Hacker News on Thursday, 29 February 2024

The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6(lwn.net)

759 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 551 comments

LWN article by Joe Brockmeier on the KDE Plasma 6 megarelease, covering the move to Wayland, Qt 6, and KDE Frameworks 6.

Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?

445 points by sjr1 2 years ago | 419 comments

Ask HN thread where users share leap day bugs they encountered, such as billing overcharges and failing date-based unit tests.

Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages(jamesg.blog)

317 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 135 comments

A blog post by James' Coffee Blog describing how he made his blog posts viewable as Linux manual (man) pages.

You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?(gaultier.github.io)

314 points by broken_broken_ 2 years ago | 299 comments

Hetzner switches to new billing model(docs.hetzner.com)

263 points by throwaway220033 2 years ago | 151 comments

Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap(lumafield.com)

240 points by viasfo 2 years ago | 413 comments

Dallol(en.wikipedia.org)

239 points by xkcd1963 2 years ago | 21 comments

Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub(apiiro.com)

236 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 153 comments

Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application(github.com)

230 points by jovdg 2 years ago | 87 comments

GGUF, the Long Way Around(vickiboykis.com)

222 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 24 comments

Microsoft Security-101: Open-Source curriculum(github.com)

216 points by wirelesslife 2 years ago | 37 comments

Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)(micahlerner.com)

215 points by mlerner 2 years ago | 84 comments

Neurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound [video](youtube.com)

198 points by gardenfelder 2 years ago | 80 comments

The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater(ff8isthe.best)

198 points by headalgorithm 2 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet(rowzero.io)

197 points by gamegoblin 2 years ago | 167 comments

Financial systems take a holiday(bitsaboutmoney.com)

195 points by nfriedly 2 years ago | 178 comments

A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)(ferrous-systems.com)

194 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 103 comments

Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine(biorxiv.org)

188 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 47 comments

Shave and a Haircut(en.wikipedia.org)

181 points by bschne 2 years ago | 122 comments

I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021)(bryanbraun.com)

175 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 39 comments

Ford EVs gain access to Tesla Superchargers starting today(arstechnica.com)

165 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 163 comments

Money bubble(tbray.org)

143 points by headalgorithm 2 years ago | 158 comments

The Claro Programming Language(docs.clarolang.com)

132 points by signa11 2 years ago | 46 comments

Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests(olegkutkov.me)

131 points by alphabettsy 2 years ago | 106 comments

New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches(twitter.com)

129 points by thoughtpeddler 2 years ago | 105 comments

Ask HN: Are there any websites for SQL puzzle games?

121 points by novoreorx 2 years ago | 36 comments

Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)

120 points by sealeck 2 years ago | 78 comments

How does the sky turn dark at night?(apod.nasa.gov)

118 points by politelemon 2 years ago | 44 comments

NVK is now ready for prime time(collabora.com)

118 points by jalict 2 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?

107 points by neverrroot 2 years ago | 72 comments

Daft: Distributed DataFrame for Python(github.com)

104 points by tosh 2 years ago | 33 comments

Functional ownership through fractional uniqueness(arxiv.org)

104 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 39 comments

Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States(smithsonianmag.com)

103 points by geox 2 years ago | 122 comments

Unearthing the oldest forest on Earth(worldsensorium.com)

103 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 13 comments

Talc – A fast and flexible allocator for no_std and WebAssembly(github.com)

101 points by excsn 2 years ago | 24 comments

Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European parliament(techradar.com)

95 points by cannibalXxx 2 years ago | 69 comments

SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled(wsj.com)

91 points by almog 2 years ago | 24 comments

Can we get more decentralised than the Fediverse?(gist.github.com)

88 points by lorean_victor 2 years ago | 95 comments

Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade(esquire.com)

85 points by airstrike 2 years ago | 81 comments

Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series(theverge.com)

82 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 112 comments

Beyond Linux from Scratch(linuxfromscratch.org)

78 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 7 comments

The internet turned into a crowded mall. Now you need a corner shop(pithandpip.com)

75 points by maguay 2 years ago | 37 comments

Learning to be managed(medium.com)

74 points by zemike 2 years ago | 19 comments

Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source(phoronix.com)

73 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 22 comments

Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemon(tratt.net)

71 points by ltratt 2 years ago | 23 comments

Curvature of Polyhedra (2021)(nicf.net)

68 points by cgadski 2 years ago | 10 comments

Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban UBI Experiments(scottsantens.com)

64 points by 2noame 2 years ago | 36 comments

Bluesky is rolling out Hashtags(bsky.app)

63 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 50 comments

Show HN: Marimo – open-source reactive Python notebook – running in WASM(marimo.app)

62 points by mscolnick 2 years ago | 11 comments

Alright then keep your secrets(old.reddit.com)

61 points by shantnutiwari 2 years ago | 39 comments

Winklevoss Twins' Startup Gemini Will Pay Burned Customers $1B(thedailybeast.com)

59 points by kelt 2 years ago | 28 comments

Doom Running on a Toothbrush(twitter.com)

58 points by jonbraun 2 years ago | 30 comments

Endatabas: An open source immutable, Document Database with Full History(endatabas.com)

54 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 4 comments

The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing(old.reddit.com)

54 points by hnuser0000 2 years ago | 22 comments

California's fast food law exempts Panera Gov. Newsom's relationship(kcra.com)

52 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 33 comments

Drinking with Agatha Christie(crimereads.com)

52 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 15 comments

US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in 'climate time bomb'(theguardian.com)

51 points by ndsipa_pomu 2 years ago | 32 comments

The Buckland Review of Autism Employment(gov.uk)

50 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 7 comments

Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java(maximullaris.com)

49 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: Code Llama 70B on a dedicated server

46 points by lavren1974 2 years ago | 23 comments