Hacker News on Sunday, 20 August 2023

Kris Nóva has died(nivenly.org)

776 points by chrkl 3 years ago | 110 comments

Nivenly Foundation blog post announcing the death of its founder Kris Nóva, who inspired the creation of Hachyderm and Nivenly.

John Warnock has died(reuters.com)

550 points by skilled 3 years ago | 123 comments

Reuters news report that Adobe co-founder John Warnock has died at age 82.

The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency(blog.owulveryck.info)

520 points by owulveryck 3 years ago | 100 comments

Blog post by Olivier Wulveryck describing a new clientless tool for streaming the reMarkable 2 tablet's screen to a web browser tab.

Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?(astronomy.stackexchange.com)

500 points by frabert 3 years ago | 120 comments

An Astronomy Stack Exchange question asking whether very distant galaxies, such as those seen by JWST, should appear magnified due to the expansion of space.

So you want to learn physics (2021)(susanrigetti.com)

468 points by weird_science 3 years ago | 150 comments

Susan Rigetti's second-edition guide (2021) to self-studying physics, outlining a curriculum of textbooks and topics for learning physics on your own.

Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation(deat.tk)

423 points by generichuman 3 years ago | 101 comments

Intended page for Jazz² Resurrection, an open-source reimplementation of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, but it returned an Apache 503 Service Unavailable error.

Shit Life Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)

305 points by tjpnz 3 years ago | 165 comments

Welcome to Datasette Cloud(datasette.cloud)

278 points by swyx 3 years ago | 63 comments

Executive Function Theft(hedgehoglibrarian.com)

247 points by luu 3 years ago | 170 comments

JSON Schema Store(schemastore.org)

242 points by WallyFunk 3 years ago | 102 comments

An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco(petapixel.com)

241 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 88 comments

Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)(max.engineer)

218 points by aabbcc1241 3 years ago | 235 comments

TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken(timeguessr.com)

213 points by kosasbest 3 years ago | 78 comments

Modernity has made us allergic(noemamag.com)

209 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 192 comments

macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported(eclecticlight.co)

205 points by ingve 3 years ago | 128 comments

Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (2019)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

199 points by solalf 3 years ago | 114 comments

Electricity Maps(app.electricitymaps.com)

199 points by fulafel 3 years ago | 99 comments

All of Physics in 9 Lines(motionmountain.net)

184 points by harperlee 3 years ago | 95 comments

Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros(theregister.com)

181 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 78 comments

Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)(scoop.me)

164 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 172 comments

Cell therapy repairs cornea damage with patient's stem cells gives trial results(medicalxpress.com)

164 points by wglb 3 years ago | 20 comments

Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil(robkhenderson.com)

162 points by Bostonian 3 years ago | 139 comments

AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080(wccftech.com)

161 points by mauricesvp 3 years ago | 92 comments

Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife(akshaykhot.com)

149 points by software_writer 3 years ago | 61 comments

VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting(github.com)

147 points by pkkm 3 years ago | 94 comments

Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy(eclecticlight.co)

138 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 73 comments

X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014(theverge.com)

137 points by rntn 3 years ago | 99 comments

Scripting with Go (2022)(bitfieldconsulting.com)

126 points by gus_leonel 3 years ago | 88 comments

16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU(jiristepanovsky.cz)

123 points by freedude 3 years ago | 24 comments

The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu(maggieappleton.com)

112 points by warpspin 3 years ago | 35 comments

Amazon lists book on Maui wildfires that was published days after fires started(goodereader.com)

110 points by edward 3 years ago | 68 comments

Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512(lemire.me)

110 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 87 comments

A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)(zenhack.net)

106 points by signa11 3 years ago | 56 comments

It’s lambdas all the way down(itsbehnam.com)

105 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 56 comments

A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one?(abcnews.go.com)

102 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 17 comments

Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store(daringfireball.net)

101 points by MilnerRoute 3 years ago | 88 comments

OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS product(github.com)

99 points by gharbat 3 years ago | 27 comments

Project Valhalla, Simple as it can be, but not simpler(cr.openjdk.org)

85 points by pmg1991 3 years ago | 20 comments

The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004)(spronck.net)

83 points by Logans_Run 3 years ago | 40 comments

Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say(npr.org)

82 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 7 comments

Using lei, b4, and mutt to do kernel development (2021)(josefbacik.github.io)

77 points by cpach 3 years ago | 6 comments

This can't go on (2021)(cold-takes.com)

77 points by vikrum 3 years ago | 78 comments

Demystifying ESIM Technology [video](media.ccc.de)

76 points by awat 3 years ago | 58 comments

MacPaint and QuickDraw source code (1984)(computerhistory.org)

75 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 20 comments

How Surround Sound for Headphones Works (2014)(hajo.me)

71 points by ramenbytes 3 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post(fakehn.com)

70 points by jusquan 3 years ago | 41 comments

Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency for southern California(cnn.com)

63 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 18 comments

The missing C++ smart pointer(blog.matthieud.me)

61 points by maattdd 3 years ago | 67 comments

Infrequently Asked Questions in Comp.lang.c (1999)(seebs.net)

60 points by hummusandsushi 3 years ago | 33 comments

Large Language Models As General Pattern Machines(arxiv.org)

60 points by optimalsolver 3 years ago | 24 comments

Scientists trap light inside a magnet(ccny.cuny.edu)

58 points by geox 3 years ago | 13 comments

Ghana's MPs pass bill criminalising witchcraft accusation(trtafrika.com)

55 points by ohjeez 3 years ago | 20 comments

12,000-year-old sequins hint at a shared culture in Indonesian islands(cosmosmagazine.com)

53 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 13 comments

PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum(scottaaronson.com)

52 points by dustingetz 3 years ago | 17 comments

Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter (2019)(pubs.aip.org)

45 points by redbell 3 years ago | 8 comments

Enhancement of mosquito trapping efficiency using pulse width modulated LEDs(nature.com)

44 points by luu 3 years ago | 49 comments

Australia eyes UK online bill in fight with tech companies(theguardian.com)

43 points by ggm 3 years ago | 18 comments

David G. Conroy: FPGA Retrocomputing(fpgaretrocomputing.org)

41 points by wglb 3 years ago | 2 comments

The Pentagon’s UFO Shop, the Hitchhiker Effect, and Models of Contagion [pdf](theblackvault.com)

41 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 19 comments

Even Been to This Free London Yew Maze?(londonist.com)

36 points by serhack_ 3 years ago | 23 comments