Hacker News on Tuesday, 27 June 2023

macOS command-line tools you might not know about(saurabhs.org)

1910 points by Gadiguibou 3 years ago | 411 comments

A personal blog post listing macOS-specific command-line utilities such as caffeinate, with usage examples and flags.

The Password Game(neal.fun)

1355 points by kretaceous 3 years ago | 466 comments

The Password Game on neal.fun, a browser puzzle game where players must create a password satisfying increasingly absurd rules.

Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default(support.microsoft.com)

771 points by mfwit 3 years ago | 539 comments

Microsoft support article explaining that links in the Outlook app for Microsoft 365 subscribers now open in Microsoft Edge alongside the email by default.

The hidden cost of air quality monitoring(airgradient.com)

539 points by ahaucnx 3 years ago | 258 comments

AirGradient blog post by Achim Haug on the hidden costs of owning air quality monitors, such as manufacturers crippling free data APIs to push paid plans.

FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans(thedrive.com)

436 points by cwwc 3 years ago | 261 comments

The Drive news article reporting allegations that FedEx committed large-scale odometer rollback fraud on used delivery vans it sold.

Is ORM still an anti-pattern?(github.com)

337 points by AnhTho_FR 3 years ago | 611 comments

A GitHub wiki page from the Lago project arguing that ORMs are criticized for the wrong reasons and examining whether ORM is still an anti-pattern.

The Deep Sea (2019)(neal.fun)

333 points by throw0101a 3 years ago | 106 comments

An interactive scrolling visualization by Neal Agarwal that descends through the ocean's depths, showing the creatures and objects found at each depth.

Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress(venturebeat.com)

286 points by thibo_skabgia 3 years ago | 65 comments

The damaging results of mandated return to office(entrepreneur.com)

281 points by MBCook 3 years ago | 218 comments

Build your own Docker with Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot(akashrajpurohit.com)

266 points by ghostfoxgod 3 years ago | 115 comments

Sears offered complete houses in large DIY kits(twitter.com)

255 points by taubek 3 years ago | 224 comments

LLM Powered Autonomous Agents(lilianweng.github.io)

230 points by DanielKehoe 3 years ago | 122 comments

FreeBSD Jails Containers(vermaden.wordpress.com)

205 points by vermaden 3 years ago | 53 comments

Blender 3.6 LTS Released(blender.org)

201 points by victornomad 3 years ago | 35 comments

Testing a 1,000 player Minecraft server with Folia(cubxity.dev)

197 points by creatonez 3 years ago | 141 comments

Patterns of Distributed Systems (2022)(martinfowler.com)

195 points by eclectic29 3 years ago | 53 comments

Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN(tinc-vpn.org)

187 points by azalemeth 3 years ago | 68 comments

I Built Linux from Scratch(thesloth.me)

174 points by imthesloth 3 years ago | 86 comments

New bioinspired robot flies, rolls, walks, and more(caltech.edu)

172 points by tromp 3 years ago | 58 comments

Time to subsidize e-bikes?(clivethompson.medium.com)

172 points by lamontcg 3 years ago | 190 comments

A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video](youtube.com)

172 points by lawrenceyan 3 years ago | 26 comments

Zellij New WASM Plugin System(zellij.dev)

170 points by sbt567 3 years ago | 58 comments

It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds(twitter.com)

163 points by bilsbie 3 years ago | 178 comments

Finding the best sine function for Nintendo 64 [video](youtube.com)

163 points by codetrotter 3 years ago | 28 comments

Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language(cooklang.org)

162 points by SethKinast 3 years ago | 78 comments

OPNsense: Open-source security platform(opnsense.org)

161 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 110 comments

Google does little to reduce advertisers' costs(simpleblog.ai)

154 points by sh_tomer 3 years ago | 147 comments

Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era(github.com)

153 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 75 comments

Half of US wetlands lost federal protection. Their fate is up to the states(pilotonline.com)

152 points by DoreenMichele 3 years ago | 79 comments

Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022(opensource.googleblog.com)

150 points by rhaen 3 years ago | 115 comments

Why write?(bastian.rieck.me)

145 points by Pseudomanifold 3 years ago | 33 comments

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?(quoteinvestigator.com)

142 points by mhb 3 years ago | 136 comments

H100 GPUs Set Standard for Gen AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark(blogs.nvidia.com)

137 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 62 comments

The Comprehensive Guide to Elixir's List Comprehension (2022)(mitchellhanberg.com)

136 points by clessg 3 years ago | 20 comments

OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like systems(wiki.gentoo.org)

136 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 102 comments

Optimizing a ring buffer for throughput (2021)(rigtorp.se)

136 points by signa11 3 years ago | 53 comments

Writing Python like Rust (2020)(oatzy.github.io)

133 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 143 comments

Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics(kffhealthnews.org)

130 points by JPLeRouzic 3 years ago | 71 comments

Arduino Uno R4(store.arduino.cc)

118 points by iamflimflam1 3 years ago | 59 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried fails to dismiss criminal charges related to FTX(ft.com)

117 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 71 comments

The quest for a simple smartwatch(binarymoon.co.uk)

113 points by ingve 3 years ago | 206 comments

Giant 'Gravity Hole' in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea(scientificamerican.com)

111 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 54 comments

Tinyx – Resurrected Xvesa from the depths of Git history(github.com)

108 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 45 comments

False 911 Calls Increase During Festival as iOS Mistakes Dancing for Car Crashes(gizmodo.com)

106 points by KomoD 3 years ago | 96 comments

Show HN: An Interactive Guide to Teach Derivatives and Backpropagation(x0axz.com)

103 points by x0axz 3 years ago | 8 comments

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit(book.mixu.net)

99 points by abhi9u 3 years ago | 6 comments

Emacs4CL: A DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming(github.com)

98 points by susam 3 years ago | 24 comments

Show HN: BillaBear – Self-Hosted SaaS Subscription Management and Billing(github.com)

96 points by that_guy_iain 3 years ago | 38 comments

In deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life(theregister.com)

95 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 30 comments

Solving “Two Sum” in C with a tiny hash table(nullprogram.com)

93 points by ingve 3 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps(superblocks.com)

93 points by frankgrecojr 3 years ago | 58 comments

Cloud, Why So Difficult?(winglang.io)

88 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 58 comments

The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook(theverge.com)

87 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 154 comments

Vaporwave and Unicode Analysis(yaytext.com)

86 points by favourable 3 years ago | 10 comments

Launch HN: Fuse (YC W19) – Unified API for financial data aggregators

84 points by tonikami 3 years ago | 36 comments

Plane crash rates by model(airsafe.com)

84 points by hosteur 3 years ago | 121 comments

Pixar was never a masterpiece factory(freddiedeboer.substack.com)

83 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 152 comments

AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Emulation(ir.amd.com)

83 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 29 comments

South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting(independent.co.uk)

75 points by danielovichdk 3 years ago | 103 comments

The future of AI according to thousands of forecasters(metaculus.com)

75 points by ddp26 3 years ago | 54 comments