Hacker News on Monday, 8 January 2024

Polars(pola.rs)

949 points by tosh 2 years ago | 376 comments

Homepage of Polars, an open-source DataFrame library for fast data manipulation, with links to its user guide, docs, and services.

iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail(twitter.com)

462 points by wannacboatmovie 2 years ago | 331 comments

A post on X by Seanathan Bates reporting that he found an iPhone, still working and in airplane mode, that fell from Alaska Airlines flight 1282.

United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections(theaircurrent.com)

451 points by etimberg 2 years ago | 627 comments

The Air Current dispatch reporting that United Airlines found loose bolts on door plugs while inspecting its Boeing 737 Max 9 fleet.

Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser(lassebomh.github.io)

421 points by bitterblotter 2 years ago | 87 comments

Landing page for HTMX Playground, a browser-based code sandbox that runs a Django-like mock server in an iframe for experimenting with HTMX.

Dive: A tool for exploring a Docker image, layer contents and more(github.com)

411 points by tomas789 2 years ago | 52 comments

GitHub repository for Dive, an open-source CLI/TUI tool for exploring each layer of a Docker image and its contents.

Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio(cnbc.com)

347 points by ceohockey60 2 years ago | 237 comments

Twilio investor relations press release announcing a CEO transition, with co-founder Jeff Lawson stepping down as CEO.

Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)(cs.umd.edu)

326 points by luu 2 years ago | 155 comments

Ben Shneiderman's page at the University of Maryland listing his Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design, from Designing the User Interface.

Visualizing Ext4(buredoranna.github.io)

320 points by giis 2 years ago | 26 comments

A blog post visualizing what a blank drive looks like at the byte level after running mkfs.ext4 to create an ext4 filesystem.

What PWA Can Do Today(whatpwacando.today)

297 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 208 comments

MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs(github.com)

293 points by sbt567 2 years ago | 104 comments

OpenBSD KDE Plasma Desktop(rsadowski.de)

291 points by brynet 2 years ago | 116 comments

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)(blog.haschek.at)

288 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 121 comments

Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?

280 points by charliebwrites 2 years ago | 101 comments

Elixir is now a gradually typed language(twitter.com)

275 points by sergiotapia 2 years ago | 29 comments

I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros(apps.apple.com)

270 points by winstonschen 2 years ago | 142 comments

95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa(twitter.com)

256 points by DyslexicAtheist 2 years ago | 455 comments

Mario Maker 2 API(tgrcode.com)

252 points by soap- 2 years ago | 59 comments

An overview of distributed Postgres architectures(crunchydata.com)

240 points by eatonphil 2 years ago | 32 comments

Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?(brooker.co.za)

237 points by xyzzy_plugh 2 years ago | 74 comments

The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication (2021)(astralcodexten.com)

231 points by NavinF 2 years ago | 200 comments

Cells across the body talk to each other about aging(quantamagazine.org)

220 points by birriel 2 years ago | 144 comments

IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023(wsj.com)

204 points by maheshs 2 years ago | 417 comments

LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages(simjanos-dev.github.io)

184 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 54 comments

Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2(apple.com)

184 points by hnuser0000 2 years ago | 189 comments

Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines(proton.me)

183 points by olestr 2 years ago | 138 comments

Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content(bloomberg.com)

183 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 214 comments

How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? (2012)(knowyourmeme.com)

179 points by sph 2 years ago | 7 comments

Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One(openreview.net)

176 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 67 comments

Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate(reuters.com)

171 points by 8organicbits 2 years ago | 265 comments

Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki(wiki.mutable.ai)

164 points by oshams 2 years ago | 105 comments

Money pours into new fabs and facilities(semiengineering.com)

160 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 122 comments

How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer [video](youtube.com)

159 points by tux1968 2 years ago | 40 comments

How meta built the infrastructure for Threads(engineering.fb.com)

135 points by trojanalert 2 years ago | 131 comments

Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024(solvermax.com)

133 points by stncls 2 years ago | 68 comments

Researchers create first functional semiconductor made from graphene(techxplore.com)

132 points by wglb 2 years ago | 34 comments

Trade-offs between Different CRDTs(interjectedfuture.com)

132 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 18 comments

A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks(peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com)

131 points by edward 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Biggest Smallest PNG(belkadan.com)

131 points by ingve 2 years ago | 11 comments

k on pdp11(ktye.github.io)

127 points by tosh 2 years ago | 79 comments

United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft(cnbc.com)

126 points by doomlaser 2 years ago | 81 comments

Database of 16,000 Artists Used to Train Midjourney AI Goes Viral(artnews.com)

126 points by reaperducer 2 years ago | 89 comments

Why use strace in 2023? [video](media.ccc.de)

126 points by r4um 2 years ago | 79 comments

Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline(phys.org)

125 points by lil-grandson 2 years ago | 121 comments

Show HN: Tool to calculate how much milk is needed to make an amount of cheese(cheesemak.ing)

124 points by hgarg 2 years ago | 68 comments

Buffett once bet $1M that he could beat a group of hedge funds over 10 years(finance.yahoo.com)

107 points by hhs 2 years ago | 174 comments

bigFORTH (1997-)(bernd-paysan.de)

97 points by RalfWausE 2 years ago | 44 comments

How We Handle Cap Table Information(henrysward.medium.com)

96 points by milkglass 2 years ago | 60 comments

Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?

83 points by FerretFred 2 years ago | 177 comments

Peregrine moon lander suffers anomaly after launch(spacenews.com)

81 points by ironyman 2 years ago | 81 comments

Oklahoma receives first "Made in Oklahoma" EV(oklahoma.gov)

80 points by millzlane 2 years ago | 60 comments

Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days(utcc.utoronto.ca)

79 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 57 comments

New GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4070 Super(nvidia.com)

75 points by pcaversaccio 2 years ago | 86 comments

Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in 'company reset' continuation(reuters.com)

74 points by nycdatasci 2 years ago | 38 comments

OpenBSD Release Songs(openbsd.org)

71 points by ryandotsmith 2 years ago | 13 comments

totally_safe_transmute, Line-by-Line (2021)(blog.yossarian.net)

70 points by iafisher 2 years ago | 32 comments

Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI(arxiv.org)

68 points by treebrained 2 years ago | 82 comments

Polly.js – Record, replay, and stub HTTP interactions(netflix.github.io)

65 points by floriangosse 2 years ago | 10 comments

Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm(newyorker.com)

63 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 60 comments

Async File IO(cmhteixeira.com)

62 points by cmhteixeira 2 years ago | 35 comments

Is Objective-C BOOL a boolean type? It depends(jviotti.com)

59 points by ingve 2 years ago | 17 comments