Hacker News on Saturday, 23 March 2024

Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable(oimo.io)

1406 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 238 comments

Interactive web demo of Conway's Game of Life built from patterns that simulate the Game of Life itself, with infinite zoom and a speed slider.

SQLite Schema Diagram Generator(gitlab.com)

468 points by tempodox 2 years ago | 80 comments

GitLab repository for sqlite-schema-diagram, a tool that generates diagrams of SQLite database schemas, licensed under GNU AGPLv3.

Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos(forbes.com)

462 points by wut42 2 years ago | 288 comments

Forbes article reporting that federal court orders required Google to hand over information on users who viewed certain YouTube videos and livestreams.

Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI(stability.ai)

433 points by ed 2 years ago | 345 comments

Stability AI announcement that Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO and board member, with Shan Shan Wong and Christian Laforte named interim co-CEOs.

New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco(tlacuilolli.com)

353 points by dzdt 2 years ago | 130 comments

A post on the Tlacuilolli blog about Mesoamerican writing describing newly discovered Aztec codices from San Andrés Tetepilco.

Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)(collectorsweekly.com)

281 points by conanxin 2 years ago | 80 comments

The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022)(maxread.substack.com)

261 points by dbcooper 2 years ago | 155 comments

See a Fish? Ring the Bell(visdeurbel.nl)

250 points by cyanbane 2 years ago | 77 comments

A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates(audioholics.com)

228 points by speckx 2 years ago | 243 comments

What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)(nautil.us)

216 points by dmitrysergeyev 2 years ago | 71 comments

Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts(feedle.world)

213 points by microflash 2 years ago | 59 comments

-2000 Lines of Code (2007)(folklore.org)

203 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 179 comments

Show HN: Lapdev, a new open-source remote dev environment management software(github.com)

201 points by lyang2821 2 years ago | 54 comments

PSChess – A chess engine in PostScript(seriot.ch)

192 points by beefburger 2 years ago | 22 comments

A Spark Extinguished(chinabooksreview.com)

190 points by conanxin 2 years ago | 24 comments

Cancer under age 50 increased 80% from 1990 to 2019(bmjoncology.bmj.com)

188 points by mizzao 2 years ago | 89 comments

Show HN: Rotary Phone Project(github.com)

180 points by mnutt 2 years ago | 36 comments

The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside(righto.com)

178 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 42 comments

Reverse DNS IPv4 Map(reversedns.space)

170 points by elisaado 2 years ago | 36 comments

Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)(atlasobscura.com)

158 points by nxobject 2 years ago | 82 comments

Marimo: Interactive Fluffy Ball(oimo.io)

156 points by memalign 2 years ago | 19 comments

Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race(run.outsideonline.com)

151 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 74 comments

Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big(dadrian.io)

149 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 96 comments

Bertie – A minimal, high-assurance implementation of TLS 1.3 written in hacspec(github.com)

117 points by g0xA52A2A 2 years ago | 10 comments

Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf](med.stanford.edu)

114 points by jbotz 2 years ago | 77 comments

SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction(ai.meta.com)

109 points by Klaster_1 2 years ago | 23 comments

Soupault: A static website management tool(soupault.app)

102 points by yownv 2 years ago | 31 comments

Fundamentals of Object Storage in Elixir(underjord.io)

97 points by lawik 2 years ago | 27 comments

William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun(historytoday.com)

94 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 46 comments

Hyprland Crash Course(xd1.dev)

91 points by gchamonlive 2 years ago | 57 comments

NIST: Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors(nvlpubs.nist.gov)

88 points by stefankuehnel 2 years ago | 33 comments

Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting(quantamagazine.org)

86 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 141 comments

Google will start showing AI-powered search results for users who didn't opt-in(searchengineland.com)

79 points by microflash 2 years ago | 95 comments

OpenDevin – open-source implementation of devin(github.com)

71 points by gerroo 2 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: FXYT – Tiny, esoteric, stack-based, postfix, canvas colouring language(github.com)

71 points by susam 2 years ago | 10 comments

Repairing a buggy board arcade machine(philwip.com)

69 points by countrymile 2 years ago | 13 comments

High-speed microscale 3D printing(news.stanford.edu)

67 points by gmays 2 years ago | 12 comments

On Microsoft, the U.S. Government Must Embrace the Stick(lawfaremedia.org)

65 points by everybodyknows 2 years ago | 56 comments

The "Reitoff principle": Why you should add "nothing" to your work-life schedule(bigthink.com)

62 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 43 comments

I will NEVER add such a privacy breaking a**hole feature(github.com)

62 points by ta_9390 2 years ago | 10 comments

Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud (2023)(tech.ahrefs.com)

61 points by ianwehba 2 years ago | 27 comments

Using JTAG to dump parallel NOR flash(zetier.com)

58 points by GrokNet 2 years ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Wirequery – Full-stack session replay and more(github.com)

57 points by wnederhof 2 years ago | 8 comments

Visualization 'demonic' face distortions in a case of prosopometamorphopsia(medicalxpress.com)

53 points by wglb 2 years ago | 22 comments

Why the hell is your Kubernetes API public?(leebriggs.co.uk)

52 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 32 comments

Why "Freakonomics" failed to transform economics(economist.com)

51 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 36 comments

Interval Parsing Grammars for File Format Parsing (2023) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

49 points by vitplister 2 years ago | 6 comments

Safecast Open Radiation and Air Quality Map(map.safecast.org)

47 points by jhoho 2 years ago | 10 comments

Why isn't dental health considered primary medical care?(knowablemagazine.org)

47 points by rntn 2 years ago | 35 comments

Bunk beds in aircraft cabins: the realistic prospects(aircraftinteriorsinternational.com)

43 points by Y_Y 2 years ago | 39 comments

If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)(blog.codinghorror.com)

43 points by michelangelo 2 years ago | 38 comments

Why fuzzing over formal verification?(blog.trailofbits.com)

42 points by rrampage 2 years ago | 37 comments

Beyond headlines of transmitted Alzheimer's, scientists see case for prions(fiercebiotech.com)

41 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 25 comments

How to trade software for small money?(scattered-thoughts.net)

37 points by luu 2 years ago | 4 comments

CUDA Is Still a Giant Moat for Nvidia(weightythoughts.com)

37 points by j-wang 2 years ago | 27 comments

An approach to design high-power lithium sulfur batteries(phys.org)

33 points by wglb 2 years ago | 11 comments

Anonymous crypto wallets now illegal in the EU(finbold.com)

31 points by t0bia_s 2 years ago | 11 comments

VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake(twitter.com)

31 points by bundie 2 years ago | 8 comments

The Linux kernel.task_delayacct sysctl and why you might care about it(utcc.utoronto.ca)

30 points by zdw 2 years ago | 1 comments

Ntex: Powerful, pragmatic, fast framework for composable networking services(ntex.rs)

29 points by daureg 2 years ago | 8 comments