Hacker News on Sunday, 10 December 2023

Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)

900 points by Akcium 2 years ago | 153 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works, with draggable 3D demonstrations of its mechanism.

Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet(blakewatson.com)

706 points by blakewatson 2 years ago | 310 comments

A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.

Bad NEWS, Emacs(eshelyaron.com)

314 points by amiralul 2 years ago | 194 comments

End of Life of Technologies and Devices(endoflife.date)

294 points by pbshgthm 2 years ago | 70 comments

Write your own retro compiler(t3x.org)

294 points by nils-m-holm 2 years ago | 45 comments

How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python(codeconfessions.substack.com)

263 points by taubek 2 years ago | 153 comments

Mistral AI Valued at $2B(unite.ai)

262 points by marban 2 years ago | 188 comments

The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity(slack.com)

256 points by tchalla 2 years ago | 135 comments

AST-grep(sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting(github.com)

249 points by methou 2 years ago | 65 comments

Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?

249 points by atomicnature 2 years ago | 89 comments

Mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the Ramsey number(quantamagazine.org)

235 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 40 comments

Please, expose your RSS(rknight.me)

231 points by rknightuk 2 years ago | 81 comments

Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years(arstechnica.com)

223 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 84 comments

Trippy – A Network Diagnostic Tool(trippy.cli.rs)

216 points by night-rider 2 years ago | 27 comments

What is a zero refractive index material?(skullsinthestars.com)

207 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 59 comments

Ratatui(github.com)

195 points by tosh 2 years ago | 43 comments

Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1(bugs.debian.org)

188 points by zdw 2 years ago | 102 comments

BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed(virtuallyfun.com)

185 points by 6581 2 years ago | 83 comments

A Warrant Showing the U.S. Government Is Monitoring Push Notifications(404media.co)

169 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 63 comments

I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT(novaspivack.com)

162 points by airesearcher 2 years ago | 68 comments

‘Inert’ ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than thought(theconversation.com)

160 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 33 comments

Methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm – it's worse than we thought(theconversation.com)

153 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 107 comments

He steals them, of course(literaryreview.co.uk)

148 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: How to inform YouTube a video is no longer under copyright?

139 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 12 comments

Sigil II, a Doom WAD from J.Romero, has been released(doomwiki.org)

137 points by LucidLynx 2 years ago | 54 comments

The subtleties of proper B+Tree implementation(ayende.com)

135 points by tim_sw 2 years ago | 34 comments

Waveterm(waveterm.dev)

131 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 80 comments

The valley of the cheese of the dead(atlasobscura.com)

124 points by AaronM 2 years ago | 13 comments

FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final(mail.openjdk.org)

123 points by lichtenberger 2 years ago | 51 comments

Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of Fzf(masteringemacs.org)

121 points by signa11 2 years ago | 45 comments

PC GEOS: the multitasking DOS-based GUI OS that evolved from a C64 desktop(github.com)

117 points by lproven 2 years ago | 45 comments

Mistral-8x7B-Chat(huggingface.co)

109 points by birriel 2 years ago | 57 comments

Cramming a tiny program into a tiny ELF file(tmpout.sh)

105 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 15 comments

High school math doesn't prepare most students for their college majors(hechingerreport.org)

105 points by bikenaga 2 years ago | 188 comments

Factors driving a productivity explosion(fortune.com)

104 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 84 comments

Innovation of the Year: BYD Blade Battery(electrifying.com)

93 points by hunglee2 2 years ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Rot - Offline secrets management(github.com)

92 points by candiddevmike 2 years ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Watering my Christmas tree with ESPHome(johnzanussi.com)

91 points by johnz 2 years ago | 42 comments

Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU(arxiv.org)

91 points by anewhnaccount2 2 years ago | 48 comments

Trust-based moderation systems(cblgh.org)

85 points by KoftaBob 2 years ago | 57 comments

Coherent: The affordable Unix-like PC OS from over a decade before Linux 0.01(github.com)

78 points by lproven 2 years ago | 26 comments

Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?

75 points by slalomskiing 2 years ago | 119 comments

Visual Basic for Applications Language Specification [pdf](msopenspecs.azureedge.net)

70 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 25 comments

First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts(cbsnews.com)

70 points by koolba 2 years ago | 33 comments

Ask HN: Assuming this 2023 LtG paper is correct, how do you prepare?(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

66 points by westcort 2 years ago | 64 comments

The United Arab Emirates' takeover of African forests(lemonde.fr)

62 points by geox 2 years ago | 34 comments

Tyrannosaur's Stomach Contents Have Been Found(scientificamerican.com)

57 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 21 comments

Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis(stocknear.com)

55 points by stocknear 2 years ago | 40 comments

SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious PyPI and NPM packages(bleepingcomputer.com)

54 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 32 comments

Ask HN: Should I subscribe to ChatGPT Plus if we can get it for free on Bing?

52 points by hackerlight 2 years ago | 45 comments

Raspberry Pi releases PCIe FFC connector specifications, new HAT+ standard(cnx-software.com)

52 points by mikece 2 years ago | 1 comments

On Limited Editions (1998)(woodblock.com)

52 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 23 comments

Cowgol 2.0 (2022)(cowlark.com)

45 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 8 comments

Wasabi linked to "substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds(cbsnews.com)

43 points by elorant 2 years ago | 38 comments

The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams(blog.owulveryck.info)

42 points by owulveryck 2 years ago | 12 comments

Applesauce lead poisoning cases in kids surge amid questions on FDA oversight(washingtonpost.com)

35 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 20 comments

Moore vs. United States: Tax Unrealized Income Case(taxfoundation.org)

35 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Spiderdash(spiderdash.standupweb.net)

34 points by standup75 2 years ago | 15 comments

HP printer app is installing on PCs whether they have HP printers or not(arstechnica.com)

33 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 41 comments

Croatia could be Europe's hidden tech haven in 2024(fastcompany.com)

33 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 36 comments