Hacker News on Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Infinite Craft(neal.fun)

1057 points by kretaceous 2 years ago | 479 comments

Infinite Craft is a browser game on neal.fun where players combine elements to discover new ones, starting from basics like water, fire, wind, and earth.

Making a PDF that's larger than Germany(alexwlchan.net)

649 points by alexwlchan 2 years ago | 140 comments

Blog post by Alex Chan exploring the claimed maximum page size of PDF documents and creating a PDF with pages larger than Germany.

Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day(pcmag.com)

466 points by alden5 2 years ago | 391 comments

PCMag news article on a SpaceX engineer's account of Starlink's 9,000 inter-satellite lasers carrying about 42 petabytes of data per day.

Google search drops cache link from search results(seroundtable.com)

382 points by croes 2 years ago | 130 comments

Search Engine Roundtable article reporting that Google Search removed the cached page link from search results, with tips on how to still view the cache.

The Far Side – By Gary Larson(thefarside.com)

377 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 133 comments

The official website of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic, showing a 1987 cartoon titled "Horror films of the Wild" on its homepage.

I moved my blog from IPFS to a server(neimanslab.org)

293 points by neiman 2 years ago | 148 comments

Sega AI(smspower.org)

284 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 51 comments

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission(theregister.com)

283 points by fauigerzigerk 2 years ago | 218 comments

Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance(venturebeat.com)

267 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 155 comments

23andMe's Fall(wsj.com)

255 points by AdamN 2 years ago | 218 comments

Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite(github.com)

248 points by dgllghr 2 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: A simple ChatGPT prompt builder(mitenmit.github.io)

244 points by mitenmit 2 years ago | 100 comments

MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device(blog.research.google)

238 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 56 comments

Macaroons Escalated Quickly(fly.io)

235 points by mkeeter 2 years ago | 149 comments

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports(missionlocal.org)

230 points by etc-hosts 2 years ago | 231 comments

Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews(interviewing.io)

221 points by michael_mroczka 2 years ago | 391 comments

Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse(bloomberg.com)

204 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 161 comments

Visual Analysis of Binary Files(binvis.io)

198 points by h4x0rr 2 years ago | 42 comments

DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself(deepseekcoder.github.io)

196 points by fintechie 2 years ago | 52 comments

Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator(mkremins.github.io)

195 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 65 comments

Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims(arstechnica.com)

187 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 106 comments

Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally(2mb.codes)

182 points by blindgeek 2 years ago | 36 comments

Gitlab's ActivityPub architecture blueprint(docs.gitlab.com)

182 points by p4bl0 2 years ago | 87 comments

XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta(micahlerner.com)

177 points by greghn 2 years ago | 68 comments

Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings(science.org)

176 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 154 comments

LLaVA-1.6: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge(llava-vl.github.io)

174 points by tosh 2 years ago | 36 comments

Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins(moveit.substack.com)

170 points by cheerioty 2 years ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph(github.com)

161 points by gabimtme 2 years ago | 53 comments

RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)(jepsen.io)

154 points by aphyr 2 years ago | 60 comments

Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)(mewo2.com)

147 points by mattrighetti 2 years ago | 17 comments

Constructing a Four-Point Egg(dotat.at)

135 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 47 comments

Hearing aids slow cognitive decline in people at high risk(nih.gov)

134 points by gardenfelder 2 years ago | 50 comments

Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update(9to5google.com)

134 points by doener 2 years ago | 5 comments

Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu(github.com)

133 points by pyinstallwoes 2 years ago | 49 comments

Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim(neovide.dev)

118 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 76 comments

Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app(github.com)

113 points by its_sasikanth 2 years ago | 58 comments

The Pentagon tried to hide that it bought Americans' data without a warrant(wired.com)

109 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 45 comments

Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs(blog.trailofbits.com)

108 points by ingve 2 years ago | 8 comments

Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD(reddit.com)

102 points by mrbn100ful 2 years ago | 62 comments

Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers(spectrum.ieee.org)

100 points by frasermarlow 2 years ago | 116 comments

Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation(openai.com)

100 points by minimaxir 2 years ago | 160 comments

The Burial of William the Conqueror: A Comedy of Errors(strangeco.blogspot.com)

97 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 39 comments

The theory of concatenative combinators (2007)(tunes.org)

95 points by rrampage 2 years ago | 6 comments

In Praise of Buttons(nubero.ch)

95 points by marban 2 years ago | 51 comments

Getting fitter can reduce prostate cancer risk by 35%, study finds(theguardian.com)

95 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 68 comments

Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display(hardfault.life)

91 points by ryukoposting 2 years ago | 15 comments

165 m private submersible superyacht(migaloo-submarines.com)

88 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 107 comments

Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time(nateliason.com)

83 points by Matrixik 2 years ago | 66 comments

Redeployment Part Three(brr.fyi)

82 points by wofo 2 years ago | 11 comments

Launch HN: Encord (YC W21) – Unit testing for computer vision models

82 points by ulrikhansen54 2 years ago | 15 comments

1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media(docs.google.com)

79 points by zdw 2 years ago | 22 comments

I don't want anything your AI generates(coryd.dev)

79 points by cdme 2 years ago | 51 comments

The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April(theregister.com)

77 points by taubek 2 years ago | 20 comments

Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents(engadget.com)

76 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 73 comments

There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless(gizmodo.com)

73 points by rntn 2 years ago | 41 comments

Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36(techcrunch.com)

71 points by hn1986 2 years ago | 57 comments

Give AI curiosity, and it will watch TV forever (2018)(qz.com)

69 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 85 comments

FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet(theregister.com)

67 points by galaxyLogic 2 years ago | 50 comments

RISC-V Assembler: Arithmetic(projectf.io)

67 points by WillFlux 2 years ago | 35 comments

Spatial Computing(hypercritical.co)

66 points by ingve 2 years ago | 49 comments