Hacker News on Friday, 15 December 2023

I bricked my Christmas lights(whizzy.org)

660 points by willcooke 2 years ago | 78 comments

Blog post about reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers for home automation and accidentally bricking a set of Christmas lights.

Database Fundamentals(tontinton.com)

645 points by tontinton 2 years ago | 118 comments

Blog post summarizing core database engineering concepts drawn from Database Internals and Designing Data-Intensive Applications, written by the author of the dbeel database.

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules(arstechnica.com)

496 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 343 comments

Ars Technica article on a court ruling that suspects can refuse to give police their phone passcodes, noting conflicting case law that may reach the Supreme Court.

More product, fewer product managers(kitemaker.co)

402 points by SigKill9 2 years ago | 279 comments

Kitemaker blog post by Sigurd Seteklev arguing that teams can do more product work with fewer dedicated product managers.

How Lego builds a new Lego set(theverge.com)

350 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 217 comments

The Verge feature going behind the scenes of how Lego designed its official Polaroid OneStep SX-70 instant camera set.

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes(retool.com)

328 points by type0 2 years ago | 99 comments

A long-form illustrated feature by Glenn Fleishman, published by Retool, on the history of Yahoo Pipes, the visual data-mashup tool.

Oxlint – Faster than ESLint(oxc-project.github.io)

264 points by pritambarhate 2 years ago | 184 comments

WebP is so great except it's not (2021)(eng.aurelienpierre.com)

255 points by enz 2 years ago | 357 comments

Google Groups ending support for Usenet(support.google.com)

245 points by bilegeek 2 years ago | 144 comments

Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth(mitxela.com)

243 points by MaximilianEmel 2 years ago | 25 comments

Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase(supabase.com)

241 points by samwillis 2 years ago | 87 comments

Prompt engineering(platform.openai.com)

219 points by tosh 2 years ago | 147 comments

Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people(bleepingcomputer.com)

216 points by mikece 2 years ago | 131 comments

Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it(github.com)

203 points by ncruces 2 years ago | 38 comments

Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection(promptarmor.substack.com)

195 points by jackson-mcd 2 years ago | 74 comments

Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day(read.engineerscodex.com)

183 points by engineercodex 2 years ago | 80 comments

An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012)(betterexplained.com)

183 points by uticus 2 years ago | 64 comments

Open source rules engine for Magic: The Gathering(github.com)

182 points by moxvallix 2 years ago | 58 comments

Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021)(fs.blog)

178 points by ensocode 2 years ago | 119 comments

What happens in the brain while daydreaming?(hms.harvard.edu)

169 points by gmays 2 years ago | 129 comments

Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years(smithsonianmag.com)

167 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 40 comments

Let it snow in your terminal(github.com)

166 points by ensocode 2 years ago | 60 comments

Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser(spritely.institute)

162 points by paroneayea 2 years ago | 38 comments

Swift was always going to be part of the OS (2022)(belkadan.com)

158 points by harporoeder 2 years ago | 85 comments

AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip(spectrum.ieee.org)

156 points by viewtransform 2 years ago | 105 comments

McDonald's ice cream machine hackers say they found 'smoking gun'(wired.com)

155 points by atlasunshrugged 2 years ago | 121 comments

Do large language models need all those layers?(amazon.science)

155 points by belter 2 years ago | 72 comments

Jurassic Systems(jurassicsystems.com)

154 points by wannacboatmovie 2 years ago | 45 comments

ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux(binwang.me)

153 points by wb14123 2 years ago | 23 comments

WWII code breaker Mary Ratcliffe has died(dailymail.co.uk)

144 points by smcin 2 years ago | 23 comments

Fastmail Employees Form a Union(union.place)

143 points by tiffanyh 2 years ago | 144 comments

Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?

135 points by hahnchen 2 years ago | 31 comments

Risk management is not project management(mattrucker.com)

133 points by el0hel 2 years ago | 63 comments

Windows Protected Print Mode(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

118 points by astdb 2 years ago | 78 comments

New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers(blog.zulip.com)

117 points by throwachimera 2 years ago | 106 comments

Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge(godotengine.org)

113 points by piebro 2 years ago | 28 comments

Double-mirror illusion(journalofillusion.net)

111 points by weird_user 2 years ago | 42 comments

September 11th That You Have Never Seen(medium.com)

111 points by whoiskatrin 2 years ago | 47 comments

Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop(blogs.gnome.org)

107 points by jcastro 2 years ago | 20 comments

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned(theregister.com)

105 points by tannhaeuser 2 years ago | 92 comments

Threestudio – Framework for 3D content generation(github.com)

103 points by victormustar 2 years ago | 19 comments

Breakthrough in 'detonating' hypersonic propulsion(thedrive.com)

94 points by carabiner 2 years ago | 43 comments

First look at asteroid dust brought to Earth offers surprises(nature.com)

89 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 41 comments

'Green roads' are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods(e360.yale.edu)

89 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 40 comments

Calculation before we went digital [pdf](nicolamarras.it)

82 points by nostrilwig 2 years ago | 24 comments

How to Lose a Library(publicbooks.org)

80 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 16 comments

A close look at a spinlock (2021)(blog.regehr.org)

75 points by signa11 2 years ago | 22 comments

Secureblue: Hardened Immutable Fedora Images(github.com)

74 points by secureblue 2 years ago | 45 comments

Cognitive Distortions That Undermine Clear Thinking(leadingsapiens.com)

72 points by sherilm 2 years ago | 27 comments

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to avoid Red Sea after surge in missile and drone attacks(tradewindsnews.com)

71 points by NavinF 2 years ago | 54 comments

Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house(clerkmaxwellfoundation.org)

65 points by joebig 2 years ago | 27 comments

EU tweaks law to allow using spyware against journalists(politico.eu)

62 points by miohtama 2 years ago | 14 comments

The Emergence of Full-Body Gaussian Splat Deepfake Humans(blog.metaphysic.ai)

61 points by Hard_Space 2 years ago | 39 comments

Merriam-Webster's 404 Page(merriam-webster.com)

60 points by OmniTroid 2 years ago | 7 comments

What we lose when curating follows the money(hyperallergic.com)

59 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 18 comments

Tortured conference series thriving in computer science(hal.science)

59 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 23 comments

Pop _OS Cosmic Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor and Multi-Window Support(phoronix.com)

54 points by mindracer 2 years ago | 27 comments

Noteable.io is shutting down(community.noteable.io)

53 points by josephjrobison 2 years ago | 43 comments

Discord is down(discordstatus.com)

53 points by cloudking 2 years ago | 39 comments

Ubiquiti users report having access to others' UniFi routers, cameras(bleepingcomputer.com)

52 points by dnyanesh 2 years ago | 19 comments