Hacker News on Monday, 10 July 2023

Firefox address bar(wiki.tilde.institute)

921 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 287 comments

A wiki page listing Firefox address bar modifier characters (^, *, %, #, etc.) for filtering results to history, bookmarks, tabs, titles, and URLs.

Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine(workout.lol)

843 points by Vincenius 3 years ago | 247 comments

Workout.lol is an open-source web app that builds a workout routine by selecting available equipment, target muscles, and exercises.

Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone(github.com)

675 points by barbazoo 3 years ago | 313 comments

GitHub repository for Immich, an open-source self-hosted photo and video backup solution that works directly from your mobile phone.

Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983(statecraft.beehiiv.com)

576 points by armanhq 3 years ago | 587 comments

A Statecraft newsletter post by Arman Madani on the 710% rise in US college tuition costs since 1983 and student loan debt forgiveness.

First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming(wsj.com)

500 points by pondsider 3 years ago | 122 comments

WSJ article on a proposed Massachusetts law that would be the first U.S. ban on selling cellphone location data.

Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust(letsencrypt.org)

496 points by healsdata 3 years ago | 258 comments

Let's Encrypt blog post (July 2023) announcing the end of the IdenTrust DST Root CA X3 cross-sign, shortening its default certificate chain.

Thunderbird 115(thunderbird.net)

477 points by patadune 3 years ago | 286 comments

Mozilla Thunderbird's "What's New" page for version 115 "Supernova", introducing the redesigned email client.

Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac(jvns.ca)

469 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 137 comments

Julia Evans blog post recommending Lima as a simpler alternative to Vagrant for running Linux virtual machines on a Mac.

New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable(gamehistory.org)

430 points by coldpie 3 years ago | 390 comments

Video Game History Foundation article on a study finding 87% of classic video games are commercially unavailable today.

Proof you can do hard things(blog.nateliason.com)

399 points by jamiegreen 3 years ago | 269 comments

Nat Eliason newsletter essay arguing that accomplishing difficult things is an essential part of one's "life resume."

Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset(github.com)

384 points by ozten 3 years ago | 211 comments

GitHub repository branch by zhuowei that takes stereoscopic screenshots in the visionOS simulator and streams it to a Meta Quest headset via ALVR.

We replaced Firecracker with QEMU(hocus.dev)

379 points by hugodutka 3 years ago | 137 comments

Hocus blog post by co-founder Hugo Dutka explaining why the company switched its development environment VMs from Firecracker to QEMU.

A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video](youtube.com)

368 points by nipponese 3 years ago | 273 comments

A Process X YouTube video showing a Japanese factory that weaves kimono fabric, including design work done on a decades-old computer.

Nitter is working again(github.com)

356 points by linusg789 3 years ago | 77 comments

GitHub pull request #927 "Fix everything" in the Nitter repo, merged to restore functionality using a new bearer token and updated Twitter endpoints.

Easy SVG sparklines(alexplescan.com)

317 points by alexpls 3 years ago | 87 comments

Blog post by Alex Plescan explaining how to build simple sparkline charts with SVG, as used in his Mailgrip email inbox app.

Shelf – open-source asset management software(github.com)

295 points by CarlosVirreira 3 years ago | 63 comments

A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized(quantamagazine.org)

233 points by theafh 3 years ago | 292 comments

Easy HTTPS for your private networks(getlocalcert.net)

233 points by 8organicbits 3 years ago | 101 comments

2048 Bit RSA and the Year 2030(articles.59.ca)

218 points by upofadown 3 years ago | 126 comments

Debate over 'fake work' and 'lazy management' in tech industry(businessinsider.com)

201 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 156 comments

C++23: The Next C++ Standard(modernescpp.com)

198 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 332 comments

Kubernetes SidecarContainers feature is merged(github.com)

198 points by xdasf 3 years ago | 46 comments

Mistakes with Rust smart pointers: when Deref goes wrong(fuzzypixelz.com)

188 points by xy2_ 3 years ago | 46 comments

Harvard ethics prof fabricated multiple behavioral science studies(thecollegefix.com)

