Hacker News on Friday, 3 November 2023

As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code(dunfield.themindfactory.com)

1180 points by elvis70 3 years ago | 302 comments

Dave Dunfield's source code download page releasing 40+ years of his software, including kernels, OSes, tools, and disassemblers, upon his retirement.

I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video](youtube.com)

624 points by donpott 3 years ago | 281 comments

Kitboga YouTube video in which he lures about 200 scammers into an endless, impossible maze to waste their time.

Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document(portugaltheman.com)

511 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 164 comments

The official website of the band Portugal. The Man, built as a published Google Sheets document with tabs for tour, videos, vinyl, store, and an email signup.

No dogs were harmed in the making of this app(shmck.substack.com)

446 points by ShMcK 3 years ago | 191 comments

A Substack essay reflecting on debugging as a privilege software developers have compared to other professions where mistakes are harder to trace and fix.

Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly(v8.dev)

401 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 238 comments

V8 blog post detailing how garbage-collected languages like Java, Kotlin, and Dart can be ported to WebAssembly, comparing traditional WasmMVP porting with WasmGC.

Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial(fortune.com)

233 points by voisin 3 years ago | 204 comments

Wooden Game Boy(there.oughta.be)

210 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 39 comments

First observation of a virus attaching to another virus(umbc.edu)

205 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 3 years ago | 52 comments

Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all Africans(africa.businessinsider.com)

204 points by stanulilic 3 years ago | 58 comments

Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way(asciinema.org)

199 points by alexzeitler 3 years ago | 75 comments

Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data(podman-desktop.io)

191 points by mairindubh 3 years ago | 86 comments

M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores(eclecticlight.co)

174 points by ingve 3 years ago | 313 comments

A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking(devblogs.microsoft.com)

173 points by soheilpro 3 years ago | 100 comments

Joint statement of scientists and NGOs on the EU’s proposed eIDAS reform(eidas-open-letter.org)

170 points by sjm217 3 years ago | 49 comments

Surround sound test files for every audio format(drive.google.com)

166 points by austinallegro 3 years ago | 31 comments

Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code(github.com)

163 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 50 comments

MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model(blog.research.google)

163 points by apsec112 3 years ago | 71 comments

Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now(news.ycombinator.com)

161 points by sanat 3 years ago | 38 comments

Appeals Court Denies Judicial Immunity to Judge Who Personally Searched Home(ij.org)

161 points by ww520 3 years ago | 143 comments

Audacity 3.4(audacityteam.org)

160 points by jongalloway2 3 years ago | 73 comments

Okta hit by another breach, stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor(arstechnica.com)

158 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 78 comments

GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users(github.com)

156 points by gzer0 3 years ago | 92 comments

The Binder Linux driver is being rewritten in Rust(lore.kernel.org)

153 points by qsantos 3 years ago | 82 comments

Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator(arne.me)

152 points by abahlo 3 years ago | 113 comments

Guide to Adopting AV1 Encoding(bitmovin.com)

139 points by andyfrancis 3 years ago | 80 comments

EU Tries to Slip in New Powers to Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic(techdirt.com)

136 points by rntn 3 years ago | 17 comments

Email.radio – Free Email Domain for Licensed Ham Radio Operators(email.radio)

135 points by notmysql_ 3 years ago | 74 comments

Hidden manuals: gittutorial, giteveryday, gitglossary, gitworkflow

133 points by divbzero 3 years ago | 26 comments

Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024(visualstudio.microsoft.com)

127 points by kaypee901 3 years ago | 114 comments

Nuclear Conversion for Starship(toughsf.blogspot.com)

124 points by weird_user 3 years ago | 129 comments

Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek(cnbc.com)

123 points by robtherobber 3 years ago | 99 comments

A standalone zero-dependency Lisp for Linux(github.com)

112 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 45 comments

Embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier (2017)(news.harvard.edu)

111 points by sizzle 3 years ago | 62 comments

We are investigating reports of degraded performance(githubstatus.com)

106 points by contingencies 3 years ago | 120 comments

Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers(openjdk.org)

106 points by haspok 3 years ago | 138 comments

Enable ARMv9 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) on Pixel 8(outflux.net)

102 points by transpute 3 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: MicroLua – Lua for the RP2040 Microcontroller(github.com)

100 points by rblank 3 years ago | 17 comments

GitHub was down(githubstatus.com)

98 points by bombcar 3 years ago | 25 comments

If you plant milkweed, they will come(nytimes.com)

95 points by Petiver 3 years ago | 69 comments

Frink is a programming language designed to make physical calculations simple(frinklang.org)

95 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 23 comments

The Sega Hitachi HiSaturn Navi Console(nfggames.com)

94 points by austinallegro 3 years ago | 25 comments

Ken Mattingly, astronaut scrubbed from Apollo 13, has died(nytimes.com)

93 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 36 comments

What we are doing today with CAR-T cell therapy against cancer seems like SciFi(english.elpais.com)

92 points by belter 3 years ago | 21 comments

Telnet BBS Guide(telnetbbsguide.com)

89 points by threePointFive 3 years ago | 37 comments

The Anthropogenic Salt Cycle(nature.com)

83 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 50 comments

PCIe vs. CXL for Memory and Storage(synopsys.com)

78 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 17 comments

Jevons paradox(en.wikipedia.org)

77 points by scapecast 3 years ago | 63 comments

Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future(techcrunch.com)

77 points by cpeterso 3 years ago | 62 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion(newstatesman.com)

76 points by ironyman 3 years ago | 61 comments

First Handset with MTE on the Market(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

76 points by sintax 3 years ago | 13 comments

New BeagleV single board computer adopts Microchip's PolarFire SoC with FPGA(linuxgizmos.com)

74 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 46 comments

How to help someone use a computer (1996)(pages.gseis.ucla.edu)

72 points by alexmolas 3 years ago | 38 comments

11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office(news.northwestern.edu)

68 points by geox 3 years ago | 43 comments

Edison Bulb Night Mode(petemillspaugh.com)

65 points by dguo 3 years ago | 20 comments

Translations of Russ Cox's Thompson NFA C Program to Rust(github.com)

64 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 28 comments

Proxima Fusion looks to take stellarators commercial(theengineer.co.uk)

63 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 66 comments

Tell HN: Marcus.com' automated fraud detection locked me out of life savings

62 points by sherlock_h 3 years ago | 26 comments

Trusted third parties are security holes (2005)(web.archive.org)

62 points by greyface- 3 years ago | 23 comments

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)(learn.microsoft.com)

61 points by userbinator 3 years ago | 39 comments

Federal Reserve is threatening to sue Bitcoin Mag over parody product(bitcoinmagazine.com)

59 points by g42gregory 3 years ago | 45 comments