Hacker News on Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames(signal.org)

1330 points by Josely 2 years ago | 798 comments

Signal blog post from February 2024 announcing usernames and settings that let users keep their phone numbers private from contacts.

Kagi Sidekick (alpha)(sidekick.kagi.com)

685 points by jviide 2 years ago | 152 comments

Landing page for Kagi Sidekick (alpha), an embeddable AI-powered search and chat widget for personal or documentation websites.

Let's Build the GPT Tokenizer [video](youtube.com)

585 points by davidbarker 2 years ago | 42 comments

YouTube video lecture by Andrej Karpathy building the GPT tokenizer (byte-pair encoding) from scratch in a Jupyter notebook.

LED Matrix Earrings(mitxela.com)

551 points by nrabulinski 2 years ago | 78 comments

Mitxela project write-up and video on building stud earrings covered with a matrix of tiny 0201 LEDs.

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)(danluu.com)

523 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 394 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing for simple architectures, describing how Wave scaled a Python monolith on Postgres instead of complex microservices.

Planner programming blows my mind(hillelwayne.com)

337 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 47 comments

Hillel Wayne blog post explaining the Picat research language and its planner module for planning-based logic programming.

Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly(mary.codes)

328 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 33 comments

Blog post by Mary Knize on rendering OpenStreetMap data to an HTML5 canvas using Rust and WebAssembly, for a revamp of her Disney wait-times project Line Buddy.

Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools(schneier.com)

308 points by mikece 2 years ago | 119 comments

WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering(blogs.igalia.com)

305 points by jessevdk 2 years ago | 161 comments

Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide(proxiesapi.com)

280 points by anticlickwise 2 years ago | 108 comments

Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight(news.delta.com)

277 points by gumby 2 years ago | 206 comments

Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust(github.com)

276 points by npalli 2 years ago | 123 comments

ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker(tomshardware.com)

259 points by craigjb 2 years ago | 99 comments

AI your home on street view(googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)

233 points by chippy 2 years ago | 58 comments

DJI – The ART of obfuscation(blog.quarkslab.com)

204 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 97 comments

Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle(popey.com)

203 points by flexiondotorg 2 years ago | 180 comments

Hetzner GPU Server(robot.hetzner.com)

203 points by matteocontrini 2 years ago | 123 comments

A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters(samwho.dev)

199 points by flyingsky 2 years ago | 39 comments

LlamaCloud and LlamaParse(blog.llamaindex.ai)

181 points by eferreira_ 2 years ago | 68 comments

Why is Prettier rock solid?(mrmr.io)

176 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 128 comments

Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License(phoronix.com)

175 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 54 comments

Stonelifting Etiquette(liftingstones.org)

175 points by Kaibeezy 2 years ago | 62 comments

UI is a function of your organization(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

161 points by damethos 2 years ago | 100 comments

Cake – C23 and Beyond (2023)(thradams.com)

157 points by hudon 2 years ago | 88 comments

Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users' piracy(arstechnica.com)

152 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 76 comments

Rotten Apple(adactio.com)

146 points by schalkneethling 2 years ago | 109 comments

Show HN: Hyperdiv – Reactive, immediate-mode web UI framework for Python(github.com)

141 points by mondrian 2 years ago | 52 comments

Updating Gov.uk’s crown(insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk)

136 points by dmarto 2 years ago | 137 comments

Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks(ft.com)

136 points by globalise83 2 years ago | 177 comments

Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35.3B all-stock deal(reuters.com)

134 points by loganadams_ 2 years ago | 71 comments

Moore's Scofflaws(oxide.computer)

127 points by steveklabnik 2 years ago | 69 comments

Video Game Module for Flipper Zero(shop.flipperzero.one)

125 points by dr_kiszonka 2 years ago | 60 comments

Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable(phys.org)

117 points by wglb 2 years ago | 84 comments

I was infected with Zika to test a vaccine(worksinprogress.co)

111 points by bswud 2 years ago | 74 comments

Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours(discuss.httparchive.org)

110 points by httparchive 2 years ago | 108 comments

X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers(phoronix.com)

109 points by WhyUVoteGarbage 2 years ago | 93 comments

Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?

109 points by TylerJaacks 2 years ago | 92 comments

Writing a scheduler for Linux in Rust that runs in user-space(arighi.blogspot.com)

109 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 37 comments

Study suggests a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form(livescience.com)

108 points by clockworksoul 2 years ago | 82 comments

Inside Windows Product Activation (2001)(licenturion.com)

102 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 68 comments

Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD(lists.freebsd.org)

101 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 82 comments

Launch HN: Dart (YC W22) – Project management with automatic report generation

100 points by miladmalek 2 years ago | 66 comments

My Favorite Statistical Measure: Hoeffding's D(github.com)

100 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 25 comments

Learning resources for curious software engineers(github.com)

94 points by planetjones 2 years ago | 9 comments

Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen(tomshardware.com)

92 points by moose44 2 years ago | 55 comments

Re2c(re2c.org)

91 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 27 comments

Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts(wcedmisten.fyi)

90 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 33 comments

Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching 'distinct from activism'(yaledailynews.com)

90 points by crescit_eundo 2 years ago | 152 comments

Martin Kleppmann talk on local-first (LoFi)(bsky.app)

80 points by yonz 2 years ago | 16 comments

Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia Navalnaya has X social media account suspended(news.sky.com)

76 points by nickcotter 2 years ago | 39 comments

Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?(12challenges.substack.com)

75 points by louisbarclay 2 years ago | 106 comments

HexWalk – Hex Editor/Viewer/Analyzer(github.com)

74 points by shaicoleman 2 years ago | 14 comments

TCP Puzzlers (2016)(tritondatacenter.com)

73 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 13 comments

Winteracter – The Fortran GUI Toolset(winteracter.com)

69 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 21 comments

GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation(gala3d.github.io)

67 points by jfoster 2 years ago | 21 comments

Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B(cnbc.com)

64 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 61 comments

A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup(railsnotes.xyz)

63 points by amalinovic 2 years ago | 41 comments

Implants and other technologies that decode neural activity(nature.com)

63 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 30 comments

Dead Internet Theory(old.reddit.com)

62 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 27 comments