Hacker News on Friday, 22 December 2023

Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers(heynote.com)

891 points by jonatanheyman 2 years ago | 271 comments

Landing page for Heynote, a desktop scratchpad app for developers with block-based notes, math evaluation, and syntax highlighting.

How big is YouTube?(ethanzuckerman.com)

693 points by MBCook 2 years ago | 227 comments

Ethan Zuckerman blog post exploring how to estimate the total size of YouTube to provide a denominator for social media research on misinformation.

From Nand to Tetris (2017)(nand2tetris.org)

607 points by mikpanko 2 years ago | 167 comments

Official website of the Nand to Tetris courses and the book The Elements of Computing Systems, teaching how to build a computer from NAND gates up.

Mindustry: Open-source automation tower defense game(mindustrygame.github.io)

515 points by 0x000042 2 years ago | 107 comments

Official website for Mindustry, an open-source sandbox tower-defense and automation game, with links to GitHub, Discord, wiki, and app stores.

SSH over HTTPS(trofi.github.io)

373 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 124 comments

A blog post showing how to tunnel SSH through HTTPS using an ssh ProxyCommand with socat and Apache's mod_proxy_connect.

LED Industrial Piercing(mitxela.com)

325 points by blutack 2 years ago | 50 comments

Mitxela project page describing building an industrial ear piercing bar filled with LEDs, with an embedded video documenting the build.

Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance(roughjs.com)

315 points by edward 2 years ago | 36 comments

A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks(00xbyte.github.io)

313 points by enimodas 2 years ago | 76 comments

Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?

305 points by j4yav 2 years ago | 383 comments

Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack(searchenginejournal.com)

295 points by bhartzer 2 years ago | 195 comments

Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login(bsky.app)

263 points by redsolver 2 years ago | 291 comments

Granting pardon for the offense of simple possession of or use of marijuana(whitehouse.gov)

253 points by arkadiyt 2 years ago | 233 comments

WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview(webkit.org)

200 points by feross 2 years ago | 143 comments

In the long run, we're all Dad(astralcodexten.com)

187 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 77 comments

Lazarus IDE 3.0(forum.lazarus.freepascal.org)

183 points by TheCipster 2 years ago | 54 comments

How to make LLMs go fast(vgel.me)

182 points by tosh 2 years ago | 47 comments

NewPipe 0.26(github.com)

180 points by rc00 2 years ago | 70 comments

A structured note-taking app for personal use(github.com)

179 points by 0xyz 2 years ago | 124 comments

Mozilla sccache: ccache with cloud storage(github.com)

171 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 75 comments

IP over Spaghetti (2019)(github.com)

170 points by elisaado 2 years ago | 56 comments

Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash(biggieblog.com)

169 points by davidrjones1977 2 years ago | 49 comments

SymbOS Z80 multitasking operating system(symbos.de)

164 points by jbverschoor 2 years ago | 58 comments

Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient(steveklabnik.com)

163 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 118 comments

Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)(researchgate.net)

159 points by pcwelder 2 years ago | 67 comments

Maze Generator(mazegenerator.net)

147 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 48 comments

Ohio gives historical status to building that once housed CompuServe(news.wosu.org)

146 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 47 comments

Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb(social.hackerspace.pl)

143 points by p_l 2 years ago | 47 comments

TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the power of language models for text rendering(jingyechen.github.io)

140 points by bx376 2 years ago | 11 comments

Groqchat(chat.groq.com)

135 points by izzymiller 2 years ago | 83 comments

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart (2021)(selmec.org.uk)

132 points by areoform 2 years ago | 33 comments

Do I need to get out the soldering iron again? (2018)(naughtycomputer.uk)

130 points by cwillu 2 years ago | 108 comments

Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees(marketplacepulse.com)

124 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 117 comments

Show HN: Emu2 – A Gemini-like open-source 37B Multimodal Model

120 points by BAAIBeijing 2 years ago | 14 comments

Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance(today.tamu.edu)

119 points by geox 2 years ago | 68 comments

3500 arrested in global cybercrime crackdown(scmagazine.com)

115 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 57 comments

The Hyperloop was always a scam(disconnect.blog)

112 points by zzzeek 2 years ago | 80 comments

How to Build a Windmill (2012)(jacquesmattheij.com)

109 points by ff_ 2 years ago | 17 comments

Database Isolation Is Broken and You Should Care(materializedview.io)

104 points by riccomini 2 years ago | 26 comments

What We Need Instead of "Web Components"(blog.carlana.net)

101 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 95 comments

Modern C for Fedora (and the World)(lwn.net)

96 points by signa11 2 years ago | 68 comments

A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019)(atlasobscura.com)

95 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 25 comments

Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013)(nature.com)

95 points by divbzero 2 years ago | 27 comments

Visualizing expert firing frequencies in Mixtral MoE(mixtral-moe-vis-d726c4a10ef5.herokuapp.com)

91 points by tosh 2 years ago | 21 comments

Labs.Google(labs.google)

90 points by agnosticmantis 2 years ago | 76 comments

Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database(jonatron.github.io)

83 points by jonatron 2 years ago | 38 comments

Ichiki Shirō(en.wikipedia.org)

79 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 7 comments

WARC'in the Crawler(marginalia.nu)

78 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 13 comments

Qsv: Efficient CSV CLI Toolkit(github.com)

76 points by s1291 2 years ago | 24 comments

Epigrams in Programming (1982) [pdf](gwern.net)

73 points by ustad 2 years ago | 37 comments

Open-source AI knowledge database with web UI and Enterprise SSO(github.com)

70 points by hsluoyz 2 years ago | 10 comments

What Is OIDC?(fusionauth.io)

70 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 43 comments

FreeBasic(freebasic.net)

69 points by debo_ 2 years ago | 53 comments

African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings(gcaptain.com)

64 points by mindracer 2 years ago | 81 comments

Scientists have 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale(earth.com)

63 points by aforelight 2 years ago | 37 comments

NLP Research in the Era of LLMs(nlpnewsletter.substack.com)

61 points by sebg 2 years ago | 14 comments

Watching the world(webcamaze.engineering.zhaw.ch)

58 points by onepossibility 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Richest Countries in 2023(economist.com)

57 points by simonebrunozzi 2 years ago | 33 comments

How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan(tokyodev.com)

54 points by pwim 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Scale of the Brain vs. Machine Learning (2022)(beren.io)

54 points by reqo 2 years ago | 27 comments

The Sphere(theparisreview.org)

52 points by firloop 2 years ago | 9 comments