Hacker News on Wednesday, 28 June 2023

We raised a bunch of money(fly.io)

566 points by charliermarsh 3 years ago | 413 comments

Fly.io blog post announcing it raised $25M from A16Z and existing investors, plus an additional $70M round led by EQT Ventures.

Fast machines, slow machines(jmmv.dev)

482 points by _dain_ 3 years ago | 280 comments

Julio Merino's blog post expanding on his viral Twitter thread comparing app launch speed on an old Windows NT 3.51 machine versus a modern Windows 11 computer.

2,200 forgotten vintage computers from a barn in Massachusetts(vice.com)

385 points by zhte415 3 years ago | 80 comments

Vice article about 2,200 unused vintage NABU personal computers being recovered from a barn in Massachusetts.

Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs(github.com)

371 points by dloreto 3 years ago | 198 comments

GitHub repository for TypeID, a type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier format based on UUIDv7 and inspired by Stripe IDs.

Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)

361 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 416 comments

New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.

National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers(washingtonpost.com)

341 points by supportengineer 3 years ago | 338 comments

Washington Post article reporting that National Geographic laid off its last remaining staff writers amid digital-era struggles.

Show HN: Open-source background removal in the browser(github.com)

328 points by buss_jan 3 years ago | 30 comments

GitHub repository for @imgly/background-removal, a GPL-licensed JavaScript library that removes image backgrounds in the browser using ONNX models.

US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs(thehill.com)

283 points by fork-bomber 3 years ago | 576 comments

Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning(bbc.com)

280 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 200 comments

Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits(theregister.com)

267 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 401 comments

A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall(pompeiisites.org)

267 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 153 comments

Making Games(etodd.io)

257 points by et1337 3 years ago | 178 comments

XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens(blog.salesforceairesearch.com)

244 points by bratao 3 years ago | 84 comments

Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1(blog.jonlu.ca)

240 points by jonluca 3 years ago | 166 comments

Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor(awesomekling.substack.com)

218 points by msub2 3 years ago | 66 comments

Future CSS: State Container Queries(ishadeed.com)

218 points by brandrick 3 years ago | 79 comments

BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support(blocksuite.affine.pro)

218 points by lewisjoe 3 years ago | 83 comments

Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings(vangoghmuseum.nl)

215 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 115 comments

Computerraria: A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria(github.com)

213 points by inickt 3 years ago | 32 comments

Meta developer tools: Working at scale(engineering.fb.com)

210 points by ot 3 years ago | 162 comments

Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B(pismo.io)

210 points by jeanlucas 3 years ago | 106 comments

Flashing elements alienate users(astralcodexten.substack.com)

197 points by feross 3 years ago | 110 comments

Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads(technologyreview.com)

196 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 105 comments

I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts(github.com)

185 points by dredozubov 3 years ago | 47 comments

A trick to eliminate 2π (sometimes)(marci.gunyho.com)

180 points by mgunyho 3 years ago | 147 comments

Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank(advpulse.com)

173 points by harambae 3 years ago | 120 comments

To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology(money.com)

146 points by mcone 3 years ago | 307 comments

Using command line to process CSV files (2022)(muhammadraza.me)

143 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 90 comments

Natural language is an unnatural interface(varunshenoy.substack.com)

143 points by varunshenoy 3 years ago | 73 comments

The Bathyscaph Trieste: Technological and Operational Aspects (1962)(archive.org)

128 points by pmcjones 3 years ago | 108 comments

Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in your blood via Quest(pfas.report)

128 points by mdrew 3 years ago | 134 comments

Microsoft opens MIDI 2.0 repo(devblogs.microsoft.com)

127 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 49 comments

Ed Fredkin has died(twitter.com)

108 points by masswerk 3 years ago | 25 comments

Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)(startupwin.kelsus.com)

105 points by 0x54MUR41 3 years ago | 93 comments

In a major discovery, scientists say space-time churns like a choppy sea(washingtonpost.com)

103 points by zonotope 3 years ago | 38 comments

Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Product Analytics for B2B SaaS Companies

101 points by 0xferruccio 3 years ago | 39 comments

Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

99 points by msephton 3 years ago | 50 comments

The idea maze for AI startups (2015)(cdixon.org)

98 points by gmays 3 years ago | 40 comments

Pixel fucked: Inside Hollywood's VFX crisis(gq-magazine.co.uk)

98 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions(upvpn.app)

92 points by gigapotential 3 years ago | 96 comments

What AMD Learned from Its Big Chiplet Push(spectrum.ieee.org)

78 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 46 comments

Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su(ferrous-systems.com)

76 points by SGran 3 years ago | 91 comments

The Secretive Surveillance Wizards Helping ICE Wiretap Facebook and Google Users(forbes.com)

75 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 47 comments

Construct's New WebGPU Renderer(construct.net)

75 points by AshleysBrain 3 years ago | 20 comments

Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf](web.archive.org)

74 points by layer8 3 years ago | 26 comments

Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork(trinitydesktop.org)

72 points by haunter 3 years ago | 65 comments

Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?

72 points by AdviceAlt 3 years ago | 28 comments

Behind the Pretty Frames: Diablo IV(mamoniem.com)

72 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 30 comments

Sony just spilled confidential Playstation information because of a Sharpie(theverge.com)

69 points by mvdtnz 3 years ago | 45 comments

Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff(theverge.com)

65 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 60 comments

How not to write a pipeline(cohost.org)

65 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 21 comments

How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox(dropbox.tech)

64 points by el_duderino 3 years ago | 27 comments

Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them(theregister.com)

59 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 77 comments

Show HN: Webhooks for platforms that do not natively support them(nohooks.io)

59 points by subomi 3 years ago | 18 comments

The False Dawn: Reevaluating Google's RL for Chip Macro Placement(arxiv.org)

57 points by oldgradstudent 3 years ago | 15 comments

Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore(bbc.com)

55 points by tartoran 3 years ago | 82 comments

The Letter Circle(lostgarden.home.blog)

53 points by joeyespo 3 years ago | 6 comments

Stability AI Head of Research Resigns from Startup(bloomberg.com)

52 points by swyx 3 years ago | 23 comments

PayPal “Buy Now” buttons have been broken for a week

48 points by davisr 3 years ago | 16 comments

Irregularities found during FDA inspection of Intas Pharmaceuticals(fda.gov)

47 points by supriyo-biswas 3 years ago | 34 comments