Hacker News on Monday, 9 October 2023

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity(venturebeat.com)

842 points by AndrewKemendo 3 years ago | 362 comments

GamesBeat article reporting that John Riccitiello stepped down as Unity CEO following backlash over the company's runtime pricing changes.

Blackmagic Camera for iPhone(blackmagicdesign.com)

417 points by Lwrless 3 years ago | 232 comments

Product page for Blackmagic Camera, a free iPhone app offering professional cinema camera controls for video recording.

Ardour 8.0(ardour.org)

381 points by 6581 3 years ago | 127 comments

Release announcement for Ardour 8.0, the open-source digital audio workstation for Linux, Windows, and macOS, listing new features like quick groups and arrangement markers.

Disney packed big emotion into a little robot(spectrum.ieee.org)

361 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 123 comments

IEEE Spectrum news article on how Disney combined animation techniques and reinforcement learning to create an expressive, free-roaming bipedal robot.

The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)(qz.com)

312 points by airstrike 3 years ago | 177 comments

Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup(ounapuu.ee)

304 points by hddherman 3 years ago | 136 comments

ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs(sunshowers.io)

303 points by mmastrac 3 years ago | 161 comments

Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage(fakehistoryhunter.net)

276 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 260 comments

Show HN: I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance admin tasks(momo.coach)

273 points by 42loops 3 years ago | 60 comments

DSLinux – Linux for the Nintendo DS(dslinux.org)

273 points by AntiRush 3 years ago | 65 comments

Impacts of lack of sleep(belkarx.github.io)

255 points by belkarx 3 years ago | 173 comments

Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes(coredumped.dev)

254 points by celeritascelery 3 years ago | 80 comments

Bare-metal Rust in Android(security.googleblog.com)

253 points by iamd3vil 3 years ago | 103 comments

Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ(alexandreolive.medium.com)

253 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 81 comments

Tell HN: DNS record "hn.algolia.com" was gone(nslookup.io)

240 points by gslin 3 years ago | 92 comments

USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)(pcgamer.com)

239 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 464 comments

ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0(github.com)

234 points by excerionsforte 3 years ago | 115 comments

Linux ate my RAM (2009)(linuxatemyram.com)

234 points by StrauXX 3 years ago | 174 comments

NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)(nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world)

219 points by beeburrt 3 years ago | 48 comments

Make your own pyramid salt crystals(crystalverse.com)

217 points by klyrs 3 years ago | 22 comments

Safe AI Image Generation(smbc-comics.com)

201 points by dsr_ 3 years ago | 81 comments

Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code(stephango.com)

171 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 33 comments

Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down(bigthink.com)

160 points by WithinReason 3 years ago | 181 comments

Leantime: Open-Source Jira Alternative(github.com)

153 points by intheleantime 3 years ago | 68 comments

789 KB Linux Without MMU on RISC-V(popovicu.com)

151 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 32 comments

Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law(oag.ca.gov)

143 points by rahimnathwani 3 years ago | 251 comments

RAG at scale: Synchronizing and ingesting billions of text embeddings(medium.com)

140 points by picohen 3 years ago | 45 comments

LLMs can't self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds(bdtechtalks.com)

140 points by nyrikki 3 years ago | 214 comments

Writing code with pencil and paper (2022)(css-tricks.com)

137 points by raytopia 3 years ago | 86 comments

Lensm, a tool for viewing disassembly(storj.io)

135 points by jtolds 3 years ago | 15 comments

HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans(github.com)

135 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 97 comments

Free Online Graph Paper(incompetech.com)

129 points by Gedxx 3 years ago | 21 comments

Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history(physician.fyi)

127 points by jamesfly 3 years ago | 55 comments

The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()(bram.us)

121 points by dcre 3 years ago | 61 comments

Google Made Billions with Secret Change to Ad-Auction Algorithm(finance.yahoo.com)

117 points by mikerg87 3 years ago | 92 comments

UK Address Oddities (2018)(paulplowman.com)

116 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 140 comments

Chapel 1.32(chapel-lang.org)

116 points by pjmlp 3 years ago | 27 comments

Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots(extreme-parkour.github.io)

115 points by beefman 3 years ago | 76 comments

Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – the importance of idempotence(bytes.zone)

106 points by brianhicks 3 years ago | 5 comments

Stop EU Chat Control(stopchatcontrol.eu)

97 points by porsager 3 years ago | 39 comments

The Prosecutor's Fallacy (2018)(cebm.ox.ac.uk)

96 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 years ago | 63 comments

Lenovo exec promises 80% of its devices will be consumer-repairable by 2025(theverge.com)

96 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 55 comments

Why AutoGPT engineers ditched vector databases(dariuszsemba.com)

92 points by DSemba 3 years ago | 49 comments

Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant(thestate.com)

89 points by DocFeind 3 years ago | 62 comments

The Soviet spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific(bbc.com)

86 points by antondd 3 years ago | 28 comments

2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin(nobelprize.org)

86 points by razin 3 years ago | 99 comments

How the Ear Works: Nature's solutions for listening (1997)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

86 points by jacquesm 3 years ago | 18 comments

How to Make a Cantenna (2013)(jacobsalmela.com)

83 points by bluenomatterwho 3 years ago | 29 comments

Financial anxiety: The alarming side effect of inflation(bbc.com)

79 points by rntn 3 years ago | 57 comments

A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes(irishtimes.com)

79 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 29 comments

Unity Announces Leadership Transition(investors.unity.com)

76 points by mysterydip 3 years ago | 16 comments

Ask HN: Brother printers sending ink data to Amazon?

76 points by Ajay-p 3 years ago | 43 comments

The Magic Prioritization Trick(cutlefish.substack.com)

72 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 29 comments

We made a fork of the Rust Playground(java-playground.com)

70 points by emccue 3 years ago | 24 comments

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860)(publicdomainreview.org)

69 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 21 comments

Lawmakers shift gears on TikTok ban(politico.com)

68 points by c420 3 years ago | 186 comments

Becoming James Bond(literaryreview.co.uk)

68 points by pepys 3 years ago | 34 comments

You probably shouldn't use a lookup table (2022)(specbranch.com)

64 points by segfaultbuserr 3 years ago | 38 comments

Autopay Is Making Us Worse at Managing Credit-Card Bills(wsj.com)

57 points by lxm 3 years ago | 89 comments

We migrated to SQL. Our biggest learning? Don't use Prisma(codedamn.com)

57 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 58 comments