Hacker News on Saturday, 6 January 2024

FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s(cnbc.com)

783 points by ephesee 2 years ago | 748 comments

CNBC news article reporting the FAA grounding over 170 Boeing 737 Max 9 jets after a panel blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight.

IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system(nytimes.com)

606 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 261 comments

New York Times article about the IRS beginning a pilot of its own free online tax-filing system; the capture shows a CAPTCHA page.

Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code(old.reddit.com)

352 points by the-smug-one 2 years ago | 80 comments

A Reddit r/aoe2 thread asking whether Age of Empires was written in assembly, with an original developer commenting on its use of assembly code.

Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV(github.com)

343 points by ingve 2 years ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository for csvlens, an open-source command line CSV file viewer similar to less, written in Rust.

Chromium bug bounty money tree browser(lyra.horse)

332 points by admp 2 years ago | 72 comments

An interactive tree browser that maps Chrome Vulnerability Reward Program bounty payouts to the Chromium source files changed by the corresponding fixes.

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout(theguardian.com)

291 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 255 comments

Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT(huggingface.co)

208 points by regularfry 2 years ago | 68 comments

Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization(reddit.com)

203 points by g1a55er 2 years ago | 244 comments

The best way to get unstuck(ggnotes.com)

192 points by pmzy 2 years ago | 80 comments

Carta doing unsolicited tender offer outreach to their customers' investors(twitter.com)

186 points by shoenseiwaso 2 years ago | 47 comments

Ultima (2012)(filfre.net)

173 points by luu 2 years ago | 60 comments

In-browser code playgrounds(antonz.org)

171 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 35 comments

Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?(jvns.ca)

168 points by soheilpro 2 years ago | 167 comments

FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout(bbc.com)

166 points by intunderflow 2 years ago | 86 comments

A tiny hand crafted CPU emulator, C compiler, and Operating System(github.com)

165 points by seansh 2 years ago | 10 comments

Retro on Viberary(vickiboykis.com)

163 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 25 comments

The Everything NPM Package(socket.dev)

163 points by defied 2 years ago | 115 comments

Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music(artsandculture.google.com)

159 points by ck45 2 years ago | 48 comments

BYD's YangWang U8 launched, can float on water for 30 minutes and sail 3km/h(carnewschina.com)

150 points by belter 2 years ago | 197 comments

Comics I Loved in 2023(riteshbabu.net)

149 points by npalli 2 years ago | 89 comments

Libwebsockets: pure C library for http, websockets, MQTT(github.com)

146 points by seansh 2 years ago | 53 comments

Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-Max suffers window blowout after taking off(dailymail.co.uk)

141 points by echelon 2 years ago | 115 comments

Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)(newyorker.com)

140 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 151 comments

Live Map of Swiss Trains(maps.vasile.ch)

134 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 66 comments

Nitro: A fast, lightweight inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API(nitro.jan.ai)

129 points by Lwrless 2 years ago | 67 comments

First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power(newscientist.com)

128 points by rmason 2 years ago | 75 comments

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf](ias.edu)

121 points by jkuria 2 years ago | 35 comments

Tex-Oberon: Make Project Oberon Pretty Again(github.com)

119 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 38 comments

Chess-GPT's Internal World Model(github.com)

117 points by anjneymidha 2 years ago | 22 comments

Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video](media.ccc.de)

115 points by iso8859-1 2 years ago | 28 comments

Westworld: The first film with CGI (and its source code)(behind-the-screens.tv)

112 points by z303 2 years ago | 41 comments

Systemd through the eyes of a musl distribution maintainer(catfox.life)

111 points by awilfox 2 years ago | 91 comments

Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023(magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

108 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 17 comments

NIST identifies types of cyberattacks that manipulate behavior of AI systems(nist.gov)

102 points by geox 2 years ago | 43 comments

Chess-GPT's Internal World Model(adamkarvonen.github.io)

99 points by homarp 2 years ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Building a 'liturgical lightbulb', bringing the Calendar to life(github.com)

99 points by angrygoat 2 years ago | 6 comments

Adélie Linux(adelielinux.org)

89 points by BSDobelix 2 years ago | 64 comments

The perils and pleasures of bartending in Antarctica (2017)(atlasobscura.com)

86 points by zdw 2 years ago | 24 comments

NuScale Lays off 40% of its Staff(huffpost.com)

86 points by pfdietz 2 years ago | 38 comments

The journey of the Roman gladius and other swords(acoup.blog)

82 points by CHB0403085482 2 years ago | 22 comments

Fortran vs Python: The counter-intuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)(fortran-lang.discourse.group)

81 points by zaikunzhang 2 years ago | 74 comments

UIDesignDaily 4 years later, 1600 open-source designs(uidesigndaily.com)

80 points by ildiko 2 years ago | 21 comments

A tale of two teenagers (2023)(aporiamagazine.com)

79 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 123 comments

A Beginner's Companion to Theorem Proving in Lean 4(emallson.net)

77 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 10 comments

Lancet journal retracts article on hearing aids and dementia after prodding(retractionwatch.com)

77 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 23 comments

LLaMA-Pro-8B(huggingface.co)

75 points by tosh 2 years ago | 23 comments

Scheme modules vs. whole-program compilation: fight(wingolog.org)

74 points by davexunit 2 years ago | 2 comments

Focus and Flow: trade-offs in programmer productivity (2021)(aaronbuxbaum.com)

72 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 22 comments

Two classic radiosity books now free(realtimerendering.com)

70 points by ingve 2 years ago | 12 comments

1195725856 and other mysterious numbers (2020)(chrisdown.name)

70 points by denysvitali 2 years ago | 6 comments

STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++(github.com)

67 points by seansh 2 years ago | 25 comments

What the heck is a homomorphic mapped type?(andreasimonecosta.dev)

66 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 25 comments

Inverting PhotoDNA (2021)(anishathalye.com)

65 points by jxmorris12 2 years ago | 19 comments

Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash(linderud.dev)

63 points by Foxboron 2 years ago | 23 comments

Thorium – The first browser to score over 600 speedometer points on a Mac M3 Pro(github.com)

62 points by midzer 2 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: New RISC-V emulator for Computer Science education(github.com)

62 points by gboncoffee 2 years ago | 12 comments

AMD's 22-year-old GPUs still getting driver updates thanks to the FOSS community(tomshardware.com)

62 points by Alupis 2 years ago | 13 comments

End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support(pcmag.com)

61 points by derefr 2 years ago | 24 comments

An Easy to Build Real Homemade Computer: Z80-MBC2(instructables.com)

58 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 28 comments

Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal(arstechnica.com)

57 points by oldgradstudent 2 years ago | 51 comments