Hacker News on Saturday, 26 August 2023

E-ink is so Retropunk(rmkit.dev)

754 points by raisjn 3 years ago | 350 comments

A blog post on rmkit, a site about reMarkable app development, arguing that e-ink devices are fun because they feel retropunk.

Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture(slack.engineering)

348 points by serial_dev 3 years ago | 213 comments

Slack Engineering blog post describing the company's migration of its infrastructure to a cellular architecture to improve resilience against availability-zone failures.

If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you(twitter.com)

347 points by pg 3 years ago | 177 comments

Paul Graham tweet offering to fund an eye-tracking startup to build a better eye-controlled keyboard for a friend with ALS.

Thoughts about what worked in math circles(buttondown.email)

245 points by sberens 3 years ago | 35 comments

90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals(scienceswitch.com)

221 points by conse_lad 3 years ago | 117 comments

Linux on a Commodore 64(github.com)

204 points by johnwbyrd 3 years ago | 81 comments

n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool(n8n.io)

202 points by sacrosanct 3 years ago | 76 comments

Fish – A friendly interactive shell(github.com)

192 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 128 comments

A venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops(techcrunch.com)

188 points by rntn 3 years ago | 141 comments

Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)(openculture.com)

184 points by layer8 3 years ago | 45 comments

Let maintainers be maintainers(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

172 points by chalst 3 years ago | 53 comments

Clean mount lists in Linux(dbohdan.com)

168 points by networked 3 years ago | 65 comments

Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough(cacm.acm.org)

153 points by nxten 3 years ago | 36 comments

Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase(about.sourcegraph.com)

152 points by adocomplete 3 years ago | 57 comments

For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching(washingtonpost.com)

151 points by pretext 3 years ago | 388 comments

Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll(github.com)

144 points by danogentili 3 years ago | 81 comments

Japan's abandoned villages(japantimes.co.jp)

144 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 89 comments

A video of the transformation of a single cell into a salamander(pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com)

133 points by Hugsun 3 years ago | 45 comments

NES Emulator in Common Lisp (2016)(github.com)

126 points by oumua_don17 3 years ago | 20 comments

Reasons to replace advanced search with filters(adamsilver.io)

120 points by tagawa 3 years ago | 68 comments

As I get older, I just don't care about new technology(old.reddit.com)

119 points by redbell 3 years ago | 111 comments

UX design patterns for loading(pencilandpaper.io)

118 points by akbarnama 3 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter

116 points by liamilan 3 years ago | 59 comments

FFmpeg Explorer(ffmpeg.lav.io)

112 points by notbeuller 3 years ago | 29 comments

Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars(npr.org)

109 points by Physkal 3 years ago | 209 comments

Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules(vice.com)

107 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 56 comments

Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com(mastodon.social)

101 points by zagrebian 3 years ago | 67 comments

Introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages(gist.github.com)

99 points by reikonomusha 3 years ago | 17 comments

Earning the privilege to work on unoriginal problems(landmines.substack.com)

98 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 64 comments

This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times(xeiaso.net)

98 points by cpach 3 years ago | 112 comments

Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)(theguardian.com)

97 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 78 comments

Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment(theregister.com)

94 points by nxten 3 years ago | 74 comments

The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect(theverge.com)

91 points by redbell 3 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: TRS-GPT – ChatGPT client/server for the TRS-80(druid77.github.io)

89 points by druid77 3 years ago | 17 comments

The Ptrace Anti-RE Trick(hkopp.github.io)

87 points by hkopp 3 years ago | 29 comments

66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work(cnbc.com)

85 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 139 comments

Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes a Performance Regression, 34% Drop in a Benchmark(phoronix.com)

83 points by mikece 3 years ago | 19 comments

Portable OpenBSD vi for Unix systems(github.com)

82 points by rdpintqogeogsaa 3 years ago | 20 comments

Tokyo by Train (2016) [video](youtube.com)

81 points by CaliforniaKarl 3 years ago | 42 comments

Illegal shooting along power lines a leading cause of death for bald eagles(usgs.gov)

79 points by geox 3 years ago | 45 comments

Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust(briansmith.org)

78 points by bigfish24 3 years ago | 60 comments

The Arab Dagger(fordemilitaryantiques.com)

74 points by nelsondev 3 years ago | 13 comments

Power Consumption of JPEG, WebP, and AVIF(fershad.com)

74 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 38 comments

DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers(bartwullems.blogspot.com)

71 points by nxten 3 years ago | 34 comments

UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more(samdumitriu.com)

70 points by kilotaras 3 years ago | 53 comments

Interpretable graph neural networks for tabular data(arxiv.org)

69 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 5 comments

How to Search on Encrypted Data (2013)(esl.cs.brown.edu)

67 points by gordian-not 3 years ago | 11 comments

Entropy in Engineering Processes(logical.li)

64 points by herTTTz 3 years ago | 16 comments

Apple Pay Later: What Are the Crazy Ones Up To?(softwareplatform.net)

62 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 73 comments

Modernizing compiler design for Carbon's toolchain [video](youtube.com)

61 points by Rusky 3 years ago | 27 comments

FaceFusion: Next generation face swapper and enhancer(github.com)

61 points by pocketarc 3 years ago | 31 comments

Llama2.c L2E LLM – Multi OS Binary and Unikernel Release(github.com)

61 points by AMICABoard 3 years ago | 23 comments

Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off(vox.com)

60 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 67 comments

Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?

60 points by tjrgergw 3 years ago | 38 comments

Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4(cobbpg.github.io)

58 points by msephton 3 years ago | 9 comments

A clock where the time is in a song title(pudding.cool)

58 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 39 comments

Datapen.io – A Curation of Free Data Science Resources(datapen.io)

57 points by abdul_awali 3 years ago | 0 comments

SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow (2022)(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)

55 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 39 comments

Initial impressions of Microsoft Olive(zhenghaotan.com)

53 points by tzhenghao 3 years ago | 2 comments

The WordPress 100 Year Plan(wordpress.com)

53 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 92 comments