Hacker News on Sunday, 28 January 2024

In loving memory of square checkbox(tonsky.me)

1732 points by kevingadd 2 years ago | 461 comments

Nikita Prokopov's (tonsky) blog post lamenting the loss of the traditional square checkbox design in modern user interfaces.

Pandoc(pandoc.org)

743 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 271 comments

Homepage of Pandoc, a universal document converter that translates between many markup formats such as Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, and Org-Mode.

I looked through attacks in my access logs(nishtahir.com)

453 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 256 comments

A blog post by Nish Tahir examining the attack attempts found in the access logs of his self-hosted web server.

I need to grow away from these roots(vitling.xyz)

433 points by HansardExpert 2 years ago | 80 comments

A 2023 art project page by David Whiting (vitling) showing an LED light sculpture of glowing root-like tendrils.

Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards(apps.ankiweb.net)

430 points by bcg361 2 years ago | 370 comments

Homepage of Anki, a cross-platform spaced-repetition flash card app for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and web.

So long and thanks for all the fish(nitter.d420.de)

429 points by proctrap 2 years ago | 299 comments

A Nitter instance (privacy-focused Twitter frontend) showing a Cloudflare verification challenge, apparently announcing its shutdown.

New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'(visualstudiomagazine.com)

380 points by ceejayoz 2 years ago | 276 comments

Visual Studio Magazine news article on a GitClear whitepaper finding that GitHub Copilot use puts downward pressure on code quality and maintainability.

Appearances of MIT in Anime(anime.mit.edu)

272 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 71 comments

Ruby's exceptional creatures(exceptionalcreatures.com)

250 points by ben_s 2 years ago | 98 comments

I hacked a train toilet(devever.net)

234 points by hlandau 2 years ago | 158 comments

Bartkira: The Simpsons and Akira(bartkira.com)

234 points by tetris11 2 years ago | 34 comments

General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker(cpldcpu.wordpress.com)

215 points by pontifk8r 2 years ago | 143 comments

Variable Fonts(v-fonts.com)

212 points by cellis 2 years ago | 40 comments

German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator(gulp.de)

207 points by DyslexicAtheist 2 years ago | 124 comments

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station(agenciasinc.es)

194 points by chuckhend 2 years ago | 123 comments

When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)(madned.substack.com)

193 points by kogir 2 years ago | 83 comments

Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?

191 points by humbleferret 2 years ago | 194 comments

Two handy GDB breakpoint tricks(nullprogram.com)

182 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 26 comments

Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks(github.com)

155 points by trebligdivad 2 years ago | 106 comments

Milwaukee reporter investigates cousin's 1978 car bombing death(jsonline.com)

153 points by pilfered 2 years ago | 55 comments

Dorf Fort (2020)(androidarts.com)

152 points by Fraterkes 2 years ago | 43 comments

Canon aims to ship low-cost 'stamp' machine this year to disrupt chipmaking(ft.com)

151 points by e-brake 2 years ago | 35 comments

Curl HTTP/3 Performance(github.com)

145 points by BitPirate 2 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Apple II clock using interrupts from physical pendulum clock(github.com)

143 points by wkjagt 2 years ago | 28 comments

Fck-nat: The (f)easible (C)ost (k)onfigurable NAT(fck-nat.dev)

139 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 60 comments

Over 2k shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older(fortune.com)

132 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 43 comments

Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection(lostfilearchives.github.io)

128 points by davikr 2 years ago | 26 comments

GitHub Spam(djanes.xyz)

120 points by bl4ckneon 2 years ago | 69 comments

Solid-state EV batteries now face "production hell"(spectrum.ieee.org)

119 points by jnord 2 years ago | 174 comments

How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013)(openculture.com)

116 points by pablode 2 years ago | 67 comments

Take the Road Most Documented(jarbus.net)

116 points by jarbus 2 years ago | 62 comments

U.S. Army Drops Requirement for High School Diploma Amid Recruiting Crisis(military.com)

113 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 189 comments

A company that sells lost airplane luggage(thehustle.co)

109 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 115 comments

Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling

105 points by lelanthran 2 years ago | 60 comments

Linux for Playstation 2(web.archive.org)

97 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 39 comments

Law for Computer Scientists (2020)(lawforcomputerscientists.pubpub.org)

94 points by jruohonen 2 years ago | 41 comments

Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024(linuxjedi.co.uk)

93 points by susam 2 years ago | 66 comments

A Nigerian professor who makes more money welding(bbc.com)

92 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 95 comments

Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences(hackaday.com)

92 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 111 comments

A parliament of owls and a murder of crows: How groups of birds got their names(themarginalian.org)

89 points by notnice 2 years ago | 63 comments

C_std: Implementation of C++ standard libraries in C(github.com)

86 points by signa11 2 years ago | 23 comments

Building a DIY CT/CAT scanner for $200 [video](youtube.com)

84 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 11 comments

Michael Lewis's Blind Side(asteriskmag.com)

80 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 68 comments

I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video](youtube.com)

75 points by SushiHippie 2 years ago | 9 comments

'Eno' Review: A portrait of Brian Eno that is different each time you watch it(variety.com)

75 points by admp 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Plot Against Einstein(warfarehistorynetwork.com)

74 points by geox 2 years ago | 93 comments

The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence(bigthink.com)

73 points by arizen 2 years ago | 69 comments

Show HN: 12-colored visual interactive music theory for pop/rock MIDI (+Github)(rawl.rocks)

69 points by vitaly-pavlenko 2 years ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Librarian - Semantic Bookmark Search Using Transformers(github.com)

68 points by kashyapa95 2 years ago | 17 comments

Unix desktops(theregister.com)

67 points by signa11 2 years ago | 21 comments

Open-source PixArt-δ image generator spits out high-res AI images in 0.5 seconds(the-decoder.com)

66 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 8 comments

Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)(heritageproject.caltech.edu)

63 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 39 comments

Expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis(theguardian.com)

63 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 111 comments

Martello Tower(en.wikipedia.org)

62 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 23 comments

A Historical Tour of Silicon Valley (2010)(scaruffi.com)

59 points by divbzero 2 years ago | 17 comments

The right way to sauce pasta (2016)(seriouseats.com)

59 points by kqr 2 years ago | 25 comments

Gravity Helps Show Strong Force Strength in the Proton(jlab.org)

58 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 11 comments

Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon SF politicians(missionlocal.org)

56 points by NelsonMinar 2 years ago | 32 comments

In case you missed it: America got much bigger continental shelf(bigthink.com)

54 points by TaurenHunter 2 years ago | 24 comments

Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)(quaxio.com)

53 points by monort 2 years ago | 15 comments