Hacker News on Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)(computerhistory.org)

596 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 212 comments

Computer History Museum blog post presenting the released source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for the Macintosh, with background on its creation.

Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking(apple.com)

472 points by dmd 2 years ago | 261 comments

Apple press release from May 15, 2024 announcing new accessibility features including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts.

Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO(londonstockexchange.com)

385 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 380 comments

A London Stock Exchange market news announcement of Raspberry Pi Ltd's expected intention to float via an IPO.

Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075(jepsen.io)

371 points by aphyr 2 years ago | 84 comments

Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury of Datomic Pro 1.0.7075, evaluating its transaction safety and serializability properties.

New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy(github.com)

368 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 72 comments

GitHub pull request to llama.cpp by jart that upstreams llamafile's vectorized expf() functions to compute SiLU and softmax faster and more accurately on CPU.

Translation of Rust's core and alloc crates to Coq for formal verification(formal.land)

327 points by p4bl0 2 years ago | 103 comments

Formal Land blog post describing a best-effort translation of Rust's core and alloc crates into Coq using their coq-of-rust tool for formal verification.

A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)(ha.cking.ch)

314 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 88 comments

Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'(theguardian.com)

313 points by racional 2 years ago | 111 comments

Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports(tomshardware.com)

298 points by Malic 2 years ago | 151 comments

Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter(nondeterministic.computer)

297 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 106 comments

Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers(github.com)

273 points by louisjoejordan 2 years ago | 69 comments

Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments(techdirt.com)

267 points by WarOnPrivacy 2 years ago | 148 comments

Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features(teachyourselfmath.app)

260 points by viveknathani_ 2 years ago | 48 comments

Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes(usatoday.com)

260 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 145 comments

The Worst Website in the Entire World(matduggan.com)

249 points by speckx 2 years ago | 122 comments

What’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? (1986)(straightdope.com)

243 points by tzs 2 years ago | 94 comments

Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years(today.oregonstate.edu)

225 points by geox 2 years ago | 333 comments

Context caching guide(ai.google.dev)

216 points by tosh 2 years ago | 39 comments

Dragonfly: An optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lens(dunlap.utoronto.ca)

211 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 77 comments

Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu(thestack.technology)

201 points by p1nkpineapple 2 years ago | 137 comments

A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history(thebulletin.org)

198 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 219 comments

Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI(twitter.com)

181 points by intunderflow 2 years ago | 182 comments

Making a Postgres query 1k times faster(mattermost.com)

179 points by d0mine 2 years ago | 49 comments

Android's theft protection features(blog.google)

179 points by Josely 2 years ago | 162 comments

How to get 7th graders to smoke(experimental-history.com)

177 points by HR01 2 years ago | 181 comments

Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML(desktopdocs.com)

175 points by correa_brian 2 years ago | 133 comments

Project Gameface launches on Android(developers.googleblog.com)

171 points by xnx 2 years ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Tarsier – Vision utilities for web interaction agents(github.com)

167 points by KhoomeiK 2 years ago | 56 comments

SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic?(rachelbythebay.com)

164 points by ingve 2 years ago | 70 comments

Arch Linux RISC-V(archriscv.felixc.at)

162 points by hggh 2 years ago | 27 comments

Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic(trevorklee.substack.com)

151 points by gdudeman 2 years ago | 96 comments

URLhaus: A database of malicious URLs used for malware distribution(urlhaus.abuse.ch)

146 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 33 comments

I coded something dumb and I'm proud of it(plbrault.com)

139 points by drfreckles 2 years ago | 68 comments

Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure(tonsky.me)

125 points by zonotope 2 years ago | 43 comments

How the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches (2016)(collectorsweekly.com)

122 points by goles 2 years ago | 79 comments

Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture(quantamagazine.org)

115 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 22 comments

Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle(hidden-mirrors.com)

107 points by james_marks 2 years ago | 59 comments

The evolution of a Scheme programmer (2020)(erkin.party)

107 points by ducktective 2 years ago | 29 comments

Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)(sightline.org)

101 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 107 comments

Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way(news.mit.edu)

101 points by belter 2 years ago | 73 comments

PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google(blog.roboflow.com)

95 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 59 comments

Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp(tfeb.org)

91 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 30 comments

Viking 7B: open LLM for the Nordic languages trained on AMD GPUs(silo.ai)

89 points by reqo 2 years ago | 43 comments

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)

88 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 24 comments

Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for "inappropriate" content(dexerto.com)

85 points by airhangerf15 2 years ago | 62 comments

Make a game with Hoot for the Lisp Game Jam(spritely.institute)

84 points by paroneayea 2 years ago | 17 comments

What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?(danielcompton.net)

84 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 18 comments

Raspberry Pi prepares for London listing(ft.com)

79 points by denotational 2 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally(inboxpurge.com)

79 points by thefisola 2 years ago | 68 comments

Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs. Purple Air(airgradient.com)

74 points by ahaucnx 2 years ago | 39 comments

Localization in .NET console and desktop apps(blog.axantum.com)

74 points by svantex 2 years ago | 28 comments

Brain biopsies on 'vulnerable' patients at Mt Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA(statnews.com)

73 points by chapulin 2 years ago | 42 comments

Some lithium could come from wastewater(pitt.edu)

71 points by geox 2 years ago | 15 comments

Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More(bicyclerollingresistance.com)

69 points by jacksgt 2 years ago | 61 comments

Merging Remix and React Router(remix.run)

69 points by 0xedb 2 years ago | 38 comments

High-Quality Software Engineering (2007)(lurklurk.org)

60 points by rhim 2 years ago | 27 comments

An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats [pdf](vldb.org)

57 points by eatonphil 2 years ago | 23 comments

A Man with an Impossible Memory(newyorker.com)

52 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 7 comments

Random Attractors – Found Using Lyapunov Exponents (2001)(paulbourke.net)

52 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 8 comments

LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email(github.com)

51 points by julkali 2 years ago | 18 comments