Hacker News on Saturday, 30 December 2023

The art of high performance computing(theartofhpc.com)

566 points by rramadass 2 years ago | 97 comments

Landing page for The Art of HPC, a series of free textbooks on high performance computing by Victor Eijkhout of TACC.

I'm skeptical of low-code(nick.scialli.me)

339 points by jamghee 2 years ago | 225 comments

A blog post by Nick Scialli explaining why he is skeptical of low-code platforms, based on client experiences during software consulting.

Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep(ugrep.com)

310 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 98 comments

Things are about to get worse for generative AI(garymarcus.substack.com)

306 points by eddyzh 2 years ago | 562 comments

Asking your customers what they want doesn't work(techbooks.substack.com)

286 points by AntonZ234 2 years ago | 176 comments

Wikipedia daily most viewed pages(pageviews.wmcloud.org)

270 points by secondary_op 2 years ago | 148 comments

Amazon's Silent Sacking(justingarrison.com)

249 points by doitLP 2 years ago | 187 comments

ScummVM on the App Store(apps.apple.com)

231 points by galapago 2 years ago | 160 comments

Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs(ratfactor.com)

216 points by ingve 2 years ago | 106 comments

Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate(finance.yahoo.com)

188 points by ironyman 2 years ago | 69 comments

Committing Without Git(matheustavares.gitlab.io)

188 points by matheust 2 years ago | 19 comments

Hidden gems of moreutils(jpospisil.com)

184 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 51 comments

Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees(theartnewspaper.com)

179 points by edent 2 years ago | 51 comments

LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX(bvisness.me)

164 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 66 comments

Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers(fabiensanglard.net)

157 points by titaniumtown 2 years ago | 51 comments

More fun with Apple's internal tools: creating a PDS card(downtowndougbrown.com)

154 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 5 comments

DRµGS: Deep Random Micro-Glitch Sampling(github.com)

142 points by tosh 2 years ago | 32 comments

Coastline paradox(en.wikipedia.org)

137 points by scrlk 2 years ago | 87 comments

Spomenik Database(spomenikdatabase.org)

132 points by alentodorov 2 years ago | 16 comments

The Art and Science of PCB Design(pcb.mit.edu)

128 points by gballan 2 years ago | 48 comments

LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux(linuxdaw.org)

127 points by fractalf 2 years ago | 35 comments

37C3: Fuzzing the TCP/IP Stack(events.ccc.de)

126 points by rurban 2 years ago | 6 comments

Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022)(socks-studio.com)

125 points by diaphanous 2 years ago | 21 comments

Amazon allegedly resells damaged books(twitter.com)

124 points by lepus 2 years ago | 79 comments

EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?(berthub.eu)

119 points by ahubert 2 years ago | 62 comments

Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels(github.com)

100 points by porjo 2 years ago | 37 comments

Stoßlüften: Shock Ventilation(thelocal.de)

93 points by sirobg 2 years ago | 80 comments

What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay(zwischenzugs.com)

90 points by slyall 2 years ago | 43 comments

Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws(nbcnews.com)

80 points by ceejayoz 2 years ago | 93 comments

LIPS: Scheme based Lisp interpreter in JavaScript(lips.js.org)

78 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 25 comments

How is AI impacting science?(michaelnotebook.com)

78 points by occamschainsaw 2 years ago | 84 comments

Latent Dictionary: 3D map of Oxford3000+search words via DistilBert embeddings(latentdictionary.com)

77 points by pps 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: I built ContainerCVE – a web tool to scan public Docker images(containercve.com)

76 points by codebyamir 2 years ago | 25 comments

Electric light transmits data faster than Wi-Fi(techxplore.com)

74 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 63 comments

20 years of Mars Express(esa.int)

71 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 16 comments

The highest-resolution photos of snowflakes (2021)(smithsonianmag.com)

70 points by mhb 2 years ago | 17 comments

Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards(rfc-editor.org)

70 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 18 comments

The value of canonicity (2020)(building.nubank.com.br)

69 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 64 comments

Freeaim VR Shoes(freeaim.com)

69 points by rolph 2 years ago | 38 comments

Adventures with compression(jamesg.blog)

68 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 37 comments

The Heart of a Language Server(rust-analyzer.github.io)

66 points by thesuperbigfrog 2 years ago | 10 comments

Thinking About Internet History(content.cooperate.com)

64 points by dbelson 2 years ago | 19 comments

Economic downturn and the influence of AI are claiming numerous jobs(peoplematters.in)

62 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 133 comments

Solar Cell Efficiency Table(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

61 points by wolfi1 2 years ago | 17 comments

New theory seeks to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics(ucl.ac.uk)

61 points by atombender 2 years ago | 39 comments

Once the world's largest, the Pennsylvania Hotel goes 'poof' before our eyes(nytimes.com)

58 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 38 comments

A Hobby Coding Biography(marginalia.nu)

57 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 7 comments

Lanark: A Life in Four Books(en.wikipedia.org)

57 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 9 comments

Show HN: dextk - Android dex file parser in Go(github.com)

56 points by csnewman 2 years ago | 1 comments

The case for a pipe assignment operator in R(hughjonesd.github.io)

56 points by dash2 2 years ago | 61 comments

The Subscription Trap(sufyaan.me)

55 points by titanelectrons 2 years ago | 56 comments

DiffDebugging(martinfowler.com)

54 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 35 comments

High Performance Voxel Engine (2021)(nickmcd.me)

49 points by bibanez 2 years ago | 14 comments

Misty Programming Language(crockford.com)

49 points by Matrixik 2 years ago | 39 comments

The history of MSX computers [video](youtube.com)

48 points by skibz 2 years ago | 14 comments

Android data encryption in depth(blog.quarkslab.com)

46 points by sipofwater 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Google 0-day all Infostealer groups are exploiting(infostealers.com)

46 points by jsiepkes 2 years ago | 6 comments

Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll(theguardian.com)

46 points by doener 2 years ago | 32 comments

Silent Flyer – A Birdlike Drone(silentflyer.tech)

43 points by Gys 2 years ago | 43 comments

Switching Things over to Ikiwiki(bt.ht)

41 points by bradley_taunt 2 years ago | 27 comments