Hacker News on Monday, 18 December 2023

Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger(figma.com)

2155 points by supafastcoder 2 years ago | 952 comments

Figma CEO Dylan Field's December 2023 blog post announcing that Figma and Adobe are abandoning their proposed merger.

Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase(github.com)

452 points by padolsey 2 years ago | 97 comments

GitHub repository for Wasm3, a fast WebAssembly interpreter and portable WASM runtime, here noted as entering a minimal maintenance phase.

I Love Ruby(eliseshaffer.com)

370 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 244 comments

A personal blog post by Elise Shaffer, dated December 18, 2023, explaining her love for the Ruby programming language.

Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler(lwn.net)

330 points by askl 2 years ago | 222 comments

LWN article reporting on progress of gccrs, a Rust compiler front end for GCC, and the alternative rustc_codegen_gcc approach.

Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle(web.law.duke.edu)

330 points by mortenjorck 2 years ago | 180 comments

Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain article by Jennifer Jenkins on Mickey Mouse, Disney, and the copyright history leading to Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.

Word2Vec received 'strong reject' four times at ICLR2013(openreview.net)

316 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 142 comments

PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx(postgrest.org)

309 points by brodo 2 years ago | 127 comments

"I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1"(twitter.com)

305 points by isp 2 years ago | 241 comments

The "Cheap" Web(potato.cheap)

277 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 160 comments

VW is putting buttons back in cars(thedrive.com)

271 points by sklargh 2 years ago | 138 comments

Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week(9to5mac.com)

251 points by dm 2 years ago | 404 comments

Librum: Open-Source e-book platform(github.com)

228 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 75 comments

This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond(servo.org)

228 points by Vinnl 2 years ago | 61 comments

Grindavik [video](youtube.com)

227 points by zdw 2 years ago | 74 comments

Lessons from a never-ending personal project(siddhesh.substack.com)

227 points by weekendvampire 2 years ago | 63 comments

Fly Kubernetes(fly.io)

223 points by ferriswil 2 years ago | 138 comments

3Blue1Brown Calculus Blog Series(3blue1brown.com)

214 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code(github.com)

195 points by gourmetcode 2 years ago | 67 comments

Python, C, Assembly – Faster Cosine Similarity(ashvardanian.com)

185 points by ashvardanian 2 years ago | 45 comments

Flipboard Begins to Federate(flipboard.medium.com)

183 points by tonystubblebine 2 years ago | 103 comments

The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s(bbc.com)

178 points by pepys 2 years ago | 172 comments

Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real(404media.co)

175 points by ugjka 2 years ago | 153 comments

The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days(bl.uk)

174 points by sph 2 years ago | 99 comments

Many options for running Mistral models in your terminal using LLM(simonwillison.net)

170 points by simonw 2 years ago | 81 comments

Handbook of Applied Cryptography(cacr.uwaterloo.ca)

166 points by phab 2 years ago | 19 comments

US Steel, once the largest corporation, agrees to sell to Nippon Steel(cnn.com)

165 points by ryzvonusef 2 years ago | 127 comments

Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges(cnbc.com)

164 points by geox 2 years ago | 143 comments

New PFAS discovered with novel testing method(research.unc.edu)

164 points by adomasm3 2 years ago | 70 comments

Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory(railsatscale.com)

161 points by ksec 2 years ago | 41 comments

How many CPU cores can you use in parallel?(pythonspeed.com)

156 points by itamarst 2 years ago | 92 comments

Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application(mtlynch.io)

145 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 47 comments

Interactive Code Cells(antonz.org)

145 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 32 comments

Why are things expensive?(why-expensive.com)

144 points by gmays 2 years ago | 301 comments

Google's True Moonshot(stratechery.com)

144 points by scdoshi 2 years ago | 100 comments

Transaction Isolation in Postgres(thenile.dev)

139 points by jerrinot 2 years ago | 22 comments

AMD MI300X 30% higher performance than Nvidia H100, even with optimized stack(tomshardware.com)

138 points by g42gregory 2 years ago | 68 comments

Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation(androidauthority.com)

136 points by mendyberger 2 years ago | 227 comments

Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH(terrapin-attack.com)

135 points by colmmacc 2 years ago | 38 comments

EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation(reuters.com)

133 points by layer8 2 years ago | 165 comments

LLMLingua: Compressing Prompts for Faster Inferencing(github.com)

131 points by TarqDirtyToMe 2 years ago | 38 comments

Bricks Can Absorb Traffic Noise – Thesis Preso on Helmholtz Resonators [video](youtube.com)

123 points by zdw 2 years ago | 83 comments

Paged Out Issue #3(pagedout.institute)

121 points by woodruffw 2 years ago | 12 comments

Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)(web.media.mit.edu)

117 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 27 comments

Pilots hide mental health problems so they don't lose their licenses(washingtonpost.com)

117 points by lisper 2 years ago | 94 comments

PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication(highgo.ca)

116 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 45 comments

Tiny Code Christmas(tcc.lovebyte.party)

114 points by pigeons 2 years ago | 14 comments

Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.(taylor.town)

110 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 99 comments

To be great, be good, repeatably (2019)(blog.stephsmith.io)

107 points by arjun_krishna1 2 years ago | 35 comments

Send Me to Heaven(en.wikipedia.org)

105 points by wds 2 years ago | 47 comments

Volcanic eruption started just north of the town of Grindavik, Iceland(visir.is)

102 points by SolonIslandus 2 years ago | 18 comments

Desalination can beat batteries for excess energy(spectrum.ieee.org)

98 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 106 comments

New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker(github.com)

98 points by ashvayka 2 years ago | 65 comments

Continue will generate, refactor, and explain entire sections of code(continue.dev)

96 points by pyinstallwoes 2 years ago | 56 comments

Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to violations of Huawei patents(aroged.com)

94 points by peterfication 2 years ago | 50 comments

Figgie: Simulate stock trading with a deck of cards(figgie.com)

94 points by Kortaggio 2 years ago | 22 comments

ViewStats – YouTube Channel Statistics(viewstats.com)

91 points by ahmedatia 2 years ago | 80 comments

Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT(graphthinking.blogspot.com)

90 points by physicsgraph 2 years ago | 22 comments

Church vs. Curry Types(ericnormand.me)

82 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 30 comments

Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says(arstechnica.com)

82 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 26 comments

Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author(theguardian.com)

80 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 64 comments