Hacker News on Monday, 1 January 2024

Standard Ebooks(standardebooks.org)

611 points by pauloxnet 2 years ago | 127 comments

Homepage of Standard Ebooks, a volunteer project producing free, carefully formatted public-domain ebooks.

Procrastination is connected to perfectionism(solvingprocrastination.com)

581 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 189 comments

An article on the Solving Procrastination site explaining how perfectionism and procrastination are connected and how to address them.

Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video](youtube.com)

524 points by Philpax 2 years ago | 139 comments

YouTube video in which Tom Scott announces he is stopping his weekly video series after ten years of making videos.

A* tricks for videogame path finding(timmastny.com)

436 points by azhenley 2 years ago | 95 comments

Blog post explaining linear pathing, Dijkstra's algorithm, and A* tricks like implicit graphs and geometry-informed heuristics for monster pathfinding in an 8-bit game.

Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning: Methods, Implementations, and Theory(arxiv.org)

412 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 132 comments

arXiv listing for a book by Jentzen, Kuckuck, and von Wurstemberger giving a mathematically rigorous introduction to deep learning methods, implementations, and theory.

All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus(torrentfreak.com)

393 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 102 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that every DMCA takedown notice filed against the site in 2023 was invalid, sent by anti-piracy companies.

OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning(arxiv.org)

365 points by saeedesmaili 2 years ago | 171 comments

arXiv paper introducing OpenVoice, a voice cloning method that replicates a speaker's voice from a short clip with style control and zero-shot cross-lingual support.

Disney's Mickey Mouse enter public domain(bbc.com)

347 points by coolandsmartrr 2 years ago | 160 comments

BBC News article reporting that Disney's earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse entered the US public domain on 1 January 2024 as copyright expired.

Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)(nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org)

336 points by 1970-01-01 2 years ago | 224 comments

A New York Heritage digital collections item showing a 1912 photograph of a woman with a rectifier and an electric car.

DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser(dustinbrett.com)

332 points by coxley 2 years ago | 124 comments

Dustin Brett's personal website, built as daedalOS, a desktop-style operating system environment running in the browser with icons, taskbar, and apps like Doom.

27 years ago, Steve Jobs said the best employees focus on content, not process(inc.com)

301 points by jey 2 years ago | 220 comments

Writing a TrueType font renderer(axleos.com)

286 points by codyd51 2 years ago | 70 comments

Fixing annoying blue standby lights(fullcircuit.com)

276 points by ghr 2 years ago | 210 comments

Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network(meshtastic.org)

267 points by 882542F3884314B 2 years ago | 56 comments

Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa(www3.nhk.or.jp)

247 points by rntn 2 years ago | 58 comments

Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python(benhoyt.com)

192 points by benhoyt 2 years ago | 65 comments

uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results(github.com)

190 points by st_goliath 2 years ago | 68 comments

NERV Disaster Prevention(nerv.app)

182 points by spike021 2 years ago | 114 comments

Web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend(github.com)

175 points by rguiscard 2 years ago | 131 comments

Steamboat Willie [video](youtube.com)

164 points by dragonbonheur 2 years ago | 92 comments

Writing books remains a tough way to make a living(publishersweekly.com)

157 points by gone35 2 years ago | 209 comments

Happy Public Domain Day(publicdomainreview.org)

154 points by sacrosanct 2 years ago | 32 comments

Git Things(matklad.github.io)

154 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 108 comments

Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023(simonwillison.net)

141 points by simonw 2 years ago | 92 comments

Beginner dev looks at how YouTube sends videos(vincentsg.dev)

140 points by vsgherzi 2 years ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals(github.com)

134 points by indyjoenz 2 years ago | 24 comments

PyPy has moved to Git, GitHub(pypy.org)

131 points by lumpa 2 years ago | 49 comments

Subject-First Commit Messages(github.com)

129 points by s4i 2 years ago | 115 comments

Show HN: Page Replica – Tool for Web Scraping, Prerendering, and SEO Boost(github.com)

125 points by nirvanist 2 years ago | 47 comments

Fireworks likely caused water contamination at Mount Rushmore (2016)(usgs.gov)

105 points by johntfella 2 years ago | 32 comments

Nim on a Real-Time Operating System: Apache NuttX RTOS and Ox64 BL808 SBC(lupyuen.codeberg.page)

97 points by lupyuen 2 years ago | 14 comments

Calculating Logarithms by Hand (2010) [pdf](fiziko.bureau42.com)

94 points by mindcrime 2 years ago | 31 comments

Fish shell 3.7.0 released, the last release branch before the full Rust rewrite(github.com)

90 points by Aissen 2 years ago | 26 comments

Displaying Content as a Graph(thisisimportant.net)

89 points by serverlessmom 2 years ago | 28 comments

Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

89 points by bk146 2 years ago | 48 comments

Merkle Town: Explore the certificate transparency ecosystem(ct.cloudflare.com)

86 points by 1970-01-01 2 years ago | 16 comments

Orange Site Hit(blog.davep.org)

86 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 72 comments

The fresh start effect(lars.yencken.org)

85 points by lars512 2 years ago | 35 comments

2024's public domain is a banger(pluralistic.net)

81 points by matijao 2 years ago | 22 comments

I Vote on Plagiarism Cases at Harvard College. Gay's Getting Off Easy(thecrimson.com)

75 points by mcenedella 2 years ago | 16 comments

Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map(vonatinfo.mav-start.hu)

73 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 46 comments

EFF Year in Review: Google's Corporate Paternalism in the Browser(eff.org)

72 points by rickcarlino 2 years ago | 1 comments

DARPA Triage Challenge(triagechallenge.darpa.mil)

71 points by geox 2 years ago | 21 comments

Microdot: Yet Another Python Web Framework(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

70 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 17 comments

Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs [pdf] (1994)(bitsavers.org)

70 points by ingve 2 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: DBChaos – A Database stress testing tool(github.com)

69 points by debarshri 2 years ago | 10 comments

Notation Must Die: The Battle for How We Read Music [video](youtube.com)

69 points by jacquesm 2 years ago | 68 comments

Generative AI flooding online crocheting spaces with unrealistic amigurumi pics(twitter.com)

69 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 years ago | 55 comments

SD4J – Stable Diffusion pipeline in Java using ONNX Runtime(github.com)

68 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Made some progress on character consistency for AI storytelling(app.artflow.ai)

64 points by tim_artflow 2 years ago | 20 comments

Show HN: I made TV Sort, a web-based game for ranking TV show episodes(tvsort.com)

63 points by pocketarc 2 years ago | 65 comments

Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines(scalibq.wordpress.com)

61 points by zdw 2 years ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Pokemon prototype game made with JavaScript and p5.js(github.com)

60 points by JSLegendDev 2 years ago | 15 comments

The cheesy charm of the Clapper(spectrum.ieee.org)

59 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 25 comments

What Happens When You Quit Sugar? [video](youtube.com)

59 points by gmays 2 years ago | 51 comments

Blockbuster Alzheimer's paper retracted by former Stanford president(stanforddaily.com)

58 points by rencrisa 2 years ago | 51 comments

Fail2ban Sucks (2020)(j3s.sh)

58 points by ementally 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Procrastination Matrix (2015)(waitbutwhy.com)

55 points by vidyesh 2 years ago | 4 comments

Musings on the C Charter(blog.aaronballman.com)

46 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 18 comments

Netscape 1.x(winworldpc.com)

45 points by neverrroot 2 years ago | 33 comments