Hacker News on Friday, 5 January 2024

An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)(robinsloan.com)

962 points by distcs 2 years ago | 276 comments

Robin Sloan's essay about building BoopSnoop, a tiny messaging app made only for his family, framing personal software as a home-cooked meal.

Fixing Macs door to door(matduggan.com)

895 points by jnord 2 years ago | 172 comments

A blog post by Mathew Duggan recounting his experience running a door-to-door Mac repair service.

Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones(time.fyi)

626 points by kamranahmedse 2 years ago | 195 comments

time.fyi timezone comparison tool that lets users add multiple time zones and use a slider to compare times across them.

Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras(digitalcameraworld.com)

545 points by toss1 2 years ago | 226 comments

Digital Camera World news article about Zeiss's Holocam, a transparent holographic camera technology that turns glass windows into cameras.

Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air(seattletimes.com)

483 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 390 comments

Seattle Times article on Boeing seeking an FAA exemption from safety rules to get the 737 MAX 7 certified and flying.

Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64(gist.github.com)

340 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 114 comments

A GitHub Gist write-up explaining how avoiding passing structs larger than 16 bytes on AMD64 sped up the Neat compiler by about 2x.

Rue de l'Avenir(en.wikipedia.org)

281 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 108 comments

Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'(vice.com)

249 points by danso 2 years ago | 350 comments

How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment(ft.com)

241 points by propter_hoc 2 years ago | 313 comments

Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food(reuters.com)

238 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 146 comments

SIMD in Pure Python(da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

219 points by dmarto 2 years ago | 16 comments

Apple's classic Pascal poster, remade as a vector image [pdf](danamania.com)

218 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 43 comments

U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple(nytimes.com)

214 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 215 comments

YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim(mashable.com)

200 points by dragonbonheur 2 years ago | 105 comments

CellLVM: A proof-of-concept LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler(belkadan.com)

200 points by grungleshnorts 2 years ago | 24 comments

June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)(redhat.com)

198 points by kristianpaul 2 years ago | 202 comments

Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing(social.lol)

187 points by cdme 2 years ago | 84 comments

WebRTC for the Curious (2020)(webrtcforthecurious.com)

182 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 46 comments

Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines(blogsystem5.substack.com)

177 points by polyrand 2 years ago | 115 comments

DIY Book Scanner(diybookscanner.org)

176 points by KolmogorovComp 2 years ago | 43 comments

Teaching C (2016)(blog.regehr.org)

173 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 79 comments

Looo.lol – a binary math site(looo.lol)

154 points by eversowhatev 2 years ago | 55 comments

Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982)(lysator.liu.se)

148 points by spc476 2 years ago | 152 comments

Everything will be alright in Iceland(memoirsandrambles.substack.com)

145 points by yakkomajuri 2 years ago | 119 comments

We don't need a DAC on the ESP32-S3(atomic14.substack.com)

143 points by iamflimflam1 2 years ago | 69 comments

Duty to Document (2023)(nicolasbouliane.com)

136 points by sarimkhalid 2 years ago | 58 comments

Paradise Lost (1667)(milton.host.dartmouth.edu)

130 points by Frummy 2 years ago | 42 comments

Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal(github.com)

129 points by jzombie 2 years ago | 65 comments

Archiving Steam games for fun and profit(lorendb.dev)

128 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 65 comments

Best 7B LLM on leaderboards made by an amateur following a medium tutorial(huggingface.co)

127 points by Der_Einzige 2 years ago | 32 comments

A rocket a day keeps the high costs away (1993)(fourmilab.ch)

126 points by joebig 2 years ago | 82 comments

Revitalizing US Navy Shipbuilding(austinvernon.site)

125 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 86 comments

Modern Java/JVM Build Practices(github.com)

122 points by djha-skin 2 years ago | 79 comments

SSH-Snake: Automated SSH-Based Network Traversal(github.com)

119 points by lozf 2 years ago | 18 comments

Choosing what to read(tratt.net)

119 points by ltratt 2 years ago | 37 comments

Learning Regular Languages with L* Algorithm(rahul.gopinath.org)

117 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 2 comments

In Europe, Trains Are Full, and More Are on the Way(nytimes.com)

115 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 114 comments

TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model(arxiv.org)

113 points by matt1 2 years ago | 37 comments

Learning bimanual mobile manipulation with low-cost whole-body teleoperation(mobile-aloha.github.io)

110 points by tristenharr 2 years ago | 40 comments

RR – Railroad Diagram Generator(github.com)

98 points by tempodox 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?

97 points by stevengoodwin 2 years ago | 96 comments

Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation(pikchr.org)

94 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 20 comments

M3 CPU cores have become more versatile(eclecticlight.co)

91 points by ingve 2 years ago | 111 comments

"Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)(psychclassics.yorku.ca)

90 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 94 comments

Drones are the new drug mules(vice.com)

88 points by rntn 2 years ago | 165 comments

Comparing Performance of Julia on CPUs vs. GPUs and Julia-MPI vs. Fortran-MPI(gmd.copernicus.org)

85 points by npalli 2 years ago | 13 comments

Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death(aeon.co)

83 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 76 comments

Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed(keysmash.no)

83 points by olekenneth 2 years ago | 52 comments

P2pcf: P2P WebRTC via Cloudflare Workers(github.com)

81 points by rgbrgb 2 years ago | 25 comments

Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards(arstechnica.com)

81 points by kens 2 years ago | 165 comments

How to build a thinking AI(aithought.com)

81 points by tudorw 2 years ago | 35 comments

Micro Beast: Self contained 8-bit computer kit in a box(feertech.com)

78 points by throwaway71271 2 years ago | 30 comments

'everything' blocks devs from removing their own NPM packages(bleepingcomputer.com)

74 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird(wired.com)

74 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 43 comments

Ubuntu Looking at Discontinuing Its Source ISOs(phoronix.com)

72 points by mindracer 2 years ago | 72 comments

Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made from Graphene(research.gatech.edu)

71 points by elorant 2 years ago | 28 comments

Y Combinator Compensation Numbers

66 points by flerovium 2 years ago | 43 comments

Books fatal to their authors (1895)(publicdomainreview.org)

62 points by drdee 2 years ago | 11 comments

Something a lot like Pokemon Yellow(roganmurley.com)

62 points by roganmurley 2 years ago | 37 comments

Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books(nesslabs.com)

59 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 33 comments