Hacker News on Saturday, 20 January 2024

What's that touchscreen in my room?(laplab.me)

1836 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 545 comments

Blog post by Nikita Lapkov investigating a wall-mounted smart-home touchscreen panel found in his new apartment.

Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client(github.com)

726 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 592 comments

GitHub repository for Spotube, an open-source Flutter Spotify client for desktop and mobile that streams via YouTube without requiring Premium or Electron.

The Bun Shell(bun.sh)

331 points by pixelmonk 2 years ago | 165 comments

Bun blog post by Jarred Sumner introducing the Bun Shell, a built-in cross-platform way to run shell scripts from JavaScript.

Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization(twitter.com)

329 points by IndoCanada 2 years ago | 257 comments

An X (Twitter) post about thousands of small businesses struggling due to the R&D expense amortization rule (Section 174); the post content did not load.

Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought(techdirt.com)

314 points by rntn 2 years ago | 204 comments

Tell HN: Russia has started blocking all OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

279 points by itvision 2 years ago | 136 comments

Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook(wandering.shop)

276 points by Kye 2 years ago | 164 comments

Vint Cerf is accumulating Dave Mills stories(docs.google.com)

222 points by tolerable 2 years ago | 4 comments

Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead(theguardian.com)

218 points by brainchild-adam 2 years ago | 126 comments

Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)(motorbiscuit.com)

205 points by ahiknsr 2 years ago | 163 comments

Textart.sh(textart.sh)

201 points by bicebird 2 years ago | 19 comments

Lowercase letters save data(endtimes.dev)

188 points by zdw 2 years ago | 128 comments

Investigating a vanishing BIOS on the Fujitsu Lifebook AH532(blog.timschumi.net)

188 points by timschumi 2 years ago | 47 comments

NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter(space.com)

187 points by basementcat 2 years ago | 153 comments

Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users(coffeehouse.chat)

182 points by amadeuspagel 2 years ago | 117 comments

Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector(medium.com)

167 points by CSDude 2 years ago | 31 comments

Snowcraft – Building a Lego Snowfort from giant Lego snow-bricks(verandavikings.com)

166 points by mikerg87 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics(checkmatechamp.net)

160 points by Tommah 2 years ago | 36 comments

Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu(thewalrus.ca)

146 points by laurex 2 years ago | 147 comments

What Happened to David Graeber?(lareviewofbooks.org)

139 points by devonnull 2 years ago | 94 comments

Let's talk about joins(cghlewis.com)

136 points by r4um 2 years ago | 58 comments

Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (2011)(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

134 points by memalign 2 years ago | 47 comments

Simulating a minimal cell in the browser(technistuff.com)

134 points by agnosis 2 years ago | 19 comments

On Leibniz Notation(math.stackexchange.com)

129 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 68 comments

So you think you know C? (2016)(wordsandbuttons.online)

128 points by tosh 2 years ago | 137 comments

Ask HN: Can the black border atop the HN mourning header link to who died?

123 points by higgins 2 years ago | 21 comments

Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators(the74million.org)

120 points by andygcook 2 years ago | 151 comments

Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing(medium.com)

119 points by nomilk 2 years ago | 81 comments

The Orange Pi 5 Plus(taoofmac.com)

117 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 137 comments

TSMC 2nm Update: Two Fabs in Construction, One Awaiting Government Approval(anandtech.com)

114 points by ksec 2 years ago | 65 comments

Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says(arstechnica.com)

109 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 108 comments

Textfiles(textfiles.com)

108 points by the-mitr 2 years ago | 28 comments

How different languages laugh online(restofworld.org)

94 points by justanotherdot 2 years ago | 32 comments

Shiyu discovery reveals East Asia's advanced materials dating to 45,000 BCE(phys.org)

94 points by wglb 2 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"(ubidrop.com)

93 points by alexstyl 2 years ago | 87 comments

Tour of new custom M1 macOS runners racks with Christina Warren [video](youtube.com)

91 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 147 comments

Efficient LLM inference solution on Intel GPU(arxiv.org)

87 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Founder: A dystopian business simulator (2015)(thefounder.biz)

87 points by senkora 2 years ago | 5 comments

The possibility of making money from shredded banknotes using computer vision(arxiv.org)

85 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 64 comments

How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)(whyy.org)

85 points by bkudria 2 years ago | 90 comments

Dumping Firmware for fun and learning [pdf](github.com)

82 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 5 comments

1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets(futureoflife.org)

80 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 95 comments

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list(arstechnica.com)

80 points by WithinReason 2 years ago | 46 comments

Starlite(en.wikipedia.org)

76 points by 9woc 2 years ago | 29 comments

Ludum Mortuus Est(brokentoys.org)

72 points by davikr 2 years ago | 62 comments

CAP twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed (2012)(infoq.com)

70 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 40 comments

Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL(r2.community.samsung.com)

69 points by scorpio241 2 years ago | 14 comments

VNote: A pleasant note-taking platform(app.vnote.fun)

68 points by internetguy 2 years ago | 43 comments

Meta Introduces Self-Rewarding Language Model Capable of GPT-4 Level Performance(digialps.com)

66 points by alimehdi242 2 years ago | 22 comments

Lee Kuan Yew on Malta(karlsnotes.com)

66 points by valkrieco 2 years ago | 65 comments

Ask HN: Are you using SQLite and Litestream in production?

66 points by esteer 2 years ago | 11 comments

The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy(every.to)

64 points by dshipper 2 years ago | 52 comments

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (2021)(dlang.org)

64 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 58 comments

Companies make it too easy for thieves to impersonate police and steal data(eff.org)

63 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 16 comments

GPU Reshape – shader instrumentation for everyone(gpuopen.com)

63 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 8 comments

Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable(economist.com)

61 points by marban 2 years ago | 74 comments

Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest(underhanded-c.org)

59 points by uoaei 2 years ago | 25 comments

TampaDevs – Tampa Bay's Developer Community(github.com)

58 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 10 comments

For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed(theregister.com)

56 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 27 comments

The Future of Memory(semiengineering.com)

52 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 20 comments