Hacker News on Thursday, 23 May 2024

Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet(daylightcomputer.com)

2026 points by asadm 2 years ago | 771 comments

Product page for the Daylight DC-1, a tablet with a 60fps paper-like, blue-light-free display, with an order button.

The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder(lanceewing.github.io)

610 points by smcameron 2 years ago | 172 comments

Lance Ewing blog post about unexpected data left on Space Quest II MS-DOS master disks that Sierra On-Line unknowingly shipped.

We're ending our Samsung collaboration(ifixit.com)

591 points by skilled 2 years ago | 344 comments

iFixit blog post announcing the end of its Samsung Repair Hub collaboration, launched two years earlier to provide Samsung repair parts and guides.

Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product(github.com)

437 points by aazo11 2 years ago | 140 comments

GitHub repository for Dataherald, an open-sourced natural-language-to-SQL engine using LLM agents, with admin console, enterprise backend, and Slackbot services.

Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)(tomwaitslibrary.info)

370 points by Borrible 2 years ago | 235 comments

Tom Waits Library fan-archive page documenting Waits v. Frito-Lay, his lawsuit over a Doritos ad imitating his voice, opening with his quote against advertising use of music.

WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics(windirstat.net)

364 points by whereistimbo 2 years ago | 174 comments

Homepage of WinDirStat, an open-source disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows with treemap visualization.

300k airplanes in five years(construction-physics.com)

339 points by juliangamble 2 years ago | 494 comments

Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter on how the US ramped up aircraft manufacturing to build about 300,000 airplanes during World War II.

BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)(sligocki.com)

287 points by LegionMammal978 2 years ago | 103 comments

Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges(cam.ac.uk)

286 points by timthorn 2 years ago | 173 comments

Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS(matcha.mizu.sh)

273 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 56 comments

Making EC2 boot time faster(depot.dev)

259 points by jacobwg 2 years ago | 127 comments

DuckDuckGo was down(duckduckgo.com)

248 points by jshupe 2 years ago | 515 comments

Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

248 points by sungrokshim 2 years ago | 87 comments

So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)(sigcon.com)

246 points by voxadam 2 years ago | 47 comments

Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search(bleepingcomputer.com)

231 points by marban 2 years ago | 100 comments

First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars(nottingham.ac.uk)

230 points by geox 2 years ago | 101 comments

Drone Flying 101 – An interactive tutorial for beginners(fpvsim.com)

211 points by mosfets 2 years ago | 122 comments

&udm=14 – easy access to an AI-free Google search(udm14.com)

204 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 29 comments

Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers(magicui.design)

175 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 76 comments

Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography(blog.chromium.org)

163 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 61 comments

M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy(bitfehler.srht.site)

159 points by cl3misch 2 years ago | 75 comments

Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case(dallasnews.com)

157 points by rossant 2 years ago | 208 comments

Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers(papertalk.xyz)

156 points by sleno 2 years ago | 139 comments

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer(theregister.com)

145 points by kaboro 2 years ago | 110 comments

Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

141 points by gnabgib 2 years ago | 83 comments

US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)(mospace.umsystem.edu)

137 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 92 comments

Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers(openculture.com)

135 points by geox 2 years ago | 65 comments

Bytehound: Memory Profiler for Linux(github.com)

132 points by klaussilveira 2 years ago | 31 comments

Act on Press(twitter.com)

125 points by uxcolumbo 2 years ago | 113 comments

Disappointment(ams.org)

125 points by nsoonhui 2 years ago | 52 comments

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic(blog.danielschroeder.me)

123 points by greeniskool 2 years ago | 10 comments

Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free(thejournal.com)

111 points by Dowwie 2 years ago | 54 comments

Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago(timharford.com)

111 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 87 comments

CSharpRepl: C# REPL with syntax highlighting and intellisense(fuqua.io)

107 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 24 comments

FTX bankruptcy examiner's report [pdf](restructuring.ra.kroll.com)

107 points by wmf 2 years ago | 86 comments

Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange

102 points by dgoncharov 2 years ago | 81 comments

Amber: A code search and replace tool(github.com)

100 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 37 comments

Google's AI-Generated Search Results Keep Citing The Onion(readtpa.com)

96 points by jrflowers 2 years ago | 46 comments

Single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temp(phys.org)

96 points by westurner 2 years ago | 15 comments

Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly(wasmer.io)

92 points by ecmm 2 years ago | 66 comments

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud(krebsonsecurity.com)

91 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 7 comments

Southwest Airlines is available on Google Flights(viewfromthewing.com)

91 points by kk6mrp 2 years ago | 83 comments

Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX(github.com)

85 points by akopkesheshyan 2 years ago | 6 comments

How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?(vitalik.eth.limo)

82 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 21 comments

Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?

82 points by throw9078686 2 years ago | 48 comments

Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold(theverge.com)

73 points by sev1 2 years ago | 16 comments

The Strangeness of Grief (2019)(newyorker.com)

72 points by iafisher 2 years ago | 30 comments

Show HN: Open-source real time data framework for LLM applications(getindexify.ai)

69 points by diptanu 2 years ago | 4 comments

DNS glitch that threatened Internet stability fixed; cause remains unclear(arstechnica.com)

61 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 16 comments

Hacker News Best(news.ycombinator.com)

61 points by Woods369 2 years ago | 19 comments

One of the most unusual heists in America seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell(sfgate.com)

61 points by turtlegrids 2 years ago | 17 comments

Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first(bbc.com)

61 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 51 comments

iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin(gitlab.com)

60 points by ryancooper4 2 years ago | 59 comments

Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Not Returning Results

60 points by nobody9999 2 years ago | 22 comments

Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS(rhodesmill.org)

59 points by kenarsa 2 years ago | 3 comments

Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again(the-decoder.com)

59 points by Matrixik 2 years ago | 24 comments

Maths proof of Langlands conjecture is so complex almost no one can explain it(newscientist.com)

54 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 43 comments

Show HN: Excel to Python Compiler(pyoneer.ai)

54 points by narush 2 years ago | 30 comments

Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR: The Best All-Purpose Lens I've Ever Used(petapixel.com)

53 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 14 comments

Psyche-C: automatic compilation of partially-available C programs(cuda.dcc.ufmg.br)

52 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 7 comments