Hacker News on Wednesday, 23 August 2023

Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video](isro.gov.in)

1881 points by osivertsson 3 years ago | 481 comments

ISRO page hosting the live telecast video of the Chandrayaan-3 lander's soft landing on the Moon, with links to mission details and brochure.

AI real-time human full-body photo generator(generated.photos)

678 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 335 comments

Product landing page for Generated Photos' Human Generator, an AI tool that creates hyperrealistic full-body photos of people in real time.

Common mistakes in salary negotiation(interviewing.io)

489 points by eamonnm 3 years ago | 355 comments

An interviewing.io blog post by Aline Lerner describing two common mistakes candidates make that undermine salary negotiation before it starts, with tips on what to say.

Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?

396 points by tsingy 3 years ago | 196 comments

An Ask HN discussion thread asking where to find a database of open-source house plans for building a home.

I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS(mastodon.social)

370 points by chromakode 3 years ago | 224 comments

A Mastodon thread by Max Goodhart describing how ZFS snapshots replicated with zrepl let him restore his laptop after an SSD died, losing only about 10 minutes of data.

Add dir=“auto” to your inputs and textareas(mough.xyz)

370 points by ducaale 3 years ago | 90 comments

A 2017 blog post recommending developers add dir="auto" to HTML inputs and textareas so right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic display correctly.

An excruciatingly detailed guide to SSH (but only the things I find useful)(grahamhelton.com)

337 points by weeha 3 years ago | 75 comments

A blog post by Graham Helton offering a detailed guide to useful SSH features like port forwarding, aimed at red teamers navigating networks.

Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis(moorfields.nhs.uk)

330 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 118 comments

Moorfields Eye Hospital news release reporting that retinal eye scans can reveal signs of Parkinson's disease up to seven years before clinical diagnosis.

Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024(nvidianews.nvidia.com)

312 points by electriclove 3 years ago | 231 comments

Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands(rijksoverheid.nl)

265 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 444 comments

Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation(theguardian.com)

249 points by acallaghan 3 years ago | 129 comments

Pytudes(github.com)

232 points by sonabinu 3 years ago | 35 comments

Zrepl – ZFS replication(zrepl.github.io)

230 points by lnyan 3 years ago | 43 comments

A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet(404media.co)

211 points by ohjeez 3 years ago | 71 comments

ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”(arstechnica.com)

188 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 167 comments

SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)(seaglass.cs.washington.edu)

186 points by karlzt 3 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine(github.com)

184 points by aazo11 3 years ago | 93 comments

My favorite prime number generator(eli.thegreenplace.net)

182 points by mfrw 3 years ago | 68 comments

The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82%(pranshum.yarn.tech)

176 points by pranshum 3 years ago | 99 comments

HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies(opencoreventures.com)

174 points by sytse 3 years ago | 165 comments

A half-hour to learn Rust (2020)(fasterthanli.me)

167 points by onderkalaci 3 years ago | 53 comments

Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)(timr.co)

156 points by krab 3 years ago | 195 comments

AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users(github.com)

152 points by 3np 3 years ago | 86 comments

Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger(rmit.edu.au)

143 points by geox 3 years ago | 160 comments

Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)(theguardian.com)

140 points by whocansay 3 years ago | 148 comments

WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts(bleepingcomputer.com)

139 points by mikece 3 years ago | 101 comments

Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022)(packtpub.com)

138 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 63 comments

Screen Apnea(nytimes.com)

137 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 79 comments

Show HN: Fast vector similarity using Rust and Python(github.com)

128 points by eigenvalue 3 years ago | 36 comments

macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits(developer.apple.com)

115 points by hashhar 3 years ago | 104 comments

Japanese game publisher Digital Will has filed a lawsuit against Apple(patentlyapple.com)

113 points by mikece 3 years ago | 75 comments

Image constructed using quantum entanglement of photons(phys.org)

113 points by danboarder 3 years ago | 28 comments

AI predicts certain esophageal and stomach cancers three years before diagnosis(michiganmedicine.org)

109 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 35 comments

Enhance Rust errors with file and line details(crates.io)

103 points by JoelJacobson 3 years ago | 70 comments

Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon(twitter.com)

103 points by 2143 3 years ago | 10 comments

Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64(milen.me)

93 points by milen 3 years ago | 53 comments

Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B(theverge.com)

89 points by Analemma_ 3 years ago | 71 comments

Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’(venturebeat.com)

87 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 70 comments

Use web components for what they’re good at(nolanlawson.com)

82 points by chriskrycho 3 years ago | 46 comments

What happened to Wirecutter?(theatlantic.com)

78 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 86 comments

Collection of stand-alone Python machine learning recipes (2021)(github.com)

75 points by adbarba 3 years ago | 6 comments

Odd and unsafe baby car seats from the past(rarehistoricalphotos.com)

73 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 86 comments

An interpreter for a programming language based on Spotify playlists(github.com)

71 points by pyinstallwoes 3 years ago | 12 comments

Mastering Emacs(masteringemacs.org)

71 points by User23 3 years ago | 63 comments

Resistor–transistor logic(en.wikipedia.org)

70 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 31 comments

India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully lands on the lunar South Pole(theverge.com)

68 points by meetpateltech 3 years ago | 2 comments

Spanish astronomer discovers new active galaxy(phys.org)

68 points by wglb 3 years ago | 17 comments

The World's Oldest Photograph (2022)(artandobject.com)

65 points by kaycebasques 3 years ago | 28 comments

AI Nutrition Fact Labels(nutrition-facts.ai)

64 points by maxwell 3 years ago | 17 comments

PreTeXt: Write Once Read Anywhere Authoring and Publishing System(pretextbook.org)

62 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 25 comments

The sticky history of baklava(smithsonianmag.com)

59 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Gentrace – evaluation and observability for generative AI(gentrace.ai)

58 points by dsaffy 3 years ago | 0 comments

Frank Smith was locked up for 8 decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?(bostonglobe.com)

58 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 32 comments

I didn't write any JavaScript, and other shortcuts(csvbase.com)

55 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Pip install inference, open source computer vision deployment(github.com)

54 points by zerojames 3 years ago | 15 comments

BioWare is laying off 50 employees(blog.bioware.com)

53 points by cfcfcf 3 years ago | 60 comments

Oldest Known Animation, a 5200 Year-Old Iranian Ceramic Vessel(vintag.es)

52 points by dxs 3 years ago | 11 comments

The Early History of Counting(laphamsquarterly.org)

52 points by anarbadalov 3 years ago | 12 comments

Ridiculous captcha at GitHub to reset your password(github.com)

48 points by becks_benny 3 years ago | 28 comments

Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal AI Demand Is Already Shrinking(honest-broker.com)

47 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 46 comments