Hacker News on Saturday, 12 August 2023

The Carrot Problem(atvbt.com)

492 points by deadcoder0904 3 years ago | 267 comments

Essay on Atoms vs Bits about the 'carrot problem': using a plausible cover story, like WWII British claims that carrots improved night vision, to hide a real advantage.

Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01(seiya.me)

458 points by ingve 3 years ago | 112 comments

A blog post walking through the source code and internals of Linux v0.01, the roughly 10,000-line first release of the Linux kernel.

How a startup loses its spark(blog.johnqian.com)

451 points by imadj 3 years ago | 230 comments

A blog essay on why engineering work at small seed-stage startups feels intoxicating and how that spark fades as companies grow larger.

tRPC – Build and consume typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation(trpc.io)

291 points by olalonde 3 years ago | 174 comments

Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit(torrentfreak.com)

285 points by EMIRELADERO 3 years ago | 198 comments

A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops(thehandbasket.substack.com)

274 points by celtoid 3 years ago | 94 comments

A Blog Post with Every HTML Element(patrickweaver.net)

269 points by lovegrenoble 3 years ago | 75 comments

Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk(ugu.rs)

234 points by ugurnot 3 years ago | 91 comments

NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally(github.com)

225 points by seabass-labrax 3 years ago | 138 comments

Deep Learning Systems(dlsyscourse.org)

216 points by __rito__ 3 years ago | 17 comments

20 Years of Vim(contextualize.ai)

190 points by mpereira 3 years ago | 70 comments

Fooocus: OSS for image generation by ControlNet author(github.com)

171 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 49 comments

Ode to the M1(fabiensanglard.net)

169 points by guiambros 3 years ago | 146 comments

West Virginia University to drop 32 majors including all world language programs(wvgazettemail.com)

168 points by joe5150 3 years ago | 260 comments

The US government is taking a step toward space-based nuclear propulsion(arstechnica.com)

167 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 155 comments

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper(kansasreflector.com)

156 points by _delirium 3 years ago | 55 comments

The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained(physics.aps.org)

155 points by raattgift 3 years ago | 59 comments

Our fight is far from over(blog.archive.org)

150 points by app4soft 3 years ago | 45 comments

Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions(jasoneckert.github.io)

148 points by jasoneckert 3 years ago | 105 comments

I drew these corals with mathematical equations(twitter.com)

147 points by r_singh 3 years ago | 28 comments

Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix(techdirt.com)

146 points by rntn 3 years ago | 76 comments

Beginner's Guide to Llama Models(agi-sphere.com)

142 points by andrewon 3 years ago | 37 comments

The original source code of the vi text editor, taken from System V(github.com)

139 points by hggh 3 years ago | 50 comments

The first messenger without user IDs(simplex.chat)

138 points by kristianpaul 3 years ago | 83 comments

Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell(blog.podman.io)

131 points by shallow-mind 3 years ago | 48 comments

I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter(reddit.com)

122 points by ksec 3 years ago | 150 comments

Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer(righto.com)

113 points by matt_d 3 years ago | 42 comments

Do we really need a specialized vector database?(modelz.ai)

111 points by gaocegege 3 years ago | 73 comments

CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) [pdf](dreamsongs.com)

109 points by mepian 3 years ago | 61 comments

Tijuana's illegal sewer hookups linked to cross-border pollution(kpbs.org)

105 points by geox 3 years ago | 98 comments

Multiple Incidents: B789 deviated from localizer, descended below safe altitude(avherald.com)

99 points by hugh-avherald 3 years ago | 60 comments

Securing Your PostgreSQL DB with Roles and Privileges(rlopzc.com)

96 points by rlopezc 3 years ago | 29 comments

Far Manager: files and archives in Windows(farmanager.com)

96 points by open-source-ux 3 years ago | 37 comments

My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story(old.reddit.com)

94 points by bsmth 3 years ago | 64 comments

Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps(finance.yahoo.com)

89 points by haltingproblem 3 years ago | 75 comments

What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)(blog.janestreet.com)

88 points by ksec 3 years ago | 90 comments

Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server(jvns.ca)

86 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 21 comments

Postgres Audit Tables Saved Us from Taking Down Production (2021)(heap.io)

82 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 26 comments

Leave It to the Beavers(isthmus.com)

73 points by DoreenMichele 3 years ago | 13 comments

Can you use a class in C?(d4ckard.github.io)

70 points by D4ckard 3 years ago | 58 comments

Numbers every LLM Developer should know(anyscale.com)

70 points by davidwu 3 years ago | 13 comments

NASA's Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs for free(software.nasa.gov)

66 points by taubek 3 years ago | 10 comments

Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 6: PWM backlight(downtowndougbrown.com)

60 points by zdw 3 years ago | 0 comments

Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam(github.com)

58 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 44 comments

Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster(quantamagazine.org)

56 points by sonabinu 3 years ago | 26 comments

Jobs and Gates banned their kids from iPads and other devices they created(finance.yahoo.com)

54 points by hhs 3 years ago | 46 comments

Sapphire Rapids Core-to-Core Latency(jprahman.substack.com)

50 points by ksec 3 years ago | 14 comments

Hollywood’s Cold War Dissidents in Ireland(historytoday.com)

47 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 35 comments

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus(en.wikipedia.org)

46 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 36 comments

Learning Algorithms(paedubucher.ch)

45 points by paedubucher 3 years ago | 15 comments

San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis(sfstandard.com)

43 points by jitl 3 years ago | 39 comments

Chinese Trust Companies on the Brink(asiamarkets.com)

41 points by arizonaforce 3 years ago | 31 comments

Build declaratively back ends and APIs with GraphQL or REST(github.com)

39 points by chvogt16 3 years ago | 9 comments

Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder(bbc.co.uk)

37 points by iainmerrick 3 years ago | 62 comments

Out-of-Distribution(github.com)

35 points by continuousml 3 years ago | 27 comments

Vectorized UTF-8 Validation for Java(github.com)

34 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 3 comments

Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data(utcc.utoronto.ca)

33 points by ingve 3 years ago | 40 comments

Cracking DesignWare's the Grammar Examiner on the C64(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

31 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 4 comments

What's your go to Nix/NixOS pitch?(discourse.nixos.org)

30 points by ronef 3 years ago | 38 comments

New finding boosts Panspermia theory that life on Earth originated in deep space(nautil.us)

28 points by geox 3 years ago | 15 comments