Hacker News on Friday, 22 September 2023

Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community(phoronix.com)

714 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 224 comments

Phoronix news article on a Linux Foundation Europe Open-Source Summit talk by Igalia highlighting Valve's upstream contributions to Linux via Steam Deck and SteamOS.

I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser(adayinthelifeof.nl)

712 points by jaytaph 3 years ago | 399 comments

A personal blog post from September 2023 in which the author explains why frustration led him to start writing his own web browser, tagged rust and browsers.

Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager(paisa.fyi)

574 points by ananthakumaran 3 years ago | 234 comments

Homepage for Paisa, an open-source, locally run personal finance manager built on the ledger double-entry plaintext accounting tool.

0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt(blog.google)

512 points by mikece 3 years ago | 231 comments

Google Threat Analysis Group blog post describing 0-day exploits used by a commercial surveillance vendor to target users in Egypt, found with Citizen Lab.

The Frustration Loop(herman.bearblog.dev)

431 points by zdw 3 years ago | 122 comments

Herman's blog post describing his ongoing fight against human spam farms abusing the free Bear blogging platform for SEO backlinks.

GitHub Actions could be so much better(blog.yossarian.net)

386 points by woodruffw 3 years ago | 208 comments

A blog post by a longtime GitHub Actions user listing frustrations with the CI service and suggesting how GitHub could improve or fix them.

I made a transformer to predict a simple sequence manually(vgel.me)

314 points by lukastyrychtr 3 years ago | 80 comments

Ways to capture changes in Postgres(blog.sequin.io)

270 points by chuckhend 3 years ago | 71 comments

Turning an old car into a powerful generator(blog.arduino.cc)

255 points by jdmark 3 years ago | 215 comments

AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4(tty.neveragain.de)

249 points by apparentorder 3 years ago | 250 comments

Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another(github.com)

249 points by tentacleuno 3 years ago | 107 comments

Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous(horstmann.com)

239 points by pwpwp 3 years ago | 105 comments

The Bogus CVE Problem(lwn.net)

224 points by signa11 3 years ago | 106 comments

Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint(scientificamerican.com)

218 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 150 comments

The age of the grift shift(tante.cc)

217 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 197 comments

Signal: The Pqxdh Key Agreement Protocol(signal.org)

208 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 54 comments

Hank Asher turned Americans’ private information into a business(nytimes.com)

201 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 87 comments

Principles for building and scaling feature flag systems(docs.getunleash.io)

194 points by ferrantim 3 years ago | 84 comments

Show HN: Learn piano without sheet music(jacobdoescode.com)

192 points by jacobp100 3 years ago | 233 comments

Show HN: Rapidpages – OSS alternative to vercel's v0(github.com)

190 points by muratsu 3 years ago | 47 comments

I'm all-in on server-side SQLite (2022)(fly.io)

185 points by rrampage 3 years ago | 130 comments

JPL Open Source Rover Project(github.com)

181 points by kscottz 3 years ago | 27 comments

Www which WASM works(flak.tedunangst.com)

172 points by 2bluesc 3 years ago | 45 comments

How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate(acoup.blog)

170 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 94 comments

CFPB kicks off rulemaking to remove medical bills from credit reports(consumerfinance.gov)

163 points by geox 3 years ago | 144 comments

Show HN: TG – Fast geometry library for C(github.com)

161 points by tidwall 3 years ago | 25 comments

Luiz André Barroso has died(wired.com)

160 points by nmwnmw 3 years ago | 21 comments

Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512(lemire.me)

156 points by usdogu 3 years ago | 30 comments

Hedy Lamarr (2018)(womenshistory.org)

142 points by interweb 3 years ago | 74 comments

CloudNativePG – Postgres Operator for Kubernetes(cloudnative-pg.io)

139 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 103 comments

Tailscale Kubernetes Operator(tailscale.com)

135 points by l2dy 3 years ago | 41 comments

Modular forms, the ‘fifth fundamental operation’ of math(quantamagazine.org)

135 points by nsoonhui 3 years ago | 44 comments

An open letter to our community(blog.unity.com)

131 points by gmjosack 3 years ago | 91 comments

Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all(cam.ac.uk)

130 points by kvee 3 years ago | 99 comments

When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed (2012)(theweek.com)

127 points by cempaka 3 years ago | 72 comments

The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths(scientificamerican.com)

126 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 89 comments

Bambu Lab A1 Mini(bambulab.com)

123 points by margor 3 years ago | 115 comments

Show HN: Tome, aka Tom's Editor – a new command-line text editor(github.com)

119 points by boutell 3 years ago | 79 comments

Creator of Vue.js Evan You's Journey from Google Engineer to Open Source Pioneer(thisdot.co)

110 points by rmason 3 years ago | 12 comments

The Tragedy of Google Search(theatlantic.com)

104 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 109 comments

Using enums to represent state in Rust(corrode.dev)

103 points by bitshifta 3 years ago | 57 comments

Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year(bbc.co.uk)

103 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 131 comments

Hidden ocean the source of carbon dioxide on Jupiter moon(phys.org)

97 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 46 comments

Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?(altinity.com)

94 points by goenning 3 years ago | 33 comments

How Australians made the early internet their own(theconversation.com)

94 points by throwaway167 3 years ago | 74 comments

Conway Can Divide by Three, but I Can’t [pdf](math.berkeley.edu)

93 points by weinzierl 3 years ago | 8 comments

Zep: Fast, scalable building blocks for production LLM apps(github.com)

91 points by roseway4 3 years ago | 11 comments

Sidenotes in Web Design(gwern.net)

86 points by 12_throw_away 3 years ago | 11 comments

Chez Scheme: Lisp with native code speed(yakihonne.com)

85 points by simonpure 3 years ago | 35 comments

GraalOS: Containerless instant-on cloud functions for Java(graal.cloud)

84 points by mike_hearn 3 years ago | 23 comments

Dumpster Tektronix 2465B Restoration(sunestra.fr)

84 points by sunestra 3 years ago | 36 comments

Learn Rust by building real-world examples(shuttle.rs)

83 points by dohguy 3 years ago | 4 comments

A beginner's guide to neural mechanisms(neuralmechanisms.org)

82 points by Schiphol 3 years ago | 2 comments

TOFU: Do You Check?(cedwards.xyz)

81 points by c7DJTLrn 3 years ago | 61 comments

Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023(counterpointresearch.com)

81 points by ksec 3 years ago | 64 comments

Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)(pluralistic.net)

80 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 17 comments

The Design System Ecosystem(bradfrost.com)

80 points by skilled 3 years ago | 28 comments

Makefile Tutorial(makefiletutorial.com)

80 points by hasheddan 3 years ago | 36 comments

Digression 3: Corrosion – Rust Never Sleeps(books.worksinprogress.co)

78 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 17 comments

New finding might explain why quasars flare and fade so quickly(news.northwestern.edu)

76 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 23 comments