Hacker News on Monday, 23 October 2023

Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world(protomaps.com)

909 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 147 comments

Homepage of Protomaps, an open source map of the world deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.

Embeddings: What they are and why they matter(simonwillison.net)

598 points by simonw 3 years ago | 113 comments

Simon Willison's article, based on his PyBay 2023 talk, explaining what embeddings are and how to apply them to problems like related content and semantic search.

SumatraPDF Reader(github.com)

475 points by quyleanh 3 years ago | 224 comments

GitHub repository for SumatraPDF, an open-source GPL-licensed PDF and document reader for Windows written in C/C++.

Software disenchantment(tonsky.me)

422 points by InsiderTesla 3 years ago | 286 comments

Nikita Prokopov's blog essay lamenting slow, bloated, inefficient modern software and the industry's tolerance of poor quality.

Cooler screens(computer.rip)

317 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 203 comments

A Computers Are Bad newsletter essay by J. B. Crawford about Cooler Screens, the digital display doors replacing glass on Walgreens refrigerators.

Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse(torrentfreak.com)

315 points by gslin 3 years ago | 188 comments

Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation(techdirt.com)

299 points by WarOnPrivacy 3 years ago | 188 comments

1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account(arstechnica.com)

287 points by simonpure 3 years ago | 166 comments

Java implementation of a quantum computing resistant cryptographic algorithm(github.com)

256 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 52 comments

Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1(flavio.castelli.me)

242 points by walterbell 3 years ago | 121 comments

Base64 Encoding, Explained(akshaykhot.com)

231 points by software_writer 3 years ago | 103 comments

Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google(abc.net.au)

230 points by defrost 3 years ago | 161 comments

Mazda slaps developer with cease-and-desist for DIY smart home integration(thedrive.com)

229 points by heshiebee 3 years ago | 125 comments

Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband(techdirt.com)

221 points by rntn 3 years ago | 79 comments

How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon?(eclecticlight.co)

216 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 144 comments

How to run 50% faster without external energy (2020)(science.org)

205 points by beefman 3 years ago | 152 comments

UK government surveilling social media of teaching assistants(reclaimthenet.org)

205 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 102 comments

Marcel the Shell(marceltheshell.org)

197 points by jdblair 3 years ago | 146 comments

EU Chat Control Bill Postponed(tutanota.com)

186 points by BramLovesYams 3 years ago | 108 comments

Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off(insider.microsoft365.com)

183 points by xnhbx 3 years ago | 125 comments

Raspberry Pi 5: available now(raspberrypi.com)

177 points by avyeed_desa 3 years ago | 143 comments

Show HN: Pypipe – A Python command-line tool for pipeline processing(github.com)

174 points by bugen 3 years ago | 35 comments

MSW 2.0 – Mock Service Worker(mswjs.io)

171 points by milkers 3 years ago | 52 comments

How to Build Your Own AI-Generated Images with ControlNet and Stable Diffusion(datature.io)

166 points by gkeechin 3 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: WebSession, a Secure Replacement for Cookies(websession.dev)

164 points by zacharyvoase 3 years ago | 80 comments

Cascade: CPU fuzzing via intricate program generation(comsec.ethz.ch)

152 points by matt_d 3 years ago | 17 comments

Why Japan has blue traffic lights instead of green(rd.com)

152 points by kitebive 3 years ago | 220 comments

Ask HN: Was any Starfighter postmortem ever published?

143 points by xoranth 3 years ago | 80 comments

Off-duty pilot tried to crash Alaska Airlines SFO flight, officials say(sfstandard.com)

141 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 142 comments

Yarn 4.0(yarnpkg.com)

139 points by winterqt 3 years ago | 97 comments

Two Kinds of Techno-Optimism(garymarcus.substack.com)

139 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 80 comments

Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future(sandstorm.org)

137 points by ocdtrekkie 3 years ago | 31 comments

Thousands of programmable DNA-cutters found in algae, snails and other organisms(phys.org)

128 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 18 comments

Personal aviation is about to get interesting(elidourado.com)

128 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 78 comments

Chrome Removing Theora Support(groups.google.com)

126 points by rebelwebmaster 3 years ago | 84 comments

Nvidia to Challenge Intel with Arm-Based Processors for PCs(bloomberg.com)

124 points by marc__1 3 years ago | 97 comments

Show HN: Roadmap – A Personal Growth Game for Social Anxiety(roadmaptogrow.com)

122 points by tolarewaju3 3 years ago | 45 comments

Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate(latimes.com)

117 points by lxm 3 years ago | 124 comments

Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago(scientificamerican.com)

111 points by Podgajski 3 years ago | 69 comments

Trying out TinaCMS(blog.cassidoo.co)

107 points by sgallant 3 years ago | 31 comments

ChDB: Embedded OLAP SQL Engine Powered by ClickHouse(github.com)

102 points by nalgeon 3 years ago | 29 comments

COBOL on Wheelchair: Micro web-framework for COBOL(github.com)

100 points by matsz 3 years ago | 33 comments

The black market in GitHub stars(wired.com)

97 points by elashri 3 years ago | 72 comments

Common fungus candida albicans might fuel Alzheimer's onset(neurosciencenews.com)

96 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 63 comments

iOS Single App Mode Escape(labs.withsecure.com)

95 points by jnieminen 3 years ago | 33 comments

National Center for Home Food Preservation(nchfp.uga.edu)

91 points by Jugurtha 3 years ago | 31 comments

We're entering a pretty strong El Niño(arstechnica.com)

88 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 21 comments

1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account(arstechnica.com)

84 points by sprawl_ 3 years ago | 54 comments

Driver's failure to laugh at odd question during stop not Reasonable Suspicion(fourthamendment.com)

84 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 42 comments

Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS(nuejs.org)

84 points by tipiirai 3 years ago | 102 comments

Samsung and other manufacturers disable phones bought on gray markets(nomadscrolls.net)

81 points by leotravis10 3 years ago | 90 comments

William and Mary by Roald Dahl (1959)(user.ceng.metu.edu.tr)

81 points by mattbee 3 years ago | 30 comments

Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"(corticallabs.com)

80 points by pr337h4m 3 years ago | 91 comments

Matter 1.2 – New device types and improvements(csa-iot.org)

73 points by liveder 3 years ago | 49 comments

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off(theregister.com)

73 points by rntn 3 years ago | 92 comments

Lets Have Three Abstraction Layers(minimal.app)

70 points by arthurofbabylon 3 years ago | 22 comments

Orcas that hunted alongside humans might be extinct(livescience.com)

69 points by aforelight 3 years ago | 14 comments

Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?

68 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 50 comments

Google faces antitrust probe in Japan for pushing search default(english.kyodonews.net)

68 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 13 comments

China is becoming a data black hole, says short seller Aandahl(theedgemalaysia.com)

65 points by hker 3 years ago | 50 comments