Hacker News on Saturday, 15 July 2023

Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website(wiby.me)

1167 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 309 comments

Wiby's surprise link redirects to a random old-style Web 1.0 page, shown here landing on a 1999 CD Clubs FAQ about BMG and Columbia House.

A third of North America’s birds have vanished(nautil.us)

478 points by geox 3 years ago | 392 comments

Nautilus zoology article reporting that roughly a third of North America's bird population has disappeared in recent decades.

Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law(fortune.com)

453 points by danboarder 3 years ago | 316 comments

Fortune article reporting that Signal's president says the company will not comply with a proposed U.K. law requiring mandatory message scanning.

PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat(orioledata.com)

367 points by pella 3 years ago | 105 comments

Oriole blog post about eliminating VACUUM and table bloat in PostgreSQL using the OrioleDB storage engine.

Another World ported to FPGA(github.com)

283 points by retro_guy 3 years ago | 67 comments

Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data(lets-plot.org)

271 points by pkkm 3 years ago | 79 comments

Wireshark Is 25: The email that started it all and lessons learned along the way(blog.wireshark.org)

266 points by ingve 3 years ago | 53 comments

“Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?”(twitter.com)

255 points by scblzn 3 years ago | 185 comments

The theory versus the practice of “static websites”(utcc.utoronto.ca)

254 points by ingve 3 years ago | 182 comments

Nobody cares about your blog(alexmolas.com)

248 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 145 comments

The Uxn Ecosystem(100r.co)

245 points by tonyg 3 years ago | 39 comments

Ziplm: Gzip-Backed Language Model(github.com)

215 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 57 comments

Tor is not just for anonymity (2022)(blog.pastly.net)

190 points by Fred34 3 years ago | 119 comments

Matrices and Graph(thepalindrome.org)

186 points by jgrodziski 3 years ago | 40 comments

The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training(stackdiary.com)

183 points by rand0mx1 3 years ago | 83 comments

Chuck E. Cheese's 1982 Annual Report For Kids [pdf](showbizpizza.com)

177 points by striking 3 years ago | 70 comments

Receiving unintentional voice transmissions from GPS satellites(rtl-sdr.com)

171 points by thcipriani 3 years ago | 69 comments

Full Text of the Federalist Papers(guides.loc.gov)

170 points by evo_9 3 years ago | 124 comments

Snakemake – A framework for reproducible data analysis(snakemake.github.io)

158 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 37 comments

The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet(dancowell.com)

152 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 110 comments

“The Famous F40” Vector Illustration(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

142 points by msephton 3 years ago | 48 comments

What planes can you fly without a pilot’s license?(pilotinstitute.com)

140 points by b8 3 years ago | 185 comments

Microsoft takes pains to obscure role in 0-days that caused email breach(arstechnica.com)

133 points by fauigerzigerk 3 years ago | 26 comments

Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)(greem.co.uk)

129 points by mgliwka 3 years ago | 41 comments

Unloop: A generative music looper that doesn’t repeat itself(github.com)

129 points by iyaja 3 years ago | 12 comments

British F-35Bs to Bring Vertical Landing Abilities to Highways(thedrive.com)

125 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 263 comments

The Pull Request Hack Is Fucking Magic(shkspr.mobi)

116 points by edent 3 years ago | 43 comments

Minify and Gzip (2022)(blog.wesleyac.com)

116 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 75 comments

The Haskell job market has been growing steaily since 2008(github.com)

113 points by nh2 3 years ago | 112 comments

A bell that rings two notes at once (2017) [video](youtube.com)

108 points by djoldman 3 years ago | 19 comments

Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul(theringer.com)

106 points by rrherr 3 years ago | 58 comments

Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in the America's hottest city?(theregister.com)

106 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 134 comments

Synit – A Reactive Operating System(synit.org)

101 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 25 comments

Why can’t you just roll back from a bad macOS update?(eclecticlight.co)

100 points by ingve 3 years ago | 83 comments

Metaculus(metaculus.com)

99 points by kqr 3 years ago | 18 comments

Data-Oriented Design Principles(data-oriented.design)

97 points by ingve 3 years ago | 39 comments

Evidence for a gravitational wave background from a galaxy-sized detector(astrobites.org)

96 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 28 comments

Kagi: Words You Cannot Use: 'Constitutional AI', 'Anthropic', 'Anthropic, PBC'(labs.kagi.com)

92 points by proompter 3 years ago | 32 comments

She Turns Fluids into 'Black Holes' and 'Inflating Universes'(quantamagazine.org)

92 points by _aleph2c_ 3 years ago | 63 comments

Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)(danwang.co)

91 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 237 comments

Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge(techcrunch.com)

90 points by gslin 3 years ago | 57 comments

Company builds 500cc ‘one-stroke’ engine(thedrive.com)

89 points by throwaway28203 3 years ago | 49 comments

Commodore 64 VIC-II 6567/6569 Replacement Project(github.com)

87 points by snvzz 3 years ago | 22 comments

Why checked exceptions failed(borretti.me)

86 points by rsaarelm 3 years ago | 253 comments

New emojis in 2023-2024(blog.emojipedia.org)

77 points by ourmandave 3 years ago | 174 comments

Ask HN: How to price your first enterprise customer?

77 points by secopssaas 3 years ago | 54 comments

Mega-dose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold (2001)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

76 points by jacquesm 3 years ago | 60 comments

Linux Code for “Device Memory TCP” – Network to/from Accelerator RAM(phoronix.com)

75 points by ksec 3 years ago | 32 comments

Bell Labs Holmdel Complex (2019)(abandonedamerica.us)

75 points by zdw 3 years ago | 49 comments

Fusion reactor is held together with tape(spectrum.ieee.org)

69 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 45 comments

Donald Triplett was autism’s “case 1”(economist.com)

67 points by jkuria 3 years ago | 42 comments

History of T (2001)(paulgraham.com)

64 points by swatson741 3 years ago | 19 comments

Negative Mass(students.tools)

63 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 36 comments

Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs from anyone's cells(npr.org)

60 points by lxm 3 years ago | 44 comments

Underground heat is shifting Chicago’s foundations(nytimes.com)

59 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 39 comments

Defenestration of Prague Window (2019)(atlasobscura.com)

54 points by pepys 3 years ago | 43 comments

“Kolmogorov music” by Christopher Ford (2015) [video](youtube.com)

53 points by winkywooster 3 years ago | 4 comments

The problem with slow tools (2021)(jeremymikkola.com)

53 points by piinbinary 3 years ago | 40 comments

No cyber resilience without open source sustainability(github.blog)

52 points by AugustoCAS 3 years ago | 40 comments

DiaryLand is still going?(members.diaryland.com)

51 points by devinjon 3 years ago | 38 comments