Hacker News on Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Chiptune.app(chiptune.app)

488 points by lindtobias 3 years ago | 145 comments

Chip Player JS, a browser-based player for searching and playing over 200,000 chiptune and video game music files.

Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”(blog.thunderbird.net)

463 points by Ayesh 3 years ago | 265 comments

Thunderbird blog post announcing the release of Thunderbird 115 "Supernova", billed as its fastest and most redesigned version.

Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL(xata.io)

461 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 160 comments

Xata blog post, part 1 of a series, exploring how to build an advanced full-text search engine using PostgreSQL's built-in features.

Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)(github.com)

440 points by promiseofbeans 3 years ago | 141 comments

GitHub repository hosting the leaked, slightly cleaned-up original 2003 source code of the video game The Simpsons: Hit & Run.

I Am Leaving(briefs.video)

414 points by tagawa 3 years ago | 532 comments

A briefs.video animated video essay titled "I Am Leaving," apparently about people loudly announcing their departure from online platforms.

Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing(verdagon.dev)

365 points by modernerd 3 years ago | 122 comments

Blog post by Evan Ovadia presenting results and benchmarks from Vale's first prototype of immutable region borrowing for reducing memory safety overhead.

Telling the Bees(en.wikipedia.org)

346 points by penguin_booze 3 years ago | 219 comments

Wikipedia article on 'telling the bees', a European folk tradition of informing beehives about important household events like deaths and marriages.

Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government(social.overheid.nl)

286 points by yread 3 years ago | 131 comments

RPCS3 – Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator(rpcs3.net)

274 points by notmysql_ 3 years ago | 137 comments

“Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate technology shown in this graphic”(twitter.com)

259 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 318 comments

Milan Kundera has died(variety.com)

250 points by atlasunshrugged 3 years ago | 79 comments

Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor(manifund.org)

250 points by flaque 3 years ago | 152 comments

Pines – Alpine and Tailwind UI Library(devdojo.com)

240 points by vyrotek 3 years ago | 73 comments

NotebookLM: An AI Notebook(blog.google)

236 points by TangerineDream 3 years ago | 114 comments

Figma Is a File Editor(digest.browsertech.com)

229 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 56 comments

Maker Faire Bay Area Returns(makerfaire.com)

218 points by tagami 3 years ago | 52 comments

Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta(theverge.com)

215 points by DemiGuru 3 years ago | 113 comments

Ask HN: Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names?

207 points by Throwawayh89 3 years ago | 78 comments

SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years(abc7news.com)

206 points by c5karl 3 years ago | 261 comments

Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions(arstechnica.com)

203 points by mikece 3 years ago | 91 comments

BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board(beagleboard.org)

200 points by abawany 3 years ago | 136 comments

PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator(pcsx2.net)

198 points by notmysql_ 3 years ago | 87 comments

Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student(klangmag.co)

193 points by tomduncalf 3 years ago | 164 comments

Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage(github.com)

191 points by AlexB138 3 years ago | 106 comments

Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings(creatoreconomy.so)

189 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 184 comments

Birds make nests out of anti-bird pins(naturalis.nl)

176 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 46 comments

Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface(commitmono.com)

174 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 88 comments

Tokenized Tokens(fly.io)

167 points by darthShadow 3 years ago | 27 comments

Gene linked to long Covid found in analysis of thousands of patients(nature.com)

166 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 112 comments

Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers(bbc.com)

164 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 176 comments

Windows: A software engineering odyssey (2000)(usenix.org)

162 points by xo5vik 3 years ago | 90 comments

MuseScore 4.1 is now available(musescore.org)

159 points by em3rgent0rdr 3 years ago | 82 comments

The English Programming Language(github.com)

155 points by remoquete 3 years ago | 54 comments

Solve your big problems by solving your real problem(jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com)

154 points by zerocooled 3 years ago | 120 comments

TimeMaps (2017)(vincentmeertens.com)

139 points by metayrnc 3 years ago | 33 comments

Istanbul's blue tile paradise(onthearts.com)

133 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 71 comments

Chiplet ASIC supercomputers for LLMs like GPT-4(arxiv.org)

128 points by kraken12 3 years ago | 54 comments

Europe’s agenda for undersea internet cables(euractiv.com)

128 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 65 comments

How the design of Disney parks affects our perspective (2020)(disneycicerone.com)

125 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 49 comments

Mastodon has hit 2M active users today(cyberplace.social)

122 points by _han 3 years ago | 101 comments

Can Chess, with Hexagons? [video](youtube.com)

119 points by miiiiiike 3 years ago | 45 comments

Xenia: Xbox 360 Emulator (2022)(xenia.jp)

116 points by Philpax 3 years ago | 52 comments

Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API(github.com)

111 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 109 comments

The Webb telescope just offered a revelatory view of humanity’s distant past(arstechnica.com)

110 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 70 comments

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter(nytimes.com)

109 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 56 comments

XAI(x.ai)

106 points by georgehill 3 years ago | 86 comments

Minotaur: A SIMD-oriented synthesizing superoptimizer(arxiv.org)

102 points by luu 3 years ago | 13 comments

Uber Eats Canada Ran Production in a MacBook Air(twitter.com)

102 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 65 comments

June Inflation Drops to 3%(nytimes.com)

101 points by mgh2 3 years ago | 118 comments

Show HN: AI companions stack – create and host your own AI companions(github.com)

96 points by ykhli 3 years ago | 34 comments

Simone Weil’s Great Awakening(newstatesman.com)

94 points by enskied 3 years ago | 39 comments

Bcachefs File-System Plans to Try Again to Land in Linux 6.6(phoronix.com)

89 points by mikece 3 years ago | 105 comments

Serverless Semantic Search, Free tier only(qdrant.tech)

85 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 53 comments

Going beyond ‘do you know of any open positions?’(dewanahmed.com)

79 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 94 comments

20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding(neon.tech)

79 points by nikita 3 years ago | 33 comments

Computers and Automata (1953)(fermatslibrary.com)

77 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 10 comments

Hardening Emulated Devices in OpenBSD's Vmd(8) Hypervisor [pdf](openbsd.org)

74 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 1 comments

Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf](lamport.azurewebsites.net)

73 points by Jtsummers 3 years ago | 30 comments

Instagram Threads: The problem with the “everything for everyone” approach(thisisunpacked.substack.com)

67 points by viggybala 3 years ago | 79 comments

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 brings a bit of Rust in the kernel(blogs.windows.com)

64 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 26 comments