Hacker News on Friday, 29 September 2023

Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video](audio-video.gnu.org)

1203 points by fury999io 3 years ago | 634 comments

A WebM video of Richard Stallman's talk at the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting, in which he discloses that he has cancer.

Draggable objects(redblobgames.com)

935 points by stefankuehnel 3 years ago | 112 comments

A Red Blob Games tutorial by Amit Patel on implementing draggable objects in interactive web diagrams; the screenshot shows the site's homepage.

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted(graz.social)

653 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 277 comments

A Mastodon post by Karl Voit arguing that the Microsoft Azure cloud hack, including 60,000 stolen US State Department emails, means everything Microsoft authenticates is tainted.

Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned(posthog.com)

617 points by fmerian 3 years ago | 258 comments

PostHog blog post sharing lessons learned from spending on paid advertising to market a developer tool.

RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models(realfill.github.io)

557 points by flavoredquark 3 years ago | 178 comments

Project page for RealFill, a Google Research and Cornell paper on reference-driven image completion using diffusion models.

Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)(punkx.org)

372 points by throwaway71271 3 years ago | 41 comments

Project page for Overflow, a tabletop and web board game where players write RISC-V assembly and exploit buffer overflows to hack opponents.

Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)(catb.org)

327 points by prakhar897 3 years ago | 172 comments

Eric S. Raymond's essay on obsolete computing lore once common among hackers, covering modems, RS232, octal, terminals, ASCII, and pre-Internet networks.

Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips(techhub.social)

311 points by gaius_baltar 3 years ago | 64 comments

50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?(concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com)

291 points by ingve 3 years ago | 68 comments

Privacy washing: Google claims to support privacy while lobbying against it(proton.me)

268 points by dotcoma 3 years ago | 107 comments

Meta in Myanmar(erinkissane.com)

261 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 132 comments

I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads(404media.co)

241 points by ghostDancer 3 years ago | 107 comments

JAX – NumPy on the CPU, GPU, and TPU(jax.readthedocs.io)

234 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 129 comments

Visual Node Graph with ImGui(gboisse.github.io)

229 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 73 comments

OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools(github.com)

206 points by NicoJuicy 3 years ago | 192 comments

Encrypted Client Hello(blog.cloudflare.com)

205 points by cosmosgenius 3 years ago | 180 comments

How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off(wsj.com)

203 points by lxm 3 years ago | 178 comments

Making a music library without a SPA(begin.com)

197 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 83 comments

MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O bottlenecks and how to solve(prdeving.wordpress.com)

194 points by buba 3 years ago | 49 comments

Eye comfort a priority for all-in-one desktop PC with color E Ink display(newatlas.com)

180 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 142 comments

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe(theregister.com)

176 points by rntn 3 years ago | 123 comments

Trains on another level(factorio.com)

167 points by m463 3 years ago | 81 comments

Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video](youtube.com)

159 points by admp 3 years ago | 61 comments

$5k Google Jamboard dies in 2024–cloud-based apps will stop working, too(arstechnica.com)

156 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 140 comments

Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client(github.com)

149 points by archibaldJ 3 years ago | 29 comments

Publishing my first game using PICO-8(boyter.org)

145 points by nalgeon 3 years ago | 28 comments

A new era for Arecibo(nature.com)

135 points by gmays 3 years ago | 91 comments

Costco gold bars are selling out within hours(cnbc.com)

129 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 305 comments

Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport(techcrunch.com)

120 points by ipnon 3 years ago | 95 comments

Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance(businessinsider.com)

117 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 96 comments

Low-Code Programming Models(cacm.acm.org)

113 points by mitchbob 3 years ago | 67 comments

Motocompacto from Honda, 3.7 inch wide Briefcase-form Electric Scooter(motocompacto.honda.com)

110 points by sizzle 3 years ago | 70 comments

Llama 2 Long(arxiv.org)

108 points by apsec112 3 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: PDF Debugger – Inspect Structure of PDF Files(pdf.hyzyla.dev)

107 points by hyzyla 3 years ago | 9 comments

iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues(theguardian.com)

107 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 111 comments

A scientific curiosity that happened to me(old.reddit.com)

104 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 55 comments

Rimac unveils SineStack, battery energy storage system(energy-storage.news)

102 points by taubek 3 years ago | 69 comments

Nvidia Offices Raided by French Law Enforcement(wccftech.com)

102 points by titaniumtown 3 years ago | 68 comments

Senator Dianne Feinstein has died(nytimes.com)

101 points by Kaibeezy 3 years ago | 93 comments

Draculark: Mudlarking and vampire hunting game in APL for the Commodore SuperPET(medium.com)

100 points by 7thaccount 3 years ago | 13 comments

Loadsharers: Funding the Load Bearing Internet People (2020)(esr.gitlab.io)

97 points by felurx 3 years ago | 60 comments

SIMD Everywhere Optimization from ARM Neon to RISC-V Vector Extensions(arxiv.org)

97 points by camel-cdr 3 years ago | 42 comments

Who invented the alphabet?(asor.org)

97 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 111 comments

The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’(atlasobscura.com)

96 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 80 comments

Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS)(gps.gov)

95 points by waterheater 3 years ago | 107 comments

A peek into Argentina’s video game scene(buenosairesherald.com)

94 points by carride 3 years ago | 27 comments

Students made Oxford murder capital of late medieval England, research suggests(phys.org)

93 points by wglb 3 years ago | 85 comments

Discovery Steering Committee re Google Antitrust Litigation [pdf](ia804605.us.archive.org)

92 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 years ago | 54 comments

LeoLM: German-Language LLM Research(laion.ai)

92 points by doubtfuluser 3 years ago | 82 comments

Weird things you can buy online(hillelwayne.com)

89 points by marvinborner 3 years ago | 34 comments

SIMH – Old Computer Emulator(en.wikipedia.org)

82 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 35 comments

Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain(laphamsquarterly.org)

79 points by pepys 3 years ago | 25 comments

My elderly parents can't resist answering the phone(bogleheads.org)

74 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 61 comments

UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities(theregister.com)

73 points by mikece 3 years ago | 20 comments

Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene(newscientist.com)

73 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 42 comments

My Postgres Story: Internationalization(obartunov.livejournal.com)

73 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 14 comments

Show HN: SapientML – Generative AutoML for Tabular Data(github.com)

72 points by ya9do 3 years ago | 7 comments

When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (2005)(gsb.stanford.edu)

71 points by segasaturn 3 years ago | 68 comments

Linux interop is maturing fast thanks to a games console(theregister.com)

70 points by zem 3 years ago | 45 comments

Senator Dianne Feinstein dies aged 90(bbc.com)

69 points by lsllc 3 years ago | 47 comments