Hacker News on Saturday, 16 March 2024

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices(danluu.com)

781 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 490 comments

Dan Luu essay benchmarking how popular websites and platforms perform on slow, low-end devices like the Tecno Spark 8C and Itel P32.

Hackintosh is almost dead(aplus.rs)

482 points by ingve 2 years ago | 473 comments

Blog post by Aleksandar Vacić arguing that Hackintosh, running macOS on non-Apple hardware, is nearly dead, reflecting on his builds since 2020.

Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero(awesomekling.substack.com)

478 points by awesomekling 2 years ago | 54 comments

Andreas Kling's blog post on using Google Project Zero's Domato DOM fuzzer to stress test the Ladybird browser and fix the bugs it uncovered.

Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice(jamanetwork.com)

337 points by hdevarajan 2 years ago | 207 comments

A JAMA Medical News in Brief item reporting that brain waves during sleep appear to help flush waste from the brain in mice.

Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown(netcraft.com)

273 points by speckx 2 years ago | 187 comments

Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers(abcnews.go.com)

226 points by notRobot 2 years ago | 145 comments

Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display(jacquesmattheij.com)

225 points by jacquesm 2 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA(github.com)

213 points by tspeterkim 2 years ago | 38 comments

IBM 360’s are searching for a new home(ibm360.co.uk)

180 points by ngcc_hk 2 years ago | 24 comments

Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio(blinry.org)

178 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 10 comments

20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry(thenewstack.io)

161 points by cglong 2 years ago | 89 comments

Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service(github.com)

157 points by foresterre 2 years ago | 93 comments

Parsing URLs in Python(tkte.ch)

148 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 76 comments

MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training(arxiv.org)

142 points by lord_sudo 2 years ago | 58 comments

macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes(blogs.oracle.com)

141 points by kingds 2 years ago | 83 comments

U.S. is investigating Meta for role in drug sales(wsj.com)

138 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 130 comments

Telefunken Datenspeicher(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

137 points by cl3misch 2 years ago | 66 comments

Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch(github.com)

133 points by ooterness 2 years ago | 18 comments

Y Combinator's chief startup whisperer is demoting himself(wired.com)

122 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 114 comments

Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)(uwaterloo.ca)

118 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 75 comments

AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft(arxiv.org)

117 points by saran945 2 years ago | 131 comments

Show HN: deptry 0.14.0 – detect unused Python dependencies up to 10 times faster(github.com)

116 points by flo12392 2 years ago | 23 comments

Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust(modal.com)

114 points by pierremenard 2 years ago | 35 comments

Mintlify GitHub read/write token leak(mintlify.com)

114 points by 11217mackem 2 years ago | 29 comments

The Rising Price of Power in Chips(semiengineering.com)

99 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 25 comments

VR Powered by N64 [video](youtube.com)

97 points by zdw 2 years ago | 24 comments

Is modern mass media a mind prison?(jasonpargin.substack.com)

92 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 56 comments

Mental Health in Open Source(antfu.me)

88 points by misonic 2 years ago | 52 comments

Georg Cantor and His Heritage(arxiv.org)

86 points by hackandthink 2 years ago | 64 comments

What are the "worst" spelling bee pangrams?(notes.billmill.org)

85 points by tptacek 2 years ago | 67 comments

The Economics of Pirate Radio (2020)(ibhof.blogspot.com)

80 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 13 comments

America's Last Top Models(newyorker.com)

80 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 17 comments

Loongson 3A6000: A Star Among Chinese CPUs(chipsandcheese.com)

78 points by rguiscard 2 years ago | 68 comments

Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation(wired.com)

70 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 10 comments

The language you speak changes your perception of time(popsci.com)

69 points by vinnyglennon 2 years ago | 44 comments

TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 [video](youtube.com)

67 points by RF_Enthusiast 2 years ago | 39 comments

Why African startups don't always need to expand across the continent(restofworld.org)

62 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 42 comments

Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues(medicalxpress.com)

61 points by wglb 2 years ago | 48 comments

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots(arstechnica.com)

51 points by lisper 2 years ago | 37 comments

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)(publicdomainreview.org)

50 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 13 comments

DARPA to launch efforts that will bolster defenses against manipulated media(darpa.mil)

50 points by geox 2 years ago | 78 comments

Self-Printing Machine Code (2005)(susam.net)

50 points by susam 2 years ago | 10 comments

First N-channel diamond field-effect transistor for CMOS integrated circuits(techxplore.com)

47 points by wglb 2 years ago | 5 comments

Application.garden – a platform for hosting small web apps written in Clojure(application.garden)

47 points by austinbirch 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Future of the Monetary System [pdf](credit-suisse.com)

47 points by vikrum 2 years ago | 37 comments

Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud written in TypeScript(bewcloud.com)

45 points by BrunoBernardino 2 years ago | 18 comments

Ask HN: Non-duopoly smart phone in Sweden?

44 points by dalke 2 years ago | 39 comments

Snapdragon X Elite Multi-Core Superiority Claims over Apple's M3 Were Right(wccftech.com)

44 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 35 comments

Why Is the Sea So Hot?(newyorker.com)

42 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 30 comments

Apple MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-Training(arxiv.org)

41 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 1 comments

The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades [video](pbs.org)

41 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 5 comments

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server(theregister.com)

39 points by CHB0403085482 2 years ago | 41 comments

How to Win Friends and Hustle People(nytimes.com)

36 points by makerdiety 2 years ago | 17 comments

Redefining Observability(hazelweakly.me)

35 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 13 comments

"It's a Silent Fire": Decaying Digital Movie and TV Shows Are a Hollywood Crisis(hollywoodreporter.com)

35 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 35 comments

How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

34 points by madpen 2 years ago | 36 comments

SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say(reuters.com)

30 points by NN88 2 years ago | 17 comments

Apple Unveils MM1: Multimodal AI Competing with ChatGPT(thebreakingai.com)

29 points by single_cloud 2 years ago | 4 comments

Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Would Rather Wait to Watch Movies on Streaming(indiewire.com)

29 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 28 comments

Ask HN: Why can't image generation models spell?

28 points by adam_gyroscope 2 years ago | 39 comments