Hacker News on Saturday, 2 December 2023

Tiny volumetric display(mitxela.com)

1475 points by ttesmer 2 years ago | 166 comments

A mitxela.com project page describing the POV Candle, a tiny persistence-of-vision volumetric LED display, with a video demo.

You don't need JavaScript for that(htmhell.dev)

776 points by soheilpro 2 years ago | 297 comments

HTMHell Advent Calendar 2023 article by Kilian Valkhof showing UI patterns that can be built with HTML and CSS instead of JavaScript.

Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage(scitechdaily.com)

750 points by beefman 2 years ago | 401 comments

SciTechDaily article reporting Mass Eye and Ear research linking tinnitus to hidden auditory nerve damage undetected by standard hearing tests.

Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates(arstechnica.com)

325 points by my12parsecs 2 years ago | 277 comments

Ars Technica article on how Chrome's Manifest V3 extension platform slows ad blocker updates, hampering their ability to respond to YouTube and other ad changes.

Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds(science.org)

294 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 101 comments

GCP Incidents(blog.railway.app)

291 points by dban 2 years ago | 118 comments

No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data(theregister.com)

281 points by dddavid 2 years ago | 151 comments

Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)(justcreative.com)

221 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 135 comments

Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

217 points by aredirect 2 years ago | 281 comments

To protect kids, the EPA wants total removal of lead pipes(washingtonpost.com)

217 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 163 comments

Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them(wired.com)

196 points by nixass 2 years ago | 70 comments

Infants understand language via rhythm and tone rather than individual sounds(theguardian.com)

192 points by im_dario 2 years ago | 71 comments

GQL – Git Query Language(github.com)

175 points by amrdeveloper 2 years ago | 48 comments

Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)(journals.sagepub.com)

147 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 24 comments

Easy to use OpenID Connect client and server library written for Go(github.com)

143 points by mffap 2 years ago | 40 comments

New York will plant trees using new tech to maximize foliage impact(theguardian.com)

137 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 61 comments

Review: A Dive into Mikrotik's Weird SmartNIC (2022)(alyx.sh)

135 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 33 comments

Electrocaloric material makes refrigerant-free solid-state fridge scalable(spectrum.ieee.org)

133 points by westurner 2 years ago | 37 comments

Can't sign in with FIDO2 key on office.com(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

132 points by rettichschnidi 2 years ago | 58 comments

Is Ada safer than Rust?(old.reddit.com)

121 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 73 comments

How Meta patches Linux at hyperscale(thenewstack.io)

117 points by elorant 2 years ago | 89 comments

Retinal cells that help stabilize our world view(optometry.berkeley.edu)

108 points by geox 2 years ago | 26 comments

Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs(blog.j11y.io)

104 points by cdme 2 years ago | 60 comments

Dark patterns in UX design and how to avoid them(dodonut.com)

102 points by night-rider 2 years ago | 41 comments

Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw(github.com)

101 points by dmezzetti 2 years ago | 25 comments

EmacsConf Live Now(emacsconf.org)

99 points by xenodium 2 years ago | 48 comments

The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (2016)(blog.duncangeere.com)

98 points by georgeoliver 2 years ago | 42 comments

Galactic algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)

94 points by sockaddr 2 years ago | 10 comments

Submarine Cable Map 2023(submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com)

94 points by Galacta7 2 years ago | 41 comments

Scalable extraction of training data from (production) language models(arxiv.org)

93 points by wazokazi 2 years ago | 12 comments

Generative AI is killing our sense of awe(fastcompany.com)

93 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 79 comments

LibreChat – Enhanced ChatGPT Clone(github.com)

92 points by jacopoj 2 years ago | 13 comments

Why are we being DDoSed by Cloudflare?

87 points by cpncrunch 2 years ago | 22 comments

Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++(jviotti.com)

81 points by ingve 2 years ago | 50 comments

SEthernet: Modern, low-cost 10/100 Ethernet for the Macintosh SE and SE/30(github.com)

81 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Hole: A tiny NYC community forgotten for decades(bloomberg.com)

80 points by LastNevadan 2 years ago | 19 comments

Factory construction boom in the US(wolfstreet.com)

78 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 82 comments

"Smartifying" my hi-fi system(blog.rgsilva.com)

77 points by goodburb 2 years ago | 49 comments

Modern XMPP Server(docs.trueelena.org)

74 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 39 comments

How are startups shaped by macro conditions at birth?(papers.ssrn.com)

71 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 25 comments

Advent of Technical Writing: Navigation Structure (Day 1 of 24)(jamesg.blog)

70 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 13 comments

Designing a distributed SQL engine: Challenges and decisions(en.oceanbase.com)

70 points by pykello 2 years ago | 2 comments

Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar(infoq.com)

67 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 10 comments

Modern automotive electronics will lead to a mechanical revolution [video](youtube.com)

67 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 72 comments

Filmic's entire staff laid off by parent company Bending Spoons(petapixel.com)

65 points by jen729w 2 years ago | 27 comments

Porting Hare to OpenBSD(harelang.org)

63 points by mfru 2 years ago | 6 comments

Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – Counters(bytes.zone)

62 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 3 comments

The 50 Years That Made America(historytoday.com)

59 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 42 comments

Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing (2021)(arcan-fe.com)

59 points by pkkm 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Bonds We Make(milenerd.com)

59 points by RyanShook 2 years ago | 3 comments

Optimizing Go string operations with practical examples(medium.com)

57 points by ingve 2 years ago | 19 comments

A century later, new math smooths out general relativity(quantamagazine.org)

57 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 3 comments

Meta will enforce ban on AI-powered political ads in every nation, no exceptions(zdnet.com)

57 points by jnord 2 years ago | 15 comments

Talking with the inventor of C++ [video](youtube.com)

56 points by WoodenChair 2 years ago | 48 comments

Good old-fashioned AI remains viable in spite of the rise of LLMs(techcrunch.com)

56 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 28 comments

Google Maps now looks more like Apple Maps – and a lot of people aren't happy(techradar.com)

54 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 48 comments

LLMs are a revolution in open source(the.scapegoat.dev)

54 points by Philpax 2 years ago | 56 comments

Calling 'Fake' on the iPhone Computational Photography Glitch(daringfireball.net)

52 points by yowzadave 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ozempic could change the economy as we know it(businessinsider.com)

51 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Is React Native still popular?

50 points by haliskerbas 2 years ago | 61 comments