Hacker News on Thursday, 12 October 2023

First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student(scrollprize.org)

1095 points by razin 3 years ago | 204 comments

Vesuvius Challenge announcement that a 21-year-old computer science student discovered the first word read inside an unopened Herculaneum scroll.

Scrollbars are becoming a problem(artemis.sh)

737 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 708 comments

A blog post arguing that shrinking and hidden scrollbars in modern interfaces harm usability, especially for people with motor control problems.

Introduction to Modern Statistics(openintro-ims2.netlify.app)

665 points by noelwelsh 3 years ago | 116 comments

Website for the free online textbook Introduction to Modern Statistics, Second Edition, by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin from the OpenIntro project.

Desmos 3D graphing calculator(desmos.com)

407 points by benpm 3 years ago | 81 comments

Desmos 3D (Beta), a free browser-based 3D graphing calculator showing an empty x-y-z plotting space and expression list.

The midwit home(dynomight.substack.com)

367 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 254 comments

A Dynomight newsletter essay arguing for a simpler smart home with less automation, after the frustrations of protocols like Z-Wave, Zigbee and MQTT.

Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons(diceright.com)

354 points by YakiSauce 3 years ago | 101 comments

Landing page for DiceRight, a web-based virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons online with friends.

The Twelve-Factor App (2011)(12factor.net)

351 points by edward 3 years ago | 226 comments

The Twelve-Factor App is a methodology describing best practices for building portable, scalable software-as-a-service applications for cloud platforms.

OpenAI is too cheap to beat(generatingconversation.substack.com)

344 points by cgwu 3 years ago | 374 comments

Substack post by Vikram Sreekanti and Joseph E. Gonzalez arguing OpenAI's infrastructure scale makes its models too cheap for competitors to beat.

Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt(jesseduffield.com)

338 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 300 comments

Blog post by Jesse Duffield arguing that developers' lack of motivation ("can't be fucked") is an underrated cause of technical debt.

Metric Time(metric-time.com)

316 points by rickcarlino 3 years ago | 309 comments

Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

302 points by notpushkin 3 years ago | 516 comments

Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)(vox.com)

298 points by freedomben 3 years ago | 240 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?

286 points by actinium226 3 years ago | 317 comments

One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly(ruoyusun.com)

274 points by insraq 3 years ago | 114 comments

Email and Git = <3(git-send-email.io)

239 points by pmarin 3 years ago | 197 comments

Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B(reuters.com)

220 points by razin 3 years ago | 170 comments

HTTP/2 rapid reset attack impacting Nginx products(nginx.com)

218 points by 120bits 3 years ago | 49 comments

How LSP could have been better(matklad.github.io)

218 points by packetlost 3 years ago | 184 comments

Microsoft reveals IRS notice asking for $28.9B in back taxes(engadget.com)

216 points by shurco 3 years ago | 113 comments

Slack's Google Drive App can share your private Docs and Drive files(kapwing.com)

215 points by justswim 3 years ago | 49 comments

EU "Chat Control" and Mandatory Client Side Scanning(berthub.eu)

207 points by ahubert 3 years ago | 59 comments

47 Anime for 47 Prefectures in Japan(tokyoweekender.com)

192 points by keiferski 3 years ago | 57 comments

The AI research job market(interconnects.ai)

179 points by sebg 3 years ago | 157 comments

Atlassian Acquires Loom(atlassian.com)

178 points by amrrs 3 years ago | 357 comments

NASA: Capillary Cup(rit.edu)

168 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 62 comments

Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal(danmeyer.substack.com)

167 points by aaronharnly 3 years ago | 189 comments

Schools for children of military achieve results rarely seen in public education(nytimes.com)

154 points by LastNevadan 3 years ago | 207 comments

Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory(quantamagazine.org)

146 points by EA-3167 3 years ago | 41 comments

YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads(arstechnica.com)

145 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 149 comments

Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions(zach.codes)

144 points by zackify 3 years ago | 154 comments

T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans(arstechnica.com)

126 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 70 comments

Want to get started with LLMs? Here's what you need to know(flyte.org)

122 points by samhita-alla 3 years ago | 20 comments

When XML in Word Became Illegal(blog.withedge.com)

120 points by ejz 3 years ago | 49 comments

Bentham's Mugging (2022)(cambridge.org)

118 points by mattmerr 3 years ago | 80 comments

Show HN: Nostalgist.js – Run emulators of retro consoles, within web browsers(nostalgist.js.org)

116 points by arianrhodsand 3 years ago | 9 comments

REI is Laying Off 275 Employees(old.reddit.com)

114 points by justinator 3 years ago | 109 comments

Show HN: OpenBLE, Swagger for Bluetooth(demo.openble.org)

110 points by shardulaeer 3 years ago | 33 comments

Woman's experimental bionic hand passes major test(gizmodo.com)

102 points by jordigg 3 years ago | 30 comments

A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath(github.com)

100 points by atomicnature 3 years ago | 73 comments

MS Paint Cocreator, a new AI-powered experience powered by DALL-E(blogs.windows.com)

96 points by tuanx5 3 years ago | 26 comments

Revisited mass of the Milky Way is much smaller than expectations from cosmology(observatoiredeparis.psl.eu)

94 points by layer8 3 years ago | 56 comments

Open Textbook Library – Textbooks that may be freely downloaded and distributed(open.umn.edu)

87 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 1 comments

Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%(news.gallup.com)

85 points by gmays 3 years ago | 89 comments

A BART seat-slashing gang that was part of an upholstery racket (2019)(sfgate.com)

83 points by luu 3 years ago | 94 comments

TSMC: Ecosystem for 2nm Chip Development Is Nearing Completion(anandtech.com)

81 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 13 comments

Flexport is laying off 20% of its workforce(cnbc.com)

76 points by codex_irl 3 years ago | 59 comments

Impossible photo feat now possible via holography(spectrum.ieee.org)

73 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 16 comments

Toshiba to delist from Japanese stock exchange(english.kyodonews.net)

72 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 40 comments

ISS Rodent Habitat (2014)(spaceflight101.com)

71 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 42 comments

A wild idea to protect the Great Barrier Reef(nautil.us)

66 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 58 comments

Websites of 2000 [video](bbc.co.uk)

64 points by JohnHammersley 3 years ago | 30 comments

Millions of Homes Still Being Kept Vacant as Housing Costs Surge, Report Finds(vice.com)

63 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 76 comments

Armbian and Devuan = Armvuan(github.com)

63 points by axy 3 years ago | 42 comments

Boox Palma review: A phone-shaped e-reader(sixcolors.com)

59 points by occamschainsaw 3 years ago | 50 comments

FastGPT(kagi.com)

58 points by burkaman 3 years ago | 23 comments

Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know(old.reddit.com)

55 points by cryne 3 years ago | 13 comments

The GRU's Disruptive Playbook(mandiant.com)

54 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 23 comments

She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her testimony was explosive(text.npr.org)

53 points by eric-hu 3 years ago | 35 comments

Screenshots from Windows 95(guidebookgallery.org)

52 points by xeonmc 3 years ago | 34 comments

SpaceX files for new 29,988-satellite W-band network(spaceintelreport.com)

50 points by ortusdux 3 years ago | 92 comments