Hacker News on Sunday, 25 February 2024

Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires(usoldering.com)

468 points by uSoldering 2 years ago | 96 comments

A project page describing reverse-engineering a Nintendo Switch Lite PCB with 1,917 wires to produce a donationware boardview and high-resolution board scans.

Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting(nekoweb.org)

317 points by dimden 2 years ago | 96 comments

Coroutines in C (2000)(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

278 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 84 comments

Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program(newyorker.com)

275 points by cocacola1 2 years ago | 130 comments

Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL(osquery.io)

271 points by signa11 2 years ago | 88 comments

Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models(arxiv.org)

261 points by louthy 2 years ago | 325 comments

Marginalia: 3 Years(marginalia.nu)

240 points by latexr 2 years ago | 41 comments

Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers(kolaayonrinde.com)

232 points by koayon 2 years ago | 80 comments

Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history(theweathernetwork.com)

199 points by GeoAtreides 2 years ago | 242 comments

Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)(hackneybooks.co.uk)

190 points by waihtis 2 years ago | 98 comments

Console.delight(frontendmasters.com)

180 points by ZachSaucier 2 years ago | 25 comments

Efficient recovery and recycling of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries(pubs.acs.org)

175 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 81 comments

Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning(aftvnews.com)

174 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 118 comments

Selfish reasons to want more humans(rootsofprogress.org)

165 points by pr337h4m 2 years ago | 328 comments

You almost never see a clock at the mall(thehustle.co)

161 points by brycehalley 2 years ago | 150 comments

Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)(arxiv.org)

157 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 111 comments

The Top of the DNS Hierarchy(computer.rip)

147 points by mrzool 2 years ago | 40 comments

Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion(spectrum.ieee.org)

140 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 73 comments

TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America(economist.com)

129 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 158 comments

Notes on paper (2023)(voussoir.net)

124 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 45 comments

Readability.js(github.com)

124 points by stefankuehnel 2 years ago | 14 comments

Bought a Prison Laptop on eBay(twitter.com)

124 points by dgudkov 2 years ago | 31 comments

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)(nytimes.com)

122 points by acqbu 2 years ago | 34 comments

ViHN: Vim for Hacker News(qsantos.fr)

119 points by qsantos 2 years ago | 50 comments

It's OK to abandon your side-project(robbowen.digital)

117 points by tobr 2 years ago | 55 comments

Windsor Typeface (2018)(fontreviewjournal.com)

112 points by JadoJodo 2 years ago | 21 comments

Microsoft Is Driving Users Away(christitus.com)

111 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 128 comments

A retrospective on Requests(blog.ian.stapletoncordas.co)

110 points by zdw 2 years ago | 31 comments

Building a Fly.io-like scheduler with resource requirements(aspiring.dev)

110 points by dangoodmanUT 2 years ago | 16 comments

Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)(bigmedium.com)

110 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 47 comments

Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python(altair-viz.github.io)

109 points by tosh 2 years ago | 24 comments

Zero-rupee note(en.wikipedia.org)

102 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 46 comments

I'm Coder(fellipe.com)

101 points by throwaway888abc 2 years ago | 25 comments

Write Dumb Code (2018)(matthewrocklin.com)

99 points by dvcoolarun 2 years ago | 60 comments

Working with Purpose, Forever(hakaimagazine.com)

97 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 41 comments

Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Stike(playstationcouch.com)

95 points by cannibalXxx 2 years ago | 127 comments

I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at HTTPS://pkgx.dev/pkgs/?(github.com)

91 points by detaro 2 years ago | 50 comments

Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)(priceonomics.com)

87 points by hecubus 2 years ago | 259 comments

The virtuous mean between time drunkenness and work martyrdom(lessfoolish.substack.com)

82 points by casca 2 years ago | 75 comments

Documentation for the JSON Lines text file format(jsonlines.org)

79 points by gavmor 2 years ago | 68 comments

Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior(vadimkravcenko.com)

78 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 79 comments

Egypt announces $35B deal with UAE to buy premium Mediterranean area(middleeasteye.net)

76 points by namanyayg 2 years ago | 34 comments

So Google's Gemini Doesn't Like Python Programming and Sanskrit?(new.pythonforengineers.com)

75 points by shantnutiwari 2 years ago | 61 comments

Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science(arxiv.org)

74 points by ossicones 2 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Functional UI Kit – twin Figma and React component libraries(github.com)

73 points by say2015 2 years ago | 8 comments

What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?(historytoday.com)

72 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 70 comments

The Snazzy D Compiler(github.com)

72 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 4 comments

Faster: Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store(github.com)

71 points by LAC-Tech 2 years ago | 46 comments

Windows in a Docker Container(github.com)

70 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 43 comments

As solar panels age out, recyclers hope to cash in(e360.yale.edu)

69 points by thread_id 2 years ago | 38 comments

How to Change a System(enablingchange.com.au)

66 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 27 comments

The oldest hackies tell it like it was (1966)(thestacksreader.com)

64 points by pleaser 2 years ago | 13 comments

Asynchronous clean-up(without.boats)

63 points by hermanradtke 2 years ago | 49 comments

Starving to Death on a Full Stomach(slothconservation.org)

57 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 51 comments

Drawing and illustrating in the pre-digital time (2019)(daube.ch)

56 points by cardamomo 2 years ago | 15 comments

Pydantic-resolve, a hierarchical solution for data fetching and processing(github.com)

54 points by tangkikodo 2 years ago | 14 comments

Parasite infection is associated with entrepreneurship (2020)(journals.sagepub.com)

51 points by jawns 2 years ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: Fighting back against Roku's forced arbitration?

51 points by mtlynch 2 years ago | 27 comments

Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, according to Google court filings(9to5mac.com)

50 points by marban 2 years ago | 23 comments

Requirements for Japanese Text Layout(w3.org)

49 points by nxobject 2 years ago | 19 comments