Hacker News on Tuesday, 2 January 2024

1D Pac-Man(abagames.github.io)

1681 points by memalign 2 years ago | 209 comments

Paku Paku, a one-dimensional Pac-Man browser game by ABA Games built with crisp-game-lib, shown at its title screen.

Do It Yourself Blind Repair(fixmyblinds.com)

570 points by nsajko 2 years ago | 131 comments

Homepage of FixMyBlinds, a store selling replacement parts for window blinds along with DIY repair guides and a troubleshooter.

Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser(dillo-browser.github.io)

546 points by rodarima 2 years ago | 162 comments

The new homepage of the Dillo web browser, a fast lightweight graphical browser written in C/C++ with FLTK, revived under a GitHub organization.

After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video](youtube.com)

494 points by gslin 2 years ago | 149 comments

YouTube video by aGameScout about Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson becoming the first person to beat NES Tetris by reaching the game's crash screen.

Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022)(nofreelunch.co.uk)

364 points by nethunters 2 years ago | 268 comments

Blog post on the No Free Lunch site recounting how Salim Kara stole about $2 million in coins from transit fare machines using a magnet and a car antenna.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)

357 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 296 comments

The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for January 2024, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.

LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024(antirez.com)

355 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 230 comments

Intended to be antirez's blog post on using LLMs for programming in early 2024, but the capture shows a Redis-branded 404 error page.

A Canadian payroll dependency chart(daemonology.net)

316 points by djha-skin 2 years ago | 271 comments

How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python(blog.greg.technology)

303 points by gregsadetsky 2 years ago | 76 comments

50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition)(oreilly.com)

273 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 176 comments

Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly(infrequently.org)

259 points by cdme 2 years ago | 299 comments

A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing(ph3at.github.io)

231 points by davikr 2 years ago | 62 comments

What I've learned about flow fields so far(damoonrashidi.me)

231 points by tehrash 2 years ago | 40 comments

We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't(erikmcclure.com)

202 points by xena 2 years ago | 218 comments

Thomas Cochrane(sergey.substack.com)

197 points by neural_thing 2 years ago | 65 comments

The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023(updown.io)

194 points by alexis2b 2 years ago | 85 comments

New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)(hydrogenaud.io)

189 points by HakanAbbas 2 years ago | 134 comments

Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar(schedule-x.dev)

186 points by tomosterlund 2 years ago | 50 comments

JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames(avherald.com)

176 points by the-dude 2 years ago | 188 comments

Hiew Hex Editor(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

171 points by taviso 2 years ago | 42 comments

Give Us Something to Look At: Why ornament matters in architecture(theamericanscholar.org)

170 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 143 comments

A simulation of me: fine-tuning an LLM on 240k text messages(edwarddonner.com)

165 points by eddonner 2 years ago | 104 comments

Building a self-contained game in C# under 2 kilobytes(migeel.sk)

164 points by shanselman 2 years ago | 28 comments

JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames(avherald.com)

164 points by nixass 2 years ago | 443 comments

Introduction to Plan 9(fqa.9front.org)

149 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 37 comments

LLM spews nonsense in CVE report for curl(hackerone.com)

148 points by skeptrune 2 years ago | 47 comments

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training(biia.com)

145 points by ashvardanian 2 years ago | 97 comments

Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids(blog.cr.yp.to)

142 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 48 comments

Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing(economist.com)

142 points by doener 2 years ago | 180 comments

Notes on the Ivory Coast(mattlakeman.org)

139 points by yorwba 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived(jukebox.davi.gq)

137 points by Pikamander2 2 years ago | 26 comments

A new blog for 2024(chrisnicholas.dev)

133 points by ctnicholas 2 years ago | 79 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)

128 points by whoishiring 2 years ago | 302 comments

First do it, then do it right, then do it better(twitter.com)

125 points by erfanebrahimnia 2 years ago | 82 comments

Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls"(ianvisits.co.uk)

121 points by edward 2 years ago | 124 comments

Show HN: Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer(seater.steam-oven.net)

115 points by teejae 2 years ago | 96 comments

Blueprint health protocol(protocol.bryanjohnson.com)

115 points by L_226 2 years ago | 167 comments

Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME(posixcafe.org)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist czechoslovakia(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

109 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 59 comments

CGA in 1024 colors – a new mode (2015)(int10h.org)

108 points by tomduncalf 2 years ago | 29 comments

QEMU AioContext removal and how it was done(blog.vmsplice.net)

108 points by ingve 2 years ago | 6 comments

E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents(foxcarolina.com)

105 points by lilboiluvr69 2 years ago | 91 comments

Show HN: Build your startup or side project faster with these SaaS templates(hackerstartup.com)

102 points by jranand 2 years ago | 44 comments

Show HN: The Sage Programming Language(github.com)

102 points by adamthekiwi99 2 years ago | 24 comments

How to forget what you read(ckarchive.com)

100 points by goddessoflists 2 years ago | 37 comments

Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites?(latimes.com)

100 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 76 comments

Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 meters(www3.nhk.or.jp)

95 points by ronyclau 2 years ago | 71 comments

90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time(lantern.dev)

95 points by diqi 2 years ago | 29 comments

New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is two smaller galaxies(phys.org)

95 points by wglb 2 years ago | 26 comments

Why does integer representation of a floating point approximate its logarithm?(stackoverflow.com)

91 points by segfaultbuserr 2 years ago | 17 comments

Push notifications – What to push, what not to push, and how often(eugeneyan.com)

90 points by mts_ 2 years ago | 113 comments

A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer(stefanabikaram.com)

89 points by stefanpie 2 years ago | 32 comments

Distributed Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models over the Internet(browse.arxiv.org)

89 points by cyanf 2 years ago | 20 comments

$450 for a School Bag?(one-from-nippon.ghost.io)

88 points by gascoigne 2 years ago | 45 comments

The I Hate AI License(ihateailicense.eu)

87 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 85 comments

Lolwut: A piece of art inside a database command (2018)(antirez.com)

86 points by 082349872349872 2 years ago | 14 comments

Use of HTTPS Resource Records(netmeister.org)

83 points by campuscodi 2 years ago | 28 comments

Zig cookbook: collection of simple Zig programs that demonstrate good practices(github.com)

78 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 22 comments

Odin Programming Language(odin-lang.org)

77 points by tuananh 2 years ago | 52 comments

Was Javascript really made in 10 days?(buttondown.email)

76 points by redbell 2 years ago | 50 comments