Hacker News on Thursday, 26 October 2023

The Cloud Computer(oxide.computer)

1796 points by CathalMullan 3 years ago | 924 comments

Oxide Computer blog post by CTO Bryan Cantrill announcing general availability of its commercial cloud computer rack and a $44M Series A financing.

The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop(nngroup.com)

680 points by skadamat 3 years ago | 414 comments

Nielsen Norman Group article arguing that mobile-first web designs cause usability problems on desktop through 'content dispersion': oversized images, text, and white space.

Interactive intro to shaders(mayerowitz.io)

465 points by superMayo 3 years ago | 65 comments

An interactive blog post, Part I of 'A Journey Into Shaders,' introducing shader programming by building a blob with editable code and sliders.

Ensō: write now, edit later(enso.sonnet.io)

365 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 147 comments

Landing page for Ensō, a writing tool that separates writing from editing to help users enter a state of flow.

I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet(github.com)

354 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 103 comments

GitHub repository for i2pd, a C++ implementation of the I2P end-to-end encrypted anonymous network client.

Cold war satellite images reveal unknown Roman forts(theguardian.com)

291 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 108 comments

People who made the original Super Mario Bros shipped Wonder 38 years later(nintendo.com.au)

283 points by I-M-S 3 years ago | 108 comments

Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan(craigmod.com)

281 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 138 comments

Exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested(chalmers.se)

269 points by geox 3 years ago | 183 comments

Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3(simonwillison.net)

246 points by simonw 3 years ago | 62 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler(research.swtch.com)

241 points by rsc 3 years ago | 55 comments

WebSDR – Internet-connected Software-Defined Radios(websdr.org)

237 points by nickt 3 years ago | 59 comments

Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090(dsogaming.com)

221 points by segasaturn 3 years ago | 324 comments

iPhones have been exposing MAC addresses despite Apple’s promises otherwise(arstechnica.com)

216 points by coloneltcb 3 years ago | 59 comments

Dagor Engine and Tools source code from Gaijin Games KFT(github.com)

215 points by SXX 3 years ago | 88 comments

Bird with GPS flies into typhoon(newatlas.com)

215 points by clumsysmurf 3 years ago | 96 comments

Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco(theeyewall.com)

212 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 116 comments

Kidney stone procedure "has the potential to be game changing"(komonews.com)

205 points by elorant 3 years ago | 82 comments

U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected(cnbc.com)

202 points by apsec112 3 years ago | 446 comments

How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs(news.uchicago.edu)

182 points by KenRuf 3 years ago | 87 comments

We need to talk about funding(octoprint.org)

181 points by chris_overseas 3 years ago | 49 comments

Mars has a layer of molten rock inside(nature.com)

174 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 280 comments

Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions(acm.org)

170 points by talonx 3 years ago | 105 comments

EU parliament agreement to remove chat control and safeguard secure encryption(patrick-breyer.de)

165 points by teichmann 3 years ago | 21 comments

Making PostgreSQL tick: New features in pg_cron(citusdata.com)

156 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 22 comments

Static Analysis Tools for C(github.com)

151 points by Alifatisk 3 years ago | 100 comments

AirportSim(airportsim.com)

150 points by skibz 3 years ago | 68 comments

Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search(nytimes.com)

137 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 221 comments

Roombas at the end of the world(spectrum.ieee.org)

136 points by binidxaba 3 years ago | 32 comments

OpenAI Preparedness Challenge(openai.com)

136 points by dougb5 3 years ago | 108 comments

MetaCLIP – Meta AI Research(github.com)

133 points by zerojames 3 years ago | 23 comments

Lindenmayer Systems(rue-a.github.io)

131 points by susam 3 years ago | 33 comments

The history of Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda [audio](hackerhistory.com)

127 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 140 comments

Trabant(en.wikipedia.org)

123 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 103 comments

What happens when you vectorize wide PyTorch expressions?(probablymarcus.com)

118 points by mrcslws 3 years ago | 15 comments

Scientists discover why dozens of endangered elephants died(theguardian.com)

118 points by adrian_mrd 3 years ago | 60 comments

Old Unix programs running on modern computers(github.com)

117 points by mfrw 3 years ago | 39 comments

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You (2020)(steve-yegge.medium.com)

117 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 80 comments

Particle accelerator on a chip hits penny-size(spectrum.ieee.org)

117 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 14 comments

Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that(kerkour.com)

114 points by randomint64 3 years ago | 115 comments

After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet(isc.sans.edu)

112 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 29 comments

Things I like about Gleam's Syntax(erikarow.land)

111 points by lpil 3 years ago | 30 comments

Could a near-Earth asteroid be a piece of the moon?(spacechatter.com)

109 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 27 comments

Synth Emulation in MAME(gearspace.com)

107 points by bane 3 years ago | 39 comments

Ham Radios Crowdsourced Ionospheric Science During Eclipse(eos.org)

106 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 2 comments

Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools(arstechnica.com)

101 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 99 comments

ChatGPT cut off date now April 2023(chat.openai.com)

99 points by qrian 3 years ago | 53 comments

Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium(economist.com)

97 points by edward 3 years ago | 125 comments

UK government accused of 'vandalism' over abolishing biometrics safeguards(therecord.media)

93 points by CTOSian 3 years ago | 40 comments

An implementation of the NTFS filesystem in a Rust crate(github.com)

87 points by olvy0 3 years ago | 27 comments

Show HN: Instant API – Build type-safe web APIs with JavaScript(github.com)

87 points by keithwhor 3 years ago | 71 comments

Hilbert curve: The space filling curve drawn with JavaScript(jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de)

87 points by susam 3 years ago | 29 comments

The IBM 5153's True CGA Palette and Color Output (2022)(int10h.org)

83 points by susam 3 years ago | 14 comments

Verto.sh: A New Hub Connecting Beginners with Open-Source Projects(verto.sh)

79 points by lucavallin 3 years ago | 26 comments

Next.js 14(nextjs.org)

71 points by creativedg 3 years ago | 66 comments

Hysteria is a powerful, fast and censorship resistant proxy(github.com)

65 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 24 comments

USB Power Delivery for Hobby Projects(flameeyes.blog)

62 points by panic 3 years ago | 48 comments

Temporal Databases (1986) [pdf](www2.cs.arizona.edu)

59 points by LAC-Tech 3 years ago | 12 comments

Abstract Interpretation in a Nutshell(di.ens.fr)

55 points by Nokinside 3 years ago | 9 comments

Poll: What are the gender demographics of HN?

55 points by Pseudomanifold 3 years ago | 30 comments