Hacker News on Saturday, 13 January 2024

Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time(github.com)

684 points by tosh 2 years ago | 157 comments

GitHub repository for Stellarium, a free GPL planetarium application that renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home(johnthenerd.com)

584 points by JohnTheNerd 2 years ago | 156 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author built a fully local, LLM-powered voice assistant to control their smart home without cloud services.

A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's(pantryandlarder.com)

349 points by Ajay-p 2 years ago | 268 comments

Interactive map of Big Mac prices at McDonald's locations across the US, showing the cheapest ($3.49, Stigler OK) and most expensive ($8.09, Lee MA).

Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

347 points by g4zj 2 years ago | 119 comments

An Ask HN thread where the poster describes losing curiosity and drive, focusing on personal issues, and asks if others are working on nothing.

Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative(betterstack.com)

346 points by sacrosanct 2 years ago | 110 comments

A Better Stack community guide comparing Podman with Docker and presenting Podman as a more secure container engine alternative.

A decade-old Steam bug(blog.freudenjmp.com)

327 points by freudenjmp 2 years ago | 33 comments

Blog post investigating a decade-old Steam bug (the "No user logon" error) affecting Valve games like Counter-Strike 2.

Inside the Steam Deck's APU(boilingsteam.com)

310 points by ekianjo 2 years ago | 195 comments

Thinking in an array language(github.com)

282 points by tosh 2 years ago | 147 comments

‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess(wsj.com)

272 points by eduction 2 years ago | 255 comments

AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language(asmbb.org)

244 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 118 comments

What is the difference between a terminal, a shell, a TTY and a console? (2012)(unix.stackexchange.com)

238 points by ent101 2 years ago | 54 comments

How to Be More Agentic(usefulfictions.substack.com)

229 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 158 comments

LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day(tomshardware.com)

223 points by monkburger 2 years ago | 169 comments

Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service(ispreview.co.uk)

215 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 190 comments

Wokwi – Simulate IoT Projects in the Browser(wokwi.com)

211 points by gadiyar 2 years ago | 18 comments

A math professor who objects to diversity statements(theatlantic.com)

209 points by moose_man 2 years ago | 92 comments

Updates on Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 9 Aircraft(faa.gov)

203 points by hef19898 2 years ago | 201 comments

Tachiyomi – It's Joever(tachiyomi.org)

184 points by f_devd 2 years ago | 52 comments

Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles(midlibrary.io)

184 points by nomilk 2 years ago | 89 comments

Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability(jobs.apple.com)

184 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 192 comments

My Knowledge Lakehouse(tabokie.github.io)

176 points by tabokie 2 years ago | 79 comments

Decker – A HyperCard Replacement(beyondloom.com)

173 points by harryvederci 2 years ago | 25 comments

GoatCounter creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense(github.com)

170 points by genzer 2 years ago | 107 comments

Generalized K-Means Clustering(github.com)

166 points by derrickrburns 2 years ago | 79 comments

Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack(channelnewsasia.com)

164 points by 2-718-281-828 2 years ago | 93 comments

He spent his life building a $1M stereo(washingtonpost.com)

157 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 276 comments

YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution(github.com)

150 points by janjones 2 years ago | 94 comments

What Was ISDN?(tedium.co)

140 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 130 comments

John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)(amnh.org)

130 points by mikequinlan 2 years ago | 75 comments

Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)(lemire.me)

129 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 99 comments

Epic Games' "The RAD Debugger"(github.com)

114 points by davikr 2 years ago | 27 comments

Shadcn: Components that you can copy-paste into your apps(ui.shadcn.com)

110 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 55 comments

Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone(inc.com)

105 points by uxcolumbo 2 years ago | 90 comments

Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat(fortune.com)

101 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 109 comments

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language(orwell.ru)

96 points by night-rider 2 years ago | 40 comments

Scientist on Japan's atomic bomb program tells his story (1995) [video](youtube.com)

95 points by ta8645 2 years ago | 55 comments

Triplit: Open-source DB that syncs data between server and browser in real-time(github.com)

95 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 30 comments

ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving(archivebox.io)

94 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 2 comments

Feynman Sprinkler [video](youtube.com)

94 points by mhb 2 years ago | 16 comments

Exposed RSS(chriscoyier.net)

93 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 20 comments

Celestia: Real-time 3D visualization of space(github.com)

92 points by tildef 2 years ago | 7 comments

Listening with LLM(paul.mou.dev)

91 points by ppymou 2 years ago | 8 comments

It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing(thebignewsletter.com)

87 points by samsolomon 2 years ago | 73 comments

AWS Libcrypto for Rust(github.com)

82 points by jrpelkonen 2 years ago | 21 comments

Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust(rkyv.org)

82 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 17 comments

Temperature-sensing stirbar with RFID(github.com)

82 points by cl3misch 2 years ago | 23 comments

Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords(theguardian.com)

79 points by atombender 2 years ago | 42 comments

Compressing Text into Images(shkspr.mobi)

67 points by edent 2 years ago | 60 comments

Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time(theatlantic.com)

66 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 38 comments

Weather intelligence and cutting-edge tech is boosting grid capacity by 30%(electrek.co)

65 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 17 comments

Cosmic: The Road to Alpha(blog.system76.com)

64 points by FreeFull 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain(spectrum.ieee.org)

61 points by T-A 2 years ago | 15 comments

Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet(newyorker.com)

59 points by cocacola1 2 years ago | 26 comments

Periodic Table Gallery(acs.org)

54 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 16 comments

Austin takes a bet on tiny homes to ease homelessness(nytimes.com)

53 points by fendrak 2 years ago | 79 comments

Things I Learnt in 2023(drobinin.com)

53 points by valzevul 2 years ago | 31 comments

M1 Macs may lag behind(eclecticlight.co)

52 points by ingve 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: I made a site to simplify recommending talented people to others(youshouldworkwith.com)

51 points by rohanmahen 2 years ago | 42 comments

20.5 Years of XP and Agile (2020)(henrikwarne.com)

49 points by ingve 2 years ago | 78 comments

Painting from Primitives (2017)(schollz.com)

48 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 7 comments