Hacker News on Sunday, 12 November 2023

HTML First(html-first.com)

759 points by tonyennis 2 years ago | 459 comments

HTML First is a manifesto of principles for building web software by leveraging browser defaults, HTML attribute syntax, and view-source to make development easier and more inclusive.

Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of freedom(github.com)

525 points by jcparkyn 2 years ago | 92 comments

GitHub repository for dpoint, an open-source digital stylus that tracks six degrees of freedom using camera-based ArUco marker tracking and inertial measurements.

37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer(grossack.site)

416 points by sacrosanct 2 years ago | 185 comments

Blog post by Chris Grossack exploring the fact that 37 is the median value of the second smallest prime factor of an integer, verified with Sage.

The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs(idlethumbs.social)

331 points by neffo 2 years ago | 48 comments

A Mastodon thread by Valve's Jake Rodkin explaining how the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer was lit using Steam Deck OLED screens inside a giant metal orb.

Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris(pnote.eu)

257 points by przem8k 2 years ago | 54 comments

GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age(journal.hexmos.com)

257 points by lordwiz 2 years ago | 144 comments

Open, rigorous and reproducible research: A practitioner’s handbook (2021)(stanforddatascience.github.io)

255 points by sieste 2 years ago | 24 comments

Speaker Support in Asahi Linux(github.com)

246 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 138 comments

SanDisk Extreme Pro failures result from design flaw, says researcher(tomshardware.com)

246 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 145 comments

Casino-like apps have drained people of millions(nbcnews.com)

243 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 297 comments

Archive your old projects(arne.me)

224 points by abahlo 2 years ago | 54 comments

A kernel developer made my styluses work again on newer kernels(davidrevoy.com)

209 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 8 comments

Win-Vind: Vim key binder for Windows(pit-ray.github.io)

198 points by philonoist 2 years ago | 69 comments

RIP Google Groups Dejanews.com Archive?(dejanews.com)

182 points by doener 2 years ago | 132 comments

Hacking a 25 Year Old Game to Make It Work [video](youtube.com)

173 points by gus_massa 2 years ago | 13 comments

Generate images fast with SD 1.5 while typing on Gradio(twitter.com)

165 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 25 comments

Free Oberon: Cross-platform Oberon IDE(free.oberon.org)

163 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 37 comments

Porsche Open Source Platform(opensource.porsche.com)

136 points by rettichschnidi 2 years ago | 108 comments

Before-and-after images show how Greenland's glaciers have rapidly retreated(cnn.com)

131 points by vinnyglennon 2 years ago | 74 comments

Australia locks down ports after ‘nationally significant’ cyberattack(independent.co.uk)

130 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 56 comments

The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox)(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

130 points by classichasclass 2 years ago | 28 comments

Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all(theregister.com)

129 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 124 comments

An Overview of Nix in Practice(slice.zone)

121 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 49 comments

GitHub Actions Are a Problem(felix-knorr.net)

120 points by benrutter 2 years ago | 123 comments

Upcoming changes to Rust's borrow checker(blog.rust-lang.org)

113 points by truegoric 2 years ago | 63 comments

The importance of cash in a technological society(steelrods.hashnode.dev)

110 points by lnahrf 2 years ago | 131 comments

The evolution of expert communities(lcamtuf.substack.com)

105 points by zdw 2 years ago | 43 comments

Show HN: Bulk Creation of Transcripts from YouTube Playlists with Whisper(github.com)

102 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 31 comments

Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – it isn't working(wsj.com)

101 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 152 comments

You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It(nytimes.com)

100 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 93 comments

The Apollo Guidance Computer (2021)(computer.org)

97 points by sam345 2 years ago | 37 comments

How to attach logic probes to tiny SMD components (2021)(reddit.com)

90 points by dcminter 2 years ago | 36 comments

Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking(theregister.com)

87 points by Beggers1960 2 years ago | 41 comments

Open-interpreter: OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally(github.com)

86 points by transpute 2 years ago | 45 comments

The attack against Danish, critical infrastructure [pdf](sektorcert.dk)

85 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 54 comments

Formula 1 didn't realize Las Vegas would be cold in November(jalopnik.com)

81 points by geox 2 years ago | 54 comments

Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs(freecodecamp.org)

75 points by billybuckwheat 2 years ago | 54 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

73 points by sujayk_33 2 years ago | 177 comments

Scary Hasty(eclecticlight.co)

70 points by GavinAnderegg 2 years ago | 27 comments

Wisdom from computing's past(lewiscampbell.tech)

64 points by LAC-Tech 2 years ago | 35 comments

Effective Altruism Is a Welter of Lies, Hypocrisy, and Eugenic Fantasies(truthdig.com)

63 points by kosasbest 2 years ago | 24 comments

California's third largest city is mostly empty roads(sfgate.com)

59 points by kvee 2 years ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts

57 points by interstice 2 years ago | 34 comments

Matplotlib(matplotlib.org)

56 points by tosh 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Which sources cover AI developments without falling for the hype?

56 points by pramodbiligiri 2 years ago | 40 comments

Downfall fallout lawsuit: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing(theregister.com)

54 points by doener 2 years ago | 20 comments

NetBSD 10.0 RC1(netbsd.org)

54 points by nortonham 2 years ago | 30 comments

A Design History of L.A.'S Dingbat Apartment Buildings (2021)(bloomberg.com)

54 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 31 comments

Go modules and the domain expiry problem(utcc.utoronto.ca)

51 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 37 comments

Tesla's Supercharger cost revealed to be just 1/5th of the competition in bid (2022)(electrek.co)

50 points by belltaco 2 years ago | 42 comments

Passive Salt Water Cooling Boosts CPU Performance by Almost 33%(tomshardware.com)

48 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 4 comments

How to Share a Secret (Shamir Secret Sharing)(vicyyn.com)

45 points by vicyyn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Tesla will sue you if you try to flip your low-VIN Cybertruck(electrek.co)

45 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 38 comments

TorrentFreak Turns 18 Today(torrentfreak.com)

43 points by CoBE10 2 years ago | 6 comments

Cars downloading text messages from phones doesn't violate state privacy law(arstechnica.com)

42 points by mario_kart_snes 2 years ago | 4 comments

Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business(theguardian.com)

42 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 5 comments

0XReasons to Write and Publish(fabiensanglard.net)

42 points by signa11 2 years ago | 10 comments

I-10 closure in California prompts state of emergency(sfgate.com)

40 points by akeck 2 years ago | 38 comments

Amazon Making Its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android(omgubuntu.co.uk)

36 points by kristianpaul 2 years ago | 35 comments

Globalisation is a far, far bigger deal than you think(edconway.substack.com)

33 points by ksec 2 years ago | 32 comments