Hacker News on Friday, 2 February 2024

Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration(pkl-lang.org)

856 points by bioballer 2 years ago | 530 comments

Blog post from the Pkl team announcing the first open source release of Pkl, a programming language for producing configuration.

Google has another secret browser(matan-h.com)

705 points by matan-h 2 years ago | 192 comments

A blog post describing a hidden browser in Google Play Services, reachable via a link, that bypasses Google parental controls, lock-down mode, and Android screen pinning.

Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro(christianselig.com)

616 points by axxl 2 years ago | 310 comments

Christian Selig's blog post announcing Juno, his YouTube client app for Apple Vision Pro.

Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time(github.com)

612 points by Robin89 2 years ago | 431 comments

GitHub repository that tracks and lists stories removed from the Hacker News front page, updated in real time by a bot to study moderation.

Tailwind color palette generator(tints.dev)

451 points by wallawe 2 years ago | 70 comments

tints.dev is a web tool and API for generating Tailwind CSS color palettes from a base color, with hex, P3, and OKLCH output.

How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014)(jvns.ca)

445 points by tripdout 2 years ago | 74 comments

Julia Evans blog post from 2014 explaining how ELF binary executables on Linux are structured, using simple tools on a compiled C hello-world program.

The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances(npr.org)

396 points by ChrisArchitect 2 years ago | 173 comments

NPR news article reporting the EPA's proposal to designate PFAS 'forever chemicals' as hazardous substances.

FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines(cbsnews.com)

377 points by pizza 2 years ago | 212 comments

CBS News MoneyWatch article reporting the FDA says 561 deaths have been linked to recalled Philips CPAP and sleep apnea breathing devices.

Carl Weathers has died(bbc.co.uk)

338 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 59 comments

BBC News obituary reporting that actor Carl Weathers, known for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky films, has died aged 76.

'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant(missionlocal.org)

320 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 319 comments

Mission Local article gathering San Francisco tech workers' reactions to Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant targeting city supervisors.

SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake(github.com)

298 points by thushanfernando 2 years ago | 97 comments

Why isn't the <html> element 100% supported on caniuse.com?(anderegg.ca)

278 points by GavinAnderegg 2 years ago | 77 comments

Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid(polyreplay.com)

260 points by frading 2 years ago | 127 comments

Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines(pinballmap.com)

259 points by technophiliac 2 years ago | 118 comments

When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?(preethamrn.com)

236 points by xmprt 2 years ago | 113 comments

I also hacked my car(goncalomb.com)

223 points by goncalomb 2 years ago | 69 comments

Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'(asia.nikkei.com)

177 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 210 comments

AWS charge for using IPv4 expected to bring $1B/year and speed up IPv6 adoption(tomshardware.com)

173 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 130 comments

The Retro Web – Database, Docs, BIOS, Drivers, etc. for old PC Hardware(theretroweb.com)

172 points by peter_d_sherman 2 years ago | 20 comments

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam(theregister.com)

168 points by mikece 2 years ago | 85 comments

The European regulators listened to the Open Source communities(blog.opensource.org)

166 points by jlpcsl 2 years ago | 62 comments

A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting(blog.research.google)

153 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 46 comments

iPod 'squeaks' betray software secrets (2005)(newscientist.com)

142 points by Emigre_ 2 years ago | 47 comments

Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age(smithsonianmag.com)

132 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 40 comments

OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models [pdf](allenai.org)

129 points by chuckhend 2 years ago | 43 comments

OpenBSD System-Call Pinning(lwn.net)

116 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 50 comments

Significant features introduced for recent versions of Perl(sheet.shiar.nl)

112 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 71 comments

New Super Secret Surveillance Court Covering Old Super Secret Surveillance Court(techdirt.com)

111 points by rntn 2 years ago | 39 comments

A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure(cambridge.org)

108 points by headalgorithm 2 years ago | 162 comments

Slint GUI Toolkit(github.com)

107 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 26 comments

NASA Workmanship Guide for wire splicing(workmanship.nasa.gov)

103 points by asimpleusecase 2 years ago | 30 comments

The world's smallest PNG(evanhahn.com)

101 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 39 comments

Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin(arstechnica.com)

99 points by cdme 2 years ago | 88 comments

jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu(v5.chriskrycho.com)

93 points by chriskrycho 2 years ago | 47 comments

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth(hive.co.uk)

90 points by MaysonL 2 years ago | 310 comments

Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment(bloomberg.com)

87 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 88 comments

Well-Known Secrets of AmigaDOS(datagubbe.se)

86 points by segf4ult 2 years ago | 22 comments

USB-C power for your Amiga 500, 600 and 1200(retrousbpower.com)

85 points by nickt 2 years ago | 55 comments

There are too many damn honeypots(vulncheck.com)

82 points by albinol0bster 2 years ago | 48 comments

Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React(million.dev)

81 points by aidenyb 2 years ago | 41 comments

Juice – Oberon JIT browser plugin (1996)(modulaware.com)

79 points by cylinder714 2 years ago | 48 comments

David Kahn has died(schneier.com)

75 points by mikece 2 years ago | 10 comments

Yakhchāl(en.wikipedia.org)

75 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 4 comments

An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company(shyamsankar.com)

74 points by galenmarchetti 2 years ago | 70 comments

RustQuant: A Library for Quantitative Finance(github.com)

74 points by nequo 2 years ago | 7 comments

Multi-channel Audio Part 2(computer.rip)

74 points by kogir 2 years ago | 24 comments

Daunting papers/books and how to read them(mathoverflow.net)

73 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 25 comments

US investigation of Tesla steering problems is now one step closer to a recall(apnews.com)

69 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 34 comments

The medieval habit of 'two sleeps' (2022)(bbc.com)

68 points by arctic_relegate 2 years ago | 52 comments

Open Source color palettes generator in HSLuv color space(github.com)

63 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 13 comments

Researchers develop novel 'bone bandage' material for cracked bones(phys.org)

62 points by wglb 2 years ago | 15 comments

Tissot's Indicatrix(observablehq.com)

58 points by unobatbayar 2 years ago | 14 comments

Sapling – A VCS from Meta(github.com)

53 points by bensadeh 2 years ago | 11 comments

Microdot: A Web Framework for Microcontrollers(lwn.net)

52 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 37 comments

Tips for Remote Workers

52 points by vedranXYZ 2 years ago | 20 comments

Keeler's Theory of Plot(site.xavier.edu)

48 points by riffraff 2 years ago | 3 comments

Payroll employment rises by 353K in January; unemployment rate remains at 3.7%(bls.gov)

48 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 74 comments

To all the newspapers I loved(branko2f7.substack.com)

43 points by mellosouls 2 years ago | 30 comments

Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history(resobscura.substack.com)

43 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 13 comments

Print off a QR code for guests to join your WiFi network(practicalbetterments.com)

43 points by DitheringIdiot 2 years ago | 33 comments