Hacker News on Friday, 24 May 2024

ICQ will stop working from June 26(icq.com)

1026 points by Uncle_Sam 2 years ago | 683 comments

ICQ's website notice announcing the messenger will stop working from June 26, directing users to VK Messenger and VK WorkSpace.

Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)(scentofdawn.blogspot.com)

639 points by ahiknsr 2 years ago | 277 comments

Blog post excerpting Helen Keller's 1908 book The World I Live In, describing her life before she acquired language and self-consciousness.

Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models(papers.ssrn.com)

521 points by mellosouls 2 years ago | 199 comments

SSRN page for a Chicago Booth working paper examining whether large language models can perform financial statement analysis like professional analysts.

2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution(sassnow.ski)

438 points by atan2 2 years ago | 62 comments

Part 1 of an interactive tutorial series on 2D rigid body collision resolution for video games, defining the problem with an embedded demo.

Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor(mp3tag.de)

363 points by accrual 2 years ago | 158 comments

Homepage of Mp3tag, a tool for batch editing metadata tags in audio files with online database lookups and cover art download.

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

346 points by huhtenberg 2 years ago | 61 comments

Blog post describing a voxel displacement renderer that modernizes the retro 3D aesthetic; the page returned a 502 Bad Gateway error when captured.

Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative(github.com)

318 points by sean_pedersen 2 years ago | 79 comments

GitHub repository for Perplexica, an open-source AI-powered search engine positioned as an alternative to Perplexity AI, built on SearxNG.

Writing a Unix clone in about a month(drewdevault.com)

307 points by drewdevault 2 years ago | 102 comments

Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go(github.com)

289 points by da_rob 2 years ago | 48 comments

Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers(cloud.google.com)

282 points by nonfamous 2 years ago | 116 comments

Diffusion Models(andrewkchan.dev)

281 points by reasonableklout 2 years ago | 24 comments

Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died(ign.com)

201 points by dragonbonheur 2 years ago | 40 comments

Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse Engineering(op-co.de)

196 points by ge0rg 2 years ago | 42 comments

Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent(arxiv.org)

190 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 30 comments

Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)(futilitycloset.com)

178 points by beardyw 2 years ago | 88 comments

LuaRT: Lua programming environment for console, desktop applications for Windows(luart.org)

173 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 39 comments

Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road ahead(esp32-open-mac.be)

170 points by redfast00 2 years ago | 51 comments

Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture(wccftech.com)

146 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 199 comments

Email.ml – Minimalist Temporary Email(email.ml)

145 points by ccbikai 2 years ago | 70 comments

Converting a Cisco 7609 into a beer tap (2021)(blog.jonasbengtson.se)

135 points by pantalaimon 2 years ago | 21 comments

Surprising supernova scars cover the Earth(scientificamerican.com)

119 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 83 comments

My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

119 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 70 comments

.NET for NES Game Console on 6502 Microprocessors(github.com)

109 points by mtmk 2 years ago | 19 comments

Guys what is wrong with ACATS(bitsaboutmoney.com)

108 points by martinky24 2 years ago | 58 comments

Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination(gizmodo.com)

104 points by rntn 2 years ago | 69 comments

Recursion, continuations and trampolines (2017)(eli.thegreenplace.net)

100 points by signa11 2 years ago | 7 comments

Move over, tractor – The farmer wants a crop-spraying drone(spectrum.ieee.org)

98 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 139 comments

Blue field entoptic phenomenon(en.wikipedia.org)

98 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 30 comments

Peeking underground with giant flying antennas(hackaday.com)

95 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 25 comments

Morgan Spurlock has died(theguardian.com)

87 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 114 comments

Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize(wsj.com)

82 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 65 comments

Imperceptible sensors can be printed directly on human skin(cam.ac.uk)

80 points by geox 2 years ago | 34 comments

"Unacceptable": Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds(arstechnica.com)

78 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 22 comments

Essays on programming I think about a lot(benkuhn.net)

76 points by swah 2 years ago | 7 comments

Ian Clarke explains the next generation of Freenet [video] (2023)(youtube.com)

76 points by janandonly 2 years ago | 35 comments

Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum(nature.com)

74 points by gmays 2 years ago | 61 comments

Don't microservice, do module(yekta.dev)

72 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 77 comments

LZW and GIF explained(eecis.udel.edu)

69 points by networked 2 years ago | 8 comments

Low-cost shield ardEEG to measure EEG with Arduino Uno R4 WiFi(preprints.org)

67 points by ron_87 2 years ago | 22 comments

Agenda: a personal information manager (1990) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

66 points by hggh 2 years ago | 33 comments

Slow Bros crafted a video game universe by hand(wepresent.wetransfer.com)

64 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 13 comments

Coke can planimeter(durealeyes.com)

63 points by lambdatronics 2 years ago | 19 comments

Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?(mastodon.social)

62 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 24 comments

A slightly more fun way to disable Windows Defender (through the WSC API)(github.com)

57 points by croes 2 years ago | 28 comments

Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

56 points by msephton 2 years ago | 6 comments

Looking Glass debuts 16-inch OLED and 32-inch 'holographic' spatial displays(petapixel.com)

52 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 24 comments

Google AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza(businessinsider.com)

52 points by typeofhuman 2 years ago | 37 comments

US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt(cen.acs.org)

49 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 19 comments

The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI(futurism.com)

49 points by raybb 2 years ago | 52 comments

How to Be Obscene (1927)(newyorker.com)

45 points by dredmorbius 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: ServerlessMaps – Host your own maps in the cloud(github.com)

45 points by tobilg 2 years ago | 10 comments

ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years(bleepingcomputer.com)

42 points by N19PEDL2 2 years ago | 7 comments

Never use a warning when you mean undo (2007)(alistapart.com)

41 points by ano-ther 2 years ago | 19 comments

World in a Box(placesjournal.org)

41 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 13 comments

Self-hosting keeps your private data out of AI models(blog.zulip.com)

37 points by tabbott 2 years ago | 20 comments

Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me' documentary, dies from cancer(abcnews.go.com)

36 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 18 comments

Shiba Inu which inspired the 'doge' meme and became face of Dogecoin has died(news.sky.com)

35 points by austinallegro 2 years ago | 16 comments

Scrum's Built-In 'Get Out of Jail Free Card' Against Criticism(mdalmijn.com)

34 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 39 comments

ICJ orders Israel to stop military operation in Rafah(pbs.org)

33 points by goatsneez 2 years ago | 36 comments

The Student Syndrome: Delaying until right before deadlines(solvingprocrastination.com)

31 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 13 comments