Hacker News on Saturday, 2 March 2024

Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative(ente.io)

878 points by madmax108 2 years ago | 293 comments

Homepage of Ente, an open-source, end-to-end encrypted photo storage and sharing service positioned as a Google Photos alternative.

Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing(ftc.gov)

725 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 480 comments

FTC Business Blog post from March 2024 warning that using pricing algorithms to coordinate prices is still illegal price fixing.

ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood(computer.rip)

451 points by kogir 2 years ago | 358 comments

Computers Are Bad newsletter post by J. B. Crawford examining ShotSpotter's acoustic gunfire sensors after a leaked sensor-location spreadsheet, and the secrecy surrounding them.

Bash Debugging(wizardzines.com)

359 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 73 comments

A Wizard Zines comic page by Julia Evans previewing bash debugging tips from her zine Bite Size Bash.

Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video](youtube.com)

344 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 123 comments

YouTube video of Wintergatan's Marble Machine, a hand-cranked wooden music instrument that plays a song using 2000 marbles.

Writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash (2022)(sdomi.pl)

305 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 48 comments

Weather.gov 2.0(github.com)

298 points by KoftaBob 2 years ago | 91 comments

Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf](di.ens.fr)

240 points by magnio 2 years ago | 56 comments

Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk(phys.org)

233 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 51 comments

Don't Use Discord for FOSS (2021)(drewdevault.com)

193 points by gvxvik 2 years ago | 146 comments

K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due(matduggan.com)

192 points by zdw 2 years ago | 179 comments

A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation(saunatimes.com)

177 points by jmacd 2 years ago | 51 comments

R: Introduction to Data Science (2019)(rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu)

174 points by tosh 2 years ago | 113 comments

Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth(konilo.org)

165 points by marttt 2 years ago | 51 comments

Bob Heil, K9EID, Silent Key(arrl.org)

155 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: An algorithmic audio landscape(ambient.garden)

146 points by pierrec 2 years ago | 34 comments

Gamedev in Lisp. Part 1: ECS and Metalinguistic Abstraction(awkravchuk.itch.io)

146 points by myth_drannon 2 years ago | 27 comments

Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

145 points by easeout 2 years ago | 33 comments

Deploying fiber in the home(blog.daknob.net)

141 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 106 comments

OpenIPC is an alternative open firmware for your IP camera(openipc.org)

138 points by danboarder 2 years ago | 41 comments

Scenes from the last operational Morse-code radio station in North America(theatlantic.com)

132 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 71 comments

Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and real keyboard(newatlas.com)

127 points by airhangerf15 2 years ago | 94 comments

ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-Based Jailbreak Attacks Against Aligned LLMs(arxiv.org)

125 points by wut42 2 years ago | 35 comments

Rogue editors started a competing Wikipedia that's only about roads(gizmodo.com)

120 points by cainxinth 2 years ago | 98 comments

Remaking Super Mario World in Godot(youtube.com)

117 points by codetrotter 2 years ago | 20 comments

KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp(github.com)

109 points by tluyben2 2 years ago | 41 comments

How user groups made software reuse a reality(ztoz.blog)

107 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 14 comments

Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?(nautil.us)

103 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 122 comments

Giant anaconda species in the Amazon of Ecuador is the largest to be documented(usatoday.com)

94 points by gardenfelder 2 years ago | 40 comments

MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to myriad historical newspapers(techcrunch.com)

93 points by MISTERJerk2U 2 years ago | 23 comments

Open Beam Interface(github.com)

90 points by luu 2 years ago | 8 comments

Phrack 71 Call for Papers(phrack.org)

89 points by rishabhd 2 years ago | 6 comments

Recursion Viewer(dmytrobaida.github.io)

86 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 13 comments

TextAdept(orbitalquark.github.io)

82 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 22 comments

Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing(ig.ft.com)

82 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 14 comments

A computational approach to emergence in complex multi-level systems(arxiv.org)

78 points by SkyMarshal 2 years ago | 20 comments

Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021)(wiki.xxiivv.com)

77 points by tosh 2 years ago | 12 comments

The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)(kemendo.com)

74 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 87 comments

Where is all of the Fediverse?(blog.benjojo.co.uk)

70 points by yurivish 2 years ago | 18 comments

Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning(nature.com)

70 points by karma_daemon 2 years ago | 56 comments

Use KeePassXC to sign your Git commits(code.mendhak.com)

68 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 20 comments

IEA: 20% of 2023 new car sales globally were EVs, curbing oil demand(electrek.co)

67 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 30 comments

Cowsay(en.wikipedia.org)

64 points by tontonius 2 years ago | 19 comments

Spotify, Epic Games pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of DMA(techcrunch.com)

62 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 36 comments

Interlisp-D and MIT CADR Lisp Machine demos for IJCAI Conference (1981)(archive.org)

62 points by lispm 2 years ago | 17 comments

Sequent Calculus as a Compiler Intermediate Language (2016) [pdf](simon.peytonjones.org)

59 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 7 comments

Under the Microscope: Three Dirty Dwarves(32bits.substack.com)

58 points by zdw 2 years ago | 10 comments

Show HN: ReverseETL – The open-source alternative to Hightouch and Census(github.com)

58 points by nagstler 2 years ago | 11 comments

Sorting the Self: Assessments and the cult of personality(hedgehogreview.com)

58 points by rntn 2 years ago | 10 comments

A broken vintage piano turned into an analog hybrid of 20 instruments(themusicman.uk)

55 points by sandebert 2 years ago | 5 comments

Text UIs != Terminal UIs(aartaka.me)

53 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 49 comments

The perils of pause(2) (2023)(cipht.net)

51 points by g0xA52A2A 2 years ago | 12 comments

Vibrating vests translate music for deaf concertgoers (2023)(techxplore.com)

48 points by sargstuff 2 years ago | 32 comments

High Expectations: Observational Study of Programming and Cannabis Intoxication(arxiv.org)

47 points by zkirby 2 years ago | 62 comments

Fastest camera drone vs. F1 car (ft. Max Verstappen) [video](youtube.com)

46 points by namanyayg 2 years ago | 36 comments

TSDiagram – Diagrams as Code with TypeScript(tsdiagram.com)

45 points by _andrei_ 2 years ago | 5 comments

Taking on the Monopoly(zaxis.page)

45 points by grass_1502 2 years ago | 60 comments

On the trail of the Denisovans(nytimes.com)

43 points by georgecmu 2 years ago | 90 comments

Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?(millersbookreview.com)

39 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 70 comments

A Canticle for Leibowitz(en.wikipedia.org)

38 points by nyfern 2 years ago | 5 comments