Hacker News on Sunday, 26 May 2024

Cloudflare took down our website(robindev.substack.com)

664 points by nolverostae 2 years ago | 319 comments

Substack post recounting how Cloudflare demanded $120k for an Enterprise plan within 24 hours and then took down the author's company domains.

Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

552 points by tfsh 2 years ago | 245 comments

Google Workspace Updates blog post announcing adaptive audio in Google Meet, letting multiple laptops in one room form an ad-hoc meeting space without feedback.

What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like(nrk.no)

516 points by ingve 2 years ago | 219 comments

NRK article with exclusive photos showing the damage to the Svalbard undersea fiber cable after it was recovered, discussing possible causes and unresolved blame.

The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery(scientificamerican.com)

355 points by rmason 2 years ago | 116 comments

Scientific American opinion piece explaining how the Student's t-test, a common test of statistical significance, originated at the Guinness brewery and how it works.

How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks(denysdovhan.com)

327 points by slovette 2 years ago | 110 comments

A documentation page from Denys Dovhan's Home Assistant config describing how he uses home automation to get air raid and missile/drone threat alerts in Ukraine.

Hurl, the Exceptional Language(hurl.wtf)

291 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 116 comments

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)(news.mit.edu)

271 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 188 comments

Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS(devonperoutky.super.site)

263 points by MediumD 2 years ago | 32 comments

The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy(jakeseliger.com)

259 points by jdkee 2 years ago | 46 comments

FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)(pcmicro.com)

231 points by Lammy 2 years ago | 74 comments

Git cheat sheet [pdf](wizardzines.com)

229 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Boldly go where Gradient Descent has never gone before with DiscoGrad(github.com)

221 points by frankling_ 2 years ago | 64 comments

Kernel developer write a USB driver in 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel [video](youtube.com)

209 points by explosion-s 2 years ago | 59 comments

Braid: Synchronization for HTTP(braid.org)

206 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 75 comments

LO – simple WASM native language(github.com)

202 points by glebbash 2 years ago | 61 comments

Rete algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)

187 points by skilled 2 years ago | 47 comments

The CompCert C Compiler(compcert.org)

183 points by nequo 2 years ago | 186 comments

Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone(dumbph.com)

172 points by hbroadbent 2 years ago | 132 comments

Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005)(elements.wlonk.com)

171 points by bilsbie 2 years ago | 45 comments

Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary(github.com)

170 points by indigodaddy 2 years ago | 33 comments

llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3(github.com)

160 points by archb 2 years ago | 53 comments

Old dogs, new CSS tricks(mxb.dev)

149 points by mxbck 2 years ago | 84 comments

AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board(economist.com)

142 points by sashank_1509 2 years ago | 108 comments

The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf](redirect.cs.umbc.edu)

142 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 100 comments

'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'(bbc.co.uk)

140 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 93 comments

Long distance sound localization with the Raspberry Pi(medium.com)

140 points by hcfman 2 years ago | 36 comments

Evolution of the ELF object file format(maskray.me)

132 points by MaskRay 2 years ago | 49 comments

Milk watcher(en.wikipedia.org)

132 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 67 comments

Low-latency scripting for game engines(fwsgonzo.medium.com)

114 points by fwsgonzo 2 years ago | 62 comments

Feynman's Garden(marginalia.nu)

106 points by EvgeniyZh 2 years ago | 46 comments

macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions(lapcatsoftware.com)

101 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 44 comments

What happens in the brain to cause depression?(quantamagazine.org)

85 points by EA-3167 2 years ago | 127 comments

Show HN: I made a online free tool to enhance and auto-crop your screenshots(socialscreenshots.com)

85 points by gabfrk 2 years ago | 41 comments

The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success(alchemy.substack.com)

84 points by SirLJ 2 years ago | 54 comments

Amiga Minimig Ported to Tang Nano 20k FPGA(github.com)

65 points by riedel 2 years ago | 11 comments

Show HN: I generated API documentation for all Java packages(docland.io)

65 points by martin_dd 2 years ago | 35 comments

I was at Woodstock '99 and it destroyed my innocence (2022)(kerrang.com)

65 points by SirLJ 2 years ago | 11 comments

Electrically conductive bricks can replace fossil fuels in industrial processes(bostonglobe.com)

62 points by mjbellantoni 2 years ago | 45 comments

The Perfect Voxel Engine (2021)(voxely.net)

62 points by helloplanets 2 years ago | 25 comments

Warhol and the Amiga (2017)(warhol.org)

60 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Offline sketch to image geneartor in a whiteboard(drawing.pics)

59 points by arctanx 2 years ago | 21 comments

The accidental tyranny of user interfaces(uxdesign.cc)

55 points by gjvc 2 years ago | 39 comments

Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server(shlee.fedipress.au)

53 points by mikro2nd 2 years ago | 14 comments

Apple signs deal with OpenAI for iOS, still wants Google as an 'option'(androidauthority.com)

51 points by ahiknsr 2 years ago | 53 comments

VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

48 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 28 comments

What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?

48 points by inSenCite 2 years ago | 36 comments

A journey to the medical netherworld (2016)(hazlitt.net)

47 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 10 comments

LuaX – Lua interpreter, REPL, and useful packages(github.com)

43 points by adius 2 years ago | 11 comments

Doctor DOS Betamax's DOS Website (2024)(chebucto.ns.ca)

39 points by Lammy 2 years ago | 4 comments

Launch from inside an Apollo capsule (restored in 4K/30 FPS) [video](youtube.com)

38 points by the-dude 2 years ago | 6 comments

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language(news.mit.edu)

38 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 14 comments

Evolution of the ELF object file format(maskray.me)

37 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 2 comments

It's Settled, More Nuclear Energy Means Less Mining(thebreakthrough.org)

34 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 29 comments

Young women fall out of love with dating apps(ft.com)

32 points by belter 2 years ago | 31 comments

Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app(twitter.com)

32 points by archon810 2 years ago | 36 comments

How to enhance generative AI's problem-solving capabilities, boost productivity(blogs.lse.ac.uk)

32 points by monkeydust 2 years ago | 14 comments

Effects of $9 Price Endings in Retail: Evidence from Field Experiments [pdf] (2003)(kellogg.northwestern.edu)

29 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 14 comments

Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder(economist.com)

28 points by goplayoutside 2 years ago | 13 comments

Best of Google AI search results(threadreaderapp.com)

28 points by Apocryphon 2 years ago | 13 comments

Artificial intelligence and the skill premium(nber.org)

23 points by bikenaga 2 years ago | 19 comments