Hacker News on Thursday, 30 May 2024

After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL(bessey.dev)

1005 points by mattbessey 2 years ago | 602 comments

Blog post by Matt Bessey explaining why, after six years of production use, he no longer recommends GraphQL to most people and what alternatives he prefers.

Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes(delve.a9.io)

700 points by maxkrieger 2 years ago | 154 comments

Delve is a chat interface built on ChatGPT that turns follow-up topics into hyperlink prompts arranged in a tiling layout for exploring rabbit holes.

Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely(testing.googleblog.com)

690 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 368 comments

Google Testing Blog "Code Health" post arguing against applying Don't Repeat Yourself too early, since premature abstractions make future changes harder.

I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened(twitter.com)

665 points by hakanderyal 2 years ago | 575 comments

A post by Paul Graham on X explaining the circumstances of Sam Altman leaving his role as Y Combinator president, disputing claims he was fired.

Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time(shademap.app)

648 points by tppiotrowski 2 years ago | 181 comments

ShadeMap is an interactive web map that simulates shadows from terrain, buildings, and trees for any location, date, and time.

How actors remember their lines(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

556 points by pepys 2 years ago | 174 comments

MIT Press Reader article explaining how actors memorize their lines and what this reveals about how human memory works.

I love my wife. My wife is dead (1946)(lettersofnote.com)

400 points by tu7001 2 years ago | 115 comments

Letters of Note post presenting Richard Feynman's 1946 letter to his late wife Arline, written about two years after her death.

FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server(frankenphp.dev)

383 points by aquova 2 years ago | 179 comments

Homepage of FrankenPHP, a modern PHP application server written in Go.

Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders(review.firstround.com)

345 points by jbredeche 2 years ago | 134 comments

First Round Review article on unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders, drawing lessons from Stripe, Uber and Carta.

The Pumpkin Eclipse(blog.lumen.com)

343 points by alexrustic 2 years ago | 145 comments

Lumen Black Lotus Labs report on the Pumpkin Eclipse incident, in which malware destroyed hundreds of thousands of routers at a single ISP in 2023.

I run a software book club(notes.eatonphil.com)

296 points by ingve 2 years ago | 72 comments

“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate(spectrum.ieee.org)

281 points by jnord 2 years ago | 149 comments

Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search(assembled.com)

232 points by johnjwang 2 years ago | 50 comments

Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective(arstechnica.com)

216 points by thepuppet33r 2 years ago | 96 comments

What We're Working on in Firefox(blog.mozilla.org)

195 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 175 comments

How some good corporate engineering blogs are written(danluu.com)

186 points by montyanderson 2 years ago | 56 comments

Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences(amygoodchild.com)

185 points by ingve 2 years ago | 53 comments

Geometry for Entertainment (1950)(archive.org)

167 points by the-mitr 2 years ago | 34 comments

Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?

165 points by phodo 2 years ago | 57 comments

SVG Gobbler – Find, optimize, edit, and export SVGs(github.com)

162 points by themoodyrooster 2 years ago | 17 comments

Show HN: I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader(github.com)

161 points by rook1e_dev 2 years ago | 41 comments

Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in ship abandonment(apnews.com)

159 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 69 comments

PyPy has been working for me for several years now(utcc.utoronto.ca)

153 points by throw0101c 2 years ago | 56 comments

You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill(wsj.com)

142 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 186 comments

Show HN: I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop(lightcube.art)

137 points by isometric_8 2 years ago | 41 comments

'Operation Endgame' Hits Malware Delivery Platforms(krebsonsecurity.com)

123 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 66 comments

EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services(patrick-breyer.de)

116 points by belter 2 years ago | 26 comments

Zig's new CLI progress bar explained(andrewkelley.me)

114 points by fmystic 2 years ago | 29 comments

A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002)(cut-the-knot.org)

113 points by samdung 2 years ago | 76 comments

James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy(blogs.nasa.gov)

112 points by ArnoVW 2 years ago | 45 comments

Building a Reactor(usnc.com)

112 points by beefman 2 years ago | 26 comments

I added some optimizations to my compiler that turns Lisp into JavaScript(healeycodes.com)

102 points by healeycodes 2 years ago | 17 comments

2023 planetary heat uptake from termination shock of inadvertent geoengineering?(nature.com)

100 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 64 comments

Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark?(modernretail.co)

99 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 73 comments

Physicists Puzzle over Emergence of Electron Aggregates(quantamagazine.org)

98 points by westurner 2 years ago | 15 comments

“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby(nytco.com)

91 points by donohoe 2 years ago | 22 comments

Steam's Last Stand(technicshistory.com)

91 points by cfmcdonald 2 years ago | 51 comments

Arduino FDX-B (animal ID chip) reader built from discrete components(github.com)

87 points by RicoElectrico 2 years ago | 9 comments

'Smart' antibiotic can kill deadly bacteria while sparing the microbiome(nature.com)

86 points by gmays 2 years ago | 13 comments

Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware(bleepingcomputer.com)

84 points by entuno 2 years ago | 36 comments

Asqi: A codebase explorer designed to help navigate and understand Git projects(dev.asqi.io)

81 points by guitarsteve 2 years ago | 16 comments

Orion – From idea to launch in 45 days(lux.camera)

80 points by Ivoah 2 years ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: How can we open-source a 7 year old SaaS codebase and build a community?

78 points by MarkinK 2 years ago | 75 comments

Mesh Spreadsheet: A data and code editor that feels like a spreadsheet(github.com)

77 points by tosh 2 years ago | 7 comments

Java Language Update – a look at where the language is going by Brian Goetz(youtube.com)

77 points by belter 2 years ago | 35 comments

Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations(openai.com)

77 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 39 comments

NASA Releases New High-Quality, Near Real-Time Air Quality Data(nasa.gov)

73 points by consumer451 2 years ago | 2 comments

A crazy experience losing Apple earbuds in a remote town in Chile(twitter.com)

68 points by elbasti 2 years ago | 9 comments

Sam Altman's constant lies created toxic culture, reveals OpenAI ex-Board member(thenews.com.pk)

60 points by ewgfdgdfgdf 2 years ago | 7 comments

SBCL: New in Version 2.4.5(sbcl.org)

59 points by susam 2 years ago | 4 comments

Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks(jamanetwork.com)

57 points by Luc 2 years ago | 41 comments

Distributed Snapshots: Chandy-Lamport Protocol(blog.fponzi.me)

56 points by federicoponzi 2 years ago | 4 comments

I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine

54 points by mouse_ 2 years ago | 35 comments

Windows 11 disabled all ways to get around Auto Restarts. Is there a workaround?(superuser.com)

53 points by josephcsible 2 years ago | 45 comments

Google Console closed testing requirements are awful

53 points by Baloo 2 years ago | 39 comments

Milvus Lite: The Lightweight Version of Milvus(milvus.io)

52 points by stephen37 2 years ago | 13 comments

in Rust, methods should be object safe(nora.codes)

49 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 38 comments

Testing a 1912-style Radio [video](youtube.com)

47 points by userbinator 2 years ago | 4 comments

The KeePassXC Kerfuffle(lwn.net)

45 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 30 comments

Raivo OTP just deleted all tokens after update and is now asking for money(github.com)

43 points by parody577 2 years ago | 16 comments