Hacker News on Sunday, 26 November 2023

The Periodic Table of Tools(periodictableoftools.com)

415 points by andyjohnson0 2 years ago | 116 comments

An interactive periodic-table-style grid of tool categories by Theodore Gray, with clickable squares leading to photos of thousands of tools.

Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat(naev.org)

412 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 61 comments

Homepage of Naev, an open-source 2D space exploration, trading and combat game, showing a 0.10.0 release trailer video.

Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?

403 points by thyrox 2 years ago | 350 comments

Ask HN discussion thread asking what the outcome of the 2023 Reddit blackout protests was, with commenters describing a stalemate and declining subreddit activity.

Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux(darlinghq.org)

397 points by doener 2 years ago | 113 comments

Homepage of Darling, an open-source translation layer for running macOS software on Linux.

Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit(getwhisky.app)

369 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 138 comments

Landing page for Whisky, a macOS app that wraps Wine and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit to run Windows games on Mac.

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)(mit.edu)

362 points by mailarchis 2 years ago | 122 comments

The full text of Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story in which aliens are amazed to discover that humans are sentient beings made of meat.

Understanding Deep Learning(udlbook.github.io)

347 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 79 comments

Homepage for Simon J.D. Prince's book Understanding Deep Learning (MIT Press, 2023), offering a free draft PDF of chapters 1-21 under a CC license.

Making a font(kokorobot.ca)

303 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 24 comments

VectorDB: Vector Database Built by Kagi Search(vectordb.com)

286 points by promiseofbeans 2 years ago | 91 comments

Fish – Update on the Rust port(github.com)

271 points by rhim 2 years ago | 112 comments

Making it clear when we're on a call with you to protect you from fraud(monzo.com)

261 points by edward 2 years ago | 182 comments

Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features(github.com)

233 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 100 comments

The key to mother and child well-being may be many caregivers(phys.org)

218 points by stareatgoats 2 years ago | 246 comments

Ripgrep 14 Released(github.com)

214 points by timf 2 years ago | 52 comments

Titled Tuesday Cheating(dorianquelle.github.io)

188 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 115 comments

The Flix Programming Language(flix.dev)

183 points by sivakon 2 years ago | 91 comments

Fun with DNS TXT Records(thoughts.theden.sh)

162 points by theden 2 years ago | 47 comments

Apertus – Open-Source Camera(apertus.org)

161 points by kaladin-jasnah 2 years ago | 31 comments

First Is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15(nicole.express)

157 points by zdw 2 years ago | 34 comments

Signal reflections in electronic circuits(lcamtuf.substack.com)

155 points by zdw 2 years ago | 59 comments

Oracle of Zotero: LLM QA of Your Research Library(github.com)

152 points by SubiculumCode 2 years ago | 21 comments

Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes(stroustrup.com)

149 points by asymmetric 2 years ago | 100 comments

The most powerful cosmic ray since the oh-my-god particle puzzles scientists(nature.com)

147 points by WithinReason 2 years ago | 105 comments

The Curse of Docker(computer.rip)

142 points by sklargh 2 years ago | 85 comments

Build your own hi-fi ear defenders(spectrum.ieee.org)

138 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 55 comments

Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation enhances skill learning(nature.com)

138 points by dr_dshiv 2 years ago | 20 comments

Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager(guix.gnu.org)

138 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 30 comments

Artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)(cnn.com)

130 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: An open-source notification infrastructure(github.com)

129 points by opensh 2 years ago | 19 comments

Get started with technical writing(opensource.net)

128 points by billybuckwheat 2 years ago | 26 comments

Emacs and the mouse: A modest defense of the rodent(karthinks.com)

126 points by signa11 2 years ago | 75 comments

PipeWire 1.0.0(gitlab.freedesktop.org)

119 points by shallow-mind 2 years ago | 33 comments

We have lost access to approximately €6k in bounties(newpipe.net)

119 points by kevincox 2 years ago | 26 comments

Storing data in pointers(muxup.com)

100 points by luu 2 years ago | 39 comments

Let's Write a Malloc (2014)(danluu.com)

100 points by yla92 2 years ago | 23 comments

HP says I should have known its £399 laptop bargain was too good to be true(theguardian.com)

99 points by hadrien01 2 years ago | 54 comments

City of Boulder Open Data(open-data.bouldercolorado.gov)

99 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 54 comments

PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support(github.com)

98 points by MaximilianEmel 2 years ago | 83 comments

Aspirin 81 (2019)(clinicalcorrelations.org)

90 points by hippich 2 years ago | 33 comments

Marc Thorpe, Robot Wars founder, has died(marcthorpe.com)

90 points by batguano 2 years ago | 17 comments

Mystery-o-matic.com random murder generator is open-source(github.com)

86 points by galapago 2 years ago | 23 comments

Yann LeCun on why AI must be open source [video](youtube.com)

84 points by smcleod 2 years ago | 37 comments

Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Conference (1978)(nloewen.com)

83 points by cocacola1 2 years ago | 49 comments

Cisco aids Ukraine defense with modified switches to counter Russian attacks(itworldcanada.com)

81 points by Logans_Run 2 years ago | 48 comments

RFC9460: Service Binding via the DNS (SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records)(rfc-editor.org)

78 points by teddyh 2 years ago | 30 comments

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge(adeeplookbydavehook.wordpress.com)

73 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 52 comments

OpenWrt: Smartphone USB Tethering(openwrt.org)

73 points by tosh 2 years ago | 19 comments

Unix Shells and the Current Directory(utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by ingve 2 years ago | 19 comments

SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC(users.glitchwrks.com)

64 points by justsomehnguy 2 years ago | 9 comments

Rockwell Retro Encabulator [video](youtube.com)

61 points by axiomdata316 2 years ago | 30 comments

Office Life in the 1980's (Vintage Photos) (2019)(weare.guru)

61 points by accrual 2 years ago | 39 comments

Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease by 20%(news.tulane.edu)

61 points by geox 2 years ago | 60 comments

Freezing in style(blog.broulik.de)

59 points by signa11 2 years ago | 7 comments

Can a Passenger Hack an Airplane?(blog.1password.com)

56 points by meatjuice 2 years ago | 59 comments

The Weight of New York City: Subsidence from Anthropogenic Sources(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

55 points by jaboutboul 2 years ago | 25 comments

FontForge(fontforge.org)

53 points by brudgers 2 years ago | 3 comments

Formation °(formation.phobon.io)

52 points by tsujp 2 years ago | 6 comments

When will global greenhouse gas emissions peak?(climateanalytics.org)

49 points by doener 2 years ago | 44 comments

Dependencies Belong in Version Control(forrestthewoods.com)

46 points by crummy 2 years ago | 41 comments

Spanish agency created AI influencer and she's raking in up to $11,000 a month(fortune.com)

44 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 23 comments