Hacker News on Sunday, 10 March 2024

S3 is files, but not a filesystem(calpaterson.com)

535 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 400 comments

Cal Paterson's essay on why Amazon S3 stores files but isn't a filesystem, discussing deep modules, mismatched interfaces, and why SAP is painful.

U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing(nytimes.com)

426 points by carabiner 2 years ago | 389 comments

New York Times report that U.S. authorities have opened a criminal investigation into Boeing following the Alaska Airlines flight door plug blowout.

Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles(github.com)

375 points by bumbledraven 2 years ago | 24 comments

A KataGo documentation page explaining how to correctly implement Monte-Carlo Graph Search, applying MCTS to directed graphs, from first principles.

DBeaver – open-source database client(github.com)

374 points by saikatsg 2 years ago | 119 comments

GitHub repository for DBeaver, a free universal open-source database tool and SQL client supporting many databases.

LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices(localsend.org)

366 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 135 comments

Homepage of LocalSend, a free, open-source, cross-platform app for sharing files with nearby devices over the local network.

How the Devteam Conquered the iPhone(fabiensanglard.net)

324 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 41 comments

Fabien Sanglard's article recounting how the iPhone Dev Team jailbroke and unlocked the original iPhone in the summer of 2007.

The Best Essay(paulgraham.com)

307 points by tosh 2 years ago | 208 comments

Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs(techradar.com)

240 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 113 comments

Perf Is Not Enough(motherduck.com)

237 points by shubhamjain 2 years ago | 68 comments

Show HN: LlamaGym – fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning(github.com)

216 points by KhoomeiK 2 years ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Timelock.dev – Send a secret into the future using timelock encryption(timelock.dev)

191 points by aarreedd 2 years ago | 115 comments

Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI(arxiv.org)

185 points by pama 2 years ago | 75 comments

Numbers every programmer should know(samwho.dev)

181 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 102 comments

eBPF Documentary(brendangregg.com)

180 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 57 comments

Rebuilding memchess.com from its archive(grondilu.github.io)

178 points by grondilu 2 years ago | 39 comments

PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server(github.com)

168 points by notamy 2 years ago | 50 comments

Activision QA Workers Vote to Form Largest US Video Game Worker Union to Date(ign.com)

168 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 25 comments

Vegetable stock: my secret lover (2011)(blog.andymatuschak.org)

164 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 112 comments

My Clients, the Liars(lesswrong.com)

153 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 58 comments

When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE(github.com)

148 points by angry_octet 2 years ago | 106 comments

Kernel Hardening: Protect Linux user accounts against brute force attacks(github.com)

134 points by CHEF-KOCH 2 years ago | 66 comments

Using PostgreSQL for military geoanalytics tasks(klioba.com)

133 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 9 comments

Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century(magazine.atavist.com)

130 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 56 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)(abelard.org)

120 points by signa11 2 years ago | 53 comments

Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga(covingtonandsons.com)

113 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 34 comments

Pipexec – Handling pipe of commands like a single command(github.com)

110 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 27 comments

Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says(nbcnews.com)

108 points by jnord 2 years ago | 75 comments

The Fashion Police in 16th-century Italy (2014)(medievalists.net)

106 points by ohjeez 2 years ago | 30 comments

A neural code for time and space in the human brain [pdf](cell.com)

103 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 25 comments

How far are we from intelligent visual deductive reasoning?(arxiv.org)

99 points by belter 2 years ago | 87 comments

Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)(sts10.github.io)

98 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 27 comments

E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)(thisebikelife.com)

96 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 110 comments

To write a great essay, think and care deeply (2015)(theatlantic.com)

95 points by tptacek 2 years ago | 16 comments

Kākāpō – A web bundler for Nix strings with context(github.com)

92 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 37 comments

My Guide to Software Engineering Contracting in UK(codedeepdives.com)

87 points by codedeep 2 years ago | 57 comments

Iris (Infra-Red, in Situ) Silicon Verification Project Updates(bunniestudios.com)

84 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 5 comments

Moore on Moore – The past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law(thechipletter.substack.com)

83 points by klelatti 2 years ago | 34 comments

Windows 1.0 site – everything there is to know about the first Windows version(win1.krnl386.com)

79 points by Lammy 2 years ago | 26 comments

Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi(blog.arduino.cc)

79 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 89 comments

Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes(airlive.net)

66 points by mfcc64 2 years ago | 47 comments

Proton AG of ProtonMail can provide FBI with your account recovery email(fxtwitter.com)

62 points by CHEF-KOCH 2 years ago | 35 comments

Justice Dept. opens criminal probe of mid-flight blowout on 737 MAX plane(washingtonpost.com)

61 points by davrosthedalek 2 years ago | 53 comments

Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately(coryd.dev)

61 points by cdme 2 years ago | 46 comments

SQLite on macOS: Not ACID compliant with the bundled version (2022)(bonsaidb.io)

60 points by tempodox 2 years ago | 3 comments

Serving Astro with Rust(yieldcode.blog)

56 points by skwee357 2 years ago | 14 comments

Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude(scarletink.com)

54 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 41 comments

The true, dramatic story of Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Oppenheimer' villain(washingtonpost.com)

50 points by NN88 2 years ago | 39 comments

A copy of a copy of a copy: FDA medical device clearances(wcedmisten.fyi)

50 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 45 comments

"Let them eat cereal" How "greedflation" fueled consumer ire against Kellogg(salon.com)

49 points by DocFeind 2 years ago | 30 comments

Google confirmed it 'terminated' an employee who staged a protest against Israel(businessinsider.com)

46 points by JustSkyfall 2 years ago | 50 comments

Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works(reuters.com)

45 points by rntn 2 years ago | 19 comments

The Case Against Homework(alfiekohn.org)

45 points by shsachdev 2 years ago | 54 comments

US not hiding aliens or UFO technology from the public, Pentagon says(theguardian.com)

43 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 53 comments

Open Data Description Language(openddl.org)

42 points by themk 2 years ago | 5 comments

Icelandic Approved Names – Nordic Names(nordicnames.de)

41 points by Rant423 2 years ago | 41 comments

Ask HN: When will LLMs be able to interrupt or interject?

41 points by yehosef 2 years ago | 37 comments

Refuted papers continue to be cited more than their failed replications(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

40 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 6 comments

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS(bytebybyte.dev)

40 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 4 comments

Do we need swap on modern systems? (2017)(redhat.com)

40 points by okl 2 years ago | 51 comments

Context-switching – one of the worst productivity killers(newsletter.eng-leadership.com)

39 points by ben_s 2 years ago | 7 comments