shitty Stack System(tryingtruly.substack.com)

97 points by positivesum 3 years ago | 28 comments

Generate invoices from the command line(github.com)

97 points by ingve 3 years ago | 30 comments

How the most popular cars in the US track drivers(wired.com)

95 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 100 comments

Adversarial Collaboration Project(web.sas.upenn.edu)

94 points by sebg 3 years ago | 17 comments

FAA issues ground stop for all DC-area airports due to equipment fire(fox5dc.com)

94 points by mikequinlan 3 years ago | 50 comments

Einstein's Philosophy of Science (2019)(plato.stanford.edu)

92 points by xingyzt 3 years ago | 14 comments

How platform engineering works(chadxz.dev)

91 points by chadxz 3 years ago | 33 comments

Web-based cryptography is always snake oil(devever.net)

91 points by hlandau 3 years ago | 82 comments

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (2013)(washingtonpost.com)

88 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 75 comments

Formula E team caught using RFID scanner that got live tire data from other cars(theverge.com)

85 points by rntn 3 years ago | 41 comments

Adobe Account Expiration(mjtsai.com)

80 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 29 comments

Happiness is a reward from our ancestors(woodfromeden.substack.com)

80 points by jinjin2 3 years ago | 67 comments

Delhi man gets AliExpress order after four years(indianexpress.com)

78 points by webmobdev 3 years ago | 45 comments

The hidden cost of gasoline(grist.org)

78 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 64 comments

How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men(nature.com)

78 points by gmays 3 years ago | 51 comments

Btop++: Resource monitor for processor, memory, disks, network and processes(github.com)

77 points by ingve 3 years ago | 9 comments

The Little Book of Deep Learning(fleuret.org)

73 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 8 comments

The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility(technologyreview.com)

70 points by marban 3 years ago | 52 comments

Counting the Hard Way(rupertmckay.com)

69 points by fildon 3 years ago | 16 comments

Repairing a $25K HP Workstation from 1981 to Run Pac-Man(hackaday.com)

64 points by redbell 3 years ago | 12 comments

Recovering Steely Dan’s second arrangement(expandingdan.substack.com)

60 points by omar_alt 3 years ago | 6 comments

SQLite Journal Modes [video](youtube.com)

60 points by ducaale 3 years ago | 3 comments