Hacker News on Sunday, 2 July 2023

First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan(mainichi.jp)

905 points by elorant 3 years ago | 278 comments

Mainichi news article on a Japanese research team's tooth regrowth medication heading to clinical trials starting July 2024.

JavaScript Gom Jabbar(frantic.im)

527 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 238 comments

A satirical blog post framing reading a JavaScript package.json file as a Dune-style Gom Jabbar test of pain for veteran developers.

Stanford A.I. Courses(ai.stanford.edu)

415 points by ecks4ndr0s 3 years ago | 62 comments

Stanford AI Lab's course listing page, filterable by quarter, with links to video introductions for some courses such as Fall 2019 CS229.

Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5(alt-f4.blog)

414 points by BlueTemplar 3 years ago | 116 comments

Alt-F4 community blog issue #65 describing FUE5, a project that renders Factorio factories in Unreal Engine 5, covering its belt, train, and logistic systems and optimization.

Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?(oppositeinvictus.com)

371 points by redbell 3 years ago | 240 comments

A solo SaaS founder's blog post describing how scammers using stolen cards on his checkout led PayPal and Stripe to limit his accounts without contact.

AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare(phoronix.com)

301 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 234 comments

Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures(cs.cornell.edu)

255 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 68 comments

After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted(gfycat.com)

239 points by davikr 3 years ago | 101 comments

Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang(thechipletter.substack.com)

234 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 67 comments

Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany(metrics.torproject.org)

232 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 186 comments

Google search's death by a thousand cuts(matt-rickard.com)

230 points by rckrd 3 years ago | 192 comments

Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions(lemire.me)

213 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 98 comments

Entropy: A little understood concept in physics [video](youtube.com)

200 points by guptarohit 3 years ago | 144 comments

AI and the Automation of Work(ben-evans.com)

186 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 169 comments

GPT-Migrate converts repos from one lang/framework to another(github.com)

183 points by transitivebs 3 years ago | 129 comments

Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? (2022)(db.cs.cmu.edu)

174 points by nethunters 3 years ago | 159 comments

Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated by Modeling a Film Camera in Blender [video](youtube.com)

173 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 35 comments

Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL(woa-project.github.io)

165 points by Lammy 3 years ago | 22 comments

64bit computing on a budget(virtuallyfun.com)

163 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 56 comments

Intro to Cryptography [pdf] (2011)(cs.umd.edu)

158 points by seamac3 3 years ago | 38 comments

Commuters prefer origin to destination transfers(pedestrianobservations.com)

148 points by _delirium 3 years ago | 148 comments

A Functional Introduction To Computer Science(cs.uwaterloo.ca)

144 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 26 comments

AMIGAlive – Play Amiga games online with people across the world(amigalive.com)

143 points by indigodaddy 3 years ago | 7 comments

A Look at Bluesky(juliette.page)

143 points by julietteeb 3 years ago | 113 comments

WebAuthn Is Great and It Sucks (2020)(sec.okta.com)

134 points by stargrave 3 years ago | 112 comments

Writing as a form of thinking(lopespm.com)

132 points by lopespm 3 years ago | 48 comments

Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach(dynomight.net)

131 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 140 comments

Kokuhaku: Japan’s Love Confessing Culture (2013)(tofugu.com)

124 points by xyzzy3000 3 years ago | 98 comments

The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird(collindonnell.com)

123 points by ingve 3 years ago | 61 comments

Chinese Tech Terms Explained in English(16x.engineer)

115 points by paradite 3 years ago | 17 comments

Googling for answers costs time (2020)(prashanth.world)

114 points by mleonhard 3 years ago | 143 comments

Google Sidewiki(en.wikipedia.org)

114 points by r721 3 years ago | 76 comments

My Meeting with David Bohm(johnhorgan.org)

112 points by mathgenius 3 years ago | 41 comments

Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (1984)(spectrum.ieee.org)

112 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 46 comments

Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds(phys.org)

111 points by tangjurine 3 years ago | 69 comments

/u/spez is right about feudalism and that's why Reddit is doomed(maya.land)

111 points by earthboundkid 3 years ago | 116 comments

A toy programming language in 137 lines of Python code(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

110 points by miguelgrinberg 3 years ago | 44 comments

Tree-Structured Concurrency(blog.yoshuawuyts.com)

110 points by abhi9u 3 years ago | 16 comments

What Do We Owe Our Teams?(mironov.com)

108 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 38 comments

China Has $3T of ‘Hidden’ Currency Reserves, Setser Says(bloomberg.com)

93 points by NiceAndWarm 3 years ago | 102 comments

A curated list of Emacs Lisp development resources(github.com)

90 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 11 comments

Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?(movingthelimit.com)

88 points by MovingTheLimit 3 years ago | 86 comments

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued(kalzumeus.com)

87 points by m5r 3 years ago | 25 comments

It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing theyre still number one(theregister.com)

85 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Script – A text editor for digitally interconnected documents(use-script.com)

84 points by kevintouati 3 years ago | 31 comments

Show HN: Project S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. – open-source, self hosted, J.A.R.V.I.S.(github.com)

83 points by GRVYDEV 3 years ago | 21 comments

C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)(digitalmars.com)

83 points by fzliu 3 years ago | 68 comments

43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)(nbcnews.com)

79 points by contingencies 3 years ago | 72 comments

Disabled at 22 million commits(programming.dev)

78 points by volongoto 3 years ago | 76 comments

Forgotten tragedy of Italian war detainees (2020)(www3.nhk.or.jp)

76 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 13 comments

Automated CPU Design with AI(arxiv.org)

73 points by skilled 3 years ago | 21 comments

Safe Enough?(astralcodexten.substack.com)

71 points by emtel 3 years ago | 49 comments

Sending audio to LKV373 HDMI extenders (2021)(eta.st)

71 points by luu 3 years ago | 25 comments

iAnnotate – Whatever happened to the web as an annotation system? (2013)(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org)

66 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 42 comments

The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”(newyorker.com)

64 points by jhiesey 3 years ago | 50 comments

Anatomy of a Firework (2002)(pbs.org)

64 points by jameslk 3 years ago | 18 comments

OtterCast: FOSS Audio streaming device running Linux using Sochip S3 SiP(github.com)

62 points by goodburb 3 years ago | 17 comments

AMD’s EPYC 7J13: Zen 3 Customized(chipsandcheese.com)

61 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 9 comments

Recession canceled? U.S. stock market 'frothy' after S&P 500's strong first half(marketwatch.com)

56 points by MilnerRoute 3 years ago | 58 comments

The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)(readex.com)

56 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 16 comments