Hacker News on Tuesday, 19 March 2024

How to Start Google(paulgraham.com)

624 points by harscoat 2 years ago | 593 comments

Paul Graham essay from a March 2024 talk to 14 and 15 year olds on how to prepare to start an ambitious startup like Google later.

Lego price per part over the years(brickinsights.com)

331 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 159 comments

Brick Insights statistics page charting the average price per part of Lego sets over the years.

Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research(github.com)

316 points by saganus 2 years ago | 91 comments

Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq(github.com)

296 points by aqny 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac(godspeedapp.com)

291 points by DanielDe 2 years ago | 191 comments

Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests(medicalxpress.com)

290 points by jdmark 2 years ago | 138 comments

Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8(github.blog)

277 points by gulced 2 years ago | 46 comments

HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CRISPR-Cas gene editing [pdf](escmid.org)

276 points by geox 2 years ago | 52 comments

20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"(math.columbia.edu)

257 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 173 comments

Java 22 Released(mail.openjdk.org)

247 points by mkurz 2 years ago | 81 comments

The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss(arstechnica.com)

245 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 121 comments

Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show(nanochess.org)

227 points by hggh 2 years ago | 54 comments

Show HN: Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups(causal.app)

222 points by refrigerator 2 years ago | 56 comments

Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach(troyhunt.com)

218 points by gulced 2 years ago | 81 comments

BootLogo: Logo language in 508 bytes of x86 machine code(github.com)

210 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 36 comments

Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go(github.com)

195 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 142 comments

The New Inflection(inflection.ai)

179 points by break_the_bank 2 years ago | 141 comments

SQL is syntactic sugar for relational algebra(scattered-thoughts.net)

174 points by dmarto 2 years ago | 103 comments

Natural language instructions induce generalization in networks of neurons(nature.com)

168 points by birriel 2 years ago | 83 comments

Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)(softwareengineeringstandard.com)

158 points by aussieguy1234 2 years ago | 73 comments

Implementing Vertical Form Controls(webkit.org)

153 points by ksec 2 years ago | 32 comments

Astronaut Thomas Stafford has died(apnews.com)

152 points by jnord 2 years ago | 54 comments

New algorithm unlocks high-resolution insights for computer vision(news.mit.edu)

149 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 18 comments

Retina – eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes(github.com)

147 points by boratanrikulu 2 years ago | 23 comments

A star system 3,000 light-years away is predicted to become visible soon(blogs.nasa.gov)

144 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 33 comments

What does Alan Kay think about LLMs?(quora.com)

140 points by agomez314 2 years ago | 95 comments

Atari Falcon030(goto10retro.com)

134 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 77 comments

USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update(arstechnica.com)

128 points by besus 2 years ago | 111 comments

Understanding Google's File System (2020)(micahlerner.com)

128 points by tosh 2 years ago | 34 comments

Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check(r-u-human.com)

126 points by jmor9751 2 years ago | 138 comments

Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX

126 points by ucarion 2 years ago | 94 comments

It's official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites(arstechnica.com)

124 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 81 comments

New Intermediate Certificates(letsencrypt.org)

123 points by dfern 2 years ago | 49 comments

Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI(resobscura.substack.com)

121 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 31 comments

Dead Air on the Incident Call(blog.danslimmon.com)

118 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 75 comments

Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years(cnn.com)

114 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 91 comments

The Mechanics of Proof(hrmacbeth.github.io)

113 points by segfaultbuserr 2 years ago | 23 comments

Draft Paper Discovered in Which Joseph Weizenbaum Envisions ELIZA's Applications(sites.google.com)

112 points by abrax3141 2 years ago | 20 comments

Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale(quickwit.io)

97 points by vvoyer 2 years ago | 21 comments

How to write a QML effect for KWin(blog.vladzahorodnii.com)

88 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 42 comments

A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts(core77.com)

85 points by sizzle 2 years ago | 34 comments

Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of(theguardian.com)

82 points by danols 2 years ago | 55 comments

Operations begin to de-ice Euclid’s vision(esa.int)

77 points by N19PEDL2 2 years ago | 37 comments

Stardew Valley 1.6 Changelog(stardewvalley.net)

75 points by haunter 2 years ago | 28 comments

MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data(arxiv.org)

73 points by xkgt 2 years ago | 29 comments

Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today(forum.figma.com)

73 points by Justineo 2 years ago | 28 comments

8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo(blog.google)

70 points by rayshan 2 years ago | 66 comments

The Driest Place on Earth(astrobiology.nasa.gov)

68 points by 1970-01-01 2 years ago | 54 comments

The Timeless Parable of Mr. Market(fs.blog)

67 points by ensocode 2 years ago | 82 comments

Fast Virtual Functions: Hacking the VTable for Fun and Profit(medium.com)

65 points by danny00 2 years ago | 38 comments

Project GR00T by Nvidia(twitter.com)

64 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 55 comments

Practical Railway-Oriented Pipelines in Ruby(ismaelcelis.com)

64 points by ismaelct 2 years ago | 38 comments

Loneliness in Midlife: A Growing Gap Between US and Europe(neurosciencenews.com)

58 points by gulced 2 years ago | 54 comments

Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems(yzena.com)

54 points by gavinhoward 2 years ago | 37 comments

MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)(righto.com)

53 points by ViktorRay 2 years ago | 62 comments

Using axis lines for good or evil(dynomight.net)

51 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 17 comments

Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up to IPO(bloomberg.com)

49 points by marban 2 years ago | 34 comments

Distributed coroutines with a native Python extension and Dispatch(stealthrocket.tech)

45 points by pelletier 2 years ago | 21 comments

PostgreSQL is eating the database world(pigsty.io)

44 points by janpio 2 years ago | 14 comments

Chicken Sexing and Knowing(adadithya.medium.com)

44 points by trojanalert 2 years ago | 35 comments