Hacker News on Friday, 14 July 2023

Internet Archive expands Flash support(mastodon.archive.org)

471 points by sogen 3 years ago | 201 comments

Mastodon post by Jason Scott announcing improved Flash emulation at the Internet Archive, including sound toggling, auto-resizing, and multi-SWF support.

WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser(developer.wordpress.org)

431 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 181 comments

Landing page for WordPress Playground, a tool that runs a full WordPress instance entirely in the web browser for trying blocks, themes, and plugins.

S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’(sfchronicle.com)

344 points by mikhael 3 years ago | 767 comments

San Francisco Chronicle article reporting that city officials say incidents involving Cruise and Waymo driverless taxis are rising sharply, and what the city plans to do.

On Becoming a VP of Engineering(honeycomb.io)

247 points by endlessloops 3 years ago | 185 comments

Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash(verticalmag.com)

247 points by mik3y 3 years ago | 148 comments

India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moons water rich South Pole(newscientist.com)

226 points by FlyingSnake 3 years ago | 81 comments

Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets(undeadly.org)

225 points by peter_hansteen 3 years ago | 117 comments

The Problem with LangChain(minimaxir.com)

214 points by minimaxir 3 years ago | 62 comments

Sniffnet – Comfortably monitor your internet traffic (like Wireshark)(sniffnet.net)

212 points by kristianpaul 3 years ago | 43 comments

Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST(pnas.org)

208 points by misja111 3 years ago | 80 comments

COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros(blog.system76.com)

199 points by pantalaimon 3 years ago | 121 comments

Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease(theguardian.com)

199 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 155 comments

Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks – 0.5x a Presses [video](youtube.com)

198 points by jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 3 years ago | 73 comments

VanMoof encryption key exporter(github.com)

188 points by doener 3 years ago | 187 comments

Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors(rss-bridge.org)

184 points by thirdplace_ 3 years ago | 43 comments

Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri(medium.com)

180 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 152 comments

Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG(safetydetectives.com)

179 points by downrightmike 3 years ago | 94 comments

Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms(link.springer.com)

179 points by xlii 3 years ago | 229 comments

Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support(podman-desktop.io)

177 points by twelvenmonkeys 3 years ago | 100 comments

Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests (2021)(fastly.com)

165 points by promiseofbeans 3 years ago | 51 comments

Binance lays off over 1k Employees(wsj.com)

156 points by jason_zig 3 years ago | 139 comments

Intuitionism(en.wikipedia.org)

156 points by rotartsi 3 years ago | 154 comments

Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding(blog.polar.sh)

151 points by patrick91 3 years ago | 95 comments

Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)(erikbern.com)

151 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 133 comments

On Becoming a VP of Engineering pt. 2(honeycomb.io)

148 points by Spectar 3 years ago | 54 comments

OpenSSH has some peculiar handling around command line arguments(blog.devops.dev)

146 points by madworx 3 years ago | 79 comments

Gallery of Processor Cache Effects(igoro.com)

140 points by signa11 3 years ago | 32 comments

Could an industrial civilization have predated humans on Earth?(nautil.us)

138 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 185 comments

Meta to release open-source commercial AI model(zdnet.com)

131 points by maskil 3 years ago | 112 comments

OpenBSD Innovations(openbsd.org)

129 points by vogon_laureate 3 years ago | 52 comments

The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)(documentjournal.com)

112 points by lantry 3 years ago | 174 comments

Polyhedral Splines(projects.blender.org)

111 points by app4soft 3 years ago | 18 comments

Eddiots(eddiots.com)

111 points by jacquesm 3 years ago | 33 comments

Akan Names(en.wikipedia.org)

101 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 40 comments

Alto Trek(en.wikipedia.org)

94 points by nanna 3 years ago | 19 comments

2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server(brutmanlabs.org)

87 points by mbbrutman 3 years ago | 61 comments

A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning (2016)(meltingasphalt.com)

87 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 165 comments

Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)(bitsaboutmoney.com)

85 points by shsachdev 3 years ago | 134 comments

How Lewis Carroll computed determinants(johndcook.com)

85 points by alberto_ol 3 years ago | 28 comments

Building a safer FIDO2 key with privilege separation and WebAssembly(benkettle.xyz)

85 points by bkettle 3 years ago | 14 comments

Darmok and Jalad on the Internet-The Importance of Metaphors in Natural Language(researchgate.net)

82 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 28 comments

Libxo: Easy way to generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML(juniper.github.io)

79 points by edward 3 years ago | 23 comments

Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year(pb.co.za)

76 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 65 comments

Life After Coding: Becoming a Mentor(vadimkravcenko.com)

76 points by bndr 3 years ago | 29 comments

Voice Actor Turns Instagram's Terms of Service into 51-Minute Sleep Aid(vice.com)

75 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 31 comments

Game design wiki(rosacarbo.notion.site)

75 points by janjoseph 3 years ago | 23 comments

Abydos beer factory: Ancient large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt (2021)(bbc.com)

72 points by tellarin 3 years ago | 16 comments

Ever Given report highlights Suez Canal pilots’ role in grounding(gcaptain.com)

70 points by Breadmaker 3 years ago | 27 comments

Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusiast programmers is ending(blog.testdouble.com)

69 points by rrampage 3 years ago | 83 comments

Large-scale analysis of code re-use in Atari 2600 games (2022)(dl.acm.org)

69 points by corysama 3 years ago | 26 comments

Fudge: Reverse Tetris(vividfax.itch.io)

67 points by smarm 3 years ago | 26 comments

Astronomers witness energetic switch on of black hole(phys.org)

66 points by wglb 3 years ago | 36 comments

Why was the F-117 retired so quickly?(technology.org)

66 points by belter 3 years ago | 96 comments

US inflation cooled in June for the 12th straight month(cnn.com)

65 points by gmays 3 years ago | 49 comments

Claude 2 Internal API Client and CLI(github.com)

61 points by explosion-s 3 years ago | 56 comments

Aya: An open science project to build open multilingual models and datasets(txt.cohere.com)

61 points by tellarin 3 years ago | 4 comments

Neural stimulation as a treatment for addiction(spectrum.ieee.org)

61 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 23 comments

The deindustrialization of Germany(politico.eu)

59 points by flashfaffe2 3 years ago | 74 comments

Iranians sell kidneys on Instagram to survive economic hardship(thenationalnews.com)

57 points by ryzvonusef 3 years ago | 34 comments

Striking Sag Actors in Disbelief over Studios’ Dystopian AI Proposal(rollingstone.com)

53 points by rawgabbit 3 years ago | 50 comments