Hacker News on Monday, 25 March 2024

Radios, how do they work?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

613 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 101 comments

A blog post by lcamtuf giving a brief introduction to antennas, superheterodyne receivers, and signal modulation schemes for hobbyists.

Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta(ec.europa.eu)

512 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 522 comments

European Commission press release announcing non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act into Alphabet, Apple and Meta practices.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026(cnn.com)

440 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 294 comments

CNN Travel article reporting that Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica is set to be completed in 2026.

Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)(rtwolf.github.io)

361 points by doener 2 years ago | 32 comments

The canonical text of Everyone is John, a competitive tabletop roleplaying game for three or more players, republished under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Why choose async/await over threads?(notgull.net)

352 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 309 comments

Blog post by John Nunley explaining why Rust developers might choose async/await over OS threads for concurrency.

Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story(cliffle.com)

342 points by ingve 2 years ago | 103 comments

Blog post by Cliff Biffle recounting how two features in the Hubris embedded Rust OS interacted to crash a network switch, and how the bug was found.

Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture(thechipletter.substack.com)

324 points by c_joly 2 years ago | 172 comments

A Chip Letter Substack post examining the architecture of Google's first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU v1), following an earlier post on its origins.

ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms(comsec.ethz.ch)

313 points by transpute 2 years ago | 128 comments

Two open source projects with great architecture documentation(johnjago.com)

311 points by johnjago 2 years ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Jampack – Optimizes static websites as a post-processing step(github.com)

283 points by georges_gomes 2 years ago | 53 comments

Ugly Avatar(txstc55.github.io)

264 points by unobatbayar 2 years ago | 67 comments

Martin Scorsese's secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist(theguardian.com)

243 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 95 comments

Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit(starlinkmap.org)

237 points by fredrickd 2 years ago | 171 comments

Show HN: Tracecat – Open-source security alert automation / SOAR alternative(github.com)

231 points by neochris 2 years ago | 51 comments

In B-Flat (2009)(inbflat.net)

224 points by Keegs 2 years ago | 42 comments

Friends don't let friends export to CSV(kaveland.no)

207 points by lervag 2 years ago | 357 comments

Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision(github.com)

204 points by bbzjk7 2 years ago | 31 comments

Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python(github.com)

204 points by punnerud 2 years ago | 264 comments

For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

198 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 201 comments

How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)(tomlingham.com)

185 points by kbf 2 years ago | 167 comments

Windows 98 Icons(win98icons.alexmeub.com)

180 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 87 comments

SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL(github.com)

158 points by denchick 2 years ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Invertornot.com – API to enhance your images in dark-mode(invertornot.com)

155 points by mattismegevand 2 years ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost(github.com)

149 points by adawg4 2 years ago | 62 comments

Best engineering interview question I've gotten(quuxplusone.github.io)

148 points by xelxebar 2 years ago | 137 comments

Show HN: Nano-web – a low latency one binary webserver designed for serving SPAs(github.com)

138 points by antihero 2 years ago | 100 comments

Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down at end of 2024(reuters.com)

138 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 100 comments

Inkjets are for more than just printing(spectrum.ieee.org)

137 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 119 comments

Thoughts on Vision Pro(andrewhart.me)

123 points by AndrewHart 2 years ago | 128 comments

Northern lights forecasted to be visible into upper United States tonight(swpc.noaa.gov)

120 points by doubleg72 2 years ago | 28 comments

Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?(threadreaderapp.com)

118 points by jshchnz 2 years ago | 96 comments

Broadcasting LoRa packets wihout a radio [video](youtube.com)

116 points by koutsie 2 years ago | 23 comments

Manipulating Chess-GPT's World Model(adamkarvonen.github.io)

110 points by seraine 2 years ago | 31 comments

Building an email-to-calendar LLM(ngacho.com)

108 points by bookmark99 2 years ago | 35 comments

The semiconductor industry hinges on a quartz factory in North Carolina(tomshardware.com)

105 points by speckx 2 years ago | 76 comments

Debt-related driver’s license suspensions in Ohio(clevelandfed.org)

100 points by belter 2 years ago | 204 comments

Mutt on Windows Without WSL(blog.djhaskin.com)

98 points by djha-skin 2 years ago | 70 comments

A lavish lifestyle strains credibility (1985)(chicagotribune.com)

97 points by class3shock 2 years ago | 71 comments

Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software (2019)(medium.com)

93 points by genericlemon24 2 years ago | 31 comments

Scripts should be written using the project main language(joaomagfreitas.link)

92 points by freitzzz 2 years ago | 102 comments

Things I Learned from René Girard(honest-broker.com)

91 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 65 comments

Bump Allocation: Up or Down?(coredumped.dev)

87 points by celeritascelery 2 years ago | 14 comments

Exosuit muscle control steps closer to reality(spectrum.ieee.org)

83 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 21 comments

GM stops sharing driver data with brokers amid backlash(arstechnica.com)

83 points by quantified 2 years ago | 51 comments

Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products(washingtonpost.com)

81 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 63 comments

Turbocall – Just-in-time compiler for Deno FFI(divy.work)

80 points by undefined_void 2 years ago | 10 comments

Hidden Files in C64 OS(c64os.com)

79 points by ingve 2 years ago | 20 comments

United States vs. Apple(stratechery.com)

77 points by robenkleene 2 years ago | 49 comments

Germany's Solar Panel Industry, Once a Leader, Is Getting Squeezed(nytimes.com)

76 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 97 comments

Interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber(theverge.com)

70 points by rntn 2 years ago | 32 comments

The Lost Worlds of Telnet (2019)(thenewstack.io)

69 points by wannacboatmovie 2 years ago | 35 comments

Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm (2017)(blogs.gnome.org)

67 points by transpute 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses(github.com)

67 points by mechazawa 2 years ago | 83 comments

Opera sees big jump in EU users on iOS, Android after DMA update(bleepingcomputer.com)

65 points by N19PEDL2 2 years ago | 43 comments

Illness Impacting Dairy Cattle Is Confirmed as Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu(agweb.com)

63 points by sklargh 2 years ago | 49 comments

Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability(oliviaking.com)

61 points by disadvantage 2 years ago | 49 comments

GDPR Enforcement Tracker – list of GDPR fines(enforcementtracker.com)

60 points by scapecast 2 years ago | 26 comments

Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages(medium.com)

59 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 28 comments

The case of a leaky goroutine(brainbaking.com)

59 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 45 comments

Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform(nitric.io)

59 points by elisselockhart 2 years ago | 65 comments