Hacker News on Friday, 8 September 2023

Bun v1.0.0(bun.sh)

882 points by tuananh 3 years ago | 298 comments

GitHub release page for Bun v1.0.0, the JavaScript runtime and toolkit, with installation instructions.

Touch Pianist(touchpianist.com)

723 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 202 comments

Touch Pianist is a browser-based interactive music toy where users tap keys to play the rhythm of famous classical piano pieces, with mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software(bitbashing.io)

622 points by mrkline 3 years ago | 520 comments

Blog post titled "Async Rust Is A Bad Language" critiquing Rust's async model for massively concurrent userspace software, starting from why async exists.

Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later(mtlynch.io)

435 points by mtlynch 3 years ago | 148 comments

Michael Lynch's blog post revisiting Fog Creek's 2005 internship documentary Aardvark'd and the later careers of the people interviewed in it.

I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17(macstories.net)

378 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 44 comments

MacStories article about using a Game Boy Camera as an external webcam for FaceTime video calls on an iPad running iPadOS 17.

Procreate Dreams(procreate.com)

368 points by petecooper 3 years ago | 133 comments

Product page for Procreate Dreams, Procreate's animation app for iPad.

Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters(twitter.com)

321 points by lopkeny12ko 3 years ago | 418 comments

Tweet by Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen announcing the company is rescinding signed offer letters for incoming hires amid a hiring freeze.

Emoji Generator with AI(emoji.fly.dev)

317 points by vicgalle_ 3 years ago | 142 comments

Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy(growth.design)

310 points by Summershard 3 years ago | 289 comments

FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers(theverge.com)

232 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 65 comments

Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)(maizure.org)

232 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 78 comments

Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution(birmingham.ac.uk)

222 points by geox 3 years ago | 33 comments

Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you(blog.dataparty.xyz)

214 points by nullagent 3 years ago | 121 comments

LogoScale – A method for vectorizing small, crappy logos(msprout.notion.site)

208 points by pushedx 3 years ago | 33 comments

PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril(jpcamara.com)

187 points by brunoluiz 3 years ago | 62 comments

Scammers can exploit email forwarding flaws to impersonate high-profile domains(today.ucsd.edu)

182 points by sizzle 3 years ago | 45 comments

NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles(theguardian.com)

170 points by c420 3 years ago | 77 comments

Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system(github.com)

169 points by candleknight 3 years ago | 42 comments

The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines(daily.jstor.org)

162 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 131 comments

Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs(rafalcieslak.wordpress.com)

162 points by icyfox 3 years ago | 88 comments

Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)(journals.sagepub.com)

161 points by BryantD 3 years ago | 114 comments

Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications(rivet.ironcladapp.com)

153 points by gogwilt 3 years ago | 30 comments

LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom(librewolf.net)

152 points by jlpcsl 3 years ago | 113 comments

Safety inspector fired for finding 'too many defects'(kstp.com)

150 points by guessmyname 3 years ago | 34 comments

Dennis Austin, developer of PowerPoint, has died(washingtonpost.com)

144 points by sonabinu 3 years ago | 25 comments

Unpacking Elixir: Real-Time and Latency(underjord.io)

135 points by lawik 3 years ago | 20 comments

Cerabyte: ceramic storage poised to usher in 'yottabyte era'(tomshardware.com)

135 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 64 comments

FAA closes SpaceX Starship mishap investigation(apnews.com)

135 points by fnordpiglet 3 years ago | 121 comments

The rxv64 Operating System: MIT's xv6, in Rust, for SMP x86_64 machines(github.com)

127 points by lproven 3 years ago | 34 comments

How to make a synthetic diamond(instructables.com)

126 points by luu 3 years ago | 80 comments

TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months(theregister.com)

124 points by rntn 3 years ago | 65 comments

Towards a new SymPy(oscarbenjamin.github.io)

118 points by asmeurer 3 years ago | 52 comments

Zinc-air batteries as an alternative to lithium-ion: study(ecu.edu.au)

116 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 97 comments

Why isn't chess popular in Japan?(lichess.org)

114 points by cushpush 3 years ago | 87 comments

Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?(quuxplusone.github.io)

112 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 87 comments

A small-town police officer took down a large match-fixing ring in tennis(washingtonpost.com)

108 points by saeedesmaili 3 years ago | 54 comments

Unpacking Elixir: Syntax(underjord.io)

103 points by lawik 3 years ago | 27 comments

GitHubGuessr(github-guessr.vercel.app)

97 points by tan-z-tan 3 years ago | 46 comments

Lean 4.0(github.com)

97 points by quag 3 years ago | 57 comments

Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% in 2024 – CIO(cio.com)

91 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 60 comments

The Le Guin Precepts(seths.blog)

91 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 18 comments

Consumers defrauded on Zelle are left high and dry by the banks that created it [pdf](warren.senate.gov)

90 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 64 comments

Large Language Models as Optimizers. +50% on Big Bench Hard(arxiv.org)

89 points by og_kalu 3 years ago | 32 comments

Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows(sciencedirect.com)

89 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 11 comments

Dating app Grindr loses nearly half its staff after trying to force RTO(cnn.com)

89 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 104 comments

Profound Beliefs(steveblank.com)

89 points by sblank 3 years ago | 51 comments

What is an emotion? William James’s theory of how our bodies affect our feelings(themarginalian.org)

81 points by bfoks 3 years ago | 55 comments

Heirloom Carbon: Absorbing CO2 from the air using crushed rocks(heatmap.news)

81 points by taylorbuley 3 years ago | 77 comments

Uber CEO’s time moonlighting as a driver sparked all-hands called 'Why we suck.'(businessinsider.com)

79 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 95 comments

Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner(worksinprogress.co)

79 points by Metacelsus 3 years ago | 72 comments

FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Companies Will Likely Ignore(techdirt.com)

77 points by rntn 3 years ago | 44 comments

SoftGPU: SW and HW accelerated driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines(github.com)

77 points by rasz 3 years ago | 3 comments

The Development of the M1 Garand and Its Implications(acoup.blog)

76 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 60 comments

AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok(nbcnews.com)

75 points by elorant 3 years ago | 63 comments

BMW ends heated seat subscriptions because people hated them(thedrive.com)

73 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 45 comments

Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers(nature.com)

72 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 63 comments

How to Learn Emacs (2012)(david.rothlis.net)

69 points by adm_ 3 years ago | 30 comments

Texas paid Bitcoin miner more than $31M to cut energy usage(cbsnews.com)

69 points by lxm 3 years ago | 76 comments

iOS 17 sideloading support is coming, and Apple can’t stop it(bgr.com)

63 points by quyleanh 3 years ago | 36 comments

X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data(stackdiary.com)

63 points by skilled 3 years ago | 53 comments