Hacker News on Saturday, 5 August 2023

Bram Moolenaar has died(groups.google.com)

4020 points by wufocaculura 3 years ago | 383 comments

A vim_announce Google Groups post from Bram Moolenaar's family announcing his death on 3 August 2023 and his upcoming funeral arrangements.

Just normal web things(heather-buchel.com)

523 points by vitplister 3 years ago | 200 comments

Blog post by Heather Buchel arguing that new websites and apps, like recent social media clients, fail to support basic normal web behaviors.

NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2(jpl.nasa.gov)

393 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 82 comments

NASA JPL mission update from July 2023 about a pause in communications with the Voyager 2 spacecraft, later updated with restored contact.

nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990(funet.fi)

389 points by Someone 3 years ago | 135 comments

Homepage of nic.funet.fi, a Finnish FTP archive serving freely distributable files since 1990 and the site where Linux was first released in 1991.

New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy(bleepingcomputer.com)

372 points by mikece 3 years ago | 214 comments

BleepingComputer article on a research attack that uses deep learning on recorded keyboard sounds to infer keystrokes with 95% accuracy.

Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures(twitter.com)

365 points by machdiamonds 3 years ago | 443 comments

Hank Green tweet thread arguing that reduced ship sulfur emissions may explain the spike in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures.

Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?(twitter.com)

313 points by kochie 3 years ago | 178 comments

MK-1(mkone.ai)

268 points by ejz 3 years ago | 44 comments

IBM and NASA open-source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face(newsroom.ibm.com)

256 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 22 comments

Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)(righto.com)

221 points by optimalsolver 3 years ago | 98 comments

Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot(news.slashdot.org)

216 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 18 comments

CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft(southernillinoisnow.com)

206 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 173 comments

Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away(syzito.xyz)

200 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 138 comments

AI Won’t Replace Humans – But Humans with AI Will Replace Humans Without AI(hbr.org)

196 points by sahin 3 years ago | 177 comments

Try the last internet Kermit server(changelog.complete.org)

194 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 59 comments

“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer(openculture.com)

191 points by geox 3 years ago | 37 comments

Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and open source(jesseduffield.com)

181 points by jesseduffield 3 years ago | 49 comments

They didn’t ask to go viral(wired.com)

169 points by DocFeind 3 years ago | 157 comments

Will Browsers Be Required by Law to Stop You from Visiting Infringing Sites?(techdirt.com)

166 points by rntn 3 years ago | 108 comments

Cargo Cult AI(queue.acm.org)

163 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 136 comments

We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels(pursuit.unimelb.edu.au)

161 points by geox 3 years ago | 83 comments

Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order(torrentfreak.com)

150 points by gslin 3 years ago | 102 comments

How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf](armkeil.blob.core.windows.net)

148 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 24 comments

Green vs. brown programming languages (2021)(earthly.dev)

141 points by adamgordonbell 3 years ago | 84 comments

Satellite supergroup spots methane super-emitters(innovationorigins.com)

140 points by nixass 3 years ago | 56 comments

Speed Up C++ Compilation(devtalk.blender.org)

138 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 106 comments

Duck DNS(duckdns.org)

130 points by axiomdata316 3 years ago | 43 comments

George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells(elifesciences.org)

128 points by apsec112 3 years ago | 82 comments

Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics(physics.ox.ac.uk)

120 points by geox 3 years ago | 38 comments

He dropped out to become a poet. now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)(quantamagazine.org)

117 points by hyperthesis 3 years ago | 56 comments

Eventual Business Consistency(tidyfirst.substack.com)

116 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 34 comments

Disney discontinues DVD and Bluray production in Australia(whathifi.com)

114 points by AndrewDucker 3 years ago | 134 comments

GitHub Actions and vanity metrics(jamesconroyfinn.com)

111 points by j13n 3 years ago | 30 comments

Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone(nutcroft.com)

109 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 17 comments

WASI: WebAssembly System Interface(github.com)

109 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 61 comments

Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein(pubs.acs.org)

107 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 82 comments

The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)(sites.pitt.edu)

105 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 96 comments

First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, a.k.a. flux-pinning(twitter.com)

104 points by the_decider 3 years ago | 5 comments

Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

104 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 64 comments

Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet(gyrovague.com)

103 points by resolutebat 3 years ago | 39 comments

Jim Keller and his pioneering work on chip design and architecture(edn.com)

99 points by xrayarx 3 years ago | 51 comments

Tim Hunkin (Secret Lives of Machines)(timhunkin.com)

97 points by Paul_S 3 years ago | 22 comments

Replacing the bad flyback transformer in Apple's Studio Display 17"(riveducha.com)

97 points by riveducha 3 years ago | 53 comments

The process of making fake food [video](youtube.com)

92 points by zdw 3 years ago | 31 comments

NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California(jpl.nasa.gov)

92 points by kungfudoi 3 years ago | 18 comments

Searching for Paul C. Pratt(bigmessowires.com)

91 points by zdw 3 years ago | 16 comments

An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age(sciencedirect.com)

85 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 45 comments

E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters(abolish.social)

84 points by atsushin 3 years ago | 77 comments

Mass Editing Memory in a Transformer(arxiv.org)

73 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 12 comments

The Earthsea Trilogy (2003)(dannyreviews.com)

72 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 58 comments

Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace(chemistryworld.com)

71 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 79 comments

Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy(warfantasy.wordpress.com)

67 points by aldarion 3 years ago | 116 comments

The Real Question Behind 'What Do You Want?'(lopespm.com)

66 points by lopespm 3 years ago | 30 comments

The Myth of AI Omniscience: AI's Epistemological Limits(cpwalker.substack.com)

63 points by cpwalker 3 years ago | 73 comments

From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud(eclecticlight.co)

55 points by ingve 3 years ago | 19 comments

Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts(nbcnews.com)

54 points by kungfudoi 3 years ago | 45 comments

Concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves(reuters.com)

53 points by gmays 3 years ago | 57 comments

Italy Is Betting Big on Train Travel(smithsonianmag.com)

52 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 43 comments

A close look at the 8086 processor's bus hold circuitry(righto.com)

51 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 12 comments

Carbon–cement supercapacitors as a scalable bulk energy storage solution(pnas.org)

47 points by joak 3 years ago | 6 comments