Hacker News on Friday, 16 February 2024

Alexei Navalny has died(reuters.com)

1410 points by 0xdeafbeef 2 years ago | 1198 comments

Reuters news report that jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison, per the Russian prison service; the page loaded a captcha.

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder(mtlynch.io)

962 points by mtlynch 2 years ago | 288 comments

Michael Lynch's annual retrospective on his sixth year as a bootstrapped solo founder, including his TinyPilot business.

Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification(opensource.googleblog.com)

645 points by alphabetting 2 years ago | 223 comments

Google Open Source Blog post announcing Magika, an open-source AI-powered tool for fast and efficient file type identification.

Think Python, 3rd Edition(allendowney.github.io)

479 points by beefman 2 years ago | 111 comments

Online draft of Allen Downey's Think Python 3rd edition, a beginner introduction to Python written as Jupyter notebooks runnable on Colab.

If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly(devblogs.microsoft.com)

364 points by AndrewDucker 2 years ago | 271 comments

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog post on how to implement no-op API stubs correctly, using Windows printing APIs on Xbox as an example.

Popular Git config options(jvns.ca)

343 points by ingve 2 years ago | 107 comments

Julia Evans blog post compiling popular git config options gathered from asking people on Mastodon about their favourite settings.

Video generation models as world simulators(openai.com)

313 points by linksbro 2 years ago | 131 comments

Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades(euronews.com)

305 points by wooptoo 2 years ago | 142 comments

Coding in Vision Pro(willem.com)

304 points by willemlaurentz 2 years ago | 374 comments

Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page(kagi.com)

299 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 194 comments

Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot(theguardian.com)

286 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 152 comments

Paying people to work on open source is good(jacobian.org)

283 points by webology 2 years ago | 101 comments

German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation(noyb.eu)

249 points by latexr 2 years ago | 192 comments

Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game(frenchie14.itch.io)

241 points by frenchie14 2 years ago | 61 comments

Guix on the Framework 13 AMD(wingolog.org)

226 points by ingve 2 years ago | 153 comments

The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl(mashable.com)

223 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 162 comments

Clean your codebase with basic information theory(taylor.town)

219 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 80 comments

$5 device tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds: study(studyfinds.org)

213 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 124 comments

How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?(science.org)

196 points by gmays 2 years ago | 135 comments

Findaway's new terms of service are unacceptable(mwl.io)

170 points by zdw 2 years ago | 69 comments

Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager(firefly-iii.org)

169 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 123 comments

The seventh most popular easily understood unsolved problem on MathOverflow(mathstodon.xyz)

166 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 78 comments

Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards(arxiv.org)

160 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 26 comments

No one cares about open-source, until(blog.cryptpad.org)

158 points by mikro2nd 2 years ago | 44 comments

Why we stopped building cut and cover(worksinprogress.co)

156 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 129 comments

Data structures as topological spaces (2002) [pdf](mgs.spatial-computing.org)

154 points by cpp_frog 2 years ago | 42 comments

UI = f(statesⁿ)(daverupert.com)

146 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 85 comments

Showmax has displaced Netflix in Africa(restofworld.org)

146 points by eatonphil 2 years ago | 60 comments

GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade(godotengine.org)

145 points by __natty__ 2 years ago | 39 comments

I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad(medium.com)

138 points by alex_suzuki 2 years ago | 153 comments

LWM – Open LLM with 1M Tokens Context Window(github.com)

131 points by amrrs 2 years ago | 32 comments

Hyrum's Law(hyrumslaw.com)

127 points by nvahalik 2 years ago | 52 comments

Ancient Rome's failed building projects(historytoday.com)

125 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 69 comments

The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)(emacsconf.org)

122 points by oumua_don17 2 years ago | 98 comments

Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly(github.com)

121 points by vpt 2 years ago | 61 comments

Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement(stripe.com)

114 points by louis-paul 2 years ago | 28 comments

Pro CCP 'spamouflage' network pivoting to focus on US election(isdglobal.org)

113 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 91 comments

Trading trust(seths.blog)

105 points by ingve 2 years ago | 52 comments

Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1(erlang.org)

101 points by lobo_tuerto 2 years ago | 15 comments

Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"(blog.mattstuchlik.com)

93 points by sYnfo 2 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: I made a Pinterest clone using SigLIP image embeddings(mood-amber.vercel.app)

86 points by verse 2 years ago | 20 comments

EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade(jacobtomlinson.dev)

84 points by hack_ml 2 years ago | 31 comments

How much electricity does AI consume?(theverge.com)

80 points by doener 2 years ago | 99 comments

FDA Approves First Medication to Treat Severe Frostbite(fda.gov)

79 points by jyunwai 2 years ago | 16 comments

Forgejo forks its own path forward(forgejo.org)

77 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 62 comments

Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo(blog.ellenhp.me)

76 points by ellenhp 2 years ago | 24 comments

Amazon joins companies arguing US labor board is unconstitutional(reuters.com)

76 points by WhyUVoteGarbage 2 years ago | 73 comments

Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law(techcrunch.com)

74 points by pera 2 years ago | 8 comments

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB Memory Appears on eBay for USD500(tomshardware.com)

73 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 67 comments

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot(arstechnica.com)

72 points by ooboe 2 years ago | 27 comments

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner(theregister.com)

71 points by lproven 2 years ago | 64 comments

EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet circa 1994(whitman.edu)

68 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 13 comments

Optimization Example: Mandelbrot Set (part 1)(orange-kiwi.com)

65 points by RoyWard 2 years ago | 17 comments

GPlates: Open-source software for interactive visualisation of plate tectonics(gplates.org)

64 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 2 comments

Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time(gizmodo.com)

63 points by rntn 2 years ago | 76 comments

How to keep engineers out of meeting hell(morethancoding.com)

59 points by brikelly 2 years ago | 73 comments

Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system(pasteur.fr)

57 points by gmays 2 years ago | 85 comments

LLM agents can autonomously hack websites(arxiv.org)

56 points by pella 2 years ago | 16 comments

Amazon Joins SpaceX in Mission to Destroy NLRB(vice.com)

52 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 10 comments

Aleksei Navalny has died, according to Russian authorities(nytimes.com)

50 points by jbegley 2 years ago | 1 comments