184 points by 1sembiyan 3 years ago | 151 comments

Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse(privacy.thenexus.today)

179 points by jdp23 3 years ago | 67 comments

A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA(nature.com)

175 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 104 comments

Introduction to vector similarity search (2022)(zilliz.com)

170 points by fzliu 3 years ago | 46 comments

Show HN: Danswer – Open-source question answering across all your docs(github.com)

164 points by Weves 3 years ago | 55 comments

Resilience requires helping each other out(surfingcomplexity.blog)

163 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 71 comments

Space After Periods (1993)(1997.webhistory.org)

157 points by susam 3 years ago | 144 comments

Show HN: A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C(github.com)

154 points by mkirchner 3 years ago | 41 comments

Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center(wired.com)

142 points by pepys 3 years ago | 54 comments

Invisible Details of Interaction Design(rauno.me)

139 points by zenorocha 3 years ago | 26 comments

Brian Eno albums available in Dolby Atmos and Spatial(udiscovermusic.com)

127 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 138 comments

The controller pattern is awful, and other OO heresy (2013)(eev.ee)

122 points by thatxliner 3 years ago | 129 comments

The Perfect Business (2014) [pdf](beterinbeleggen.nl)

122 points by cs702 3 years ago | 34 comments

Hilbert Transform(electroagenda.com)

122 points by topsycatt 3 years ago | 22 comments

FreeShip Plus in Lazarus – An open-source software for boat and hull design(github.com)

116 points by app4soft 3 years ago | 16 comments

Feature Flags: Theory vs. Reality(bpapillon.com)

113 points by benpapillon 3 years ago | 75 comments

Show HN: The full source code and assets for my custom game engine and game

107 points by mknsri 3 years ago | 23 comments

At Japan’s first winery, the country’s oldest grape lives on(japantimes.co.jp)

100 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 76 comments

Laniakea Supercluster(en.wikipedia.org)

100 points by corentin88 3 years ago | 84 comments

Frame generation essentials: Interpolation, extrapolation, and reprojection(blurbusters.com)

97 points by retro_guy 3 years ago | 8 comments

MicroVM by QEMU(qemu.readthedocs.io)

95 points by kbumsik 3 years ago | 4 comments

Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%(chatting.neocities.org)

92 points by Chatting 3 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: React95 – A React components library recreating the look of Windows 95(github.com)

89 points by hatf0 3 years ago | 31 comments

People are paying to break printers with sledgehammers in smash rooms(washingtonpost.com)

88 points by geox 3 years ago | 117 comments

Show HN: Manabi Reader – Learn Japanese by Reading on iOS and macOS (SwiftUI)(reader.manabi.io)

87 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 40 comments

Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox(hacks.mozilla.org)

84 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 32 comments

Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021(nathanotterness.com)

84 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 8 comments

Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To(oracle.com)

83 points by geerlingguy 3 years ago | 59 comments

Stéphane Graber has left Canonical(stgraber.org)

78 points by psanford 3 years ago | 64 comments

Uber, DoorDash Sue NYC to Stop Delivery Drivers from Getting a Minimum Wage(vice.com)

75 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 68 comments

OwnCloud Infinite Scale added EULA that prohibits commercial use [pdf](github.com)

75 points by jgillich 3 years ago | 94 comments

Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator(tomverbeure.github.io)

71 points by picture 3 years ago | 24 comments

Are the Americans Awake?(are-the-americans-awake.yusuf.fyi)

68 points by spacebuffer 3 years ago | 89 comments

Evernote has laid off most of its US staff and will move operations to Europe(theverge.com)

68 points by laktak 3 years ago | 64 comments

Some companies think customers will accidentally cancel if it's too easy(gizmodo.com)

67 points by passwordoops 3 years ago | 97 comments

HyperPhysics (1998)(hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu)

66 points by hliyan 3 years ago | 16 comments

Saving a German Library as an interface between research and infrastructure(zukunft-der-sub.de)

66 points by makula 3 years ago | 4 comments