Hacker News on Sunday, 10 September 2023

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users(ctrl.blog)

664 points by extr0pian 3 years ago | 388 comments

Ctrl.blog post by Daniel Aleksandersen arguing that Microsoft still forces Edge on Windows 11 users through system components that ignore the default browser.

Nginx Unit – Universal web app server(github.com)

614 points by promiseofbeans 3 years ago | 170 comments

GitHub repository for NGINX Unit, an open source universal web app server that acts as a reverse proxy, serves static files, and runs apps in multiple languages.

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)(dougseven.com)

416 points by sathishmanohar 3 years ago | 254 comments

Doug Seven's 2014 blog post recounting how a botched software deployment at Knight Capital caused massive trading losses, framed as a DevOps cautionary tale.

Peredvizhnikov Engine: Lock-free game engine written in C++20(github.com)

343 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 154 comments

GitHub repository for Peredvizhnikov Engine, a fully lock-free game engine written in C++20 and licensed under GPL-3.0.

Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather(public.wmo.int)

304 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 322 comments

How does Linux NAT a ping?(devnonsense.com)

288 points by willdaly 3 years ago | 81 comments

I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race(steele.blue)

275 points by nxten 3 years ago | 83 comments

“Make” as a static site generator (2022)(karl.berlin)

240 points by bundie 3 years ago | 131 comments

New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory(vanityfair.com)

236 points by morby 3 years ago | 313 comments

The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make(benhoyt.com)

223 points by nalgeon 3 years ago | 49 comments

Why is the ocean salty? (2022)(usgs.gov)

204 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 159 comments

ZF makes magnet-free electric motor uniquely compact and competitive(press.zf.com)

201 points by taubek 3 years ago | 116 comments

The Decline of Usability (2020)(datagubbe.se)

194 points by mmphosis 3 years ago | 151 comments

A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)(littleblah.com)

183 points by gautamsomani 3 years ago | 68 comments

Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen(lists.gnu.org)

174 points by signa11 3 years ago | 11 comments

New Bézier curves for vector graphics(ad8e.pages.dev)

160 points by ad8e 3 years ago | 51 comments

I wrote a string type(mcyoung.xyz)

155 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 59 comments

A design system for the federal government(designsystem.digital.gov)

138 points by galaxyLogic 3 years ago | 62 comments

Is air conditioning making cities hotter?(euronews.com)

130 points by elorant 3 years ago | 224 comments

Google no longer offers new domain registrations(domains.google)

121 points by sparshrestha 3 years ago | 134 comments

To make dishwashers great again? (2020)(greenbuildinglawupdate.com)

116 points by MichaelZuo 3 years ago | 460 comments

Ray and Tom Magliozzi, MIT 1999 Commencement Address [video](youtube.com)

114 points by stefanpie 3 years ago | 75 comments

What I have changed my mind about in software development(henrikwarne.com)

113 points by henrik_w 3 years ago | 159 comments

Amiga C Tutorial (2022)(pjhutchison.org)

109 points by harel 3 years ago | 30 comments

RISC-V SBI and the full boot process(popovicu.com)

107 points by snvzz 3 years ago | 22 comments

The molecule DIM reduces biofilms causing dental plaque: study(scitechdaily.com)

98 points by hanniabu 3 years ago | 78 comments

Flake8-Logging(adamj.eu)

95 points by zdw 3 years ago | 41 comments

Static Hermes: Compile JavaScript to speed it up 300x (in microbenchmarks)(tmikov.blogspot.com)

92 points by unchar1 3 years ago | 16 comments

Reviewing a Dell Linux PC 23 years ago(liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)

88 points by lproven 3 years ago | 57 comments

Code-gov: A collection point for all Code.gov repositories(github.com)

86 points by johncole 3 years ago | 14 comments

Leaked Google pay data shows how much employees report making(businessinsider.com)

85 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 57 comments

Battery-electric fishing vessel marks a sea change for small commercial fishers(nrel.gov)

84 points by geox 3 years ago | 63 comments

Training and aligning LLMs with RLHF and RLHF alternatives(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

82 points by rasbt 3 years ago | 10 comments

CityDreamer: Compositional Generative Model of Unbounded 3D Cities(arxiv.org)

82 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 14 comments

Breathing life back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit(blog.jgc.org)

78 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 16 comments

Why SaaS prices are still going up when companies are spending less(vendr.com)

73 points by awwstn 3 years ago | 76 comments

A more dynamic software I/O TLB(lwn.net)

71 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 5 comments

It’s way past time to stop police ‘testilying’(knowablemagazine.org)

69 points by rntn 3 years ago | 52 comments

Homeland Security using “Babel X” to link SSNs to social media posts

68 points by danghatesme 3 years ago | 27 comments

Mistakes You Should Never Make (2014)(sethbannon.com)

62 points by gautamsomani 3 years ago | 57 comments

Non-Standard Errors [pdf](statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

60 points by luu 3 years ago | 7 comments

Sama-Bajau “sea nomads” people gene mutations allow them to free-dive 13 minutes(nationalgeographic.com)

54 points by guytv 3 years ago | 21 comments

10th Rule of Programming (2003)(philip.greenspun.com)

52 points by gggggs 3 years ago | 15 comments

How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech(lambrospetrou.com)

46 points by lambrospetrou 3 years ago | 25 comments

Magic and Loss, Part 1: Magic in the Cards(filfre.net)

44 points by cybersoyuz 3 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Erlmacs – a script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development(github.com)

42 points by dlachausse 3 years ago | 8 comments

SoDaCam: Software-Defined Cameras via Single-Photon Imaging(arxiv.org)

41 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 6 comments

How Big Tech Got So Damn Big(wired.com)

41 points by gslin 3 years ago | 34 comments

Small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons(phys.org)

38 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 39 comments

Phoenix has set another heat record by hitting 110 degrees on 54 days this year(npr.org)

37 points by RadixDLT 3 years ago | 16 comments

TextViewBenchmark: A suite of performance tests for macOS text views(github.com)

37 points by zdw 3 years ago | 3 comments

Five billion people will face extreme heat at least a month each year by 2050(washingtonpost.com)

36 points by ndsipa_pomu 3 years ago | 14 comments

Historical Objects: The Bees of Childeric I(justhistoryposts.com)

36 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 1 comments

The Linux Information Project(linfo.org)

35 points by abhiminator 3 years ago | 5 comments

A Texas Semiconductor Boom on the Horizon(news.utexas.edu)

34 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 30 comments

KSMBD Declared Stable – No Longer “Experimental” – In Linux 6.6(phoronix.com)

32 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 11 comments

Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs(economist.com)

30 points by lxm 3 years ago | 38 comments

Improving NeRF quality by progressive camera placement(arxiv.org)

29 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 11 comments

Threading with Style (2018)(stuartsierra.com)

24 points by ducktective 3 years ago | 3 comments

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)(publicdomainreview.org)

24 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 0 comments