Hacker News on Friday, 8 March 2024

Akira Toriyama has died(noisypixel.net)

881 points by gaoryrt 2 years ago | 167 comments

Noisy Pixel news article reporting that Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, has passed away (March 7, 2024).

Don't fuck with paste(github.com)

647 points by zettabomb 2 years ago | 315 comments

GitHub repository for a Chrome and Firefox extension that stops websites from blocking pasting into input fields.

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)(lisyarus.github.io)

590 points by atan2 2 years ago | 330 comments

Blog post explaining exponential smoothing as an animation technique for cameras, UI elements, and audio, with interactive examples and the underlying math.

Home Lab Beginners guide(linuxblog.io)

561 points by ashitlerferad 2 years ago | 351 comments

A blog post on linuxblog.io by Hayden James giving a beginner's guide to choosing hardware for a home lab.

Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue(github.com)

526 points by abelanger 2 years ago | 156 comments

GitHub repository for Hatchet, an open-source, Postgres-backed distributed, fault-tolerant task queue with SDKs for Python, TypeScript and Go.

Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account(9to5mac.com)

464 points by Despegar 2 years ago | 562 comments

9to5Mac article reporting that Apple will reinstate Epic's developer account, clearing the way for the Epic Games Store on iPhone in the EU.

The Man in Seat 61(seat61.com)

292 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies(github.com)

281 points by anonyonoor 2 years ago | 50 comments

A UK college student explaining congressional procedure to Washington(politico.com)

275 points by andytratt 2 years ago | 101 comments

OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors(reuters.com)

246 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 255 comments

Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays(science.org)

232 points by etiam 2 years ago | 95 comments

Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children(usrtk.org)

216 points by stareatgoats 2 years ago | 115 comments

Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion(news.mit.edu)

205 points by paulsutter 2 years ago | 80 comments

Self-control signals and affords power(today.ucsd.edu)

190 points by namanyayg 2 years ago | 114 comments

Piano on Paper(github.com)

183 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 49 comments

Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust(rolldown.rs)

172 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 102 comments

Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere(esa.int)

166 points by geox 2 years ago | 127 comments

Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab(nature.com)

131 points by rntn 2 years ago | 83 comments

More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages(wsj.com)

130 points by gnicholas 2 years ago | 288 comments

New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns(theverge.com)

128 points by mryall 2 years ago | 83 comments

Apple restores Epic's account in the EU(twitter.com)

125 points by milen 2 years ago | 48 comments

A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

121 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 65 comments

Thierry Breton: Under DMA, there is no room for threats by gatekeepers(twitter.com)

109 points by beejiu 2 years ago | 61 comments

Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review(tilvids.com)

108 points by jrepinc 2 years ago | 68 comments

Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices(blog.cloudflare.com)

104 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 47 comments

Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software(openalternative.co)

103 points by piotrkulpinski 2 years ago | 38 comments

British Library cyber incident review [pdf](bl.uk)

102 points by cnorthwood 2 years ago | 60 comments

Launch HN: Relari (YC W24) – Identify the root cause of problems in LLM apps

97 points by antonap 2 years ago | 13 comments

Companies continue to export chlorpyrifos from the EU to poorer countries(unearthed.greenpeace.org)

91 points by osivertsson 2 years ago | 33 comments

Build Initramfs Rootless(blog.izissise.net)

91 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 38 comments

Airbnb's Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing(thewalrus.ca)

89 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 164 comments

Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway(theguardian.com)

87 points by ren_engineer 2 years ago | 61 comments

Coroutines in JavaScript for web components(lorenzofox.dev)

77 points by HumanOstrich 2 years ago | 32 comments

Plasticity: CAD for Artists(plasticity.xyz)

75 points by dgellow 2 years ago | 26 comments

VS Code: Prompt Editor for LLMs (GPT4, Llama, Mistral, etc.)(marketplace.visualstudio.com)

73 points by cybereporter 2 years ago | 16 comments

OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall(github.com)

69 points by supriyo-biswas 2 years ago | 35 comments

WWII: Failed novelist becomes a spy for Germany, makes up a fake spy network(en.wikipedia.org)

66 points by FinnLobsien 2 years ago | 32 comments

Stations and transfers (2022)(stations.albertguillaumes.cat)

65 points by pvaldes 2 years ago | 19 comments

After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private(arstechnica.com)

65 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 48 comments

Show HN: My AI writing assistant for Chinese(unscrambler.dpw.me)

60 points by dwilding 2 years ago | 15 comments

Why does the `reset` command include a delay? (2017)(unix.stackexchange.com)

60 points by eklitzke 2 years ago | 55 comments

Fasting-mimicking diet causes markers indicating reduced age and disease risk(nature.com)

60 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Manta – A tool for FPGA Debugging and Rapid Prototyping(fischermoseley.github.io)

56 points by fischerm 2 years ago | 1 comments

iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores(imore.com)

53 points by commoner 2 years ago | 51 comments

NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa(jpl.nasa.gov)

53 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 25 comments

Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event as internal dissent mounts(cnbc.com)

52 points by cbHXBY1D 2 years ago | 31 comments

Why Tolkien Hated Dune(whitherthewest.com)

49 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 22 comments

The Ruin of Mumbai(asteriskmag.com)

48 points by torts 2 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: A talking board game in a 2k program and 128 bytes of RAM(s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)

46 points by makapuf 2 years ago | 17 comments

What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future(technologyreview.com)

43 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 43 comments

Making Friends with AttributeGraph(saagarjha.com)

42 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 0 comments

Airbus electric air taxi makes its debut(airbus.com)

42 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 32 comments

Linux 6.9 Set to Drop the Old NTFS File-System Driver(phoronix.com)

41 points by shuggy999 2 years ago | 7 comments

Uber must pay wheelchair user $35,000, provide accessible rides(vancouversun.com)

40 points by palidanx 2 years ago | 25 comments

Solar Storm Rendering(jakubtomsu.github.io)

40 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 7 comments

Do we know enough about the safety of quat disinfectants? (2020)(cen.acs.org)

39 points by luu 2 years ago | 35 comments

OpenAI: Review completed andamp; Altman, Brockman to continue to lead OpenAI(openai.com)

39 points by Josely 2 years ago | 15 comments

The AI Gold Rush(digitopoly.org)

39 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 11 comments

Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?(jalopnik.com)

35 points by rntn 2 years ago | 24 comments

NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of Paul Cristiano to NIST(venturebeat.com)

34 points by joe_the_user 2 years ago | 24 comments