Hacker News on Sunday, 3 March 2024

CSS for printing to paper(voussoir.net)

504 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 124 comments

A guide to using CSS to lay out HTML documents for printing on paper, covering @page, @media print, sizing, positioning, multi-page documents and orientation.

The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions(benhoyt.com)

403 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 169 comments

Ben Hoyt's blog post walking through nine Go solutions to the One Billion Row Challenge, cutting runtime from 1m45s to 4s.

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course(cs.cornell.edu)

367 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 78 comments

Self-guided online version of Cornell's PhD-level CS 6120 Advanced Compilers course by Adrian Sampson, with lessons, videos, papers, and LLVM-based implementation tasks.

Interesting ideas in Observable Framework(simonwillison.net)

310 points by simonw 2 years ago | 53 comments

Enough with the dead butterflies (2017)(emilydamstra.com)

296 points by punnerud 2 years ago | 83 comments

Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API(old.reddit.com)

267 points by Georgelemental 2 years ago | 120 comments

A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)(computer.org)

245 points by dxs 2 years ago | 93 comments

Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana(calbryant.uk)

242 points by naggie 2 years ago | 124 comments

French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000(openculture.com)

219 points by gslin 2 years ago | 125 comments

An Unbelievable Demo (2021)(brendangregg.com)

209 points by kunley 2 years ago | 17 comments

The hater's guide to Kubernetes(paulbutler.org)

208 points by paulgb 2 years ago | 224 comments

World Server Throwing Championship(cloudfest.com)

203 points by T-A 2 years ago | 65 comments

Generating transparent images using Stable Diffusion XL(github.com)

190 points by tracyhenry 2 years ago | 12 comments

Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer(win32subsystem.live)

188 points by Tiberium 2 years ago | 150 comments

I'll refrain from providing code that involve concepts as you're under 18(gemini.google.com)

185 points by wut42 2 years ago | 62 comments

How to be a good listener(tomblog.rip)

182 points by greenie_beans 2 years ago | 94 comments

Sampling: What Nyquist didn't say, and what to do about it (2018) [pdf](wescottdesign.com)

171 points by luu 2 years ago | 59 comments

Using a solar oven as a radiant refrigerator at night(solarcooking.org)

155 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 77 comments

David Holladay, blindness technology pioneer, has died(braillists.org)

149 points by sholladay 2 years ago | 5 comments

US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack(arstechnica.com)

145 points by notamy 2 years ago | 104 comments

Algorithmic Thinking (2nd Edition)(nostarch.com)

144 points by teleforce 2 years ago | 30 comments

Google's SRE Book (2017)(sre.google)

139 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 63 comments

SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone(twitter.com)

138 points by grecy 2 years ago | 51 comments

Show HN: Hancho – A simple and pleasant build system in ~500 lines of Python(github.com)

136 points by aappleby 2 years ago | 52 comments

Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi(mostre.museogalileo.it)

130 points by gadtfly 2 years ago | 23 comments

Joplin is an open source note-taking app(joplinapp.org)

125 points by cimnine 2 years ago | 68 comments

DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy(dust3r.europe.naverlabs.com)

124 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 13 comments

Commerce Department Proposes Imposing "Know Your Customer" on IaaS Providers(natlawreview.com)

121 points by costco 2 years ago | 78 comments

What Is WebTV?(goblin-heart.net)

121 points by joebig 2 years ago | 54 comments

"AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine(rachel.fast.ai)

113 points by pratnala 2 years ago | 117 comments

Scaleway launches RISC-V servers(labs.scaleway.com)

112 points by enz 2 years ago | 63 comments

Velato: A programming language where source code must be a valid MIDI music file(velato.net)

110 points by p4bl0 2 years ago | 55 comments

An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

109 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 17 comments

Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed(theguardian.com)

109 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 33 comments

The Black-Scholes/Merton equation [video](youtube.com)

108 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 70 comments

California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley(washingtonpost.com)

107 points by kungfudoi 2 years ago | 14 comments

U.S. seeks to revive idled shipyards with help of Japan, South Korea(asia.nikkei.com)

102 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 82 comments

Amiga's final days as chronicled by the Village Voice 30 years ago(amigalove.com)

96 points by erickhill 2 years ago | 55 comments

AI-generated content, other unfavorable practices get CNET on Wikipedia banlist(tomshardware.com)

93 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 52 comments

Mustard(chloelist.substack.com)

93 points by zdw 2 years ago | 52 comments

Why do east Asian firms value drinking?(ggd.world)

91 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 121 comments

USB in a Nutshell (2010)(beyondlogic.org)

90 points by throwaway71271 2 years ago | 26 comments

Repair shops where subway cars go for a makeover(nytimes.com)

88 points by ianrahman 2 years ago | 35 comments

A kids' novel inspired me to simulate a gene drive on 86M genealogy profiles(worthdoingbadly.com)

83 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 14 comments

Combating olive oil fraud with nuclear innovations(iaea.org)

83 points by adomasm3 2 years ago | 51 comments

Filament – A Language for Fearless Hardware Design(filamenthdl.com)

79 points by nbrempel 2 years ago | 22 comments

Known Meta Sites(gitlab.com)

78 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 49 comments

Bugs I've filed on browsers(nolanlawson.com)

77 points by feross 2 years ago | 25 comments

Surrealism Is 100(nytimes.com)

77 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 25 comments

I'm going to keep opting out(coryd.dev)

74 points by cdme 2 years ago | 25 comments

Cold Chemistry Is Different(physics.aps.org)

71 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 6 comments

The largest climatized reading space(snohetta.com)

70 points by geox 2 years ago | 69 comments

What was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?(theguardian.com)

65 points by pepys 2 years ago | 32 comments

Storing binary data in playing cards (2014)(timwarriner.com)

62 points by vmoore 2 years ago | 30 comments

3D printed titanium structure shows supernatural strength(rmit.edu.au)

62 points by gmays 2 years ago | 36 comments

Large solar farms could trigger rain in the desert(science.org)

56 points by colechristensen 2 years ago | 49 comments

What it's like to staff the home of a billionaire(thecut.com)

55 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 41 comments

What we learned in 6 months of working on an AI Developer(blog.pythagora.ai)

53 points by magden 2 years ago | 37 comments

Women outnumber men in South Korea's sports stadiums(nytimes.com)

52 points by gmays 2 years ago | 33 comments

Intel Previews Sierra Forest with 288 E-Cores, Announces Granite Rapids-D(anandtech.com)

51 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 35 comments