Hacker News on Monday, 11 September 2023

UK air traffic control meltdown(jameshaydon.github.io)

875 points by jameshh 3 years ago | 289 comments

A blog post analyzing the NATS incident report on the 28 August 2023 UK air traffic control system failure caused by a flight plan processing bug.

Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads(theconversation.com)

454 points by ed_westin 3 years ago | 323 comments

The Conversation article explaining Google Chrome's new ad-targeting and tracking system (Privacy Sandbox) and what users need to know about it.

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection(marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net)

386 points by isbn 3 years ago | 161 comments

Landing page for the Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection, thousands of free audiobooks generated with Microsoft AI text-to-speech, with links to listen, code, and paper.

Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?

353 points by Zelphyr 3 years ago | 427 comments

Ask HN discussion asking why Microsoft abandoned Visual Basic and why no comparable rapid application development tool has replaced it.

A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions(simplemobiletools.com)

342 points by laktak 3 years ago | 130 comments

Homepage of Simple Mobile Tools, a collection of simple, open source Android apps without ads or unnecessary permissions and with customizable colors.

Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes(phylactery.org)

325 points by posco 3 years ago | 108 comments

An interactive web tool that computes complement, intersection, difference, equivalence and DFAs for two entered regular expressions.

Show HN: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL(antimatter15.com)

286 points by antimatter15 3 years ago | 57 comments

The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine.(twitter.com)

253 points by isp 3 years ago | 123 comments

The Power of Prolog(metalevel.at)

250 points by _benj 3 years ago | 94 comments

HDMI ISA graphics card for vintage PCs by improving the Graphics Gremlin(yeokhengmeng.com)

239 points by yeokm1 3 years ago | 47 comments

Japan launches rocket carrying lunar lander and X-ray telescope(phys.org)

228 points by wglb 3 years ago | 80 comments

Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study(newsroom.heart.org)

223 points by Vaslo 3 years ago | 176 comments

WiFi can read through walls(news.ucsb.edu)

222 points by geox 3 years ago | 155 comments

Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B(nasa.gov)

214 points by wfurney 3 years ago | 107 comments

The right to data ownership is the only way to take on Big Tech(telegraph.co.uk)

207 points by timthorn 3 years ago | 140 comments

Homemade Sriracha(seriouseats.com)

206 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 116 comments

In Germany, 27 are in 'preventive detention' b/c they might do climate protests(mastodon.energy)

204 points by raybb 3 years ago | 176 comments

How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

200 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 130 comments

RestGPT(github.com)

199 points by omarfarooq 3 years ago | 67 comments

CHART: Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope(astrochart.github.io)

195 points by cenazoic 3 years ago | 51 comments

MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing(casino.org)

180 points by codex_irl 3 years ago | 97 comments

Intuitively Understanding Harris Corner Detector(comsci.blog)

173 points by anilz 3 years ago | 8 comments

Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin(medicalxpress.com)

165 points by wglb 3 years ago | 204 comments

Beyond OpenAPI(antonz.org)

158 points by nalgeon 3 years ago | 36 comments

X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions(arstechnica.com)

155 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 221 comments

The meeting of the minds that launched AI(spectrum.ieee.org)

155 points by fremden 3 years ago | 50 comments

Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (2013)(pcwalton.github.io)

152 points by mattrighetti 3 years ago | 170 comments

OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life(openssl.org)

145 points by gslin 3 years ago | 53 comments

9/11 in Realtime(911realtime.org)

142 points by smohnot 3 years ago | 95 comments

YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes(github.com)

142 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 77 comments

Nvidia’s AI supremacy is only temporary(petewarden.com)

136 points by sebg 3 years ago | 105 comments

Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (2014)(nicisdigital.wordpress.com)

135 points by e12e 3 years ago | 72 comments

uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0(github.com)

133 points by archo 3 years ago | 32 comments

Networking for introverts(economist.com)

127 points by pretext 3 years ago | 90 comments

Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C(felixk15.github.io)

125 points by quelsolaar 3 years ago | 76 comments

The Pirate Preservationists(reason.com)

123 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 16 comments

UK air traffic control meltdown(jameshaydon.github.io)

121 points by runeks 3 years ago | 30 comments

The Pinouts Book: Pinout functions for 130 commonly used components(pinouts.org)

116 points by the_bookmaker 3 years ago | 36 comments

A LLM+OLAP Solution(doris.apache.org)

114 points by ShawnL30 3 years ago | 25 comments

A systematic approach to debugging(ntietz.com)

111 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 26 comments

Neopets is still around(dualshockers.com)

111 points by novia 3 years ago | 85 comments

Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel(aljazeera.com)

108 points by kbk 3 years ago | 78 comments

Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows(theregister.com)

102 points by ChrisArchitect 3 years ago | 79 comments

RetroAchievements: Adding achievements to retro games(retroachievements.org)

97 points by kaeruct 3 years ago | 55 comments

Advanced x86: Virtualization with Intel VT-x(opensecuritytraining.info)

95 points by matt3210 3 years ago | 14 comments

A Multi-Level View of LLM Intentionality(disagreeableme.blogspot.com)

95 points by zoltz 3 years ago | 64 comments

Show HN: Firefox addon to quarantine a tab to use offline with private data

91 points by matusfaro 3 years ago | 30 comments

Arm’s Neoverse V2(chipsandcheese.com)

87 points by matt_d 3 years ago | 41 comments

The roots of an obscure Bourne shell error message(utcc.utoronto.ca)

86 points by r4um 3 years ago | 28 comments

You Don't Need UUID(henvic.dev)

81 points by popcalc 3 years ago | 105 comments

Visualizing the CPython release process(sethmlarson.dev)

79 points by BiteCode_dev 3 years ago | 1 comments

Connecting two dial-up modems using a VoIP ATA(gekk.info)

78 points by YPPH 3 years ago | 49 comments

Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too(thedrive.com)

75 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 70 comments

GitHub education pack requesting real name on public profile(github.com)

75 points by fernvenue 3 years ago | 45 comments

30 years of The X-Files(arstechnica.com)

72 points by saltysalt 3 years ago | 46 comments

Retirement savings simulator(how-f-cked-are-you-98ab6cdc8944.herokuapp.com)

69 points by skanderbm 3 years ago | 147 comments

Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies(justice.gov)

69 points by connor11528 3 years ago | 18 comments

Drying Fruits (2003)(nchfp.uga.edu)

68 points by the_bookmaker 3 years ago | 41 comments

Mac ROM-Inator II Restock and Partnerships(bigmessowires.com)

66 points by electricant 3 years ago | 24 comments

A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis(today.com)

63 points by birriel 3 years ago | 45 comments