Hacker News on Saturday, 18 May 2024

Floor796(floor796.com)

468 points by gtirloni 2 years ago | 63 comments

Floor796 is an interactive, ever-expanding animated isometric pixel-art scene of a futuristic space station floor, shown here with tiles still loading.

Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check(berthub.eu)

446 points by edent 2 years ago | 199 comments

Bert Hubert's lightly edited transcript of his talk at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf 'Cyber Security and Society' seminar on cybersecurity preparedness ahead of potential war.

I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag(ntnbr.com)

395 points by ntnbr 2 years ago | 132 comments

Nathan Brown's newsletter post recounting how he organized and hosted a large 20-acre game of Capture the Flag that players called the best ever.

Calculus with Julia(jverzani.github.io)

362 points by barrenko 2 years ago | 135 comments

Preface page of "Calculus with Julia," a free online book by John Verzani teaching calculus using the Julia programming language.

Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go(gioui.org)

272 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 185 comments

If you’re seeing this, I’m in jail [video](youtube.com)

270 points by mnming 2 years ago | 72 comments

Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”(reddit.com)

213 points by sh_tomer 2 years ago | 71 comments

A trustworthy, free (libre), Linux capable, self-hosting 64bit RISC-V computer(contrib.andrew.cmu.edu)

212 points by caned 2 years ago | 47 comments

Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims(twitter.com)

210 points by amrrs 2 years ago | 422 comments

Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner(cdaringe.com)

175 points by cdaringe 2 years ago | 121 comments

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later(pewresearch.org)

172 points by Kye 2 years ago | 136 comments

A kids traffic mat in Elm(matiasklemola.com)

168 points by eliasson 2 years ago | 14 comments

Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates(centauri-dreams.org)

159 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 249 comments

DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)(bigmessowires.com)

153 points by jimmaswell 2 years ago | 81 comments

Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution(zoraxy.arozos.com)

131 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 47 comments

Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time(bgr.com)

125 points by amichail 2 years ago | 73 comments

I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it(wsj.com)

124 points by hcrisp 2 years ago | 180 comments

Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector(spectrum.ieee.org)

114 points by jnord 2 years ago | 47 comments

YARA is dead, long live YARA-X(virustotal.github.io)

111 points by serhack_ 2 years ago | 16 comments

OpenProject – open-source project management software(openproject.org)

110 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 38 comments

Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games(blog.pkh.me)

106 points by ux 2 years ago | 39 comments

Tegelwippen(nk-tegelwippen.nl)

104 points by madc 2 years ago | 64 comments

LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core(netbsd.org)

102 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 89 comments

Sam Altman on opeanai non disparagement exit clause(x.com)

99 points by bko 2 years ago | 45 comments

Show HN: A Golang CP/M emulator(github.com)

97 points by stevekemp 2 years ago | 14 comments

Swiss' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology(simpleflying.com)

96 points by belter 2 years ago | 50 comments

Sorry, wrong number(roads.org.uk)

95 points by scrlk 2 years ago | 30 comments

Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade(askubuntu.com)

93 points by WayToDoor 2 years ago | 13 comments

Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)(bitsaboutmoney.com)

91 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 66 comments

Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service(xeiaso.net)

76 points by xena 2 years ago | 36 comments

Building a Waitlist (The Wrong Way)(jrhizor.dev)

76 points by jrhizor 2 years ago | 35 comments

Malleable software in the age of LLMs (2023)(geoffreylitt.com)

73 points by tosh 2 years ago | 26 comments

French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp(theguardian.com)

70 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 15 comments

Worklenz: Open-Source, All in one project management tool(github.com)

67 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 17 comments

First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black holes in space(ox.ac.uk)

67 points by carbocation 2 years ago | 76 comments

Working with jumbo/unity builds in C/C++(austinmorlan.com)

57 points by sph 2 years ago | 37 comments

A fire 2,200 years ago preserved moment in Iron Age, down to a gold earring(phys.org)

51 points by wglb 2 years ago | 8 comments

Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic(time.com)

50 points by throw0101c 2 years ago | 58 comments

China Builds First Dedicated Drone Carrier(navalnews.com)

49 points by ulrischa 2 years ago | 34 comments

A promising 3-terminal diode for wireless comm. and optically driven computing(techxplore.com)

46 points by wglb 2 years ago | 13 comments

What ever happened to Modula-2?(goto10retro.com)

44 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 38 comments

How to Exit Vim(github.com)

44 points by WayToDoor 2 years ago | 15 comments

Go Browser Package(browser.dineshgowda.com)

43 points by dineshgowda24 2 years ago | 20 comments

Commuter train window cleaning conundrum in NJ(nj.com)

41 points by savrajsingh 2 years ago | 39 comments

Noi: an AI-enhanced, customizable browser(github.com)

40 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 30 comments

Houston, We Have a Solution (2023)(worksinprogress.co)

38 points by telotortium 2 years ago | 9 comments

Write Plain Text Files(sive.rs)

36 points by arguflow 2 years ago | 13 comments

Retrospex: Convert images to fit Commodore 64 graphic modes(github.com)

36 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 18 comments

DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM(justice.gov)

35 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 33 comments

The War on Weeds(noemamag.com)

35 points by abscond 2 years ago | 33 comments

BenQ RD280UA: a 3:2 aspect ratio "programming monitor"(benq.com)

34 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 34 comments

OpenAI created a team to control 'superintelligent' AI – then let it wither(techcrunch.com)

33 points by doener 2 years ago | 34 comments

Six charts help to explain 2024's freakish temperatures(economist.com)

33 points by doener 2 years ago | 10 comments

Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain(nytimes.com)

32 points by jjgreen 2 years ago | 30 comments

The Myth of Panic (2021)(palladiummag.com)

32 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 35 comments

Men's Shirts Button on the Right. Why Do Women's Button on the Left?(smithsonianmag.com)

32 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 31 comments

A word game I built to understand semantic distance(celestineplawrence.itch.io)

32 points by celestiallylvd1 2 years ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Brawshot – Basic temporal denoise for videos in BRAW format(github.com)

32 points by an-unknown 2 years ago | 5 comments

Apache NuttX RTOS on Sophgo SG2000 RISC-V SoC (Milk-V Duo S SBC)(lupyuen.codeberg.page)

30 points by lupyuen 2 years ago | 9 comments

International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI [pdf](assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)

30 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 37 comments