Hacker News on Sunday, 11 February 2024

I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner(willempennings.nl)

2346 points by dutchkiwifruit 2 years ago | 365 comments

Willem Pennings' personal project page describing a self-designed cube that balances itself on a corner, with photos of the build.

Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code(killedbyapixel.github.io)

405 points by KilledByAPixel 2 years ago | 53 comments

A 256-byte JavaScript demoscene program by KilledByAPixel rendering an animated short film, presented at Lovebyte Party 2024.

Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch(github.com)

361 points by fiddyschmitt 2 years ago | 172 comments

GitHub repository for SimpleKVM, a Windows GUI tool that switches monitor inputs when a USB switch changes, letting multiple PCs share one keyboard, mouse and monitors.

What it was like working for Gitlab(yorickpeterse.com)

351 points by aragilar 2 years ago | 414 comments

Yorick Peterse's blog post reflecting on his six years working at GitLab from 2015 to 2021, including burnout and company experiences.

Finding a new software developer job(henrikwarne.com)

287 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 219 comments

2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps(blog.openstreetmap.org)

283 points by RicoElectrico 2 years ago | 67 comments

Deleting and destroying finished movies(rogerebert.com)

268 points by cialowicz 2 years ago | 303 comments

A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald(independent.co.uk)

240 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 380 comments

Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?

216 points by deadcoder0904 2 years ago | 122 comments

The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid(thehustle.co)

206 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 160 comments

RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python(datadreamer.dev)

204 points by patelajay285 2 years ago | 65 comments

OpenFPGA. The future of video game preservation(analogue.co)

202 points by _benj 2 years ago | 93 comments

Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)(zainrizvi.io)

198 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 127 comments

Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx(du.nkel.dev)

190 points by Helmut10001 2 years ago | 81 comments

RSS is still pretty great(pcloadletter.dev)

188 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 70 comments

Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable(github.com)

186 points by IdreesInc 2 years ago | 43 comments

The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf](starwarz.com)

171 points by cocacola1 2 years ago | 95 comments

Orbit: C/C++ Performance Profiler(github.com)

171 points by dosshell 2 years ago | 53 comments

Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper(retractionwatch.com)

164 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 110 comments

Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin(javalin.io)

154 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 75 comments

100% User-Supported(stephango.com)

152 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 49 comments

How Venus ended up with a mini-moon named Zoozve(skyandtelescope.org)

124 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 45 comments

Popcorn Time 0.5.0(github.com)

119 points by pentagrama 2 years ago | 76 comments

Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS(killedbyapixel.github.io)

118 points by KilledByAPixel 2 years ago | 44 comments

Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?(roundup.getdbt.com)

109 points by tim_sw 2 years ago | 84 comments

Usborne 1980s Computer Books(usborne.com)

95 points by ustad 2 years ago | 24 comments

Notes on my Remarkable tablet(tomcritchlow.com)

93 points by topcat31 2 years ago | 62 comments

Sleeping Our Way to Being Productive(nakedcapitalism.com)

87 points by hackandthink 2 years ago | 63 comments

Show HN: Tweening web visualisation, in Rust – (WASM)(rustween.mtassoumt.uk)

86 points by hirako2000 2 years ago | 37 comments

Social networks are getting stingy with their data(techcrunch.com)

84 points by hubraumhugo 2 years ago | 73 comments

The Mana World Classic – Open-Source MMORPG(classic.themanaworld.org)

80 points by ddl 2 years ago | 15 comments

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's?(today.usc.edu)

78 points by joveian 2 years ago | 70 comments

Minimal Linux Bootloader debugging story(michael.stapelberg.ch)

72 points by secure 2 years ago | 3 comments

The quietest places in the loudest cities(earth.fm)

71 points by NaOH 2 years ago | 51 comments

CSS Is Logical(geoffgraham.me)

70 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 73 comments

TurboTax maker Intuit spent millions in record lobbying blitz(opensecrets.org)

68 points by belter 2 years ago | 20 comments

It's time to break free from Corporate Agile(bits.danielrothmann.com)

64 points by pcloadletter_ 2 years ago | 45 comments

Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores(theverge.com)

58 points by mxfh 2 years ago | 42 comments

A Cycle of Misery: The business of building commercial aircraft(construction-physics.com)

58 points by HR01 2 years ago | 55 comments

RetroMags: Download Retro Gaming Magazines(retromags.com)

56 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 12 comments

ForceGen: End-to-end de novo protein generation(science.org)

56 points by vagabund 2 years ago | 10 comments

XFCE 4.20 Aiming for Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility(phoronix.com)

55 points by torstenvl 2 years ago | 44 comments

I Know What Your Password Was Last Summer(labs.lares.com)

51 points by aa_is_op 2 years ago | 56 comments

How Boeing Lost Its Way [video](youtube.com)

50 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 34 comments

Orbital's Hartnoll brothers look back(theguardian.com)

49 points by obiefernandez 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ventum, Dimond, Cervelo – Why do these triathlon bikes look so weird?(theproscloset.com)

49 points by yread 2 years ago | 77 comments

CAP-X and COMP-X: How the Tandy pocket computers got a sucky Japanese assembler(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

46 points by zdw 2 years ago | 7 comments

'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)

42 points by leonry 2 years ago | 87 comments

Man who shoveled new channel into Lake Michigan convicted(msn.com)

41 points by ww520 2 years ago | 38 comments

The meathead margin: how lifting weights might have saved my life(jakeseliger.com)

39 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 36 comments

Can tin foil hats block anything? (2015)(physics.stackexchange.com)

38 points by gitinit 2 years ago | 27 comments

When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019)(census.gov)

37 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 62 comments

Immich is changing its license from MIT to AGPLv3(github.com)

30 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 12 comments

Disney's newest robot demonstrates collaborative cuteness(spectrum.ieee.org)

29 points by kungfudoi 2 years ago | 9 comments

A new study reveals a direct connection between the brain and its dura mater(neurosciencenews.com)

29 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 0 comments

"no reasonable user would expect that their actions (…) be private from Apple"(mastodon.social)

28 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 12 comments

Waymo car vandalized and lit on fire in San Francisco(twitter.com)

27 points by latchkey 2 years ago | 23 comments

Ask HN: Why is Google search unusable lately?

27 points by davzie 2 years ago | 24 comments

New Bill Would Require Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in California(timesofsandiego.com)

26 points by everybodyknows 2 years ago | 31 comments

Show HN: LLMWare – Small Specialized Function Calling 1B LLMs for Multi-Step RAG(github.com)

25 points by doberst0103 2 years ago | 2 comments