Hacker News on Saturday, 30 September 2023

Flexbox Froggy(flexboxfroggy.com)

427 points by saaspirant 3 years ago | 66 comments

Flexbox Froggy is a browser game with 24 levels that teaches CSS flexbox properties like justify-content by having players write CSS to move frogs onto lilypads.

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths(theverge.com)

367 points by scrose 3 years ago | 395 comments

The Verge reports that the CPSC and Future Motion are recalling 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing skateboards after four reported rider deaths.

Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency(androidauthority.com)

331 points by vpt 3 years ago | 222 comments

Android Authority article reporting that some Google Pixel phone owners continue to experience failures when trying to dial 911 in emergencies.

PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)(theguardian.com)

281 points by supermatou 3 years ago | 99 comments

How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)(photographyinsider.info)

280 points by kalkr 3 years ago | 179 comments

Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge(welivesecurity.com)

279 points by transpute 3 years ago | 135 comments

Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring(news.uthscsa.edu)

269 points by geox 3 years ago | 183 comments

A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations(wired.com)

258 points by bilsbie 3 years ago | 135 comments

ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants(d3.harvard.edu)

255 points by bx376 3 years ago | 252 comments

The presumption that computers are working correctly(emptycity.substack.com)

249 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 136 comments

Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau(bloomberg.com)

218 points by quantified 3 years ago | 766 comments

The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)(undervaluedjapan.blogspot.com)

215 points by ssivark 3 years ago | 181 comments

Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets(mitchellh.com)

192 points by jamesog 3 years ago | 155 comments

Europol sought unlimited data access in online child sexual abuse regulation(balkaninsight.com)

188 points by t0bia_s 3 years ago | 143 comments

They studied dishonesty – Was their work a lie?(newyorker.com)

184 points by chrisaycock 3 years ago | 146 comments

NIR: Nim Intermediate Representation(github.com)

173 points by michaelsbradley 3 years ago | 63 comments

Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules(theglobeandmail.com)

173 points by voisin 3 years ago | 104 comments

PruningRadixTrie – Faster Radix trie for prefix search and auto-complete(github.com)

168 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 32 comments

What Is the Future of the DAW?(djmag.com)

151 points by sowbug 3 years ago | 148 comments

54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy(theportugalnews.com)

149 points by belter 3 years ago | 128 comments

CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)(chriscoyier.net)

144 points by DerekBickerton 3 years ago | 69 comments

Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent(404media.co)

142 points by cainxinth 3 years ago | 197 comments

The missing middle in game development(howtomarketagame.com)

137 points by wrelsien 3 years ago | 81 comments

The Ingenious Cardboard Bed(newatlas.com)

135 points by geox 3 years ago | 87 comments

How flip-flops are implemented in the Intel 8086 processor(righto.com)

129 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 31 comments

White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border(theguardian.com)

127 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 87 comments

A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits(ianvisits.co.uk)

122 points by edward 3 years ago | 94 comments

Rust on Espressif chips(mabez.dev)

116 points by n8henrie 3 years ago | 22 comments

An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map(nullprogram.com)

112 points by grep_it 3 years ago | 8 comments

-Werror Is not your friend (2017)(embeddedartistry.com)

111 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 81 comments

Adding runtime benchmarks to the Rust compiler benchmark suite(kobzol.github.io)

107 points by lukastyrychtr 3 years ago | 26 comments

Pharmacokinetics: Drug development's broken stair(trevorklee.substack.com)

105 points by Ariarule 3 years ago | 44 comments

Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models(techcrunch.com)

102 points by malavwarke 3 years ago | 12 comments

AdaCore Announces Gnat Pro for Rust(adacore.com)

100 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 33 comments

Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL(azure.microsoft.com)

99 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 98 comments

Show HN: A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet(octobrain.one)

98 points by asimova 3 years ago | 64 comments

DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide(arstechnica.com)

95 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 60 comments

Tesla sued for severe harassment of Black workers at California plant(theguardian.com)

83 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 81 comments

My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005)(npr.org)

83 points by Red_Tarsius 3 years ago | 54 comments

Building Processors from the Ground Up(howcpuworks.com)

78 points by coadytech 3 years ago | 9 comments

Alleged AMD Zen 5 Specs Leak: Twice the Cores, 15% Increased IPC over Ryzen 7000(tomshardware.com)

78 points by mkl 3 years ago | 44 comments

Running BeOS 5 in QEMU (i386) (2022)(john-millikin.com)

72 points by luu 3 years ago | 21 comments

Shell employees urge CEO to rethink shift from renewables in rare letter(euronews.com)

69 points by thelastgallon 3 years ago | 34 comments

Rapid Recovery from an Autism Spectrum Disorder After Treatment of Aspergillus(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

67 points by oldschoolib 3 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: A C++ dump func. that can print multi-D vectors, maps, tuples, and all(github.com)

67 points by philip82148 3 years ago | 14 comments

Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?(vitalik.eth.limo)

64 points by skilled 3 years ago | 61 comments

Is consciousness part of the fabric of the universe?(scientificamerican.com)

63 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 122 comments

Publisher: $2.5k for Academics to Post Their Own Manuscript to Their Own Repos(techdirt.com)

61 points by rntn 3 years ago | 13 comments

Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories(pitchfork.com)

60 points by cainxinth 3 years ago | 33 comments

How to Use Monadic Operations for `std:optional` in C++23(cppstories.com)

60 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 39 comments

Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues(theguardian.com)

58 points by Tevias 3 years ago | 96 comments

Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World’s Deepest Ocean Trench(education.nationalgeographic.org)

58 points by elorant 3 years ago | 20 comments

Dating the Arrival of Modern Humans in Asia(sapiens.org)

57 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 24 comments

South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children(cnn.com)

56 points by Jigsy 3 years ago | 64 comments

European Legislation Could Create Liability for Free-Software Developers(lwn.net)

53 points by belter 3 years ago | 65 comments

Optical Circuit Switching for ML Systems(dl.acm.org)

53 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 11 comments

Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required)(liliputing.com)

53 points by exz 3 years ago | 13 comments

They Quit Their Jobs. Their Ex-Employers Sued Them for Training Costs(nytimes.com)

48 points by gnicholas 3 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: kproximate – A Kubernetes node autoscaler for Proxmox(github.com)

48 points by someofmyparts 3 years ago | 15 comments

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals(phys.org)

47 points by wglb 3 years ago | 5 comments