Hacker News on Sunday, 29 October 2023

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin(andadinosaur.com)

581 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 596 comments

Blog post by Zhenyi Tan documenting what he knows about YouTube's escalating anti-adblock measures and how uBlock Origin responds to them.

Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition(linear.axler.net)

570 points by __rito__ 3 years ago | 247 comments

Sheldon Axler's page announcing the fourth edition of the textbook Linear Algebra Done Right, released free as an Open Access book, with print pre-order links.

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt(discourse.nixos.org)

515 points by CathalMullan 3 years ago | 159 comments

NixOS Discourse announcement that the nixos-minimal installation ISO built by Hydra was independently rebuilt bit-for-bit identically, verifying reproducibility.

Giving a Shit as a Service (2022)(allenpike.com)

423 points by damir 3 years ago | 225 comments

Allen Pike's 2022 blog post offering a mental model for service businesses: the value clients pay for is someone genuinely caring about their work.

Life lessons from the death bed(isonomiaquarterly.com)

382 points by brandonlc 3 years ago | 160 comments

An essay by Katie Zakrzewski in Isonomia Quarterly on life lessons drawn from people at the end of their lives.

The product manager role is a mistake(sollecitom.github.io)

354 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 306 comments

Blog post arguing that the product manager role, as popularly modeled in software companies, is a mistake.

'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps(theguardian.com)

301 points by mindracer 3 years ago | 671 comments

π in Other Universes(azeemba.com)

294 points by azeemba 3 years ago | 89 comments

Running Speeds(allendowney.com)

274 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 162 comments

Are colonoscopies worth it?(asteriskmag.com)

231 points by TheIronYuppie 3 years ago | 205 comments

Apple's Blue Ocean(hypercritical.co)

228 points by hutattedonmyarm 3 years ago | 194 comments

(learn 'scheme)(jaredkrinke.github.io)

222 points by josh-sematic 3 years ago | 27 comments

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)(calculusmadeeasy.org)

219 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 51 comments

The Windows installer of ImageMagick will no longer be signed(github.com)

210 points by pid-1 3 years ago | 258 comments

DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi(github.com)

204 points by Croftengea 3 years ago | 64 comments

Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain(livescience.com)

201 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 170 comments

Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U(garyodernichts.blogspot.com)

183 points by bertman 3 years ago | 25 comments

A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)(bigthink.com)

170 points by mannykannot 3 years ago | 148 comments

Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs(xfire.com)

165 points by mdotk 3 years ago | 185 comments

Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking(themarginalian.org)

164 points by haxiomic 3 years ago | 93 comments

Ivan Illich’s radical critique of modern certitudes (2021)(noemamag.com)

163 points by truculent 3 years ago | 130 comments

AI can catalogue a forest's inhabitants simply by listening(economist.com)

161 points by helsinkiandrew 3 years ago | 98 comments

How many billions of transistors in an iPhone processor?(lemire.me)

157 points by greghn 3 years ago | 160 comments

Disappearing Polymorphs(en.wikipedia.org)

156 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 50 comments

Research Unix Sixth Edition (WASM)(research.swtch.com)

142 points by simjue 3 years ago | 33 comments

Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo(economist.com)

132 points by helsinkiandrew 3 years ago | 92 comments

Kubernetes releases ingress2gateway tool for upcoming GA of Gateway API(kubernetes.io)

130 points by kodama-lens 3 years ago | 30 comments

Linux running on RISC-V emulated in Scratch(blog.adafruit.com)

125 points by varun_ch 3 years ago | 27 comments

All GB/s without FLOPS – Nvidia CMP 170HX Review(niconiconi.neocities.org)

125 points by dannyw 3 years ago | 58 comments

Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io(openstatus.dev)

124 points by Hooopo 3 years ago | 122 comments

Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law(umarbutler.com)

120 points by ubutler 3 years ago | 33 comments

Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989)(terebess.hu)

118 points by softwaredoug 3 years ago | 86 comments

Casio fx-CG50 calculator comes with Python built-in(casio.com)

108 points by miohtama 3 years ago | 132 comments

Apple Watch violates patents held by Orange Co. tech company, ITC finds(latimes.com)

107 points by classichasclass 3 years ago | 92 comments

MenuetOS: An entire operating system in x86_64 assembly(menuetos.net)

105 points by gorenb 3 years ago | 32 comments

A fourth of U.S. health visits now delivered by non-physicians(hms.harvard.edu)

103 points by geox 3 years ago | 102 comments

Show HN: Kimchi Reader – Immersive Korean Learning with a Popup Dictionary(kimchi-reader.app)

97 points by alaanor 3 years ago | 39 comments

Building a Digital Audio Mixer(blog.brixit.nl)

96 points by bo0tzz 3 years ago | 34 comments

RattleCAD(archive.org)

95 points by app4soft 3 years ago | 24 comments

Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses(atlasobscura.com)

95 points by adrian_mrd 3 years ago | 74 comments

Atari Video Music(en.wikipedia.org)

95 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 22 comments

GitHub – system-design-primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems(github.com)

88 points by msolujic 3 years ago | 16 comments

The Pictorial C64 Fault Guide(pictorial64.com)

80 points by Luc 3 years ago | 13 comments

Work only 3 hours a day, but everyday (2016)(plumshell.com)

72 points by sph 3 years ago | 43 comments

The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list(thehustle.co)

71 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 45 comments

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)(publicdomainreview.org)

63 points by lermontov 3 years ago | 9 comments

Raven – CI/CD Security Analyzer(github.com)

63 points by wiradikusuma 3 years ago | 9 comments

Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged(theverge.com)

59 points by cebert 3 years ago | 88 comments

Solution 26370: Removing a new Texas Instruments calculator from the package(education.ti.com)

56 points by soegaard 3 years ago | 45 comments

Announcing SurrealDB 1.0(surrealdb.com)

55 points by tinrab 3 years ago | 37 comments

'The Genius of Their Age' Review: Central Asia's Big Thinkers(wsj.com)

54 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 3 comments

Project Silica(microsoft.com)

53 points by hliyan 3 years ago | 10 comments

Genode – Genode on seL4 – IPC and virtual memory(genode.org)

52 points by whereistimbo 3 years ago | 4 comments

History of Philosophy without any gaps(historyofphilosophy.net)

50 points by DougBTX 3 years ago | 31 comments

Dungeons and Dragons saved my life(hearsay.tech)

45 points by dimmu_bourgeois 3 years ago | 10 comments

IPv6 Ready Logo Program(ipv6ready.org)

45 points by cprecioso 3 years ago | 37 comments

12ft.io has been banned by Vercel(twitter.com)

43 points by bytebln 3 years ago | 10 comments

Android 14 review: There's always next year(arstechnica.com)

42 points by ossusermivami 3 years ago | 36 comments

Ask HN: Is Express still "de-facto" for building Node back ends?

42 points by scsteps 3 years ago | 31 comments

What China's slow-motion real estate crisis means for the global economy(cnbc.com)

42 points by rntn 3 years ago | 37 comments