Hacker News on Saturday, 6 April 2024

Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces(zengm.com)

464 points by starkparker 2 years ago | 86 comments

Project page for faces.js, a JavaScript library that procedurally generates vector-based (SVG) cartoon faces, showing a grid of example avatars.

The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper(twitter.com)

381 points by nathell 2 years ago | 212 comments

A post on X by security researcher blasty showing he triggered deeper, harder-to-reach functionality of the xz sshd backdoor, with a terminal screenshot of a client script.

What I think about when I edit (2019)(evaparish.com)

299 points by tarf 2 years ago | 124 comments

WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows(github.com)

298 points by jiripospisil 2 years ago | 110 comments

Show HN: Online database diagram editor(github.com)

262 points by 1ilit 2 years ago | 54 comments

Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images(wsj.com)

260 points by traviswingo 2 years ago | 557 comments

More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents(arxiv.org)

247 points by TaurenHunter 2 years ago | 164 comments

Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools(androidauthority.com)

205 points by kirenida 2 years ago | 164 comments

NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun's atmosphere(mashable.com)

186 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 70 comments

Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)(jvns.ca)

181 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 88 comments

Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification(github.com)

181 points by Xudong 2 years ago | 44 comments

PiVPN v4.6.0: The End(github.com)

159 points by allanbreyes 2 years ago | 74 comments

Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions(blacksmith.sh)

155 points by adityamaru 2 years ago | 89 comments

Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom(popsci.com)

153 points by geox 2 years ago | 176 comments

Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG(github.com)

142 points by irsagent 2 years ago | 28 comments

A canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the Navier–Stokes problem(cambridge.org)

139 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 39 comments

A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS(experimentalworks.net)

129 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 72 comments

Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

123 points by nishithfolly 2 years ago | 165 comments

Structuralism as a Philosophy of Mathematics(infinitelymore.xyz)

114 points by FillMaths 2 years ago | 54 comments

Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store(arstechnica.com)

113 points by WA 2 years ago | 51 comments

Schedule-Free Learning – A New Way to Train(github.com)

111 points by ironbound 2 years ago | 37 comments

Anti-crime humps in medieval Venice(visitvenezia.eu)

110 points by phront 2 years ago | 20 comments

Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days(mathspp.com)

109 points by willm 2 years ago | 27 comments

How we communicate(37signals.com)

102 points by conanxin 2 years ago | 54 comments

Language models are Super Mario: Absorbing abilities from homologous models(arxiv.org)

100 points by tosh 2 years ago | 58 comments

Programming with DOS Debugger (2003)(susam.net)

94 points by susam 2 years ago | 38 comments

Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2(neowin.net)

91 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 87 comments

A Theory of Composing Protocols (2023)(programming-journal.org)

88 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design(brutalisthackernews.com)

86 points by wkyleg 2 years ago | 129 comments

A memory model for Rust code in the kernel(lwn.net)

85 points by jmillikin 2 years ago | 8 comments

Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web(devslovecoffee.com)

81 points by devslovecoffee 2 years ago | 46 comments

Retrospective on 10 Years of colour-science(colour-science.org)

80 points by kelsolaar 2 years ago | 2 comments

Why AWS Supports Valkey(aws.amazon.com)

80 points by alexbilbie 2 years ago | 79 comments

What is the most useful project you have worked on?

75 points by laksmanv 2 years ago | 80 comments

PID Controller Explainer (2022)(ben.bolte.cc)

74 points by mean_mistreater 2 years ago | 30 comments

Cybersecurity Is Broken(crankysec.com)

73 points by obscurette 2 years ago | 48 comments

Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar(bbc.com)

72 points by AlgoRitmo 2 years ago | 71 comments

Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?(frontiersin.org)

69 points by negativelambda 2 years ago | 79 comments

What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name(preethamrn.com)

67 points by xmprt 2 years ago | 84 comments

Optuna – A Hyperparameter Optimization Framework(optuna.org)

64 points by tosh 2 years ago | 10 comments

NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix(arstechnica.com)

63 points by ljoshua 2 years ago | 46 comments

System/360 – CHM Revolution(computerhistory.org)

63 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 23 comments

Ohmyksh: A Framework for OpenBSD's Ksh(github.com)

60 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 12 comments

Choosing a Name for Your Computer (1990)(datatracker.ietf.org)

59 points by kezcub 2 years ago | 40 comments

The "Eisenhower matrix" productivity hack(bigthink.com)

58 points by 8bitsrule 2 years ago | 40 comments

Ask HN: SQLite in Production?

55 points by martinbaun 2 years ago | 27 comments

Transistor takes advantage of quantum interference(spectrum.ieee.org)

51 points by cannibalXxx 2 years ago | 7 comments

Gakken Ex-System(en.wikipedia.org)

49 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 16 comments

Replacing Complicated Hashmaps with SQLite(husin.dev)

48 points by wilsonehusin 2 years ago | 2 comments

Photoshop for Text (2022)(stephango.com)

47 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 10 comments

Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code(codeconfessions.substack.com)

47 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 46 comments

Why are kids being forced to eat lunch in silence?(theguardian.com)

47 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 26 comments

Hacked(pbfcomics.com)

45 points by lumpa 2 years ago | 5 comments

eC Programming Language(ec-lang.org)

44 points by thefilmore 2 years ago | 15 comments

Xbox has a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility(windowscentral.com)

44 points by cglong 2 years ago | 14 comments

Working with Qubes OS at the Guardian(theguardian.com)

44 points by colinprince 2 years ago | 15 comments

Trademark bully': Momofuku turns up heat on others selling 'chili crunch'(theguardian.com)

41 points by alon_honig 2 years ago | 23 comments

M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4(mastodon.social)

41 points by luu 2 years ago | 3 comments

Google Blog on DMA(blog.google)

41 points by sanj 2 years ago | 37 comments

Pentaborane(9)(en.wikipedia.org)

40 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 26 comments