Hacker News on Thursday, 31 August 2023

CT scans of coffee-making equipment(scanofthemonth.com)

637 points by eucalyptuseye 3 years ago | 149 comments

A Scan of the Month feature showing interactive CT scans of coffee-making equipment like a moka pot, with an essay on coffee history and brewing engineering.

Absurd Success(marginalia.nu)

557 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 153 comments

A Marginalia blog post describing a week of coding that halved the search engine's RAM use, enabled online upgrades, and lifted index size limits.

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)(jvns.ca)

505 points by vikrum 3 years ago | 310 comments

Julia Evans blog post arguing you should tell a coworker's manager when they do great work, summarizing advice gathered from Twitter replies.

RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator(ryujinx.org)

490 points by robertwt7 3 years ago | 172 comments

Homepage of Ryujinx, an open-source experimental Nintendo Switch emulator written in C# by gdkchan.

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601(ijmacd.github.io)

424 points by iamwil 3 years ago | 249 comments

An interactive Venn diagram comparing date/time string formats valid under RFC 3339, ISO 8601, or both.

Teaching with AI(openai.com)

405 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 283 comments

OpenAI blog post announcing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in classrooms, with suggested prompts, limitations, AI detector efficacy, and bias.

Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software(ghostfol.io)

399 points by falkaer 3 years ago | 122 comments

Homepage of Ghostfolio, an open-source wealth management and portfolio tracking application; the page rendered blank when captured.

UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS(github.com)

301 points by eiiot 3 years ago | 145 comments

Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats(businessinsider.com)

268 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 253 comments

The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated(github.com)

262 points by yankcrime 3 years ago | 119 comments

Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals(nature.com)

257 points by geox 3 years ago | 158 comments

AWS Icon Quiz(awsiconquiz.com)

255 points by whatsthenews 3 years ago | 162 comments

Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

243 points by evolve2k 3 years ago | 449 comments

USENET rises again?(theregister.com)

242 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 167 comments

Shell abandons its plan to offset CO2 emissions(bloomberg.com)

232 points by jatorre 3 years ago | 218 comments

IBM promised to back off facial recognition, then signed a $70M contract for it(theverge.com)

206 points by rntn 3 years ago | 99 comments

Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole(scienceswitch.com)

202 points by conse_lad 3 years ago | 47 comments

Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Request for comments(federalregister.gov)

200 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 226 comments

Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL(medium.com)

196 points by saigal 3 years ago | 64 comments

Wii Architecture – A Practical Analysis(copetti.org)

196 points by 47thpresident 3 years ago | 21 comments

New antifungal therapy for fungal meningitis(med.umn.edu)

193 points by gmays 3 years ago | 47 comments

NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space Network(arstechnica.com)

184 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 103 comments

Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding

184 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 47 comments

Youtube2Webpage: Create Websites with Text from Videos(github.com)

183 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 59 comments

Docker Is Four Things(matthiasportzel.com)

180 points by MatthiasPortzel 3 years ago | 181 comments

X wants permission to start collecting your bio data and employment history(theverge.com)

169 points by gslin 3 years ago | 173 comments

Elixir/Erlang Secure Coding and Deployment Hardening Guidelines(erlef.github.io)

166 points by justinludwig 3 years ago | 2 comments

*@gmail.com(xkcd.com)

155 points by ufjfjjfjfj 3 years ago | 126 comments

Mathematical proof is a social compact(quantamagazine.org)

154 points by digital55 3 years ago | 137 comments

Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It?(thewalrus.ca)

150 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 164 comments

Rare oxygen isotope detected(nature.com)

146 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 97 comments

Doom for 16-bit DOS computers(github.com)

143 points by elvis70 3 years ago | 90 comments

The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)(eurogamer.net)

136 points by grubbs 3 years ago | 67 comments

Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern(theverge.com)

123 points by rntn 3 years ago | 123 comments

The low, low cost of committing cybercrime(isc.sans.edu)

121 points by freedude 3 years ago | 73 comments

Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way(chrlschn.medium.com)

107 points by CharlieDigital 3 years ago | 49 comments

Electronics Course (45 episodes, YouTube)(youtube.com)

107 points by childintime 3 years ago | 27 comments

Cool Science Tricks (2005)(daveroot.neocities.org)

105 points by tomthe 3 years ago | 9 comments

AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5M Lines, Entire Linux Kernel at 34.8M(phoronix.com)

103 points by TangerineDream 3 years ago | 51 comments

Tearing down Klamath dams: The largest dam demolition(calmatters.org)

102 points by genter 3 years ago | 75 comments

LIBS confirms the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface(isro.gov.in)

100 points by merrier 3 years ago | 6 comments

VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie(bicycleretailer.com)

94 points by geephroh 3 years ago | 139 comments

Evennia: MUD/MU* creation system(evennia.com)

93 points by raytopia 3 years ago | 61 comments

Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’(institutionalinvestor.com)

92 points by flarecoder 3 years ago | 112 comments

Types versus sets (and what about categories?) (2022)(lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

83 points by matt_d 3 years ago | 34 comments

Bike Lane Sweepers (2021)(worldsweeper.com)

79 points by scottmcdot 3 years ago | 60 comments

State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship(techdirt.com)

79 points by rntn 3 years ago | 73 comments

Cheetah: A Lightweight Virtual Machine Manager for macOS(macspot.net)

79 points by darcyliu 3 years ago | 33 comments

Why did old phone numbers start with letters? (2015)(mentalfloss.com)

79 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 123 comments

The Case for Nushell(jntrnr.com)

73 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 30 comments

The physics of hand clapping(physicsworld.com)

67 points by RafelMri 3 years ago | 24 comments

Microsoft to unbundle Teams software in Europe to abate EU antitrust concerns(cnbc.com)

64 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 34 comments

Hidden 3D(hidden-3d.com)

59 points by soheilpro 3 years ago | 38 comments

If you make less than $55K, the Labor Department wants you to get overtime pay(businessinsider.com)

54 points by geox 3 years ago | 60 comments

Show HN: 99% cheaper international business transfers – fixed fee, real rate(atlantic.money)

54 points by wdaareg 3 years ago | 44 comments

NYPD will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend(apnews.com)

51 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 32 comments

South Korea extends natural population fall as fertility rate falls to 0.7(koreatimes.co.kr)

50 points by lalaland1125 3 years ago | 63 comments

Unicode 88 (1988) [pdf](unicode.org)

50 points by robin_reala 3 years ago | 84 comments

X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads(arstechnica.com)

49 points by saltysalt 3 years ago | 20 comments

Keep your files inside your VM(msimkunas.lt)

49 points by exec1 3 years ago | 38 comments