Hacker News on Saturday, 16 September 2023

Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites(mastodon.gamedev.place)

596 points by boffbowsh 3 years ago | 131 comments

Mastodon thread by Mario Zechner explaining his project scraping Austrian grocery chain websites to track food prices amid high inflation.

Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments(github.com)

469 points by rgbrgb 3 years ago | 126 comments

GitHub repository for Horcrux, a tool that splits a file into encrypted fragments so you don't need to remember a passcode.

Pineapple ONE: open-source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home(pineapple-one.github.io)

449 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 57 comments

Project homepage for Pineapple ONE, an open-source 32-bit RISC-V CPU designed to be built at home, with links to GitHub, Twitter and Discord.

Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize(nature.com)

385 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 172 comments

Nature news article reporting that a life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment won a US$3-million Breakthrough Prize in September 2023.

Java 21 makes me like Java again(wscp.dev)

352 points by wscp-dev 3 years ago | 587 comments

Blog post on Java 21's record patterns in switch expressions and how they enable functional programming styles comparable to Kotlin, Rust, or C#.

Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training(github.com)

313 points by kbre93 3 years ago | 82 comments

Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain(subdomain.center)

309 points by adam_gyroscope 3 years ago | 107 comments

Generative Image Dynamics(generative-dynamics.github.io)

304 points by hughes 3 years ago | 26 comments

How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers(engineercodex.substack.com)

274 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 146 comments

Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development(github.com)

246 points by pramodbiligiri 3 years ago | 47 comments

The Sound Proof Booths of Silence(dota2.com)

224 points by namiwang 3 years ago | 174 comments

“I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022)(twitter.com)

203 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 216 comments

Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR(twitter.com)

193 points by omnibrain 3 years ago | 154 comments

The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)(letsencrypt.org)

192 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 98 comments

Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser(exaequos.com)

190 points by baudaux 3 years ago | 95 comments

Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023(wejn.org)

183 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 125 comments

10 years with Hayao Miyazaki [video](www3.nhk.or.jp)

180 points by Pamar 3 years ago | 13 comments

Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization(docs.google.com)

177 points by bo0tzz 3 years ago | 81 comments

AMD’s Phoenix SoC(chipsandcheese.com)

176 points by treesciencebot 3 years ago | 124 comments

I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)(theguardian.com)

166 points by NOTHAWKING 3 years ago | 84 comments

America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it(americanaffairsjournal.org)

163 points by mjn 3 years ago | 228 comments

Demo of megatextures running on n64 hardware(github.com)

158 points by zdw 3 years ago | 40 comments

Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem(retr0.id)

156 points by PaulRobinson 3 years ago | 102 comments

How HTTPS Works (2018)(howhttps.works)

143 points by gautamsomani 3 years ago | 21 comments

Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?(workplace.stackexchange.com)

141 points by Wowfunhappy 3 years ago | 142 comments

enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)(enroncorp.com)

138 points by gdedhitchhiker 3 years ago | 64 comments

Percy Ludgate(en.wikipedia.org)

137 points by fidotron 3 years ago | 16 comments

Don't be afraid to be wrong(nlopes.dev)

136 points by shelika 3 years ago | 86 comments

Layoffs.fyi(layoffs.fyi)

130 points by hammock 3 years ago | 58 comments

Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now?(youtube.com)

126 points by sys_64738 3 years ago | 74 comments

BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes [pdf](cs.cit.tum.de)

125 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 22 comments

Relational is more than SQL(fauna.com)

122 points by tysont 3 years ago | 130 comments

Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O(github.com)

113 points by sbt567 3 years ago | 31 comments

French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pressure PepsiCo and others(cnn.com)

113 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 87 comments

GPT-4 is not getting worse(coagulopath.com)

112 points by COAGULOPATH 3 years ago | 131 comments

Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI(helpx.adobe.com)

107 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 107 comments

The “Do Something About It” Club(chavanniclass.com)

107 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 69 comments

Nonograms - Japanese Crosswords(nonograms.org)

106 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 46 comments

Salesforce CEO goes back to being remote(fortune.com)

93 points by wazokazi 3 years ago | 63 comments

A Different Type of SQL Recursion with PostgreSQL(github.com)

92 points by vbilopav 3 years ago | 4 comments

Show HN: My demo for vector embeddings for the Earth's surface(louisquissetlabs.com)

92 points by ckrapu 3 years ago | 18 comments

Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models(github.com)

92 points by bx376 3 years ago | 38 comments

Bitwarden login down due to Azure outage(status.bitwarden.com)

92 points by yakz 3 years ago | 87 comments

National Motorcycle Museum Closing Its Doors(nationalmcmuseum.org)

88 points by geox 3 years ago | 62 comments

Spellburst: LLM–Powered Interactive Canvas(arxiv.org)

88 points by araes 3 years ago | 11 comments

NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens(theconversation.com)

88 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 101 comments

Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power(newatlas.com)

85 points by belter 3 years ago | 10 comments

Insiders reveal problems at Upside Foods(wired.com)

83 points by dtagames 3 years ago | 107 comments

Unity's Self-Combustion Engine(gamesindustry.biz)

80 points by erickhill 3 years ago | 82 comments

How to Escape the Startup Trough of Sorrow(briefmix.com)

78 points by Vagantem 3 years ago | 20 comments

static-server: an HTTP server in Go for static content(eli.thegreenplace.net)

78 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 47 comments

Vaxbarn(vaxbarn.com)

74 points by dcminter 3 years ago | 18 comments

Wireless electrical–molecular quantum signalling for cancer cell apoptosis(nature.com)

73 points by Jason_Protell 3 years ago | 18 comments

Observations on Credit and Lending Practices in Ur III Mesopotamia (2004) [pdf](sfu.ca)

72 points by throw0101b 3 years ago | 30 comments

Epistemological problem of emergence in complex systems (2018) [pdf](ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

72 points by wslh 3 years ago | 31 comments

Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health(architecturaluprising.com)

70 points by barry-cotter 3 years ago | 32 comments

On Being the Right Size (1926) [pdf](phys.ufl.edu)

68 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 36 comments

Pongs(pippinbarr.com)

62 points by gregsadetsky 3 years ago | 5 comments

A Virus for the BBC Micro(popey.com)

62 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 20 comments

Comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition (2021)(rickdangerous.co.uk)

59 points by nickt 3 years ago | 9 comments