Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)
1796 points by aarroyoc | 329 comments
A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.
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Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite(arxiv.org)
687 points by zaikunzhang | 287 comments
arXiv preprint reporting possible Meissner effect near room temperature in copper-substituted lead apatite (LK-99-type material), based on magnetization measurements.
Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust(blog.lenot.re)
680 points by Uriopass | 294 comments
Blog post introducing Maestro, a Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel and operating system written from scratch in Rust.
Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets(swizec.com)
462 points by serialx | 218 comments
Blog post by Swizec Teller arguing that software engineering salaries come from one of three company budgets, which shapes engineers' daily work and career trajectory.
The One Billion Row Challenge(morling.dev)
424 points by madmax108 | 271 comments
Gunnar Morling's blog post announcing the One Billion Row Challenge, a contest to aggregate one billion rows of weather station data as fast as possible in Java.
Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics(uni-wuerzburg.de)
423 points by hhs | 138 comments
University of Würzburg news article reporting that Matabele ants detect infected wounds in nestmates and treat them with antibiotic secretions.
Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames(frameos.net)
416 points by mariusandra | 98 comments
Documentation homepage for FrameOS, a Nim-based operating system for Raspberry Pi-powered single-function smart frames with e-ink or traditional displays.
Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them(osanseviero.github.io)
408 points by LaserPineapple | 94 comments
A hackerllama blog post walking through an end-to-end worked example of transformer math using small random vectors and matrices.
Making small games, which is fun in itself(abagames.github.io)
376 points by breck | 67 comments
A chapter from an online book by abagames on the joys of making small browser games, citing the Small Game Manifesto and the author's 350+ games.
Fewer people are buying electric cars(businessinsider.com)
335 points by NN88 | 1712 comments
Business Insider opinion piece examining the slowdown in electric car sales and arguing it reflects deeper problems with car prices and transportation.
Sieve is simpler than LRU(cachemon.github.io)
245 points by SerCe | 97 comments
The Curious Case of MD5(katelynsills.com)
185 points by w4lker | 126 comments
C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding(liveplusplus.tech)
178 points by ibobev | 73 comments
UK 2022 rail station flow images(github.com)
146 points by admp | 103 comments
Airtable acquires Airplane(airplane.dev)
138 points by axfan | 109 comments
Terminal Smooth Scrolling(flak.tedunangst.com)
138 points by ingve | 92 comments
Organ pipe physics(modartt.com)
129 points by praash | 44 comments
Making the Micropipette(press.asimov.com)
125 points by bschne | 50 comments
OpenBSD Workstation Hardening(dataswamp.org)
121 points by upofadown | 65 comments
GCC Specs: An Introduction(wozniak.ca)
112 points by todsacerdoti | 19 comments
Amber: Smalltalk for the Web(amber-lang.net)
106 points by lunarcave | 16 comments
Xerox to cut 15% of its workforce(cnbc.com)
101 points by pseudolus | 98 comments
The Aha Stack(ahastack.dev)
84 points by alexzeitler | 58 comments
Solomon Shereshevsky(en.wikipedia.org)
68 points by josh-sematic | 10 comments
Libwa: WhatsApp C Library(github.com)
66 points by keepamovin | 17 comments
