Hacker News on Friday, 22 March 2024

Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation(lexaloffle.com)

617 points by celadevra_ 2 years ago | 179 comments

Product page for Picotron, Lexaloffle's fantasy workstation with a toy OS and built-in tools for making pixel art games, music and demos in Lua.

Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft(boomsupersonic.com)

439 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 374 comments

Boom Supersonic press release from March 22, 2024 announcing the successful first flight of its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft, a step toward its Overture airliner.

Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia(umarbutler.com)

363 points by ubutler 2 years ago | 70 comments

Blog post presenting a semantic map of Australian laws, regulations and cases built from text embeddings of the Open Australian Legal Corpus, with analysis and code.

Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards(css.winterveil.net)

271 points by magistr4te 2 years ago | 67 comments

OpenCat: Open-source robotic pet quadruped framework(petoi.com)

255 points by kristianpaul 2 years ago | 79 comments

Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks(krebsonsecurity.com)

242 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 95 comments

How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute(quantamagazine.org)

232 points by amichail 2 years ago | 137 comments

Why is it so hard to build an airport?(construction-physics.com)

229 points by gmays 2 years ago | 515 comments

Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent(techcrunch.com)

215 points by cgoodmac 2 years ago | 32 comments

The Bulma CSS framework reaches 1.0(github.com)

213 points by imjonse 2 years ago | 108 comments

Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)(sites.lsa.umich.edu)

205 points by luu 2 years ago | 453 comments

Pure CSS Website(pure-css-site.netlify.app)

204 points by archiewood 2 years ago | 81 comments

Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series(arxiv.org)

188 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 55 comments

Launch HN: DryMerge (YC W24) – Automate Workflows with Plain English

169 points by samuelbrashears 2 years ago | 82 comments

Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu(theverge.com)

146 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 168 comments

Pack: A new container format for compressed files(pack.ac)

143 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 140 comments

New vuln in Apple M-series allowing secret keys extraction can't be patched(twitter.com)

139 points by A_No_Name_Mouse 2 years ago | 83 comments

RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: 'It's mind-blowing how it inspired me'(theguardian.com)

138 points by philk10 2 years ago | 67 comments

Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking(webtag.io)

138 points by vasanthv 2 years ago | 68 comments

2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast(livescience.com)

128 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 72 comments

When did dogs become our best friends?(atlasobscura.com)

127 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 192 comments

VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media(nfraprado.net)

119 points by nfraprado 2 years ago | 33 comments

Hacker News Rankings. Graphs of HN posts rank on timeline(hnrankings.info)

116 points by nuker 2 years ago | 38 comments

The Elements of Differentiable Programming(arxiv.org)

110 points by leephillips 2 years ago | 65 comments

DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers(arxiv.org)

109 points by tipsytoad 2 years ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Leaping – Debug Python tests instantly with an LLM debugger(github.com)

101 points by kvptkr 2 years ago | 18 comments

My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian(aeon.co)

97 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 135 comments

Designing a Pure Python Web Framework(reflex.dev)

93 points by picklelo 2 years ago | 43 comments

Empty “backpacks” activate the immune system against cancer in mice(medicalxpress.com)

80 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 9 comments

OpenAI GPT-4 vs. Groq Mistral-8x7B(serpapi.com)

78 points by tanyongsheng 2 years ago | 94 comments

EU Parliament commitee approves cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments(patrick-breyer.de)

69 points by ruiseal 2 years ago | 27 comments

Micron Samples 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCR DIMMs: Modules for Servers(anandtech.com)

69 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 23 comments

Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC(github.com)

65 points by nateb2022 2 years ago | 38 comments

Greece, Argentina and India are the fastest improving business environments(eiu.com)

59 points by AlgoRitmo 2 years ago | 81 comments

Hexagons and Hilbert curves – The headaches of distributed spatial indices(hivekit.io)

58 points by max_sendfeld 2 years ago | 23 comments

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers(nytimes.com)

57 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 16 comments

A cargo ship's 'WindWing' sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day(ajot.com)

57 points by hotdailys 2 years ago | 31 comments

Abstrusegoose.com Is Gone for Good

55 points by ktosobcy 2 years ago | 26 comments

Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10(blogs.windows.com)

53 points by denistaran 2 years ago | 85 comments

How to actually use the notes you take(dannb.org)

53 points by dannb 2 years ago | 14 comments

Allegations of criminality by Boeing in deceased whistleblower complaint(wsws.org)

50 points by jules-jules 2 years ago | 13 comments

The Enchanting Blossom Explosion of Jacaranda Trees in Mexico City(worldsensorium.com)

48 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 19 comments

Ask HN: Anyone looking for contributors for their open source projects

48 points by mr_o47 2 years ago | 47 comments

The Origins of the Generic Mapping Tools(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

47 points by jjgreen 2 years ago | 5 comments

A new way Ebola replicates(nouvelles.umontreal.ca)

45 points by gmays 2 years ago | 16 comments

Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android(9to5mac.com)

42 points by croes 2 years ago | 69 comments

Navigating the World of Large Language Models(bentoml.com)

39 points by sherlockxu 2 years ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?

37 points by sph 2 years ago | 35 comments

Plain Text Email(notes.ghed.in)

33 points by rpgbr 2 years ago | 2 comments

'Gen X has had to learn or die': Mid-career workers are facing ageism(bbc.com)

31 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 37 comments

Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science to Decide 911 Callers Were Liars (2022)(propublica.org)

31 points by dwynings 2 years ago | 4 comments

Why Europe is dismantling its dams(bbc.com)

27 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 28 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

26 points by koconder 2 years ago | 29 comments

Tennessee becomes the first state to protect musicians against AI(npr.org)

25 points by greenie_beans 2 years ago | 39 comments

Cable ISP fined $10k for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband(arstechnica.com)

25 points by kelthuzad 2 years ago | 10 comments

Germany just legalized recreational marijuana(spiegel.de)

25 points by Kelteseth 2 years ago | 14 comments

Toxic rare earth mining industry at the heart of the green energy transition(globalwitness.org)

24 points by rsolva 2 years ago | 27 comments

Apple Turned on 'Discoverable by Others'. You Might Want It Off(wsj.com)

24 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 11 comments

Finding Little Albert (2011)(bps.org.uk)

23 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 1 comments

Random Walk Simulation(random-walk.fly.dev)

21 points by parthchopra 2 years ago | 23 comments