Hacker News on Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Seeing like a bank(bitsaboutmoney.com)

517 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 370 comments

Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie, published November 2023, on how banks perceive and process the world and their customers.

Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2(remedygames.com)

427 points by vblanco 3 years ago | 233 comments

Remedy Entertainment article describing the new Northlight engine technology used to build Alan Wake 2.

Euclid's First Images(esa.int)

396 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 97 comments

ESA article presenting the first full-colour images from the Euclid space telescope, including the Horsehead Nebula, a spiral galaxy, and the Perseus galaxy cluster.

Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler(riverphillips.dev)

330 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 114 comments

Blog post by River Phillips on how Go's runtime interacts with container CPU limits and the Linux CFS scheduler.

Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite(github.com)

315 points by HillRat 3 years ago | 190 comments

Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM(gleam.run)

295 points by ljlolel 3 years ago | 164 comments

Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger(techdirt.com)

271 points by rntn 3 years ago | 159 comments

What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone(prolost.com)

265 points by robenkleene 3 years ago | 139 comments

Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy (part 1)(sebmestre.blogspot.com)

242 points by mmphosis 3 years ago | 98 comments

Videos of Godotcon 2023(media.ccc.de)

217 points by mdtrooper 3 years ago | 36 comments

Maine's constitution has unprintable sections(mitsc.org)

207 points by dsr_ 3 years ago | 159 comments

You don't need to work on hard problems (2020)(benkuhn.net)

192 points by bschne 3 years ago | 86 comments

A C Compiler that fits in the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine(github.com)

187 points by doener 3 years ago | 48 comments

Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years(eff.org)

178 points by agwa 3 years ago | 75 comments

PostgreSQL Encryption: The Available Options(hezmatt.org)

164 points by JNRowe 3 years ago | 54 comments

Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist(nature.com)

162 points by marvinborner 3 years ago | 107 comments

The Escapist staff resign following termination of editor-in-chief Nick Calandra(gamesindustry.biz)

161 points by falcor84 3 years ago | 72 comments

What the QWAC? An EV Certificate all over again(scotthelme.co.uk)

146 points by charleyablaze 3 years ago | 71 comments

Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"(arstechnica.com)

143 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 156 comments

A four year plan for async Rust(without.boats)

139 points by steveklabnik 3 years ago | 124 comments

Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data(arstechnica.com)

134 points by carride 3 years ago | 123 comments

WasmFX: Effect Handlers for WebAssembly(wasmfx.dev)

133 points by BentonE 3 years ago | 36 comments

Tumble Forth(tumbleforth.hardcoded.net)

130 points by jtoledo 3 years ago | 19 comments

U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers(axios.com)

123 points by 23B1 3 years ago | 113 comments

An update on salary transparency in job posts(directlyapply.com)

119 points by dylankbuckley 3 years ago | 120 comments

'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires(nymag.com)

119 points by saeranv 3 years ago | 118 comments

I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Playbook(crisesnotes.com)

116 points by e63f67dd-065b 3 years ago | 86 comments

Whole Earth Catalog (1968) [pdf](monoskop.org)

116 points by doener 3 years ago | 30 comments

Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath(aftermath.site)

111 points by netaustin 3 years ago | 125 comments

Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT(lumafield.com)

110 points by eucalyptuseye 3 years ago | 101 comments

Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes(rachelbythebay.com)

108 points by picture 3 years ago | 23 comments

Potato Diet Riff Trial: Sign Up Now, Lol(slimemoldtimemold.com)

106 points by MaurizioPz 3 years ago | 81 comments

Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games(scorecard.gg)

104 points by thomaspark 3 years ago | 40 comments

Fedora 39 Released(fedoramagazine.org)

101 points by xdfg13345 3 years ago | 45 comments

Validating Data in Elixir: Using Ecto and NimbleOptions(blog.appsignal.com)

101 points by amalinovic 3 years ago | 54 comments

Speeding up a program for a 50 year old processor(mark.engineer)

93 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 12 comments

Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published(computerweekly.com)

88 points by DerekBickerton 3 years ago | 68 comments

Vitess 18(planetscale.com)

85 points by ksec 3 years ago | 38 comments

The OpenAI Keynote(stratechery.com)

83 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 59 comments

ICE faces heat after agents install apps, VPNs on official phones(theregister.com)

83 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 41 comments

Core to core latency data on large systems(chipsandcheese.com)

81 points by nuriaion 3 years ago | 18 comments

Why does unsafe multithreaded std:unordered_map crash more than std:map?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

81 points by luu 3 years ago | 62 comments

Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions(theregister.com)

80 points by Beggers1960 3 years ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Roboco-op, a computational blackboard for efficient human/AI collab(observablehq.com)

72 points by tlarkworthy 3 years ago | 20 comments

Solar Splitting of CO2 with 3D-Printed Hierarchically Channeled Ceria Structures(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

72 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 22 comments

Oracle Employee Helped Cocaine Dealers Hide $54M in Crypto, DOJ Says(forbes.com)

70 points by kakokeko 3 years ago | 31 comments

The trouble with ingredients in sunscreens(ewg.org)

67 points by adomasm3 3 years ago | 34 comments

Ex-Meta employee says his warnings of Instagram's harm to teens were ignored(theguardian.com)

65 points by curiousObject 3 years ago | 31 comments

The Stern-Gerlach Experiment (1967) [video](youtube.com)

65 points by kklisura 3 years ago | 10 comments

Development of a Live-Action Film of the Legend of Zelda to Start(nintendo.co.jp)

64 points by donohoe 3 years ago | 50 comments

Enough polynomials and linear algebra to implement Kyber(words.filippo.io)

63 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 7 comments

FTC Chair Lina Khan on AI regulation, startup acquisitions, and more [audio](ycombinator.com)

61 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 36 comments

"I cannot wait to possess you": Reading 18th century letters for the first time(arstechnica.com)

61 points by apollinaire 3 years ago | 27 comments

Lawmakers push 702 reauthorization requiring warrant to access info on Americans(thehill.com)

60 points by ramblenode 3 years ago | 7 comments

Chopstick robot handle boxes with ease(spectrum.ieee.org)

59 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 31 comments

ELTP: Extending ELT for Modern AI and Analytics(airbyte.com)

59 points by aaronsteers 3 years ago | 7 comments

LAPD considering stronger body camera policy in light of recent scandals(latimes.com)

59 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 67 comments

Doing a Job (1982)(govleaders.org)

57 points by georgecmu 3 years ago | 15 comments

Why Golang instead of Rust to develop the Krater desktop app(blog.moonguard.dev)

55 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 53 comments

GPT-4-turbo preliminary benchmark results on code-editing(aider.chat)

55 points by heliophobicdude 3 years ago | 50 comments