Hacker News on Monday, 5 February 2024

Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll(scrollprize.org)

1287 points by amrrs 2 years ago | 200 comments

Vesuvius Challenge announcement of its 2023 Grand Prize winners, who made the first Herculaneum scroll readable; the 2000-year-old text discusses music, food, and pleasure.

Relativistic Spaceship(dmytry.github.io)

1008 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 450 comments

An interactive browser simulation showing how a starfield looks from a spaceship accelerating toward the speed of light, with relativistic Doppler and time dilation effects.

Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code

573 points by Timot05 2 years ago | 277 comments

Show HN post by atopile's founders introducing an open-source language and compiler for describing printed circuit boards with code.

DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it(forum.defcon.org)

528 points by Spodera 2 years ago | 345 comments

DEF CON forum post by The Dark Tangent announcing that DEF CON 32 was canceled by its venue and has since been rescheduled to go ahead.

Deno in 2023(deno.com)

382 points by olestr 2 years ago | 183 comments

Deno company blog post reviewing the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime's releases and developments during 2023.

More misdrilled holes on 737 MAX in latest setback(bloomberg.com)

376 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 412 comments

Bloomberg article on Boeing needing to fix misdrilled holes on about 50 undelivered 737 MAX jets; the page loaded only a bot-check captcha.

Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model(github.com)

324 points by thecalebf 2 years ago | 157 comments

GitHub repository for Natural-SQL, a series of text-to-SQL language models including Natural-SQL-7B, with notebooks and prompt files.

Open source 3D atlas of human anatomy(conference.blender.org)

309 points by davikr 2 years ago | 24 comments

Weaveworks is shutting down(linkedin.com)

256 points by candiddevmike 2 years ago | 222 comments

Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

249 points by asim 2 years ago | 286 comments

We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official(eos.org)

231 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 120 comments

WA House bill would make it illegal for police to lie during interrogations(seattletimes.com)

226 points by danso 2 years ago | 184 comments

Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf](home.dartmouth.edu)

223 points by msravi 2 years ago | 346 comments

Show HN: Visit the front page of Hacker News on a random day(randomhackernews.com)

218 points by nickipedia 2 years ago | 69 comments

Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database(blog.paradedb.com)

215 points by philippemnoel 2 years ago | 52 comments

How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)(castel.dev)

213 points by jamesblonde 2 years ago | 123 comments

How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork(semafor.com)

208 points by writeslowly 2 years ago | 163 comments

UUID v7(commitfest.postgresql.org)

192 points by Recursing 2 years ago | 131 comments

Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses(ir.yandex)

188 points by laplab 2 years ago | 179 comments

A practical guide to quitting your smartphone(nytimes.com)

183 points by lxm 2 years ago | 263 comments

Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

181 points by break_the_bank 2 years ago | 166 comments

The little SSH that sometimes couldn't (2012)(mina.naguib.ca)

169 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 12 comments

Tenstorrent engineers talk open-sourced bare-metal stack(eetimes.com)

162 points by JoachimS 2 years ago | 15 comments

It's time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life(nature.com)

160 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 211 comments

Show HN: Name That Nation(namethatnation.com)

158 points by andrewtbham 2 years ago | 104 comments

Cable Companies, Automakers Try to Derail FTC, FCC Quest to Kill Misleading Fees(techdirt.com)

155 points by rntn 2 years ago | 93 comments

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008)(gist.github.com)

155 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 85 comments

Programming in 1969(ilikebigbits.com)

153 points by Tycho87 2 years ago | 42 comments

Hisense A9 Pro E-Ink Android Smartphone(hisenseeink.com)

149 points by haunter 2 years ago | 106 comments

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included(zellij.dev)

148 points by bruh2 2 years ago | 80 comments

Explaining the SDXL Latent Space(huggingface.co)

143 points by thesephist 2 years ago | 24 comments

Running Open-Source AI Models Locally with Ruby(reinteractive.com)

142 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 18 comments

WebAssembly Playground(observablehq.com)

141 points by ifree 2 years ago | 80 comments

Show HN: CLI for generating PDFs for offline reading(github.com)

139 points by dvcoolarun 2 years ago | 37 comments

Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++(security.googleblog.com)

134 points by phkahler 2 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay(cpuscout.com)

134 points by attilakun 2 years ago | 68 comments

Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort()(openwall.com)

132 points by cpeterso 2 years ago | 104 comments

My business card runs Linux and Ultrix (2022)(dmitry.gr)

130 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 56 comments

Want to build a sequencer? 454.bio opens up their plans(omicsomics.blogspot.com)

125 points by mfld 2 years ago | 55 comments

OnlyFake: A site where ‘neural networks’ churn out fake IDs(404media.co)

118 points by danso 2 years ago | 130 comments

The Potent Pollution of Noise(noemamag.com)

103 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 77 comments

Working in the Vision Pro [video](youtube.com)

103 points by cubefox 2 years ago | 120 comments

Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs(theguardian.com)

101 points by schleck8 2 years ago | 121 comments

Show HN: Tokamak – Server-side framework for Zig(github.com)

99 points by cztomsik 2 years ago | 25 comments

Apple iPod Shuffle USB interface pinout(pinoutguide.com)

98 points by gibspaulding 2 years ago | 73 comments

How does Sidekiq really work?(dansvetlov.me)

89 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 36 comments

The road to hell is paved with asphalt(devonzuegel.com)

82 points by myroon5 2 years ago | 68 comments

The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub(restofworld.org)

81 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 55 comments

Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord(bbc.com)

80 points by tigerlily 2 years ago | 60 comments

GitHub is preparing for IPv6 support for Github.com(githubstatus.com)

79 points by tonymet 2 years ago | 22 comments

Prioritizing software right to repair: engaging corporate response teams(sfconservancy.org)

78 points by nfriedly 2 years ago | 22 comments

Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups(techcrunch.com)

78 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 23 comments

Analysis of Bach's information-dense music(newscientist.com)

75 points by gumby 2 years ago | 47 comments

Reducing BigQuery Costs(blog.peerdb.io)

71 points by cauchyk 2 years ago | 33 comments

Remote access giant AnyDesk resets passwords and revokes certificates after hack(techcrunch.com)

69 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 36 comments

Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution(old.reddit.com)

68 points by wscourge 2 years ago | 35 comments

Weaveworks Is Shuting Down(twitter.com)

67 points by mfrw 2 years ago | 34 comments

First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing(newatlas.com)

67 points by geox 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: The HTTP Garden – A Parser Vulnerability Research Tool(github.com)

65 points by bkallus 2 years ago | 3 comments

Bootstrap or VC? [video](youtube.com)

64 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 52 comments