Hacker News on Thursday, 4 January 2024

Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone(clicks.tech)

880 points by guyinblackshirt 2 years ago | 513 comments

Product landing page for Clicks, a keyboard case that adds a BlackBerry-style physical QWERTY keyboard to the iPhone.

9 years of Apple text editor solo dev(papereditor.app)

683 points by pimterry 2 years ago | 326 comments

A developer's retrospective on nine years of building Paper, a text editor for Apple platforms, as a solo maker.

Sit.(sonnet.io)

572 points by rpastuszak 2 years ago | 106 comments

A minimal web app by Rafał Pastuszak that lets you set a timer to sit and do nothing for a chosen number of minutes.

Go: What we got right, what we got wrong(commandcenter.blogspot.com)

517 points by veqq 2 years ago | 462 comments

Rob Pike's blog transcript of his GopherConAU 2023 closing talk reflecting on what the Go language team got right and wrong over 14 years.

Power over fiber(chaos.social)

360 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Mastodon post noting that power-over-fiber components can deliver 3V 180mA from 1.5W of 800nm infrared light sent over standard multimode optical fiber.

Nestflix(nestflix.fun)

331 points by emacsen 2 years ago | 91 comments

Nestflix is a Netflix-styled site cataloging over 700 fictional movies and shows that appear within other films and TV shows.

Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf](people.inf.ethz.ch)

307 points by JoachimS 2 years ago | 39 comments

Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript(andykong.org)

291 points by amin 2 years ago | 162 comments

Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into browser games

280 points by lishali88 2 years ago | 96 comments

WPA3 Enterprise 192-bit mode at home(smallstep.com)

277 points by tashian 2 years ago | 169 comments

Iggy.rs – building message streaming in Rust(blog.iggy.rs)

276 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 54 comments

SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says(nytimes.com)

261 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 204 comments

AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea(globalfishingwatch.org)

253 points by geox 2 years ago | 164 comments

AMD's 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates(gitlab.freedesktop.org)

253 points by titaniumtown 2 years ago | 90 comments

Think more about what to focus on(henrikkarlsson.xyz)

223 points by jger15 2 years ago | 42 comments

Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)(yosefk.com)

204 points by luu 2 years ago | 261 comments

Internet Sacred Text Archive(sacred-texts.com)

193 points by Woods369 2 years ago | 88 comments

Lilygo T-Deck: 2.8-inch IPS LCD display, mini keyboard, and ESP32 processor(lilygo.cc)

190 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 98 comments

Cold showers on overhyped topics (2017)(github.com)

187 points by troupo 2 years ago | 124 comments

Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024: Geek For Life(tidyfirst.substack.com)

185 points by ingve 2 years ago | 26 comments

"Anna's Archive" Shadow Library Blocked Following Publishers' Complaint(torrentfreak.com)

180 points by bertman 2 years ago | 86 comments

Jobs you're applying to might not be real(marketplace.org)

172 points by clockworksoul 2 years ago | 155 comments

A Science of Concurrent Programs [pdf](lamport.azurewebsites.net)

167 points by paulolc 2 years ago | 32 comments

Whistleblower Aid(whistlebloweraid.org)

158 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 45 comments

AMD proposes an FPGA subsystem user-space interface for Linux(phoronix.com)

153 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 72 comments

Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB(theregister.com)

153 points by rntn 2 years ago | 110 comments

Audio2Photoreal(github.com)

150 points by wildpeaks 2 years ago | 50 comments

Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study(nautil.us)

149 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 78 comments

Making the web fun again (2013)(blog.neocities.org)

138 points by sumnole 2 years ago | 67 comments

Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook [pdf](jamesg.blog)

133 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Bring phone calls into the browser (SIP-to-WebRTC)(github.com)

132 points by Sean-Der 2 years ago | 45 comments

Minimum Wage Clock(moonbase.lgbt)

132 points by shakna 2 years ago | 158 comments

NetSurf Web Browser(netsurf-browser.org)

129 points by jszymborski 2 years ago | 40 comments

30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland(bristol.ac.uk)

125 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 108 comments

Origins of J(github.com)

124 points by tosh 2 years ago | 54 comments

How Gyms Make Money (2015)(medium.com)

108 points by no_kill_i 2 years ago | 155 comments

InVision design collaboration services shutdown(invisionapp.com)

104 points by devgoth 2 years ago | 71 comments

Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens(jetpens.com)

101 points by beermonster 2 years ago | 85 comments

How Open ID Connect Works(blog.digger.dev)

88 points by iacguy 2 years ago | 72 comments

Efficient LLM Inference (2023)(artfintel.com)

87 points by inaciom 2 years ago | 9 comments

Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings(utcc.utoronto.ca)

86 points by ingve 2 years ago | 35 comments

SpaceX launches first phone service satellites(theguardian.com)

83 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 80 comments

Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir(joisig.com)

83 points by joisig 2 years ago | 41 comments

The Art of Unix Programming (2003)(catb.org)

77 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 13 comments

Patriot Missile Floating Point Software Problem Led to Deaths of 28 Americans(cs.unc.edu)

76 points by belltaco 2 years ago | 46 comments

Main-Thread-Scheduling(github.com)

75 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 19 comments

Book of Kells (2018)(worldhistory.org)

71 points by YeGoblynQueenne 2 years ago | 43 comments

Does your test suite account for weak transaction isolation?(concerningquality.com)

71 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 41 comments

23andMe risks public relations disaster as it blames customers for data breach(itpro.com)

68 points by PudgyWudge200 2 years ago | 23 comments

Grammar of Ornament(nms.ac.uk)

67 points by lioeters 2 years ago | 17 comments

Databases in 2023: A Year in Review(ottertune.com)

65 points by mustache_kimono 2 years ago | 9 comments

Late 70s and 80s: forget BASIC, we had Pascal and C(retrofun.pl)

60 points by ikari_pl 2 years ago | 51 comments

CAS 761: Generative Programming (Winter 2024)(cas.mcmaster.ca)

60 points by azhenley 2 years ago | 10 comments

GPT Store Launch

59 points by atomon 2 years ago | 38 comments

Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke on Ableton (2016)(roberthenke.com)

59 points by antidnan 2 years ago | 19 comments

A Writer's Ruby(world.hey.com)

57 points by jjgreen 2 years ago | 43 comments

Alan Turing – The Delilah Project(bonhams.com)

56 points by belter 2 years ago | 4 comments

Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness(amsterdamumc.org)

54 points by rdtennent 2 years ago | 37 comments

AI and satellite imagery used to create clearest map of human activity at sea(theverge.com)

51 points by nathan_phoenix 2 years ago | 14 comments

BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet(freaktakes.com)

50 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 9 comments