Hacker News on Thursday, 9 May 2024

It's always TCP_NODELAY(brooker.co.za)

744 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 232 comments

Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that Nagle's algorithm causes latency issues in distributed systems and TCP_NODELAY should be enabled by default.

Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial(independent.co.uk)

597 points by belter 2 years ago | 276 comments

Independent news article reporting that 18-month-old Opal Sandy, born deaf from auditory neuropathy, had her hearing restored in a world-first gene therapy trial.

Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun(blog.wilsonl.in)

453 points by wilsonzlin 2 years ago | 139 comments

Wilson Lin's blog post on mapping and analyzing 40 million Hacker News posts and comments, shown as a topic map built from embeddings.

The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day(grumpyolddev.com)

422 points by mundanerality 2 years ago | 310 comments

A personal blog post on GrumpyOldDev recounting a story of lying to a company's CTO and how it saved the day.

Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'(theverge.com)

388 points by linguae 2 years ago | 877 comments

The Verge reports that Apple apologized for its iPad Pro 'Crush' ad, which was criticized as dismissive of the creative community.

Algebraic Data Types for C99(github.com)

360 points by bondant 2 years ago | 200 comments

GitHub repository for datatype99, a C99 library providing algebraic data types and pattern matching via preprocessor metaprogramming.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers(github.com)

280 points by simonpure 2 years ago | 97 comments

Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships(adweek.com)

253 points by rntn 2 years ago | 226 comments

Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done

232 points by lele0108 2 years ago | 101 comments

Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres(github.com)

225 points by chuckhend 2 years ago | 98 comments

Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger(e360.yale.edu)

217 points by gaauch 2 years ago | 198 comments

ESP32 Drum Synth Machine(github.com)

213 points by peteforde 2 years ago | 35 comments

Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise(seclists.org)

166 points by tithe 2 years ago | 128 comments

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail(nature.com)

161 points by geox 2 years ago | 86 comments

No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data(arxiv.org)

161 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 97 comments

The world has probably passed peak pollution(sustainabilitybynumbers.com)

144 points by robertn702 2 years ago | 127 comments

UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)(cr.yp.to)

135 points by enz 2 years ago | 121 comments

Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications(github.com)

130 points by happy-dude 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Browser-based knitting (pattern) software(github.com)

125 points by afc 2 years ago | 23 comments

Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies(osf.io)

116 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 134 comments

CS388: Natural Language Processing(cs.utexas.edu)

115 points by gone35 2 years ago | 9 comments

What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready(cigrainger.com)

113 points by cigrainger 2 years ago | 55 comments

Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps(gizmodo.com)

110 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes(ellipsis.dev)

106 points by hunterbrooks 2 years ago | 55 comments

VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding(research.google)

96 points by kmdupree 2 years ago | 18 comments

The history of 'OK' (2023)(people.howstuffworks.com)

95 points by goles 2 years ago | 78 comments

How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?(leonarddavid.com)

90 points by belter 2 years ago | 141 comments

Xilinx HBM2 Internals (2023)(lovehindpa.ws)

80 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 16 comments

Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of SDI(direct.mit.edu)

75 points by sklargh 2 years ago | 34 comments

NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months(gizmodo.com)

68 points by genman 2 years ago | 64 comments

Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings(gizmodo.com)

66 points by vyrotek 2 years ago | 62 comments

Shane Legg: Machine Super Intelligence (2008) [pdf](vetta.org)

57 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 24 comments

Sony Wearable Thermal Device(sony.com.hk)

57 points by superasn 2 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium features(github.com)

53 points by meetbryce 2 years ago | 15 comments

Blade Runner(filfre.net)

49 points by doppp 2 years ago | 28 comments

DNSecure – a configuration tool of DoT and DoH for iOS and iPadOS(github.com)

47 points by conductor 2 years ago | 9 comments

Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts(rollingstone.com)

46 points by coloneltcb 2 years ago | 23 comments

Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account(theregister.com)

41 points by frays 2 years ago | 8 comments

Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants(slate.com)

40 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 8 comments

Chips and Cheese State of the Union(chipsandcheese.com)

39 points by brian_herman 2 years ago | 8 comments

No Country Should Be Making Speech Rules for the World(eff.org)

38 points by mdp2021 2 years ago | 11 comments

Palantir Supplies Israel with New Tools Since Hamas War Started(bloomberg.com)

36 points by zhengiszen 2 years ago | 10 comments

A Brief History of the First Planetarium(spectrum.ieee.org)

32 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Timmerse.com (YC W22) Easily create immersive real-time interactions(timmerse.com)

30 points by sagacheng 2 years ago | 5 comments

Developing Palo Alto is worth $1T(bensouthwood.co.uk)

22 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 28 comments

Protobuf Editions are here: don't panic(buf.build)

22 points by perezd 2 years ago | 33 comments

Life-like particle system(ventrella.com)

22 points by NonZeroSumJames 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT(wired.com)

21 points by belter 2 years ago | 19 comments

Hertz Charged Member $277 for Not Filling Gas Tank on a Tesla, Won't Remove Fees(viewfromthewing.com)

18 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 1 comments

PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19 Released(postgresql.org)

18 points by unripe_syntax 2 years ago | 1 comments

Give Me Back My Sunsets! The time Instagram wrongly banned me(spyglass.org)

15 points by Aaronn 2 years ago | 4 comments

OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models(businessinsider.com)

15 points by nitramm 2 years ago | 6 comments

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio(theverge.com)

14 points by rolph 2 years ago | 3 comments

C2PA from the Attacker's Perspective(hackerfactor.com)

14 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 2 comments

Test Failures Should Be Actionable(testing.googleblog.com)

13 points by mike-the-brain 2 years ago | 3 comments

How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really?(nytimes.com)

13 points by Luc 2 years ago | 12 comments

A Record of Old Kashgar(chinabooksreview.com)

12 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 0 comments

AI comes for YouTube's thumbnail industry(restofworld.org)

12 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 1 comments

How NASA Is Hacking Voyager 1 Back to Life(spectrum.ieee.org)

11 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 1 comments

Evidence on the presence and history of assortative mating(nature.com)

10 points by ingve 2 years ago | 1 comments