Hacker News on Saturday, 28 October 2023

Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign(github.com)

427 points by alexopensource 3 years ago | 130 comments

GitHub repository for OpenSign, a free and open source AGPL-licensed alternative to DocuSign for electronic document signing.

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic(reuters.com)

356 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 338 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, published October 27, 2023.

The fun factor of the video game Uplink(vertette.github.io)

333 points by syx 3 years ago | 83 comments

A personal blog post analyzing what makes the hacking video game Uplink fun, framed by the author's memories of discovering PC gaming.

FCC wants to bolster amateur radio(radioworld.com)

327 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 163 comments

Radio World article reporting the FCC will vote in November 2023 on a plan to remove outdated technical restrictions on amateur radio.

MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer(ephtracy.github.io)

297 points by selvan 3 years ago | 45 comments

Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way(iliana.fyi)

282 points by alex_hirner 3 years ago | 147 comments

Nitrogen electroreduction with almost 100% current-to-ammonia efficiency (2022)(nature.com)

240 points by gorpovitch 3 years ago | 134 comments

Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds(blog.ornx.net)

231 points by rain1 3 years ago | 65 comments

Ertdfgcvb(ertdfgcvb.xyz)

220 points by mbostock 3 years ago | 55 comments

Arena Allocation in SBCL(github.com)

195 points by tmtvl 3 years ago | 27 comments

Cortex X2: ARM aims high(chipsandcheese.com)

173 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 100 comments

React use C(github.com)

172 points by elnardu 3 years ago | 70 comments

Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video](youtube.com)

160 points by paulcarroty 3 years ago | 77 comments

A small warning about UDP based protocols(boston.conman.org)

159 points by signa11 3 years ago | 106 comments

WinterJS(wasmer.io)

127 points by kevinak 3 years ago | 75 comments

New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed(techdirt.com)

121 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 104 comments

Friend's Chandler, Matthew Perry, died at 54(latimes.com)

121 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 75 comments

Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom(ch3ngl0rd.com)

116 points by ch3ngl0rd 3 years ago | 80 comments

Actual is going open-source (2022)(actualbudget.com)

114 points by edward 3 years ago | 23 comments

McDonalds is giving free French fries in return for waiving the right to sue(mashed.com)

113 points by zzzeek 3 years ago | 44 comments

Elixir and Phoenix can do it all(fly.io)

112 points by mike1o1 3 years ago | 50 comments

The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law(wired.com)

107 points by grammers 3 years ago | 77 comments

Show HN: Demystifying Advanced RAG Pipelines(github.com)

102 points by pchunduri6 3 years ago | 14 comments

Assyrian Women of Letters(archaeology.org)

101 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 19 comments

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People(monbiot.com)

94 points by tpush 3 years ago | 77 comments

How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

90 points by jam 3 years ago | 58 comments

Is the Intel N100 a better option than high-end ARM RK3588 boards at the moment?(bret.dk)

89 points by sthlmb 3 years ago | 57 comments

WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound(github.com)

85 points by thekashifmalik 3 years ago | 38 comments

Anti-ChatGPT(github.com)

84 points by omarfarooq 3 years ago | 47 comments

Charter Houses (2022)(slimemoldtimemold.com)

81 points by alexdong 3 years ago | 44 comments

Literate Documentation with Emacs and Org Mode(gitlab.com)

81 points by spudlyo 3 years ago | 6 comments

Why is a second equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 of radiations? (2016)(physics.stackexchange.com)

73 points by modinfo 3 years ago | 52 comments

Magnetically Modelling MagSafe(kavi.sblmnl.co.za)

72 points by kavinaidoo 3 years ago | 36 comments

Pope tempted by Python. Signs off on coding scheme for kids(theregister.com)

70 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 42 comments

ESP32 Wemos D1 Mini – Sprinkler Controller Open Source(github.com)

66 points by pcbmaker20 3 years ago | 26 comments

LAPD YouTube Channel Suspended for Posting Violent Content(ktla.com)

66 points by hentrep 3 years ago | 41 comments

Watch this guy work and you'll finally understand the TikTok era(wired.com)

62 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 73 comments

Craig Murray seeks UN protection in Switzerland against British persecution(wsws.org)

57 points by _trampeltier 3 years ago | 26 comments

XRDP with H.264 codec brings immense performance boost(old.reddit.com)

55 points by DesktopECHO 3 years ago | 12 comments

Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need(arxiv.org)

54 points by apsec112 3 years ago | 15 comments

Dev sets up "goatse" trap for sites that steal his free web game(arstechnica.com)

49 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 39 comments

PHP 8.1.25(php.net)

49 points by ms7892 3 years ago | 12 comments

As Digital Nomads Flock to Lisbon, Portugal's Youth Are Leaving in Droves(bloomberg.com)

48 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 36 comments

Webb discovers new feature in Jupiter's atmosphere(phys.org)

47 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 15 comments

Show HN: Is It Toxic To? – Check if a plant is toxic to your pets(iitt.chester.how)

46 points by itsnotchester 3 years ago | 28 comments

15 Years of Android Memories(blog.google)

44 points by lawgimenez 3 years ago | 38 comments

Killing Windows 10 in 2025 could turn PCs into eWaste(liliputing.com)

42 points by edward 3 years ago | 35 comments

Yup, that was an earthquake outside SF(earthquake.usgs.gov)

41 points by ricberw 3 years ago | 49 comments

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law(theregister.com)

40 points by nixass 3 years ago | 21 comments

Wise is deactivating Business cards in the US on Oct. 31st(wise.com)

39 points by omneity 3 years ago | 25 comments

How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console(lapcatsoftware.com)

39 points by zeroimpl 3 years ago | 6 comments

Revisiting Textpattern(rubenerd.com)

38 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 14 comments

Arduino Builds a Bridge to the Raspberry Pi Ecosystem with Its New Portenta H(hackster.io)

35 points by wslh 3 years ago | 5 comments

"Is Zero a Number?": Interviews with a Whole Class of Kindergartners(jennalaib.wordpress.com)

35 points by importantstuff 3 years ago | 37 comments

Why teachers in South Korea are scared of their pupils, and their parents(cnn.com)

35 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 36 comments

Sulfur Selenium Solid-State Battery from NASA Breaks Energy Storage Boundaries(cleantechnica.com)

34 points by nopinsight 3 years ago | 39 comments

Rydberg Field Measurement System(rydbergtechnologies.com)

33 points by nickt 3 years ago | 5 comments

The copyright fight over authors and OpenAI's ChatGPT(vox.com)

33 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 38 comments

One Year into Musk, X Monthly Users Are Down 15% and Ad Revenue Has Slumped 54%(variety.com)

32 points by puttycat 3 years ago | 27 comments

BP buys $100M worth of Tesla chargers(cnn.com)

31 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 13 comments