Hacker News on Sunday, 3 September 2023

The boiling frog of digital freedom(gazoche.xyz)

589 points by Gazoche 3 years ago | 381 comments

Blog post by Robin Lange presenting a speculative timeline of gradual erosion of digital freedom, such as messaging apps becoming restricted critical applications.

I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency(neladunato.com)

521 points by taubek 3 years ago | 213 comments

Blog post by designer Nela Dunato, marking 10 years of self-employment, explaining why she won't grow her freelance design studio into an agency.

Climate Change Tracker(climatechangetracker.org)

374 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 192 comments

Climate Change Tracker is a website with dashboards tracking global warming, CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions, plus IPCC-based indicators for policy makers.

The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)(raft.github.io)

316 points by oumua_don17 3 years ago | 74 comments

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2020)(gist.github.com)

302 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 87 comments

Hacking the Timex m851(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

280 points by taviso 3 years ago | 60 comments

Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories(ian-leslie.com)

266 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 187 comments

Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing(nomad.foo)

259 points by homarp 3 years ago | 39 comments

Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying(theferret.scot)

253 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 93 comments

Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)(thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com)

234 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 198 comments

Google preemptively banned hundreds of millions of 'pirate' URLs last year(torrentfreak.com)

230 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 164 comments

UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B(bqprime.com)

217 points by TriNetra 3 years ago | 341 comments

Transformers as Support Vector Machines(arxiv.org)

209 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 129 comments

Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose(vale.sh)

201 points by zerojames 3 years ago | 70 comments

Sag-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry(eurogamer.net)

187 points by czottmann 3 years ago | 174 comments

Lego 3-axis styrofoam cutter [video](youtube.com)

184 points by pavel_lishin 3 years ago | 17 comments

How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015)(quora.com)

168 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 116 comments

Baresip – An Open Source modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support(github.com)

163 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 42 comments

Black Art of 3D Game Programming (1995)(archive.org)

159 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 43 comments

How to write correct code by construction using the Coq Proof Assistant(betterprogramming.pub)

138 points by ingve 3 years ago | 44 comments

Foxconn's promise to invest $10B in Wisconsin is now a distant memory(engadget.com)

136 points by bb88 3 years ago | 63 comments

Do we think about vector storage completely wrong?(hachyderm.io)

128 points by softwaredoug 3 years ago | 77 comments

The Musaicum EU-plus 10M resolution image of Europe(imagico.de)

123 points by hk__2 3 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything(rssfeedasap.com)

114 points by roks0n 3 years ago | 43 comments

The curious case of hybrids in watchmaking(monochrome-watches.com)

114 points by archagon 3 years ago | 107 comments

Yenish people(en.wikipedia.org)

109 points by merename 3 years ago | 71 comments

HTML Design Principles (2007)(w3.org)

107 points by kosasbest 3 years ago | 38 comments

He created the Katamari games, but they’re rolling on without him(nytimes.com)

106 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 59 comments

Just Build It...(blog.stephaniestimac.com)

93 points by weird_science 3 years ago | 62 comments

Simple fragrance method boosts cognitive capacity: study(scitechdaily.com)

91 points by oblib 3 years ago | 48 comments

‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review(historytoday.com)

91 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 100 comments

Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)(earslap.com)

90 points by AceJohnny2 3 years ago | 21 comments

SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance(sfstandard.com)

90 points by georgecmu 3 years ago | 89 comments

Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night(electrek.co)

89 points by nwienert 3 years ago | 60 comments

Tolkien, 50 Years On(thecritic.co.uk)

85 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 96 comments

Discovery of the historic Great Lakes schooner Trinidad(shipwreckworld.com)

85 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 30 comments

Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender(theatlantic.com)

80 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 88 comments

Become an expert in something specific and boring(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

78 points by sieste 3 years ago | 56 comments

Using the Wrong Dictionary (2014)(jsomers.net)

77 points by hdk 3 years ago | 28 comments

USPS Isn't Paying 45,000 Rural Postal Workers This Week(jalopnik.com)

76 points by rntn 3 years ago | 49 comments

Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time(dedoimedo.com)

72 points by shscs911 3 years ago | 36 comments

Fernando Pessoa’s Unselving(theparisreview.org)

71 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 12 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel(bbc.com)

70 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 55 comments

Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings: Lucene Is All You Need(arxiv.org)

68 points by kwindla 3 years ago | 54 comments

Refurb weekend: PowerBook Duo 2300c(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

64 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 5 comments

Da Vinci robot surgeon removes inoperable tumor, saving patient’s life(bgr.com)

63 points by geox 3 years ago | 53 comments

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part IX: Aha-154xB and ASPI4DOS.SYS(os2museum.com)

57 points by userbinator 3 years ago | 10 comments

Coherer Effect [video](youtube.com)

57 points by modinfo 3 years ago | 11 comments

Interfaces for prototyping hardware(kevinlynagh.com)

56 points by zdw 3 years ago | 24 comments

Pentax K-3 III Monochrome: A DSLR Just for B&W Photo Lovers(petapixel.com)

55 points by Kaibeezy 3 years ago | 86 comments

Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor(github.com)

52 points by one-punch 3 years ago | 21 comments

MaraDNS: A small open-source DNS server(github.com)

52 points by axiomdata316 3 years ago | 22 comments

Bigger, better, faster, more(blog.nearlyfreespeech.net)

50 points by AndrewKemendo 3 years ago | 14 comments

Copper Be Gone: The Chemistry Behind PCB Etching(hackaday.com)

50 points by rolph 3 years ago | 7 comments

Air quality double whammy from domestic firelighters(nature.com)

48 points by Kaibeezy 3 years ago | 47 comments

Evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging (2022)(journals.sagepub.com)

48 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 2 comments

Learner drivers forced to buy tests on black market as companies blockbook slots(theguardian.com)

46 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 38 comments

Jetbrains are offering 65% off Rider personal licenses for 65 hours(lp.jetbrains.com)

46 points by kertoip_1 3 years ago | 38 comments

Shorts risks cannibalising core YouTube business, say senior staff(ft.com)

44 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 65 comments