Hacker News on Sunday, 8 October 2023

Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder(eieio.games)

530 points by eieio 3 years ago | 54 comments

Blog post from eieio.games presenting Flappy Dird, a Flappy Bird clone that runs inside the macOS Finder using folder and file names as pixels.

My personal C coding style as of late 2023(nullprogram.com)

446 points by zdw 3 years ago | 333 comments

Chris Wellons describes his personal C coding style as of late 2023, including short primitive type names and the reasoning behind his habits.

Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users(applevis.com)

352 points by devinprater 3 years ago | 69 comments

An AppleVis blog post arguing that Apple's neglect of VoiceOver and macOS accessibility means the author can no longer recommend Macs to blind users.

OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera(github.com)

328 points by danboarder 3 years ago | 54 comments

GitHub organization page for OpenIPC, a community project developing alternative open-source firmware for IP cameras based on Buildroot.

Forty years of programming(fabiensanglard.net)

246 points by billiob 3 years ago | 138 comments

Why is Debian the way it is?(blog.liw.fi)

237 points by brycewray 3 years ago | 134 comments

How to compete with Patreon(siderea.dreamwidth.org)

224 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 194 comments

Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp(github.com)

222 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 85 comments

A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S(hackaday.com)

211 points by MrBuddyCasino 3 years ago | 142 comments

Extreme parkour with legged robots(extreme-parkour.github.io)

210 points by modeless 3 years ago | 22 comments

The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod(tailscale.dev)

201 points by notamy 3 years ago | 43 comments

Zen 5's Leaked Slides(chipsandcheese.com)

179 points by treesciencebot 3 years ago | 126 comments

Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres(docs.paradedb.com)

175 points by billwashere 3 years ago | 60 comments

Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge(scientificamerican.com)

168 points by elorant 3 years ago | 61 comments

Metals Fuse Together in Space(spacecentre.nz)

166 points by redbell 3 years ago | 59 comments

Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator(github.com)

163 points by ingve 3 years ago | 151 comments

Fastest sailboat: Two wild designs(newatlas.com)

159 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 72 comments

500 Lines or Less (2016)(aosabook.org)

153 points by adarshd 3 years ago | 35 comments

How Games Used to Look: Why Retro Gaming on a CRT Looks Different [video](youtube.com)

150 points by MrJagil 3 years ago | 148 comments

Before Skynet and The Matrix, there was Colossus: The Forbin Project(ign.com)

146 points by cglong 3 years ago | 77 comments

Does Market Timing Work?(schwab.com)

140 points by alihm 3 years ago | 219 comments

Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%(sciencedirect.com)

134 points by geox 3 years ago | 120 comments

An implantable device could enable injection-free control of diabetes(news.mit.edu)

133 points by thebigspacefuck 3 years ago | 29 comments

Fury – Fast multi-language serialization framework powered by JIT and Zero-copy(github.com)

129 points by chaokunyang 3 years ago | 43 comments

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle(marvinh.dev)

128 points by cdme 3 years ago | 37 comments

Scaling Knative to 100K+ Webapps(render.com)

126 points by anurag 3 years ago | 30 comments

Mitigations=off considered harmful or spurious SIGILL on AMD Zen4(forum.level1techs.com)

123 points by 2bluesc 3 years ago | 31 comments

MiniDisc Hacking(sharoma.com)

115 points by crtasm 3 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: This is what social media could be(bloom.tendtoyourgarden.xyz)

115 points by terencehf 3 years ago | 48 comments

Self-Hosting (Almost) All the Way Down [video](archive.fosdem.org)

107 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 13 comments

Calling Rust from Python(blog.frankel.ch)

103 points by RebootStr 3 years ago | 29 comments

The anatomy of a smart bulb(cheriches.com)

95 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 74 comments

A Repairman's View of Portable Minidisc Recorders (2000)(minidisc.org)

93 points by ecliptik 3 years ago | 46 comments

Oil-Canning(livingstingy.blogspot.com)

91 points by CHB0403085482 3 years ago | 22 comments

Review of the .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 [pdf](internetnz.nz)

84 points by slyall 3 years ago | 23 comments

Demo-driven development (2021)(rubick.com)

80 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 53 comments

What is a "document"? (1997) [pdf](monoskop.org)

80 points by omarfarooq 3 years ago | 11 comments

Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo(wired.com)

80 points by em3rgent0rdr 3 years ago | 26 comments

Lessons from bootstrapped companies founded by software engineers(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

75 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 28 comments

Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why(scientificamerican.com)

73 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 60 comments

Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths(thejusticegap.com)

72 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 61 comments

Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation(historytoday.com)

70 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 44 comments

Amazon launches Project Kuiper satellite internet prototypes(cnbc.com)

69 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 51 comments

How far did my post go on the Fediverse?(shkspr.mobi)

69 points by panic 3 years ago | 15 comments

Email Steve Jobs sent to himself 1 year before his passing(officechai.com)

69 points by nixass 3 years ago | 29 comments

New study confirms gulf stream weakening(phys.org)

68 points by leononame 3 years ago | 25 comments

The NYC's MTA 20 year needs assessment reminds us they can't build(pedestrianobservations.com)

67 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 52 comments

Fast and Clean: Auditable high-performance assembly via constraint solving [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)

67 points by luu 3 years ago | 4 comments

The three modern formats for email forwarded by people(utcc.utoronto.ca)

63 points by zdw 3 years ago | 51 comments

A more mature take on stateless Terraform(bejarano.io)

61 points by rthnbgrredf 3 years ago | 59 comments

Strong evidence is common (2021)(markxu.com)

58 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 42 comments

Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation(theguardian.com)

58 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 24 comments

The Algorithm for Precision Medicine, talk by Matthew Might [video](youtube.com)

58 points by anjayan 3 years ago | 8 comments

Americans born in 2019 will spend 48% to 60% of lives on prescription medication(read.dukeupress.edu)

57 points by grecy 3 years ago | 59 comments

Numbers in Various Languages(omniglot.com)

56 points by RandomRRR 3 years ago | 32 comments

CancelQuora(interestingauthors.com)

55 points by WhowasFired 3 years ago | 47 comments

Ferrocene – Rust for Critical Systems(ferrous-systems.com)

55 points by RebootStr 3 years ago | 17 comments

CA Gov. Newsom vetoes bill that would have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms(abcnews.go.com)

52 points by whalesalad 3 years ago | 63 comments

Projects Innovating Around RISC-V(thechipletter.substack.com)

50 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 20 comments

The Era of Startups Is Over(acecreamu.substack.com)

45 points by acecreamu 3 years ago | 37 comments