Hacker News on Saturday, 21 October 2023

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

What every developer should know about GPU computing(codeconfessions.substack.com)

422 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 149 comments

A Substack primer by Abhinav Upadhyay explaining GPU architecture and computing concepts for software developers familiar mainly with CPUs.

FPGA N64(ultrafp64.com)

374 points by AndrewDucker 3 years ago | 74 comments

Homepage of ULTRA FP64, a project billed as the world's first FPGA implementation of the Nintendo 64, showing a dev board running an N64 cartridge.

"No, it's less effort than that"(smartguess.is)

362 points by replyifuagree 3 years ago | 287 comments

A Smart Guess blog post about software effort estimates and people claiming a task takes less effort than estimated.

Startup CTO's Handbook(github.com)

346 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 105 comments

GitHub repository for The Startup CTO's Handbook, a book on leadership, management, and technical topics for leaders of software engineering teams.

Ruffle: Flash Player Emulator(ruffle.rs)

314 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 148 comments

Dave Cutler on Windows [video](youtube.com)

312 points by hexmiles 3 years ago | 185 comments

O3DE(o3de.org)

277 points by 0xDEF 3 years ago | 68 comments

The Pixel 8 Pro's Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud(notebookcheck.net)

218 points by redbell 3 years ago | 116 comments

My website is one binary (2022)(j3s.sh)

215 points by greenSunglass 3 years ago | 136 comments

Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru Outback battery

214 points by siftrics 3 years ago | 87 comments

George Carlin's "Soft Language" (2019)(thoughtco.com)

210 points by tempodox 3 years ago | 338 comments

The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021)(cacm.acm.org)

206 points by yeesian 3 years ago | 165 comments

Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination(cointelegraph.com)

204 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 116 comments

OpenRefine(openrefine.org)

204 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 15 comments

Adtech surveillance and government surveillance are often the same(eff.org)

201 points by gslin 3 years ago | 34 comments

Human microbiome myths and misconceptions(nature.com)

187 points by lxm 3 years ago | 64 comments

Pigging(en.wikipedia.org)

185 points by userbinator 3 years ago | 69 comments

Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago(cbc.ca)

180 points by amichail 3 years ago | 256 comments

With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)(openwall.com)

170 points by throwaway71271 3 years ago | 134 comments

Twitch will now let streamers simultaneously stream on any service they want(theverge.com)

165 points by my12parsecs 3 years ago | 84 comments

Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost(germanvelasco.com)

155 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 141 comments

How to self study pure math – a step-by-step guide [video](youtube.com)

154 points by msndr 3 years ago | 29 comments

Stories told by Aboriginal Tasmanians could be oldest recorded(australiangeographic.com.au)

150 points by gumby 3 years ago | 73 comments

Common-knowledge effect: A bias in team decision making(nngroup.com)

134 points by vimes656 3 years ago | 52 comments

The next Raptor OpenPOWER systems are coming, but they won't be Power10(talospace.com)

131 points by zdw 3 years ago | 96 comments

Keju, China’s difficult civil service test(aeon.co)

130 points by laurex 3 years ago | 78 comments

MMO Architecture: clients, sockets, threads and connection-oriented servers(prdeving.wordpress.com)

129 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 48 comments

AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes(restofworld.org)

124 points by gigama 3 years ago | 80 comments

Nghttp3 1.0.0 – HTTP/3 library written in C(nghttp2.org)

124 points by neustradamus 3 years ago | 95 comments

The 7th Guest gets VR remake using volumetric video(the7thguest-vr.com)

122 points by hanswannop 3 years ago | 51 comments

Microwatt: A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008(github.com)

121 points by ksec 3 years ago | 32 comments

Recent adventures in performance optimization with Rust(willcrichton.net)

114 points by rrampage 3 years ago | 57 comments

Go Package for Building Progressive Web Apps(go-app.dev)

114 points by greenSunglass 3 years ago | 52 comments

HN RSS feeds per user no longer available

113 points by sarcher 3 years ago | 19 comments

How plants communicate with each other when in danger(washingtonpost.com)

111 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 76 comments

It takes 12 people to use the 18k Sphere camera(petapixel.com)

110 points by belter 3 years ago | 47 comments

We Built a Streaming SQL Engine(epsio.io)

110 points by croes 3 years ago | 50 comments

Transactions Are Not Locks (2022)(benburwell.com)

108 points by Paul-Craft 3 years ago | 41 comments

Fish skin can heal other animals' eye injuries(scientificamerican.com)

106 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 33 comments

Please be dying, but not too quickly, part 2: The patient's perspective(bessstillman.substack.com)

103 points by abecedarius 3 years ago | 65 comments

Google owes executive $1M after losing gender bias lawsuit(theverge.com)

101 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 45 comments

Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spiral that can end oil(electrek.co)

91 points by cs702 3 years ago | 115 comments

Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates(blog.system76.com)

89 points by jiripospisil 3 years ago | 14 comments

Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk [video](youtube.com)

89 points by zdw 3 years ago | 35 comments

Google cuts dozens of jobs in news division(cnbc.com)

88 points by r721 3 years ago | 72 comments

Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord(cnbc.com)

86 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 54 comments

Oberon System 3(github.com)

83 points by hollimolli 3 years ago | 18 comments

The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple content(arstechnica.com)

81 points by simon_acca 3 years ago | 65 comments

The Polaroid SX70's unusual shutter(opensx70.com)

80 points by camtarn 3 years ago | 11 comments

Reimplementing git clone in Haskell from the bottom up (2013)(stefan.saasen.me)

76 points by subset 3 years ago | 5 comments

Town Repeatedly Surveilled Man's Yard with Drone Without a Warrant(404media.co)

75 points by nathan_phoenix 3 years ago | 70 comments

C++ Attribute: Likely, Unlikely(en.cppreference.com)

74 points by dvmazur 3 years ago | 53 comments

In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour(crimereads.com)

73 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 71 comments

NASA's Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters(jpl.nasa.gov)

72 points by Aaronn 3 years ago | 24 comments

Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP email client(trojita.flaska.net)

69 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 14 comments

Ferrari Sued a Used Car Dealer for $2.2M over a Replica. It Didn't Go Well(carscoops.com)

66 points by rmason 3 years ago | 44 comments

Man captures 'weird anomaly' of Storm Babet lifting forest floor in Scotland(theguardian.com)

56 points by mkl 3 years ago | 26 comments

Solvable statistical physics models for large neuronal populations(arxiv.org)

53 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 13 comments

Ogre 14.1(ogre3d.org)

53 points by the-dude 3 years ago | 8 comments