Hacker News on Monday, 12 February 2024

Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial(blog.cloudflare.com)

980 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 354 comments

Cloudflare blog post announcing its jury trial victory against patent assertion entity Sable Networks.

AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source(phoronix.com)

945 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 360 comments

Phoronix article reporting that AMD quietly funded ZLUDA, a drop-in CUDA implementation running on ROCm, which has now been released as open source.

Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)(ux.stackexchange.com)

360 points by wscourge 2 years ago | 268 comments

A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking whether a toggle button should display its current state or the state it will switch to.

Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers(github.com)

348 points by polivier 2 years ago | 110 comments

GitHub repository for Factorio-SAT, a Python project that uses SAT solvers to generate optimized Factorio designs such as belt balancers.

'I have not seen one cent': billions stolen in wage theft from US workers(theguardian.com)

331 points by wahnfrieden 2 years ago | 335 comments

Guardian article reporting on billions of dollars in wage theft from US workers and criticism that government enforcement is too weak to help.

It Can Be Done (2003)(multicians.org)

315 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 129 comments

Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?(cbc.ca)

313 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 905 comments

Kalman Filter Explained Simply(thekalmanfilter.com)

308 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 81 comments

I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test(old.reddit.com)

285 points by wk_end 2 years ago | 323 comments

Neural network training makes beautiful fractals(sohl-dickstein.github.io)

264 points by telotortium 2 years ago | 54 comments

28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid(newatlas.com)

257 points by bornelsewhere 2 years ago | 169 comments

Systemd by Example (2021)(seb.jambor.dev)

251 points by Emigre_ 2 years ago | 82 comments

Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch(flaky.build)

231 points by onnimonni 2 years ago | 190 comments

Home Assistant: Three years later(eamonnsullivan.co.uk)

226 points by eamonnsullivan 2 years ago | 141 comments

FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips(ounapuu.ee)

214 points by hddherman 2 years ago | 72 comments

The Ultraviolet Myth(arxiv.org)

194 points by Luc 2 years ago | 86 comments

What If I’m Wrong? (2023)(behavioralscientist.org)

184 points by jrlocke 2 years ago | 140 comments

FCC: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen(theregister.com)

179 points by rntn 2 years ago | 28 comments

Wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea 'may be Europe’s oldest megastructure'(theguardian.com)

173 points by vinni2 2 years ago | 58 comments

Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)(taylor.town)

170 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 97 comments

Time Series Forecasting vs Regression: An informal guide(amorphousdata.com)

158 points by rdli 2 years ago | 43 comments

The Erlang Runtime System(blog.stenmans.org)

155 points by doctor_phil 2 years ago | 16 comments

US rail safety legislation stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster(wlbt.com)

154 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 71 comments

Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs(arstechnica.com)

145 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 87 comments

Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both audio and touch feedback(spectrum.ieee.org)

144 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 178 comments

Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser(t-shaped.nl)

138 points by akling 2 years ago | 45 comments

Cool URIs can be ugly (2023)(unterwaditzer.net)

133 points by aendruk 2 years ago | 100 comments

US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive(theverge.com)

124 points by rntn 2 years ago | 53 comments

The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service(howardchen.substack.com)

121 points by coolwulf 2 years ago | 43 comments

vDPA: Support for block devices in Linux and QEMU(stefano-garzarella.github.io)

121 points by ingve 2 years ago | 15 comments

Shell scripting with Elixir(arathunku.com)

119 points by bo0tzz 2 years ago | 30 comments

Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home(arstechnica.com)

117 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 124 comments

The Brennan self-balancing monorail [video](youtube.com)

116 points by Fervicus 2 years ago | 46 comments

My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)(harrisonbarnes.com)

110 points by ricardobeat 2 years ago | 53 comments

Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)(blog.trailofbits.com)

110 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 45 comments

Mornington Crescent(isihac.net)

106 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 84 comments

Analyzing Spotify Stream History(ericchiang.github.io)

103 points by ericchiang 2 years ago | 19 comments

GeneGPT, a tool-augmented LLM for bioinformatics(github.com)

102 points by brianzelip 2 years ago | 18 comments

The Annotated S4(srush.github.io)

102 points by profchemai 2 years ago | 12 comments

PEP 701 – Syntactic formalization of f-strings(peps.python.org)

91 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 33 comments

Glowdust is a new kind of database management system(codeberg.org)

86 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 17 comments

"Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom(thenewatlantis.com)

85 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 139 comments

Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules(wired.com)

79 points by thesuperbigfrog 2 years ago | 135 comments

When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)(atlasobscura.com)

77 points by AaronM 2 years ago | 114 comments

Perun2 Programming Language(perun2.org)

76 points by mlv- 2 years ago | 30 comments

Brazil Hits 92% Renewable Energy Milestone(old.reddit.com)

73 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 22 comments

We need to talk about parentheses (2020)(andreyor.st)

73 points by precompute 2 years ago | 144 comments

WoWMIPS – MIPS Emulator for Windows, Part 1: Introduction(x86matthew.com)

73 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 11 comments

Evolution: Fast or slow? Lizards help resolve a paradox(quantamagazine.org)

73 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 34 comments

Acoustic cameras can see sound (2023) [video](youtube.com)

71 points by melenaboija 2 years ago | 30 comments

Where did DNA come from?(geneticsunzipped.com)

70 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 47 comments

A gentle introduction to automated reasoning(amazon.science)

69 points by yathaid 2 years ago | 17 comments

Contents of Charles Darwin's entire personal library revealed for first time(theguardian.com)

68 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 12 comments

Deluge, a portable sequencer, synthesizer and sampler(github.com)

66 points by eating555 2 years ago | 33 comments

Spotify's layoffs put an end to Every Noise at Once(techcrunch.com)

66 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 16 comments

6 months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable(niemanlab.org)

65 points by SLHamlet 2 years ago | 17 comments

The story of Signature Plastics(kbd.news)

65 points by cakeface 2 years ago | 11 comments

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company(listennotes.com)

64 points by behnamoh 2 years ago | 18 comments

A custom Zigbee doorbell (2023)(stevestreeting.com)

63 points by edward 2 years ago | 24 comments

The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing)(seths.blog)

61 points by childishnemo 2 years ago | 86 comments