Hacker News on Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Gordon Bell has died(arstechnica.com)

1222 points by dcminter 2 years ago | 68 comments

Ars Technica obituary of Gordon Bell, architect of DEC's VAX minicomputers and computer history champion, who died at 89.

What UI density means and how to design for it(matthewstrom.com)

695 points by delaugust 2 years ago | 351 comments

Matthew Ström's essay on what UI density means, why interfaces have become less dense, and how designers can design for density.

CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser(mattferraro.dev)

592 points by samwillis 2 years ago | 226 comments

Blog post by Matt Ferraro announcing CADmium, an open-source, local-first CAD program that runs in the browser, and inviting contributors.

The curious case of the missing period(tjaart.substack.com)

502 points by the_real_tjaart 2 years ago | 178 comments

A Substack post investigating why an email sent to one customer was missing a period, tracing the cause to SMTP protocol quirks.

Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash(amber-lang.com)

394 points by weaksauce 2 years ago | 287 comments

Homepage of Amber, a type-safe programming language that compiles to Bash scripts, with install instructions and a code example.

Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions(plsfix.co)

363 points by jpdpeters 2 years ago | 329 comments

Pls Fix is a marketplace where users post paid requests for verified big tech employees to help recover blocked or suspended social media and ad accounts.

Shipbreaking(edwardburtynsky.com)

320 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 146 comments

Edward Burtynsky's photography project page on shipbreaking, with an artist's statement and a gallery of images of ships being dismantled.

Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file(breckyunits.com)

301 points by breck 2 years ago | 114 comments

Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures(graphgame.sabrina.dev)

289 points by sabrina_ramonov 2 years ago | 61 comments

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise(mullvad.net)

276 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 91 comments

Chameleon: Meta’s New Multi-Modal LLM(arxiv.org)

272 points by gabrielbirnbaum 2 years ago | 39 comments

NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching(github.com)

260 points by faebi 2 years ago | 184 comments

Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far(braindump.me)

255 points by FredrikNoren 2 years ago | 253 comments

Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

244 points by claviska 2 years ago | 121 comments

Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)(fraser.stlouisfed.org)

242 points by throw0101d 2 years ago | 220 comments

I want flexible queries, not RAG(win-vector.com)

226 points by jmount 2 years ago | 146 comments

Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder(github.com)

223 points by cl3misch 2 years ago | 56 comments

A Road to Common Lisp (2018)(stevelosh.com)

222 points by fuzztester 2 years ago | 132 comments

The OpenAI board was right – No (by a voice actres named Scarlet) means No(garymarcus.substack.com)

218 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 216 comments

Bento3D(polar-tadpole-97b.notion.site)

215 points by sdenton4 2 years ago | 64 comments

Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More(enterprise.wikimedia.com)

211 points by ks2048 2 years ago | 138 comments

Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)(emacswiki.org)

210 points by signa11 2 years ago | 80 comments

Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel(github.com)

209 points by lindesvard 2 years ago | 85 comments

Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images(ificl.github.io)

194 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 42 comments

How Might We Learn?(andymatuschak.org)

191 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 62 comments

Sam Altman Is Showing Us Who He Really Is(slate.com)

190 points by panarky 2 years ago | 139 comments

Fast real time fluid simulator based on MPM algorithm(kotsoft.github.io)

187 points by andrewla 2 years ago | 39 comments

The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf](allanschore.com)

186 points by sensiquest 2 years ago | 176 comments

Why Are Sloths So Slow?(slothconservation.org)

175 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 96 comments

Taking Risk(tomblomfield.com)

174 points by gatesn 2 years ago | 239 comments

Reversing Choplifter(blondihacks.com)

171 points by mmphosis 2 years ago | 37 comments

The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (2013)(fpgacomputing.blogspot.com)

170 points by momofuku 2 years ago | 67 comments

Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights(erlang.org)

147 points by asabil 2 years ago | 11 comments

Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply(modos.tech)

143 points by dotcoma 2 years ago | 29 comments

Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet(transformer-circuits.pub)

136 points by 1wheel 2 years ago | 26 comments

iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload(xeiaso.net)

135 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 185 comments

Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model(anthropic.com)

132 points by Josely 2 years ago | 52 comments

Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%(support.stripe.com)

128 points by cemerick 2 years ago | 69 comments

Regular expression functions in Excel(insider.microsoft365.com)

123 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 84 comments

Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution(vin01.github.io)

123 points by vin10 2 years ago | 45 comments

Clever code is probably the worst code you could write(read.engineerscodex.com)

123 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 130 comments

We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM(codium.ai)

122 points by gronky_ 2 years ago | 37 comments

How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default(tenbluelinks.org)

117 points by arantius 2 years ago | 108 comments

“Dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband(arstechnica.com)

115 points by rntn 2 years ago | 75 comments

Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007)(swtch.com)

115 points by momonga 2 years ago | 32 comments

One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence(bbc.com)

114 points by yowmamasita 2 years ago | 174 comments

Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook(github.com)

103 points by nonfamous 2 years ago | 42 comments

Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

100 points by sklargh 2 years ago | 34 comments

40-Year old BASICA utility code for teaching(github.com)

92 points by norton120 2 years ago | 28 comments

Response Filter Denial of Service: shut down a website by triggering WAF rule(blog.sicuranext.com)

89 points by albinowax_ 2 years ago | 25 comments

The Engineering of Duct Tape [video](youtube.com)

83 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 26 comments

Rare things become common at scale(longform.asmartbear.com)

82 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 31 comments

Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support(ollama.com)

81 points by tosh 2 years ago | 25 comments

vu128: Efficient variable-length integers(john-millikin.com)

79 points by jmillikin 2 years ago | 26 comments

Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs(theguardian.com)

77 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 77 comments

How to compare two packed bitfields without having to unpack each field (2019)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

73 points by luu 2 years ago | 25 comments

Underwater acoustic analysis reveals unique pressure signals – Revisiting MH370(nature.com)

70 points by belter 2 years ago | 13 comments

Backblaze Scales Storage Cloud(backblaze.com)

67 points by TangerineDream 2 years ago | 31 comments

A designer's guide to documenting accessibility and user interactions (2022)(stephaniewalter.design)

66 points by gigglesupstairs 2 years ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Adblock for Podcasts(github.com)

66 points by jdr23bc 2 years ago | 34 comments