Hacker News on Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)(english.stackexchange.com)

1128 points by flexagoon 2 years ago | 256 comments

A locked English Language & Usage Stack Exchange question asking which word starting with "y" names an axe-like object shown in a picture.

Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling(sitinshade.com)

847 points by Amithv 2 years ago | 195 comments

Sit in Shade is a web app that takes origin, destination, date and time to recommend which bus seat side avoids sun exposure.

AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry(deepmind.google)

516 points by FlawedReformer 2 years ago | 158 comments

Google DeepMind research blog post introducing AlphaGeometry, an AI system that solves olympiad-level geometry problems.

Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases(read.engineerscodex.com)

441 points by gempir 2 years ago | 170 comments

Engineer's Codex newsletter post explaining how Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB to power CloudKit and store billions of iCloud databases.

Random Animations(bleuje.com)

439 points by ggrelet 2 years ago | 56 comments

A web page showing randomly generated looping generative art animations, here a sphere made of dotted particle spheres and spirals on black.

Willow Protocol(willowprotocol.org)

395 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 98 comments

Homepage of Willow, a protocol for peer-to-peer data stores with fine-grained permissions, privacy, destructive edits, and low bandwidth and memory use.

John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo(jacobelder.com)

390 points by jelder 2 years ago | 86 comments

Blog post by Jacob Elder noting that Toy Story director John Lasseter drew the BSD Daemon logo, illustrated with vintage Unix manuals.

Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator(eaton-works.com)

386 points by EatonZ 2 years ago | 82 comments

Blog post describing how an Eicher Motors premium calculator site on a Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India subdomain leaked Microsoft email credentials exposing 657k customer emails.

FAQ on Leaving Google(social.clawhammer.net)

350 points by mrled 2 years ago | 210 comments

Ben Collins-Sussman's personal blog FAQ explaining his layoff from Google after 18 years as an Engineering Director and reflecting on mass tech layoffs.

Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases(twitter.com)

335 points by sdepablos 2 years ago | 250 comments

Tim Sweeney's X post listing problems with Apple's new rules for external purchase links, including a 27% commission on web purchases.

Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux(jliljebl.github.io)

247 points by ponsfrilus 2 years ago | 84 comments

The Hacker News Top books of 2023(hnreads.com)

231 points by kristianp 2 years ago | 70 comments

K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney(github.com)

211 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 84 comments

Show HN: Htmldocs – Typeset and generate pdfs with HTML/CSS(htmldocs.com)

204 points by kelvinzhang 2 years ago | 78 comments

Why I Like Obsidian(ddanieltan.com)

198 points by ddanieltan 2 years ago | 233 comments

The Rust project has a burnout problem(jyn.dev)

184 points by Philpax 2 years ago | 161 comments

Computer Engineering for Babies (2021)(computerengineeringforbabies.com)

181 points by varjag 2 years ago | 59 comments

BBC BASIC raytracer in 432 characters(mastodon.me.uk)

178 points by neffo 2 years ago | 73 comments

If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source(twitter.com)

175 points by mgreg 2 years ago | 73 comments

Browsh: The modern text-based web browser(brow.sh)

163 points by mdwalters 2 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier(shadeup.dev)

161 points by jrmydev 2 years ago | 44 comments

Cancer Alley(en.wikipedia.org)

158 points by Red_Tarsius 2 years ago | 75 comments

We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023)(stockholmresilience.org)

156 points by weatherlight 2 years ago | 122 comments

Notion Calendar(notion.so)

147 points by dylanirlbeck 2 years ago | 142 comments

Doom Released Under GPLv2(github.com)

143 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 32 comments

PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations(blog.quarkslab.com)

141 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 82 comments

The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List(troyhunt.com)

131 points by AdmiralAsshat 2 years ago | 135 comments

RSA is deceptively simple and fun(ntietz.com)

127 points by mikecarlton 2 years ago | 63 comments

Judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines(nytimes.com)

122 points by i0exception 2 years ago | 78 comments

How to Design an ISA(queue.acm.org)

117 points by eatonphil 2 years ago | 55 comments

How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086(blogsystem5.substack.com)

117 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 46 comments

OpenAI is working with the US military now(bloomberg.com)

115 points by laith_sabunchi 2 years ago | 104 comments

ALOHA robot learns from humans to cook, clean, do laundry(venturebeat.com)

113 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 77 comments

Systemd: Enable Indefinite Service Restarts(michael.stapelberg.ch)

110 points by secure 2 years ago | 64 comments

Machine embroidery of light-emitting textiles with electroluminescent threads(science.org)

104 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 22 comments

Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

101 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 87 comments

White space does matter in C23(gustedt.wordpress.com)

100 points by ingve 2 years ago | 41 comments

Quake on an FPGA (MRISC32 CPU) [video](vimeo.com)

98 points by mbitsnbites 2 years ago | 42 comments

Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement(daringfireball.net)

91 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 80 comments

From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility(academic.oup.com)

85 points by agronaut 2 years ago | 17 comments

Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security(technitium.com)

83 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 59 comments

Get Out of Jail Cards, 2(marginalrevolution.com)

81 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 46 comments

ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core(moorinsightsstrategy.com)

76 points by ksec 2 years ago | 64 comments

Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?(jakeseliger.com)

75 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 62 comments

Barcoding Bees (2020)(theapiarist.org)

74 points by wibbily 2 years ago | 14 comments

Cerne Abbas giant is Hercules and was army meeting point, say historians(theguardian.com)

73 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 56 comments

Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot(github.com)

72 points by srikanth235 2 years ago | 24 comments

E-Crime Rapper 'Punchmade Dev' Debuts Card Shop(krebsonsecurity.com)

67 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 39 comments

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse(theregister.com)

65 points by rntn 2 years ago | 40 comments

Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io(lgug2z.com)

64 points by bsnnkv 2 years ago | 15 comments

Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs(tampabay.com)

63 points by DamnInteresting 2 years ago | 99 comments

My New Computer(blog.taoetc.org)

60 points by hackandthink 2 years ago | 51 comments

Benchmarking Postgres Vector Search Approaches: Pgvector vs. Lantern(tembo.io)

55 points by samaysharma 2 years ago | 7 comments

Htmx Is Composable?(timkellogg.me)

53 points by tkellogg 2 years ago | 47 comments

Epic plans to contest Apple's 'bad-faith' compliance with ruling over App Store(techcrunch.com)

51 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 2 comments

Hearing and Doing(planeandpilotmag.com)

50 points by 1970-01-01 2 years ago | 36 comments

Use Plaintext Email(useplaintext.email)

50 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 40 comments

MRISC32 – An Open 32-Bit RISC/Vector ISA (Suitable for FPGA CPU)(mrisc32.bitsnbites.eu)

50 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 7 comments

Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?(newyorker.com)

49 points by marban 2 years ago | 134 comments

What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation(theguardian.com)

48 points by robaato 2 years ago | 17 comments