Hacker News on Sunday, 24 September 2023

Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem(jenson.org)

1223 points by kaftan-permans 3 years ago | 651 comments

Blog post by Scott Jenson explaining why text editing on mobile phones is a serious but overlooked usability problem, based on his research at Google.

A hacker's guide to language models [video](youtube.com)

749 points by rrampage 3 years ago | 35 comments

YouTube video by Jeremy Howard titled "A Hackers' Guide to Language Models," a code-first introduction to using and understanding LLMs.

Choose Postgres queue technology(adriano.fyi)

680 points by bo0tzz 3 years ago | 321 comments

Blog post by Adriano Caloiaro arguing for using Postgres-based queue technology for background jobs instead of dedicated queue systems.

Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)(dpreview.com)

453 points by ghastmaster 3 years ago | 90 comments

DPReview article by Ron Risman about two photographers who independently captured the same millisecond of a wave hitting a lighthouse during a storm.

There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org(en.osm.town)

396 points by gslin 3 years ago | 65 comments

Mastodon post from OpenStreetMap announcing the Tracestrack Topo map style on OpenStreetMap.org, a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap with more tag support and i18n.

Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria(lanternbioworks.com)

372 points by apsec112 3 years ago | 242 comments

Landing page for Lantern Bioworks, a company developing gene-engineered mouth bacteria, showing a hero banner with a Learn More button.

Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust(github.com)

283 points by mustache_kimono 3 years ago | 111 comments

PID Control Challenges(janismac.github.io)

283 points by a_m0d 3 years ago | 110 comments

Show HN: Get your entire ChatGPT history in Markdown files(github.com)

251 points by mohamedchs 3 years ago | 20 comments

Full Resolution Photo Archive(aurelm.com)

248 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 74 comments

μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)(tomscii.sig7.se)

248 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 83 comments

Workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis(news.yahoo.com)

220 points by 04rob 3 years ago | 196 comments

Texas death row inmate at mercy of supreme court, and junk science(theguardian.com)

215 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 160 comments

Unpacking Elixir: Resilience(underjord.io)

185 points by lawik 3 years ago | 48 comments

LARPing and Violent Extremism(leb.fbi.gov)

170 points by lolinder 3 years ago | 166 comments

Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope(nytimes.com)

165 points by marban 3 years ago | 180 comments

‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature identified as digenean trematode(science.org)

163 points by austinallegro 3 years ago | 30 comments

Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property(liberlandpress.com)

156 points by acadapter 3 years ago | 237 comments

TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold(economist.com)

147 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 130 comments

PiWrite – Kindle Paperwhite to Write(github.com)

146 points by kristianpaul 3 years ago | 44 comments

NASA’s Osiris-Rex capsule lands in Utah with Bennu asteroid sample(theguardian.com)

140 points by jaboutboul 3 years ago | 3 comments

TCP's congestion control saved the internet(theregister.com)

134 points by mikece 3 years ago | 28 comments

One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cycling(thehustle.co)

132 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 105 comments

What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++(mastodon.gamedev.place)

132 points by AshleysBrain 3 years ago | 140 comments

Google is killing Gmail's Basic HTML View in early 2024(support.google.com)

131 points by shscs911 3 years ago | 109 comments

Our humble attempt at “how much data do you need to fine-tune”(barryzhang.substack.com)

128 points by gnahzby 3 years ago | 34 comments

The myth of the myth of learning styles(nedbatchelder.com)

122 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 75 comments

Building a string art machine(medium.com)

117 points by eindiran 3 years ago | 16 comments

Fiber in C++: Understanding the Basics(agraphicsguynotes.com)

117 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 61 comments

The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old(torrentfreak.com)

113 points by gslin 3 years ago | 17 comments

The Cutting Room Floor(tcrf.net)

96 points by herbertl 3 years ago | 18 comments

Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers(scientificamerican.com)

94 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 26 comments

Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020)(righto.com)

92 points by nickt 3 years ago | 20 comments

Ash Framework(ash-hq.org)

89 points by gjvc 3 years ago | 24 comments

Natalie – a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++(github.com)

86 points by ciconia 3 years ago | 16 comments

TypeScript NPM Packages Done Right(blog.liblab.com)

82 points by chatgidipi 3 years ago | 53 comments

LLM Falcon 180B Needs 720GB RAM to Run(kaitchup.substack.com)

80 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Pigsty – PostgreSQL in Great STYle, Free RDS Alternative(github.com)

80 points by Vonng 3 years ago | 40 comments

Introducing geometric algebra to software developers(arxiv.org)

76 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 34 comments

One robber baron’s gamble on railroads(smithsonianmag.com)

75 points by samclemens 3 years ago | 65 comments

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)(pbs.org)

73 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 45 comments

Brightline Orlando's first train: 125 mph from MCO to MIA [video](youtube.com)

71 points by ipnon 3 years ago | 117 comments

Is this ‘which’ dead?(grammarphobia.com)

70 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 57 comments

Low Tech Crypto: Solitaire (2020)(alicegg.tech)

69 points by zer0tonin 3 years ago | 13 comments

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return [video](youtube.com)

68 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 7 comments

Two-Tower Embedding Model(hopsworks.ai)

66 points by jamesblonde 3 years ago | 18 comments

Open Air Schools of the 1900s(blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

65 points by Petiver 3 years ago | 48 comments

Knuth's 20 Questions for ChatGPT(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

59 points by _ZeD_ 3 years ago | 17 comments

CoRF: Colorizing Radiance Fields Using Knowledge Distillation(arxiv.org)

58 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 4 comments

Corrosion: Rust Never Sleeps(books.worksinprogress.co)

53 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 24 comments

Google ending Basic HTML support for Gmail in 2024(tenfourfox.blogspot.com)

53 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 23 comments

My Pure Rust Wishlist(gburghoorn.com)

47 points by RebootStr 3 years ago | 11 comments

25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

47 points by edward 3 years ago | 41 comments

CSS Findings from the Threads App: Part 2(ishadeed.com)

43 points by sysadm1n 3 years ago | 14 comments

Time Doesn’t Belong to Physics – When Bergson met Einstein(iai.tv)

43 points by mellosouls 3 years ago | 125 comments

Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?(meetryanflowers.com)

41 points by geocrasher 3 years ago | 36 comments

Bus Pirate 5 Firmware(firmware.buspirate.com)

39 points by unwind 3 years ago | 22 comments

Ask HN: Why does Apple want me to expose my iPhone password to repair my screen?

39 points by dsrtslnd23 3 years ago | 38 comments

Permuting Bits with GF2P8AFFINEQB(bitmath.blogspot.com)

37 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 17 comments

Volkswagen cuts jobs as demand for EVs plunges(fortune.com)

36 points by Fervicus 3 years ago | 48 comments