Hacker News on Monday, 4 September 2023

Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)(telecom.csail.mit.edu)

466 points by resolutebat 3 years ago | 366 comments

Judy Sammel's 1999 first-person account of being criminally summoned in Maryland over her Comcast@home cable modem service.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode(vscodium.com)

417 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 205 comments

Homepage of VSCodium, a project distributing free/libre open source, MIT-licensed binaries of Microsoft's VS Code editor.

Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64(github.com)

350 points by skibz 3 years ago | 110 comments

GitHub repository for Portal 64, a fan-made demake of Valve's Portal for the Nintendo 64 console.

TV Museum will die in 48 hours unless Sony retracts YouTube copyright strikes(torrentfreak.com)

342 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 181 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that the Museum of Classic Chicago Television's YouTube channel faces deletion within 48 hours due to Sony copyright strikes.

Tidal energy is not renewable(cs.stanford.edu)

332 points by wyozi 3 years ago | 239 comments

An essay by Jerry Z. Liu of Stanford arguing that tidal power is not renewable because extracting it slows Earth's rotation and could cause tidal locking to the Moon.

Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter(tomshardware.com)

281 points by jnord 3 years ago | 187 comments

Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot(twitter.com)

256 points by hubraumhugo 3 years ago | 65 comments

Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard(danieldk.eu)

246 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 188 comments

Plastic Money(computer.rip)

227 points by bertman 3 years ago | 112 comments

Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit(sr.ht)

220 points by ashton314 3 years ago | 90 comments

Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990(youtube.com)

218 points by bane 3 years ago | 72 comments

The curl-wget Venn diagram(daniel.haxx.se)

209 points by TangerineDream 3 years ago | 111 comments

I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes(louison.substack.com)

201 points by louison11 3 years ago | 157 comments

Bintracker: A chiptune audio workstation for the 21st century(bintracker.org)

190 points by generichuman 3 years ago | 56 comments

Everything I know about floppy disks(thejpster.org.uk)

185 points by jnord 3 years ago | 71 comments

When tech says ‘no’(ben-evans.com)

185 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 229 comments

Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity(news.stanford.edu)

176 points by momirlan 3 years ago | 121 comments

TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens(github.com)

171 points by cmitsakis 3 years ago | 47 comments

Pretendo: A free and open source server replacement for the 3DS and Wii U(pretendo.network)

159 points by jonny_eh 3 years ago | 17 comments

Show HN: Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools(github.com)

156 points by talboren 3 years ago | 54 comments

Chinchilla’s death(espadrine.github.io)

156 points by KolmogorovComp 3 years ago | 37 comments

Refact LLM: New 1.6B code model reaches 32% HumanEval and is SOTA for the size(refact.ai)

155 points by kateklink 3 years ago | 89 comments

Can we talk to whales?(newyorker.com)

153 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 142 comments

Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily(spectrolite.app)

152 points by mtg 3 years ago | 23 comments

Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100B(sydney.edu.au)

141 points by yoquan 3 years ago | 71 comments

Haskell mini-patterns handbook (2020)(kowainik.github.io)

140 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 15 comments

LLM Python/CLI tool adds support for embeddings(simonwillison.net)

139 points by simonw 3 years ago | 34 comments

SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further(chipsandcheese.com)

136 points by zdw 3 years ago | 74 comments

Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice(news.ki.se)

136 points by danielam 3 years ago | 78 comments

Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn(kaviisuri.com)

123 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 141 comments

How we know languages like proto-Indo-European existed [video](youtube.com)

123 points by ipnon 3 years ago | 65 comments

The usefulness of a memory guides where the brain saves it?(quantamagazine.org)

118 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 19 comments

Man, Myth and Magic(johncoulthart.com)

117 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 37 comments

The Battle over Books3(wired.com)

111 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 114 comments

WiiLink – Japanese Wii channels revived(wiilink24.com)

110 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 13 comments

An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve(politico.com)

108 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 101 comments

“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees(motherjones.com)

107 points by phlummox 3 years ago | 43 comments

Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures(nature.com)

99 points by pcrh 3 years ago | 54 comments

The Ones We Sent Away(theatlantic.com)

98 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 46 comments

Researchers have found that micro-spikes etched into titanium rupture microbes(newatlas.com)

93 points by LordAtlas 3 years ago | 61 comments

Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow(washingtonpost.com)

91 points by croes 3 years ago | 108 comments

A Test Suite for the Intel 8088(martypc.blogspot.com)

88 points by ingve 3 years ago | 3 comments

Dennis Ritchie Home Page(cm.bell-labs.co)

87 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 11 comments

WASM: Big deal or little deal?(theregister.com)

87 points by elorant 3 years ago | 150 comments

Extreme El Niño weather switched off South American's carbon sink(leeds.ac.uk)

85 points by geox 3 years ago | 22 comments

Pad kaphrao contest seeks true taste of Thai dish(theguardian.com)

85 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 74 comments

Four Lectures on Standard ML (1989) [pdf](cs.tufts.edu)

84 points by swatson741 3 years ago | 33 comments

Paul Buchheit interview (2018)(dev.to)

83 points by kurinikku 3 years ago | 28 comments

The History of Windows 95(abortretry.fail)

83 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 60 comments

Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?(eclecticlight.co)

82 points by GavinAnderegg 3 years ago | 72 comments

Every billable hour is amateur hour(daedtech.com)

82 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 64 comments

Cuber: Deploy your apps on Kubernetes easily(github.com)

82 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 66 comments

Are cooking videos making us better cooks?(nytimes.com)

80 points by gmays 3 years ago | 144 comments

Astro 3.0(astro.build)

79 points by adrian_mrd 3 years ago | 26 comments

Hardware Random Bit Generator(web.jfet.org)

78 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 34 comments

Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code(cybersecuritynews.com)

73 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 30 comments

Rust crate rg typosquatting/redirect to ripgrep(github.com)

73 points by super_linear 3 years ago | 19 comments

A plot to steal the secret Coke can-liner formula(bloomberg.com)

72 points by malshe 3 years ago | 79 comments

The Gimmicks of Food Labeling(newyorker.com)

70 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 39 comments